This month, we'll begin our newsletter. UTOSF plans to send out this newsletter to all of the user group (UG) communities in Utah and surrounding areas. We post it here for your benefit and invite you to sign up for the News mailing list at http://utos.org/mailman/listinfo/ to receive this and other news.
In the future, UTOSF plans to make this a regular article released near the end of every month, so come by and see how we're improving our community. I would like to note, however, that we will not be sending this newsletter on this mailing list after this initial outreach. If you are interested in hearing about what great things are going on in Utah Open Source, join up at http://utos.org/mailman/listinfo/ or watch http://utosf.org for future newsletters. === Utah Open Source Planet === The Utah Open Source Planet, run by Gabriel Gunderson can be accessed in another way, from Utah Open Source Foundation. Point your browser to http://planet.utosf.org and receive the latest and greatest local Utah bloggers talking about everything from linux to food to programming to weight loss. These people are part of Utah Open Source and have a good nose for what's going on in tech and open source in Utah. Please join us by participating in Utah Open Source Planet. Its a great blog community. === Streaming === UTOSF is proud to announce that we will provide streamed user group (UG) meetings. Utah Open Source Foundation (UTOSF) is spearheading an effort to get a streaming server up and running. We've taken into considerations things like bandwidth concerns, server power, usefulness of topic and much more. As such, we'll be attempting to stream more and more meetings, events and other discussions this year for the UGs. The current plan is to cover most of the known user groups (UGs) by end of year 2008. We need help from you to accomplish this. UTOSF is providing the hardware, bandwidth and configuration for anyone who's willing to record their UG meeting. We want to find people who are regulars in each of the communities and help them set up the recording software. If you are interested, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information. === Conference Videos === We're still learning here, so please bear with us. We've had a lot of requests regarding when the recordings of UTOSC 2007 will be released. I'd like to say that I have *actually* seen one and OpenSourceTV and KnowledgeBlue are doing a great job getting these together. I'm excited to see how the rest turn out. The videos will be released as we get them. There will be regular announcements on http://utosf.org so continue to watch for updates. === Multi-Distro Release Party === Only once in a great while will we see an event like this one. Only once will there be so many shiny new distributions to choose from. Only once will OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, OpenBSD and Fedora be released within one month of each other. Because of this The Utah Open Source Foundation is announcing the first and probably the only Multi-Distro Release Party in Utah. The release party will involve four major distros, plus anyone is welcome to bring their own distro to hand out. The party will be held on Saturday, November 10, from 1-5pm at the Open Source Technology Center at Novell. We'll have a few short presentations about the three released distributions, food and a large network install server for the Installfest. We hope to see you all there! Where: Open Source Technology Center at Novell Map: http://tinyurl.com/yprnqr When: Saturday, November 10, 2007 1pm-5pm MST What: Installfest, pizza, drinks and more. === You Can Help === I'd like to invite those interested in helping the Utah Open Source Conference 2008 to start attending the upcoming Conference planning meetings. Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject, "Conference Planning" if you are interested in helping. In addition, the Utah Open Source Foundation will begin regular "meets". We're planning on inviting leadership of each of the User Groups, plus anyone interested in helping the community as a whole. UTOSF is dedicated to helping the groups by providing resources, tools and other benefits. Come and be a part of something great! Cheers, Clint Savage Founder, Utah Open Source Foundation /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
