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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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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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 [...]

Posted on March 30, 2010 at 2:35 pm by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
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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 [...]

Posted on March 20, 2010 at 9:14 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Software Freedom Day: What I’ll be Doing!

So tomorrow is Software Freedom Day.  And because I’ve been a big slacker this year, I didn’t get the time to set up an event as I had hoped.  However, because others in our community are awesome and didn’t want to see this day go completely to the Microsofties and non-free software folks, there’s going [...]

Posted on September 18, 2009 at 9:58 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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UTOSC 2009: Breakfast is served!

As part of my effort to help out folks coming in for the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, we have filled up our household with out-of-towners. However, when I asked my awesome sweetie , Jennifer, about food, she had this reply: 21:37 <herlo> did you say you were willing to cook breakfast for us during [...]

Posted on September 3, 2009 at 8:50 pm by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Presenting at Ignite Salt Lake 3 – Free Software Abounds

It’s been a little while since I posted on this blog, but I really need to get back into the habit again. The reason I’m posting is that I have been accepted as a speaker for Ignite Salt Lake 3 at the Murray Theatre on August 20. I’ve thinking about my presentation and I think [...]

Posted on August 9, 2009 at 6:07 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Event: Geek Lunch Today @ 12:30pm

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 [...]

Posted on May 29, 2009 at 8:08 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Hack Night Reborn: UTOS-ConMan needs some features

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 [...]

Posted on May 27, 2009 at 4:20 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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