If you weren’t in Salt Lake City last week for the Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC), you missed out big time! UTOSC was one heck of a community show, and it seemed like all who attended had a really good time.

had a really good time at the conference. It drew, I’m guessing, about 500 people. Lots of students, and also a number of IT professionals that wanted to check out some of the talks. The traffic to the booth was steady, but because of the location of the exhibits (which was not chosen by the organizers, as I understand it, but by the school) it wasn’t heavy. However, we gave out hundreds of openSUSE DVDs, t-shirts, and some penguins as well.

The final day of the conference was “family day” — I think that was a great idea, and I saw a lot of people bringing their kids to the conference and handed out a lot of penguins to youngsters. Start ‘em on Linux young, that’s my motto. Or one of them, anyway.

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