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.

A broader discussion of these goals can be found on our wiki.

Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC)

The Utah Open Source Conference has been held since 2007.  Each year has been better than the last and we continue to look for volunteers and sponsorships.  Here are dates, details and links to previous year’s conferences.

• UTOSC 2009 was held October 8-10 @ Salt Lake Community College in Sandy, Utah
  • Total Attendees: 427
  • Total # of presentations: 63 (not including BoFs or LUG meetings)
• UTOSC 2008 was held August 28-30 @ Salt Lake Community College in West Valley City, Utah
  • Total Attendees: 440 (estimated)
  • Total # of presentations: 51
• UTOSC 2007 was held September 6-8 @ the Open Source Technology Center at Novell in Provo, Utah