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 ...

Most developers find database interaction painful at some level; many dread it outright. What developer hasn't spent hours digging through documentation, Google, or the nearest colleague, trying to work out how to write a particular query, only to find out two days too late that some obscure syntax would have ...

GUBUG will be meeting at UTOSC 2009. Topic TBD

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 ...

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

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

We'll be gathering with FreeSWITCH (and Asterisk, OpenSIPS, YATE, CallWeaver, etc.) users and those who are interested in learning more about Open Source Telephony. We'll do some group discussion, Q. & A. and generally mingle. If there is time and sufficient interest, we can share some of the things we've ...

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 ...

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?

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.

We'll have a simple session covering various shells on Unix and Linux systems. BASH, ZSH, CSH, KSH, etc. We can meet and talk about RC files, prompts, basic scripting or tips and tricks.

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!

Utah Python Meeting will be held at UTOSC. Topic TBD

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 ...

Using Apache + mod_php is a common and flexible way to host your WordPress blog, but it might not always be the best way. In this presentation I'll cover setting up the nginx HTTP server and PHP-FPM to process PHP scripts, what options are available to tune them and techniques ...

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 ...

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 ...

Normally in Linux/Unix (*nix) it is possible to 'background' a process and then return to it later on but that's only if you are still in the same session where the process was sent to the background. This is useful to have something run while you do other things but ...

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 ...

Once you have a Cobbler server installed there are many things you can do to make your environment much more efficient and powerful. Come learn some tips and tricks about Cobbler to make managing a larger installation environment less painful.

Scaling is a real issue for many websites. However, many developers try to implement solutions used by the giants of the internet: Google, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, etc. However, many of these techniques are designed for very unique and high demand situations. Implementing these techniques prematurely to smaller websites can lead ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Everyone wants to hop onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon, but who in their right mind wants to spend hours trying to figure out the funny quirks of the many browsers out there? Google has already managed to write some amazing AJAX-based applications, and they have opened up their toolkit so ...

So, you’ve been using git in your projects. It’s crazy fast, you’re able to create and switch branches in the blink of an eye, and already you’re liking it better than any other VCS (version control system) you’ve ever used. But… if that’s all you do with git, did you ...

Many people/organizations appreciate simplicity when hosting virtual servers in the cloud. However, when those servers go down, or become inaccessible the simple explanation is not enough. If you are deploying virtual servers or just thinking about it you may want spend some additional time looking at ways you can make ...

Now that you're well skilled in GIMP, it's time to give yourself a Digital Diet. This session will cover techniques for making yourself look thinner, sleeker and maybe even a little taller. Covered in this session: Fuzzy Selection (Magic Wand), iWarp Tool, Clone Tool and Scale Tool If you have ...

I will be discussing three topics regarding password security on Unix-like machines, including BSD, GNU/Linux and even Mac OS X. This presentation is targeted towards system administrators mainly, but can be of major benefit to end users. The first topic will be demonstrating the minimal effort it takes to gain ...

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 ...