Getting set for Friday at the Utah Open Source Conference — they’ve hit their target (and then some) of registered attendees, and the buzz here has been pretty good. Lots of great sessions, though I haven’t had a chance to attend any excepting the keynotes last night.

The booth has been seen steady traffic, but the location for the exhibitors here isn’t all that great — something the organizers really didn’t have a lot of control over, since they’re being given the facilities by SLCC. However, they’ve been tireless in helping people (speakers, exhibitors, and attendees) and giving the proverbial 110% and really going all out.

This is what I really love about community shows — I’ve had a chance to have a good conversation with a lot of our community, and I also had a chance Thursday night to have a good talk with Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields about ways we might coordinate and work together.

Speaking of his Fedoraness, Frields had his keynote last night as the closing event for the day following the nice spread of food put out by the UTOSC folks. Really good stuff, and sets the bar for my keynote this afternoon.

The theme of the conference is “HOWTO,” so I’m going to be talking about “How to bootstrap a community…” which will be all about community building and how companies can forge a strong community around open source projects. I will, of course, be talking about openSUSE and the progress that the openSUSE Project has made since its inception, but also looking at other communities and what’s been successful and what’s not.

The openSUSE community and Novell are pretty well-represented here, lots of speakers from the community. Wish I had more time to see all the talks!

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