UTOSC 2008: Open Source in Government Panel Discussion moderated by Jason Hall
A panel discussion with Phil Windley (former Utah CTO) and Pete Ashdown (US senatorial candidate) of the Utah political and technical scene. We will discuss the use of open source software in government operations, as well as open source philosophy is the political process.
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- Utah Open Source
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- Governors Office of Economic Development
UTOSC 2008: What I learned from Oggify by Scott Paul Robertson
This presentation will be an overview of various tips and good practices I’ve learned from writing and managing Oggify. From it’s humble beginnings as a shell script, the various states in Perl for version 1.0, and the newly rewritten in Python for version 2.0. Topics will range from tips about version control selection and use to following style conventions and learning to take advantage of your tools. The presentation will be geared toward people of beginning to intermediate experience who are looking to start a project or improve habits with an existing project. Code examples will include: sh, perl, python, and ruby. Tools covered will be git (with some mention of bzr, hg, and svn), vim, and zsh. Focus will not be on any language or tool, but principles and practices. By having good habits and avoiding common pitfalls your code will be more powerful, flexible, and sharable.
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- Utah Open Source
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- KnowledgeBlue
UTOSC 2008: Monitoring your Data Center using Apache and Ganglia
Brad Nicholes presents the insightful session on Data Center Monitoring.
As an IT professional or systems administrator, one of the most important aspects of your job is to know and understand at all times what is going on in your data center. What is the health status of your hardware? Are your resources overloaded? What are your hardware utilization trends and how can your resources be better utilized? These are just some of the questions that must be answered in order to be sure that your data center is running smoothly. Fortunately there are ways to anwser these questions which will allow you to stay on top of what is going on. By deploying a pure Open Source solution using Apache as a frontend to the Ganglia monitoring system on the backend, this solution will provide the necessary information to monitor the status of your data center. Through Apache and Ganglia, you will be able to monitor statistics such as CPU utilization, memory consumption, network throughput, disk I/O and much more. Additionally, since the Ganglia monitoring system is built on top of the Apache Portable Runtime libraries, it is able to be deployed on a wide variety of operating systems giving you total data center coverage. The graphical web frontend displays a series of summary or per-machine trending graphs that can be customized over hours, weeks or months. This presentation will provide you with an overview of how Apache and Ganglia can be used to monitor your data center and the various ways in which the solution can be customized or extended to meet your data center needs.
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- Utah Open Source
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UTOSC 2008: KVM/QEMU Virtual Machines by Jim Petersen and David Mair
Host/Guest installation and configuration for KVM/QEMU virtual machines.
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UTOSC 2008: Voice Over IP for fun and profit by Chris Cameron
Chris Cameron will show how to setup a voice over IP phone system from beginning to end. Using open source software we will explore how simple it is to have a high end phone system running in little time and on commodity hardware. We will take a computer and some inexpensive phones and install and configure the system through the presentation. Using web based administration tools to easily configure an upstream Voice Over IP trunk and make and receive calls.
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- Utah Open Source
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- Utah OpenTech
UTOSC 2008 Linux Media and Home Automation by Brandon Beattie
This will be a discussion about what hardware and software is available and compatible with Linux to automate your home. Video Surveillance, Lighting Control, Personal Weather Stations, Multimedia Integration, Security System Integration and other automation methods. This will be a more advanced course since integration does require decent hacking and scripting skills.
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- Utah Open Source Foundation
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- XMission
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UTOSC 2008: The Dark Art of Autotools by John Jolly
Open Source Software has many challenges, but one of the most intimidating is providing a solid build system for the project. Build system tools such as autoconf and automake can cause you to throw your hands up in exasperation. This presentation will take you step-by-step on how to use autotools to build your already-existing project. From explaining the interaction between each tools, to showing you how to create shared libraries, this presentation will have you using these utilities like a pro.
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- Utah Open Source Foundation
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- Mozy
UTOSC 2008: Speeding Up Database Development with GenORMous by Brian Hawkins
This presentation introduces the GenORMous project (code.google.com/p/genormous) and shows how it can be used to speed up and simplify database access in Java based projects. GenORMous generates ORM objects based on a table definition file. The generated code is easy to used and modify for custom applications. GenORMous will also generate objects from complex SQL queries that are easy to a used and test within your code.
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- Utah Open Source Foundation
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- KnowledgeBlue
UTOSC 2008: Open Source for the Windows Addict
The vast population of Windows users need not fear Open Source. The windows addicted can Experience the benefits of Open Source without giving up their teddy bear. This presentation will introduce a variety of Open Source applications which run in windows, including OpenOffice, KeePass, GIMP, VideoLAN, and others. It will highlight the flexibility and portability of these applications, including the ability in many cases to carry the applications themselves on a USB thumb drive.
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UTOSC 2008: Future of Artificial Intelligence in Open Source
Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence have enabled a basic computer system with no additional components to advance from a beginner in chess, to a master level in less than 300 games. This presentation will examine what a learning algorithm consists of, and why it may be important to Open Source in the future. By the end of this presentation the audience should have a foundational knowledge of what AI is and whether it may be useful in their own projects.
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