About UTOS and UTOSC
Utah Open Source Foundation (UTOS)
The Utah Open Source Foundation was created in June of 2006 with the goal of ‘Helping grow open source in Utah’. This goal, while a tremendous challenge, has brought with it some great successes, and some serious trials. UTOS is in place because of the hard work and efforts from a group of volunteers, several business folk who are interested in UTOS’ success and the generous encouragement of the Utah Open Source community.
UTOS launched out of the now defunct Utah Open Source Coalition. Our ideals are similar in nature to theirs, though on a larger scale. UTOS plans help Local User Groups (LUGs) and others involved in open source in Utah in several areas. Our main focuses are community, technology and business, with a growing interest in spreading open source in education. We believe that helping those who help free software succeed is a noble goal.
The charter of the Utah Open Source Foundation (UTOS) is to help open source grow in Utah. To do this, it was decided to help the Local User Group (LUG) communities. Developers and others generally participate in a LUG and can benefit more directly through a LUG.
Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC)
This is year two for UTOSC and we're growing like crazy! UTOSC 2008 will be held August 28 - 30 @ Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City, Utah
The simple idea is that we get together for 2-4 days/evenings during the spring/summer of each year to discuss cool new Open Source concepts as well as recognize those of us who are true geeks in the real sense of the word. This conference will be by, for and about Utah Open Source.
Here are a couple examples in the state:
Many GNOME developers live in Utah. Another great source of Utah open source technology is Novell and the SUSE and OpenSUSE projects. In addition, there are several hundred geeks I know or have met that have genius in some Open Source projects.
