Went to the State of FOSS in Utah by Clint Savage at PLUG. Here are some notes:
- Trying to help users groups by providing live streaming of meetings.
- Provide a way for people to meet and network, hear about job openings.
- Did Utah Open Source Conference last summer.
- Planning “education weeks” for training on one specific topic. Low cost, 2 hours a night for a week.
- Promoting open source in education.
- Family track at Open Source Conference in 2008. Digital scrap booking?
- Core Team for coordination, sysadmin, media, sponsors, development and promotion.
- Victor Villa is going to be working on a cross-group newsletter.
- HomeRunsInIt.com – December 6, 2007, semi job fair event.
- Cross group calendar, so people can subscribe to one calendar and stay up to date with all of the groups.
- Perhaps sharing speakers across groups? UTOSF is like a meta group, not something you would attend, but would each group be better.
- Focus of next years conference is “How To”. Probably going to be late August 2008.
This PLUG meeting was held at Omniture.