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Open Source In Utah

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.