Archive for the ‘Guru’ Category
Combating Apathy in [Free and Open Source] Communities — Part 3
This article is a part of a three part series, if you haven’t read the first part and second part, you really should. How do we address this problem? Who does it? In other words, how do small to medium communities battle Apathy? In all honesty, I don’t have the answer for this question. If [...]
In: Community, Conferences, Fedora, Guru, LUGs, Life, Networking, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: 2010, apathy, Community, june, utos, UTOSC
Heading to Agile Roots
Agile infrastructure and management has been in my purview for some time now. While I’ve never attended the Velocity conference put on by O’Reilly every year, I have been a regular attendee to VeloSLC in months past. One of the coolest things to attend has arrived here in Salt Lake City. That’s Agile Roots next [...]
In: Community, Conferences, Fedora, Guru, Tech · Tagged with: 2010, agile, agile roots, june, salt lake, utah
Combating Apathy in [Free and Open Source] Communities — Part 2
This article is a part of a three part series, if you haven’t read the first part, you really should. Why don’t more people actually volunteer 2-3 hours per month? One word, Apathy. Yes, apathy. I believe apathy is what kills communities around the globe. They don’t have to be any specific type of community, [...]
In: Community, Conferences, Fedora, Guru, LUGs, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: 2010, apathy, Community, june, utos, UTOSC
Combating Apathy: How to Keep a [Free and Open Source] Community Alive
This June will mark the fourth anniversary of the creation of the Utah Open Source Foundation. In October, we will be hosting approximately 500 attendees at the fourth annual Utah Open Source Conference. What started out as a simple idea in my backyard in Springville, Utah has blossomed into something much larger, a community of [...]
In: Community, Fedora, Guru, LUGs, Life, Passion, Tech · Tagged with: 2010, apathy, Community, june, utos, UTOSC
News: Fedora 13 Beta Released!!
Get yours today!! From the announcement by Jesse Keating: The countdown is on: Fedora 13, “Goddard,” is set to launch in mid-May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months. But wait! What’s that? You can’t [...]
In: Community, Fedora, Guru, News, Tech · Tagged with: beta, f13, Fedora, release
Slides and Video: My Presentation at PodCampSLC 2010
Last Friday was PodCampSLC 2010 at Neumont University, put on by my good friend Mr. Thom Allen. He did a bang up job as usual, it was a great event. I spent the morning at PodCampSLC 2010, including my presentation at 10am entitled ‘Capturing audio and video on the cheap’ or ‘How to keep the [...]
In: Conferences, Fedora, Guru, Presentations, Tech · Tagged with: audio, conference, freeseer, gstreamer, podcampslc, podcast, utos, video
News: The future of SLLUG Daytime
For the past several months the fine folks at BetaLoftSLC have been hosting SLLUG Daytime and it’s been going pretty well. However, this month I was informed that BetaLoftSLC will be closing their doors at the end of March. I was saddened to hear this, Drew and his crew have been doing a bang-up job [...]
In: Community, Guru, News, Tech · Tagged with: betaloft, daytime, sllug daytime, utos
SLLUG Daytime: Wednesday, March 10 @ 11:30am – Node.js
This month’s presentation is going to be awesome!! Shane Hansen will be spending time with us over lunch (bring your brown bag) at BetalLoftSLC talking about node.js. Node.js – building massively parallel applications with javascript and epoll Node.js [http://nodejs.org/] is a framework for rapidly building massively parallel network applications using non-blocking io. It’s built on [...]
In: Community, Guru, LUGs, Tech · Tagged with: 2010, daytime, march, node.js, sllug
Anaconda is Awesome! How to force a network request with local media using kickstart
I sure love it when I solve my own problems, but the internets are a great help to enabling me. Today, I found myself needing to enable the network (using dhcp) from the anaconda command line (the part that says boot: when you load a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora install disk). I needed this because I was providing [...]
In: Fedora, Guru, Install, Tech, Yum · Tagged with: anaconda, asknetwork, centos, dhcp, kickstart, network, repo, Yum
SLLUG Daytime: Git this Wednesday!
Just so you are aware, we are holding the SLLUG Daytime Meeting this month. As usual, come from 11:30am-1pm at BetaLoftSLC (357 W 200 S #201) - http://betaloftslc.com This month, I thought I would share a basic git introduction. In my opinion, the best Source Control Management (SCM) system out right now. I’ve been using [...]
