UTOSC 2010 Presentation schedule is close to completion
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UTOSC 2010 - October 7-9, 2010
Miller Campus, Salt Lake Community College
Keynote Speaker: Jared Smith
Jared Smith, will be speaking on 'Swimming upstream: How Linux distributions help the entire community' as his keynote address at UTOSC 2010.
Register Today!!
Utah Open Source Conference Registration is now open! To register, visit http://attend.utosc.com today!
Events and Activities
For more information about the activities and events at UTOSC, click here.What's going on during UTOSC 2010
Times
UTOSC 2010 has the following hours:
October 7-8 8:30am to 9pm
October 9 8:30am to 6pm
Directions
If you need directions or pictures of the venue itself, you can find that on the venue page.
Theme: It's better when it's free!*
The Utah Open Source Foundation has been expanding and growing even in these tough times! Free and open source software is very important to our community, so we'd like to share a bit more about the theme!
To share and contribute
Sharing isn't just for kindergarten. We were all taught it was good to share and it still is. Why shouldn't you be able to help your family, friends or even a stranger out if you want to? Free and Open Source Software allows you to share if you choose too.
Desiring to help is only natural. Contributing to a project and a community is an innate social behavior that should be encouraged in an open society. FOSS promotes contribution by allowing anyone to view and modify and give back to a community or project.
Isn't it nice to know that _you_ can make changes and contribute to your operating system rather then tell the manufacturer what you think and _hope_ they make the change?
To lead and not follow
Innovation isn't just for the new. While the Free and Open Source Software communities innovate new technologies they have also revisited existing technology as well. Revising and improving on existing technologies has allowed once complex and expensive technologies like Unix to become available to the masses in new and improved incarnations
Standards don't just define benchmarks. The ability to communicate effectively between systems is a necessity in an ever connected world. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an open international organization, has long set standards for internetwork communications with the use of Request For Comment (RFC) white papers used by developers.
Market share isn't just for Wall street. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is not only used by individuals for small hobby projects thanks to being free as in [root]beer, but is also used in large enterprise environments. Market share for key servers across the Internet (Web and Mail servers for example) have, and continue to be, dominated by Open and Free software such as Ruby, Puppet, Postfix and Apache.
To discover, explore and learn
Discover new technologies and software. Discover new languages! PHP, Ruby, Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Bash. Discover new friends. You'll meet people just like you!
Explore open source software technologies and find answers. Where do I start? How can I help? What does this do? I have a project, what's the first step?
Learn and gain new skills. Learn to program. Learn to be a Linux Admin. Learn how to contribute. Learn to love Open Source!
