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 ...

<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 ...

This is a hands on tutorial lab for Intermediate Python. Participants should have a basic knowledge of Python. We should have plenty of time to introduce the material then do some hands on programming to cram it into the squishy lobes of your cranium. Come with a laptop and a ...

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 ...

linux has had a native virtual machine feature for some time. This presentation will introduce it, explain its current status, future plans, where to get the latest version and how to install it. Included will be a overview of supported features, host impact and guest performance. Example guest installations will ...

"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 ...

Discussion about Buddy Press, an extension for Wordpress MU that is essentially a social network in a box. Cool stuff, come learn more.

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 ...

Maybe you've heard of ARP, netmasks or routing tables but aren't quite sure what they are. Perhaps you know what a firewall does but aren't sure how to set one up in Linux. Those and many more questions will be answered in this entry-level course on networking. When you leave ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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!

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 ...

Utah Python Meeting will be held at UTOSC. Topic TBD

We will discuss implementing and configuring a Linux server as a home server for file and print services as well as network services and share experiences in using Linux as a home server. A short demo Slampp 2.0.1 will be used to get the conversation started as it is featured ...