Archive for the ‘LUGs’ 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
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
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
SLLUG Daytime: Vim 101 and Beyond
Well, it’s that time of month again, time to come to BetaLoftSLC, eat some lunch (brown bagging is encouraged) and listen to a good technical talk. This month, we have Mr. Adam Barrett, a Senior Software Developer at SOS Staffing in Salt Lake City, who will be taking some time to talk with us about [...]
In: Community, LUGs, Tech · Tagged with: 2009, daytime, february, sllug, vim
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 [...]
In: Community, Guru, LUGs, News, Tech, git · Tagged with: 2010, daytime, git, sllug
SLLUG Daytime: RSSCloud, what is it and why should I care?
This month we’re getting back on track with the Salt Lake Linux User Group Daytime meeting at BetaLoft. Our presenter this month is C.R. Oldham and he had this to say about the presentation: RSSCloud is an open protocol which creates a loosely-coupled Twitter-like network of people and 140 character status messages. In plainer language, [...]
In: Community, Fedora, LUGs, Presentations, Tech · Tagged with: 2009, daytime, LUGs, sllug
Meeting: SLLUG Daytime SIG: Infrastructure is code…bitches!!
This month’s SLLUG Daytime meeting will be held this Wednesday, August 12 from 11:30am-1pm at BetaLoft SLC 357 W 200 S, Suite 201, Salt Lake City, UT, 84101 We have a great presentation lined up for you all! Here’s the details: Infrastructure Renaissance Open source is at the forefront of an evolving ecosystem of tools [...]
In: Community, Guru, LUGs, Tech, Tools · Tagged with: infrastructure, open source
Meeting: SLLUG Daytime SIG – Cobbler, the powerful, installation, dhcp, dns and repo server!
HI all, This month’s SLLUG Daytime SIG meeting is this coming Wednesday, July 8, from 11:30am-1pm at BetaLoft. I apologize for being slow getting this out, we’ve been working through a big datacenter move this past week at work. Now that is over, it’s time for SLLUG Daytime at BetaLoft, (357 W 200 S Suite [...]
In: Community, Fedora, Guru, LUGs, Presentations, Tech · Tagged with: 2009, cobbler, daytime SIG, july, sllug
Cancelled: SLLUG Daytime SIG: Basics of Puppet cancelled
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 [...]
