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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Debian's preseed, RedHat's kickstart, SUSE's autoYAST and other installation automaton systems are very useful. However, setting up and maintaining the environments enabling these systems to work properly, can be time consuming and prone to error. Cobbler is an installation provisioning and automation system which leverages these existing systems and tools ...

How/why to set up your own OpenVPN server for your home and office for easy remote access, and set up VNC for complete computer control from anywhere in the world. Don't pay to "go-to-your-pc" if you don't have to. Covers installation, configuration, generation of server and client certificates, and use ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The promise of Open Source seems like free software for everyone, but there is a lot more to it than that. We'll cover a quick history of the Open Source movement, the definitions of "free" and enjoy a laugh at ourselves in the process. OUTLINE: I.It's all IBM's fault, not ...

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, ...