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Another highlight from the upcoming 2009 UTOSC

ODF and You: Why free formats are important
I don’t know about you but I sometimes have a hard time ‘selling’ OpenOffice.org to people that don’t care about freedom. For some reason price is not the deturent there. This talk seeks to answer these questions:1) what’s an open document?, 2) who’s adopted/using it?, 3) why open document? (including why ODF/open standards are important to open source) and more.

The presenter is part of the Open Document Foundation and I am excited to see this. If you haven’t done it yet you can register so you can see this and other great presentations. Go to 2009.utosc.com for more info.

Another highlight from the 2009 Utah Open Source conference coming up shortly. The conference is October 8th through 10th at Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus.

So this weeks highlight: Virtual Private Networking with OpenVPN How/why to set up your own OpenVPN server for your home and office for easy remote access.

I have used OpenVPN for years and love it. This will be a great overview of the Open Source VPN service.

More info and registration can be found at utosc.com

Early Bird discount ends tomorrow! So, if you want to take advantage of it please register. If you do miss the early bird stuff don’t worry. We still want you to come and if you belong to a local user group you can get a 50% off code. Contact your lug leader for the code.

More info on the conference

Big thanks to our sponsors: Salt Lake Community College, xmission, Utah Governs Office on Economic Development, OpenSUSE.

Another look forward to presentation from this years Utah Open Source Conference.

Web content filtering for home or office by Jeremy Willden.

I don’t know about you, but I have family and friends ask me about an open source ‘Net Nanny’ all the time. Excited to see about this one.

Also, as a side note, the early bird registration expires this week on Sept 19th. So please register. I am very excited about The Utah Open Source Conference this year and would like to thank some of our wonderful sponsors: Salt Lake Community College, xmission, the Utah Governs Office on Economic Development, and openSuse. More information is at 2009.utosc.com.

Another favorite presentation from the 2009 Utah Open Source Conference.

Managing and Securing Your Office With pfSense: from nothing to secure firewall using pfSense. I have set up pfSense at work and like it a lot. I can do many things with it including content filtering and OpenVPN in a snap. Joseph Brower works professionally getting pfSense hardware ready and configuring pfSense to do just about anything you could want from a firewall and I hope to learn some new tricks from him. Also, he is excited to present. He has been asking since April when he could submit his abstract and was one of the first we received. This promises to be a great presentation.

So, if you haven’t heard about it the Utah Open Source Conference will be October 8-10 at the Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus. More information can be found here.

Now I don’t mean the job that gets me a paycheck. That would be something my bosses might not appreciate. But I am the conference manager or the Utah Open Source Conference. We started to define this job here but as you can see, there is a long way to go.

I envision this job kind of like a glorified ring master. I don’t do any stunts, I just help cue others to do theirs. Does that make sense?

If you have any thoughts comment here or get a wiki account and edit the wiki. Thanks.

Also if you haven’t done so yet, register for the conference this year. It is going to be great. 2009.utosc.com.

There are a lot of presentations this year at the Utah Open Source Conference. We had over 120 submitted presentations. With so many to pick from you can imagine how hard it was. This year we let you pick. Attendees that were registered prior to selection closing and presenters who had submitted abstracts could vote on what presentations actually made it to the conference. A true community effert as it were.

All in all some 50+ presentations actually will be there at the conference and out of those there are some that are my favorites.

Let me introduce one such favorite: Getting Things Done – Life Without a GUI: how to do just about anything with the command line. I have know Jared Bernard, the presenter, for years (he used to be my wife’s boss), and I am very excited to see this presentation.

If you haven’t registered for the conference early bird registration is still available. See utosc.com for more information.

This year I am again helping with the Utah Open Source Conference. I am very excited as we fast approach the dates. Here is the skinny: October 8-10 at Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus. The theme is Affordability, Scalability, Reliability and we have a slew of people that submitted abstracts for presentations. To those that did submit I say thank you.

So, please register to come. I think that you will find it quite affordable. There is an early bird discount until Sept 19th. And if you are part of a local user group (such as sllug) you can get an additional 50% discount. Very cool, very cheap.

See http://2009.utosc.com for more information.