WordCamp 2010: This weekend at University of Utah

I’m attending, are you? Sign up today and I’ll see you there. Cheers, Herlo

Posted on August 26, 2010 at 10:36 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

Posted on June 15, 2010 at 10:14 pm by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
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Agile Roots: Day 1

As a person who runs a conference and community events in Utah, I have to first give a hand to the organizers of Agile Roots.  They have done an amazing job with the venue, schedule, organization, marketing and all of the other difficult things required to make a great conference.  A big thumbs up from [...]

Posted on June 15, 2010 at 10:45 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

Posted on June 9, 2010 at 11:57 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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, [...]

Posted on June 8, 2010 at 10:14 pm by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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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 [...]

Posted on June 1, 2010 at 12:41 pm by herlo · Permalink · 3 Comments
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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 [...]

Posted on March 4, 2010 at 12:24 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Events Fedora Activity Day: Day 0

I’ve been looking forward to this weekend ever since Mel Chua suggested it back in mid-December.  A Fedora Activity Day to revamp how Fedora manages events, deals with events is something that definitely has been needed for some time.  I would say that the Fedora Ambassadors have been doing a bang-up job going from event-to-event [...]

Posted on January 28, 2010 at 10:51 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

Posted on January 11, 2010 at 3:35 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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