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 ...

All are welcome to join Fedora Ambassadors and others as we plan to design and create a workflow for the Fedora Event Splash application. The concept is simple, but there are a lot of things to think about.

GUBUG will be meeting at UTOSC 2009. Topic TBD

Why all the fuss over document formats? Marino Marcich of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance takes a step back to consider what exactly is an “open” document, who’s adopted ODF and why, what software support exists, and, importantly, what open standards like ODF mean to open source users. He’ll peek ...

"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 ...

Mozilla Prism is a cross-platform application and Firefox add-on that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop. With it, you can run things like GMail, Google Docs, Zimbra, Jira, Facebook, Google Calendar, Campfire, etc. in their own separate mini-application with their ...

Utah PHP User Group Meeting will be held at UTOSC. Topic TBD

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.

This presentation will be focused for beginners who have old computer hardware sitting around and would like to get it to a functional state for donation or use. The presentation will focus on Linux distributions and software which allow some paleolithic machines to be resuscitated and returned to meaningful use ...

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.

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

We'll have an unstructured get-together where we can meet and greet fellow Fedora users and participants, talk about features, solve problems together, and just have fun.

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!

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 ...

HopeKids provides ongoing highly-anticipated events and a unique support community for children with cancer and other life-threatening medical conditions.

I hope to ease the nerves of the CLI timid, by showing that the command line is not some obscure environment for hackers but a welcoming non-obtrusive comfortable haven to get the same things done that you would otherwise do in a GUI. Basically, how to do everything a desktop ...

If you want to build out a kit of commercial security tools, bring a big bank account to pay for it. Not only that, you'll find that there are still gaps in your setup that need to be filled. What do you do if you have a finite budget (who ...

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 ...

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 ...

This presentation will be an introduction to using Blender 3D for creating games. First I'll introduce Blender and show it's more general uses, then move on to using the Logic Bricks and Python Scripting. I'll also show a couple of games made in Blender. Blender is a 3D animation/rendering, video ...

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 ...

What to do before the key signing party? If you don't have a GPG or PGP key yet, create yourself a key as described in section 4.1 of the GPG key signing HOWTO (http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html). What to bring to the key signing party? For the key signing party: - printouts of ...

Discussion of free and open source tools for podcasting.

Come talk about Hibernate Search and the problems it solves with Lucene

Join us at the Utah Open Source Geek Dinner, held at Spaghetti Mama's Enjoy pizza and Italian food with a bunch of your friends and geeks. Discuss the conference, cool topics or anything of interest! Spaghetti Mama's 75 East 9400 South Sandy, Utah 84070 (801) 676-0662

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 ...

HopeKids provides ongoing highly-anticipated events and a unique support community for children with cancer and other life-threatening medical conditions.

BZFlag is a great 3D tank battle game maintained by Tim Riker, a local programmer extraordinaire. Feel free to read up, see screenshots and even start practicing using the http://bzflag.org website. This tournament is meant to be family friendly. While anyone is welcome to attend, please be considerate and friendly ...

* 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 ...

ffmpeg is an amazing suite of command-line tools and program APIs for working with images, audio and video data. Whether you're converting a DVD video to a format compatible with a portable media player, extracting the audio from video data, or just learning the specifics of a particular multimedia file, ...

Often people have come to me with kids and wanted me to build a family computer. This presentation will focus around ideas and software in the Free and Open Source world which are centered around children and education. This presentation will include Linux distributions, games and educational software geared specifically ...

It seems that more and more geeks are discovering a fascination with cooking. Whether you're a geek that lives to cook or just cooks to live, Object Oriented Cooking is for you! Geek chef Joseph Hall will show you how smaller recipes can become objects, ready to be included on ...

OfflineIMAP, a "tool to simplify your e-mail reading", has spread like fire through the free software community in making email reading faster, more reliable, and a lot more usable. In this presentation, a tutorial for getting started with OfflineIMAP and using it with Evolution, KMail, and Mutt will be presented, ...

The Boardgame bash is a tradition! Each year at the end of the conference, we gather and play boardgames until we're too tired to play any more. It's nice to gather and talk and discuss the cool presentations and events from the weekend. Everyone is invited to attend. Generally, after ...