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Video of Matt Asay’s UTOSC 2008 presentation titled The Billion Dollar (Free) Software Opportunity is now available from opensourcetv.tv.
Matt Asay at UTOSC 2008
Matt Asay presented on Friday morning, 29 August.
School is quite a bit funner than I remember. 
However, I am taking an interesting class dealing with storyboarding for movies. We have to do these things called “animatics.” You all know what a movie storyboard is, right? If not, google “movie storyboards” and read up. The boiled down version is that it is a scene-by-scene (generally using stills) depiction of the sequences of a movie. Could be a short movie. Could be a scene.
Well, an animatic is where you take these storyboarding pictures and make a glorified slide show with them. You are able to put in sound effects, filler music, placeholder dialogue, and other assets to make the storyboard much more like the movie will actually be.
So our professor gave us a few exercises. He gave us a series of drawings, a basic plot, and told us to make an animatic out of them.
What tool did I turn to? When all was said and done, it was Cinelerra, the non-linear video editor for Linux:
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Just to refresh, these are not movies, but more like an indicator of where people will be standing, what kind of shots will be used, what kind of lighting there might be, etc.
With that, if you’d like to take a look at what I finally turned in for these three projects created with Cinelerra, here you are:
2.8 Mb - Ogg Theora format - right-click, save as…
7.2 Mb - Ogg Theora format - right-click, save as…
3.9 Mb - Ogg Theora format - right-click, save as…
Spielberg I am not. Lucas I am not. But at least I got credit for doing the exercises.
Video of Christer Edwards keynote address from UTOSC 2008 is now available at opensourcetv.tv.
Christer Edwards
Christer Edwards, instructor for Guru Labs and Ubuntu-Utah member presented on Saturday, 30 August 2008 on Ubuntu in the Enterprise.
Video of Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier’s keynote address from UTOSC 2008 is now available at opensourcetv.tv
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Joe Brockmeier
Joe Brockmeier, the OpenSUSE Community Manager for Novell, spoke on Friday, 29 August, about bootstrapping communities and OpenSUSE.
Video of Howard Tayler’s keynote address from UTOSC 2008 is now available at opensourcetv.tv.
Howard Tayler, the creator of popular web comic Schlock Mercenary (available at schlockmercenary.com), spoke on Friday, 29 August, about how he makes money while giving stuff away.
If you missed the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference or attended and want to relive a piece of it, you’re in luck.
OpenSourceTV.tv, a service provided by KnowledgeBlue and the Utah Open Source Foundation, is now (finally) up and currently features video of UTOSC keynote addresses given by Paul Frields (of Fedora/Red Hat) and Mac Newbold (of Code Greene).
More video from UTOSC 2008 will be showing up on OpenSourceTV.tv in the weeks to come as well as video from UTOSC 2007 and other events.
The Utah Open Source Foundation, OpenSourceTV.tv and KnowledgeBlue are excited to announce another video from the Utah Open Source Conference 2007.
This time, meeting with Doran “fozz” Barton, its Jared Smith of Digium. Fozz and Jared discuss the future of Asterisk and Digium’s role in bringing Asterisk to the general public.
Here’s the link, enjoy.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Okay, this time we found a better way to produce and release the UTOSC 2007 videos - YouTube! These videos are a great way to escape the in-laws (or watch while wrapping presents).
Because YouTube will let you create your own group, we’ve done so and are making the videos available on our group page. If you are interested in seeing more videos, you can sign up and watch the currently available videos.
Currently, there are only a few videos, and more will be coming everyday. A special thanks to Doran Barton (fozzilinymoo) and OpenSourceTV.tv for helping us out with these videos. We look forward to releasing more videos, and as we do so, announcements will be made here.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Utah Open Source Foundation
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. We here at the Utah Open Source Foundation would like to announce that we’ve recently been able to acquire and test the video from the Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC).
We’re proud to announce our first video. Tons of work went into getting this live. Including streaming bandwidth provided by TierFour and video editing done by KnowledgeBlue and Open Source TV. We’d like to thank all of those who made this possible and look forward to providing you with additional videos as they arrive. Please feel free to download them or watch the stream.
In the future, we’ll work on making them downloadable from this site as well. Oh, and we’re working on part 1, it will be out soon.
Podcast currently unavailable due to a bug in the PodPress software. Currently looking for a new plugin or an alternate way to release the videos.
Cheers,
Clint Savage
Founder, Utah Open Source Foundation (http://www.utosf.org)
This month, we’ll begin our newsletter. UTOSF plans to send out this newsletter to all of the user group (UG) communities in Utah and surrounding areas. We post it here for your benefit and invite you to sign up for the News mailing list at http://utos.org/mailman/listinfo/ to receive this and other news.
In the future, UTOSF plans to make this a regular article released near the end of every month, so come by and see how we’re improving our community.
The Utah Open Source Planet, run by Gabriel Gunderson can be accessed in another way, from Utah Open Source Foundation. Point your browser to http://planet.utosf.org and receive the latest and greatest local Utah bloggers talking about everything from linux to food to programming to weight loss. These people are part of Utah Open Source and have a good nose for what’s going on in tech and open source in Utah. Please join us by participating in Utah Open Source Planet. Its a great blog community.
UTOSF is proud to announce that we will provide streamed user group (UG) meetings. Utah Open Source Foundation (UTOSF) is spearheading an effort to get a streaming server up and running. We’ve taken into considerations things like bandwidth concerns, server power, usefulness of topic and much more. As such, we’ll be attempting to stream more and more meetings, events and other discussions this year for the UGs. The current plan is to cover most of the known user groups (UGs) by end of year 2008.
We need help from you to accomplish this. UTOSF is providing the hardware, bandwidth and configuration for anyone who’s willing to record their UG meeting. We want to find people who are regulars in each of the communities and help them set up the recording software. If you are interested, please contact clint@utos.org or jayce@utos.org for more information.
We’re still learning here, so please bear with us. We’ve had a lot of requests regarding when the recordings of UTOSC 2007 will be released. I’d like to say that I have *actually* seen one and OpenSourceTV and KnowledgeBlue are doing a great job getting these together. I’m excited to see how the rest turn out. The videos will be released as we get them. There will be regular announcements on http://utosf.org so continue to watch for updates.
Only once in a great while will we see an event like this one. Only once will there be so many shiny new distributions to choose from. Only once will OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, OpenBSD and Fedora be released within one month of each other. Because of this The Utah Open Source Foundation is announcing the first and probably the only Multi-Distro Release Party in Utah. The release party will involve four major distros, plus anyone is welcome to bring their own distro to hand out.
The party will be held on Saturday, November 10, from 1-5pm at the Open Source Technology Center at Novell. We’ll have a few short presentations about the three released distributions, food and a large network install server for the Installfest. We hope to see you all there!
Where: Open Source Technology Center at Novell
Map: http://tinyurl.com/yprnqr
When: Saturday, November 10, 2007 1pm-5pm MST
What: Installfest, pizza, drinks and more.
I’d like to invite those interested in helping the Utah Open Source Conference 2008 to start attending the upcoming Conference planning meetings. Reply with the subject “Conference Planning” if you are interested in helping.
In addition, the Utah Open Source Foundation will begin regular “meets”. We’re planning on inviting leadership of each of the UGs, plus anyone interested in helping the community as a whole. UTOSF is dedicated to helping the groups by providing resources, tools and other benefits. Come and be a part of something great!
Cheers,
Clint Savage