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Event: Geek Lunch Today @ 12:30pm

May 29, 2009 – 8:08 am

I’m going to this month’s Geek Lunch in Salt Lake at My Thai.  If you’ve never been there, the lunch specials are not only cheap, but tasty!  If you’re near the Salt Lake area today around 12:30 to 2:00, come enjoy some good Thai!  There is also a Geek Lunch in the Davis/Weber and Provo areas.  Here is that info:

Salt Lake County

Fri, May 29, 12:30pm – 2pm
My Thai, 1425 S 300 W, SLC, UT (map)

Davis/Weber County

Fri, May 29, 12:30pm – 2pm
Pad Thai, 1986 N Hill Field Rd #8, Layton, UT (map)

Utah County

Fri, May 29, 12:30pm – 2pm
Thai Chili Gardens, 430 West 800 North, Orem, Ut (map)

You can see the original post here.

Cheers,

Herlo

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Hack Night Reborn: UTOS-ConMan needs some features

May 27, 2009 – 4:20 pm

So, you don’t know what I am talking about?  Not sure where this is all leading?  Well, if you are interested in learning Python and Django or are an artistic hacker, we need you.

Last year, we started a project called utos-conman.  This project in about 3-5 months became the system that ran the speaker approval process, speaker listings, sponsor display, etc. for the Utah Open Source Conference 2008.  In 2009, we’re looking to make some improvements that will take us one step further to the ultimate open source conference management system.  Whether that statement is true or not, I want to push forward some goals for utos-conman.

To start off with, I worked this year with the Southern California Linux Exposition (SCaLE) to get their scale registration system open sourced and available.  It is now available, thanks Lei, and it can be checked out using svn from the google code project site.  This is exciting, and I’m happy to have the SCaLE code available because it provides a very powerful registration system, which includes the ability to create tickets, coupons, promotions, add-ons, reporting, check-in and much, much more.

Goals

The goals for this year’s Hack Night are going to be two fold, because now we have two projects.

First, let’s talk about scalereg:

  • Porting to Django 1.0 (completed, patch coming)
  • Adding back the validation and form management that was removed to get to Django 1.0
  • Adding a new theme for UTOS, we hope to make this generic enough to let anyone add some css and images

Next is utos-conman:

  • Working toward reusable app status.  Making it easier to integrate with apps like scalereg
  • Adding volunteer management
  • Adding better room management
  • Adding upload feature to the sponsors admin section
  • Integrating video and audio links

I’d like to take a moment to thank all the folks who’ve worked on these projects over the years and I look forward to having an awesome code base.  There are many many more features that we’ll be looking at in the future, including reporting, auditing and off-line capability.  For now, I’m more interested in making things work and getting it up and running.  In the next month or two, I hope to have a full-fledged registration system in place for the Utah Open Source Conference 2009.

Cheers,

Herlo

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Congrats: SLLUG celebrates 15 years

May 20, 2009 – 9:39 am

I wanted to personally congratulate the Salt Lake Linux User Group on 15 years of Linux education and community.  It’s exciting to see such a strong following!  Thanks for all the hard work everyone has put into making SLLUG such a great group.

Here’s the email from Marc Christensen:

The Salt Lake Linux Users Group started its humble beginnings sometime in May of 1994.  A few weeks later we officially incorporated as a non-profit on July 28, 1994. That makes this month our 15th year soft-anniversary with the official one coming up in July.  It also makes SLLUG one of the oldest and most established Linux user groups in the world!

Congratulations to everyone one for making SLLUG a success and contributing to such a great Local Linux community.  We have members of our group that have greatly influenced and contributed heavily to Linux over the years.  We make up a diverse group of individuals of varied backgrounds and depth of knowledge.

We rock!  :)  Thanks to everyone who has helped make the Salt Lake Linux Users Group such a success over the years and here’s to many many more!!!!!

–
Marc Christensen
http://www.sllug.org

Again, congratulations to the Salt Lake Linux User Group and all of its members for 15 great years.  Here’s looking forward to 15 more.

Cheers,

Herlo

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Cancelled: SLLUG Daytime SIG: Basics of Puppet cancelled

May 13, 2009 – 8:44 am

At about 11pm last night, our presenter sent me a message indicating that there were some unresolvable conflicts and I wanted to get the word out that today’s meeting has been cancelled.  I’ll be up at the Salt Lake Public Library to hang out and chat for an hour about whatever you all want, but there will be no presentation.

I apologize for the last minute notice.  I’m hoping to have the Basics of Puppet presentation next month.

Cheers,

Herlo

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Meeting: SLLUG Daytime SIG – May 13, 11:30am-1pm, Basics of Puppet

May 7, 2009 – 6:51 pm

Presentation: Basics of Puppet
Presenter: Andrew Shafer

Next Wednesday, May 13 is the next SLLUG Daytime SIG meeting.  We’ll be getting a great presentation on Puppet from Andrew Shafer of Reductive Labs.  Andrew is a full-time Puppet developer and has been demonstrating the value of puppet for some time.  He lives here in Salt Lake and is excited to show the basics of Puppet.

What is Puppet?  (for the curious and uninitiated)

Puppet is an open-source next-generation server automation tool. It is composed of a declarative language for expressing system configuration, a client and server for distributing it, and a library for realizing the configuration.

More information is available here: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

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We meet in conference room A on the lower level of the Salt Lake Library.  Head down the stairs, make a left turn.  The conference room  is directly under the foyer area (the area with all the shops on the 1st level)  If you aren’t clear, ask the information desk.

Also, our meetings should be posted on the Electric Signs by the entrance to the library on the first floor.

Cheers,

Herlo

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Fedora Classroom: May 3 classes with a new format and schedule

May 2, 2009 – 12:21 pm

This month’s Fedora Classroom will be held this Saturday/Sunday (actually it’s all Sunday UTC time).  We’ve got four fun presentations lined up for you with a new format to boot.

Essentially, the new idea is that we’re going to let the presenters be flexible with their schedules.  Thus presentations can happen any time in a 24-hour period (from 00:00 to 23:00 UTC time) this Sunday, May 3.

It looks to be a much simpler thing to make work for everyone.  Presentations will be available afterword on our Fedora Classroom Archive as well, so if you can’t stay up to watch it live, at least you can live it afterwards in the logs.

So you ask, who’s presenting.  Well, check out the Fedora Classroom wiki page and find out.  It looks to be fun and there should be something for everyone.

See you all there!!

Cheers,

Herlo

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