I was saddened to hear this, Drew and his crew have been doing a bang-up job and have been great hosts.  We will surely miss the BetaLoft.

As all good things must end, I’ve decided to stop holding the SLLUG Daytime monthly meetings as well. We’ve had a good run and SLLUG Daytime has been decently attended.  However, for several reasons which I will not go into here, I decided that I cannot run SLLUG daytime.  If someone else is interested in pursuing the continuation of SLLUG Daytime on their own, I’d be happy to hand over the reigns.

But there is some good news to go with the bad.  In the future, I plan to replace SLLUG Daytime with something of great value.  Something we can do regularly as well, maybe just not monthly.

I want to thank all of those who’ve ever attended SLLUG Daytime and have made it such a success.  I especially want to thank those who presented, as I know your time is precious, but you chose to prepare and share with us.  A special thanks to the folks on the SLLUG board who graciously let us use the SLLUG name, it was much appreciated.

In the future, watch for more activities from the Utah Open Source Foundation, as well as more opportunities to participate in the community and grow free and open source software.  I’m excited for the future.

Cheers,

Herlo

I’ve been a bit quiet about the SLLUG Daytime SIG meeting this month.  That’s because I’ve been trying to decide whether we should continue to meet at the Salt Lake Public Library.  While the library is a nice place to meet, I learned about a great new business opening up this month called BetaLoft.  Last Tuesday, I visited BetaLoft and its founder Andrew Tyler has put together quite a nice facility for the first coworking location in Salt Lake City.  Located right downtown near traxx and the Gateway, it’s very convenient (and free) parking on the streets to the east and west, make this place a great location for our SLLUG Daytime SIG meeting.

Due to this change, and the short notice of the change, I will try to send out a few reminders between now and Wednesday.  Our normal meeting time 11:30am-1pm is still set.  BetaLoft has some great conference facilities, plus they have a big flat screen tv for Rock Band.  So it should be a blast!

So where is BetaLoft, you ask?  Here’s the information:

BetaLoft
357 W 200 S, Suite 201 (in the same building as Aculis) (map)
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101

Now that the new location is decided, please come on down to our new digs and learn about IPTables.  Kevin Benko has prepared a presentation on the basics of IPTables.  For those of you who were discussing this on the mailing list, this is your opportunity to come and have the discussion.

Cheers,

Herlo