Events :: 2008 Utah Open Source Conference

Dates: August 28 - 30, 2008
Location: Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT

Associated videos

• UTOSC 2008 - Mac Newbold of Code Greene
  Lessons learned by helping hundreds of companies develop an online presence and automate their businesses by using open source software and development platforms.
• UTOSC 2008 - Paul Frields of Fedora/Red Hat
  The Fedora Project is a community effort whose goal is to lead advancement in free and open source software. One of the ways we accomplish that is to bring the best, leading edge, free and open source software to an audience of enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. Another is to constantly strive to bring the best possible toolsets and practices to the community, such as enabling infrastructure, packaging guidelines, and low barriers to entry for as many parts of the project as possible. This presentation talks about how Fedora came about, the crossroads at which it exists today, and possible future directions for the distribution and the project as a whole.
• UTOSC 2008 - Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary
  This presentation focuses primarily on how folks like me make money giving our stuff away on the web. I currently work full-time as a cartoonist, writing, drawing, and coloring Schlock Mercenary, as well as doing comics for assorted corporate clients. I quit my job for Novell, where I was the Collaboration Product Line Manager, in September of 2004. And while we're on the subject of things I used to do, I used to be on the Board of Directors at Sanctus Records, an independent record label I co-founded, and which I've since sold and watched disintegrate under the misministrations of those I turned it over to. I used to dabble in web design, but I'm so far behind the cutting edge these days there's no point in even bringing up what I used to do.
• UTOSC 2008 - Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier of Novell/OpenSUSE
  Joe talks about openSUSE, its community, and how to work on "bootstrapping" a community for fun and profit. Mostly fun. Zonker is the openSUSE Community Manager for Novell. Prior to joining Novell, Zonker was the editor-in-chief of Linux Magazine, and had worked as a journalist covering Linux and open source.
• UTOSC 2008 - Christer Edwards of Guru Labs
  Christer talked about using Ubuntu in the “Enterprise.”
• UTOSC 2008 - David Moss of Salt Lake Community College
  The use of open source software in education is practically non-existent. What prevents a more widespread adoption? David Moss explained what barriers they faced and are striving to overcome in the Computer Science department at Salt Lake Community College.
• UTOSC 2008 - Matt Asay of Alfresco - The Billion Dollar (Free) Software Opportunity
  No one questions open source's ability to commoditize markets, but can open source also build new markets?
• UTOSC 2008 - Aaron Bockover of Novell - The Banshee Media PLayer
  Banshee is an open source multimedia application. With features like fast importing, powerful searching, smart playlists, podcasting (including video and streaming), a play queue, last.fm radio streaming,...
• UTOSC 2008 - Michael Place of UtahFM.org - HOWTO: Start an open-source radio station
  When a local community FM station suddenly fired their daytime on-air volunteers, the community came together and built a new home for them online...
• UTOSC 2008 - Jared Smith of Digium - Dialplans for Dummies
  The basics of using the Asterisk dialplan. We’ll explore simple voice menus, dialing other phones, and implementing things like voicemail, find-me/follow-me routing, and audio conferencing. Along the way, we’ll also cover some telephony fundamentals...
• UTOSC 2008 - Brandon Beattie - Linux Multimedia
  Design, hardware, and software needed to build a Linux HTPC. Topics include what hardware works best in Linux, Distro flavors, available software, setup and using Linux multimedia. Software covered: MythTV, Xine, MPlayer, and VLC.
• UTOSC 2008 - Glenda Rhodes - GIMP for Photographers
  GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop for editing digital photos. Basic GIMP techniques (black/white, sepia, cropping) and some advanced techniques (layer masks for selective coloring, head-swapping, background blurring) will be covered...