In Utah, there are over 15 Local User Groups and several more throughout the Mountain West. After the keynote on Thursday, we're giving them some time to talk about when they meet, what's interesting about the group and when they regularly meet. In addition, we've brought a group of people ...

<abstract> Traditional technology businesses do not achieve optimal alignment between the interests of the developer, the business investor, the consumer, and the global community. Open source businesses attempt to improve on this situation, but unfortunately, most business models do not foster open source solutions. Technical expertise is expensive and awareness ...

GUBUG will be meeting at UTOSC 2009. Topic TBD

"Who moved my IT Budget?" A look at the significant trends affecting the IT Market today and how open source adoption across the enterprise can provide a panacea to over-stretched IT Staff and slashed corporate budgets. Topics covered – - Open source innovation significant trends. - The New Economics of ...

SLLUG will meet on a Linux related topic for 1 hour.

The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) will offer the BSDA certification exam to attendees of the Utah Open Source Conference 2009. The exam will be paper based and in English. Exam information is available from the Certification page of the BSDCG website (http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification/). Exam candidates should be proficient in the BSDA ...

Since it’s inception, the primary metaphor of the Web has been one of location. By framing the Web as a collection of places, we have necessarily caused Web development to focus on servers. But people don’t get online to go to a server. They get online to get something done—achieve ...

PLUG will meet on a Linux related topic for 1 hour.

Representatives from several Linux and Unix distributions will gather and discuss with the audience about the differences and similarities of their particular distribution and why they think it is a good choice. This roundtable a discussion of the differences between distributions and contrasting these differences to allow users to make ...

The SLCC Miller Business Resource Center has some really good resources for getting your cool new technology going. Join Jeff for a candid discussion of what it takes to get your technology business going.

We live in a world full of questions: How does this economy affect my clients, my job? How many servers will I need, and what could that handle? Who are these people visiting my site, and how can I better serve them? Why do my clients value my services, and ...

Container features have started appearing in the mainline Linux kernel but bit will be a few years before LXC (Linux Native Containers) reaches the functionality of much older, out-of-tree projects such as OpenVZ and Linux-VServer. This presentation will serve as an introduction to containers with an emphasis on OpenVZ and ...

Hands-on Tour of some Popular Turnkey Open Source PBX Options: Trixbox, Elastix, PIAF, AsteriskNow. Which one is right for your enterprise?

Eight Speakers, 20 slides each, 15 seconds per slide. Ignite! That… Ladies and Gentleman, is Ignite Salt Lake 3.5! If you have never been to an Ignite event before, you can’t miss it! This event is one of a kind!

The Computer Science department at Salt Lake Community College is in the process of significantly expanding its computer labs and remote access offerings. Learn from our experience how we've created an affordable desktop delivery method incorporating thin clients, remote access, virtualization, and the Omni Desktop Multiplier with new laptops and ...

One of the things about the free software community that continues to baffle those non-open source people is, "why do you do it?" Free software developers work on open source software for a number of reasons from scratching an itch to gaining a reputation to building a resume to contributing ...

In this presentation, I'll share some of my favorite things about FreeBSD and why I think it is a great Open Source Operating System, and I'll make a case for why Linux users should strongly consider it next time they're thinking about trying out a new distribution. Some of the ...

Using the open source tools and platform provided by Android to write mobile applications. This will be targeted at developers of all skill sets who are not yet familiar with mobile applications and their value. It will also be valuable to business leaders who are unfamiliar with the breadth and ...

In an increasingly data-centric world personal data security can be a huge subject. This presentation will focus on simple and easy ways that one can improve the security using free and open source tools. Some of the methods covered will be password key-rings, encrypted hard drives and flash drives. This ...

An overview of the development and release models of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and the win-win benefits of this process to customers and community alike. This talk will also discuss how these models differ and complement each other in the cases of Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS. He ...

---About the Presentation--- This will help introduce people to the pfSense routing and firewalling platform. When the presentation is finished, all participants should know how to do the following with pfsense: 1) Configure Interfaces 2) Configure Firewall rules 3) Enable Policy Based Routing 4) Enable Traffic Shaping 5) Configure Basic ...

As I have worked with computer languages over the years, I have been exposed to my share so-called Imperative Languages--C/C++, Java, Ada, Pascal, Python, Perl, PHP, Forth, Assembler, and so on. Because my first experience beyond BASIC had been to study C++, as I encountered more languages, I've always compared ...

There are many statistical analyses that can be applied to free software projects to help gain insight into the people involved your community, areas that are growing quickly, and groups that are struggling, as well as visualizing your user base. Most of these can be automated fairly simply, but many ...

What started out as a means of competition among individual businesses which are geographically unable to compete is now a means of collaboration and business growth. In the past many Vantage dealers hired programmers to integrate 3rd party hardware with the Vantage home automation system. A small team of Vantage ...

Discussion of free and open source tools for podcasting.

Ever wonder how a big company moves into Open? And then, how they decide what Open means? Does it really matter? And just where does it matter. For Adobe, Open is a balance between multiple things, like exposing roadmaps, and publishing specifications, to releasing core technology, to open discussions with ...

* Overview on using Open Source technologies to power In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) systems. * Discuss the differences between IVI software and other mobile software. * Discuss the core features: "What can you do with Open Source in the car"?

One of the latest trends in the market is appliances. Recently at Novell they have released a web based appliance builder, Suse Studio. Suse Studio makes it really easy to quickly create and share your software with the world using the latest openSUSE or SLE. It allows one to customize ...

If you're looking for data on or for your business you can likely find sources online that will blow your mind. How can you effectively tap into the wellspring of data flowing through the tubes into your business or home? In this presentation we'll take a quick look at the ...

Digium's Switchvox is an advanced PBX based on the open source Asterisk project. This presentation will cover the deployment of a Switchvox PBX at a local Utah business with over 150 phones. You will find out the reasons why they were looking for a new PBX, and the features that ...

Keep your kids or employees from accessing undesirable web content. We'll configure a dd-wrt Linux-based router, combined with another server, to do content filtering on all web traffic on your home or office network. The configuration demonstrated is for a transparent proxy, which requires no configuration on the client computers. ...

I will show you how to setup a FreeNAS server. I will demonstrate how to setup a Samba and NFS share. From OS install to sharing it takes about 15-20 minutes I will also breifly demonstrate the ability of FreeNAS to create a samba, NFS, iTunes, SSH, and other types ...