2007Sept8

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Clear message

2007 Sept 8

  • Meeting Topic - Utah Open Source - The Convergence
  • Location: Novell Provo Campus, Open Source Training Center

Team Page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtahTeam BR UTOS website: http://www.utosf.com BR UTOS 2007 sessions: http://www.utosc.com/2007/sessions/ BR UTOS 2007 slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/entireconference.tar.gz BR UTOS podcasts: http://podcast.utosf.com BR

Present

The following were present during this 3 day meeting:

  • Zelut
  • herlo
  • peno
  • cyclone
  • Yorokobi
  • Heartsbane
  • synic
  • Kemotaha
  • nearn
  • thaddeusq
  • undertakingyou
  • sontek
  • claudius
  • atoponce
  • jtanium
  • opapo
  • Gate

Proceedings

  • The conference began at Thursday Sept 6th, 2007 7:00pm

  • The conference ended at Saturday Sept 8th, 2007 5:00pm

Agenda

The following subject were presented:

Thursday, September 6, 2007 - Day One

Keynote - Making Utah a center for open source innovationBR Matt Asay, VP Business Development, Alfresco BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/matt-asay-OpenSourceinUtah.pdf

Utah Open Source AwardsBR Jason Hall, President, Provo Linux User Group

Keynote - Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source BR Bruce Perens, Leader in the Free Software and Open Source community BR Website: http://www.perens.com BR Website: http://www.techp.org

Friday, September 7, 2007 - Day Two

Keynote - 5 Axioms of Community CollaborationBR Tom Welch, Manager Technology Community, LDS Church BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/tom-welch-5AxiomsofCommunityCollaboration.pdf

Keynote - Digital Identity and Open SourceBR Phil Windley, Executive Producer, IT Conversations BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/phil-windley-LongTailsAndSoftware.pdf

Apache Open for Business, OFBiz BR David E. Jones, Founder, HotWax Media BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/al-byers-GettingStartedWithOFBiz.pdf BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/brad-midgley-bt.pdf

What is Utah Open Source BR Clint Savage, Founder, Utah Open Source BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/clint-savage-WhatIsUtahOpenSource.pdf

Using open source to create car entertainment for the futureBR Kevron Rees, BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/kevron-rees-Nextabyte.pdf

Perl continued - updates on Perl 6BR Paul Seamons

Applying open source to more than the computer industry BR Joseph Hall, computer geek gone chef and back again BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/joseph-hall-OpenSourceCooking.tar.gz

Understanding Apache 2.2 ConfigurationBR Brad Nicholes, Senior Software Engineer, Novell

Buni Meldware Communication Suite: Platform independent groupwareBR Andrew Oliver, Buni Software

Virtualize your business with open source softwareBR Lamont Peterson, Guru Labs BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/lamont-peterson-WhyVirtualizationMakesSenseforBusiness.pdf

Linux Performance Tuning: ‘noatime’ like the presentBR Michael Place, XMission Admin BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/michael-place-LinuxPerformanceTuning.pdf

Overview of the Dojo ToolkitBR Victor Villa, President, Utah PHP User group

Building and leveraging an online open source communityBR Tom Welch, Manager Technology Community, LDS Church

Building voice applications using open sourceBR Jared Smith, Community Relations Manager, Digium BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/jared_smith-VoiceApplications.pdf

The business advantage of using open sourceBR Discussion lead by John Taber Participants include Richard Miller and Tom Welch, among others.

Using Django to drive internal development toolsBR Scott Paul Robertson, BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/scott-paul-robertson-django.pdf

Taming object-relational mapping with SQLAchemyBR Jonathan Ellis, BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/jonathan-ellis-SQLAlchemyTutorial.pdf

Distribution throw down Open Discussion

Digital Identity and open source: Using OpenIDBR Phil Windley, Executive Producer, IT Conversations BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/phil-windley-UserCentricIdentityTutorials.pdf

Introduction to Python, a tutorialBR Matt Harrison BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/matt-harrison-Python101.pdf

Mono/.NET in a mixed environmentBR John Anderson, Orchid Event Solutions

Bluetooth for fun and non-profitBR Brad Midgley BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/brad-midgley-bt.pdf

Testing with TestopiaBR Greg Hendricks BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/gregary-hendricks-testopia.pdf

DatabasesBR Dan HanksBR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/dan-hanks-RelationalModel.odp

Saturday, September 8, 2007 - Day Three

Keynote - Developement History & BZ FlagBR Tim Riker, Maintainer, BZFlag BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/tim-riker-BZFlag.pdf

Keynote - XMission BR Pete Ashdown, President and Founder, XMission

Ticketing and BusinessBR Peter Bowen

Open source best practices and experiences from the Apache Software FoundationBR Brad Nicholes, Senior Software Engineer, Novell

Building Community - The strength of open sourceBR Christer Edwards, President, Ubuntu-Utah BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/christer-edwards-Community.pdf

Utilizing modules to enhance and scale PliggBR Jesse Stay, Founder, LDSOSS

Virtualization using Open Source Software (Xen)BR Derek Carter, NeverBlock

Distributed source controlBR Jonathan Ellis, Ubuntu-Utah BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/jonathan-ellis-DistributedSourceControl-Hg.pdf

Embedded Linux business solutionsBR Tim Riker, Maintainer, BZFlag BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/tim-riker-Mobile.pdf

Perl templating; mishmash, mayhem and unity in document templatesBR Paul Seamons

Bringing Open Source Home - mythtv, xine and home automationBR Brandon Beattie

Open Source at XMissionBR Pete Ashdown, President and Founder, XMission

Using open source philosophy to build passionate communitiesBR Matthew Reinbold,

Advanced ASP billing with FreesideBR Jason Hall, President, Provo Linux User Group

Open source business and .NETBR Frank RegoBR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/frank-rego-OpenSource.NET.pdf

Connecting remote users and offices through open sourceBR Chris Cameron,

IntroPLAY LLC, starting a business with open source toolsBR Aaron Toponce,

Voice over IP in your officeBR Jared Smith BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/jared_smith-VoiceApplications.pdf

Pentaho / KettleBR Nate Handy

Open source programming language throw downBR Open Discussion

Monitoring your data center using Apache GangliaBR Brad Nicholes, Senior Software Engineer, Novell

NetworkManager - Changing the way we connectBR Doran Barton BR Presentation Slides: http://www.utosc.com/downloads/presentations/doran-barton-NetworkManager.pdf