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Places to Go, People to Meet

I’m pleased with how much opportunity for personal development and professional networking there is in Utah. Yes, I do want to see it grow even more, but it’s nice have more good options than I could possibly attend.

Tonight for example, the Utah Tech Events and Utah Business Events calendars show four events in which I have genuine interested, all occurring at the same time.  At 7:30 tonight I would be perfectly content to be at any of these four events:

1. Twelve Horses: Brand Evolution
2. Ignite Salt Lake
3. BYU Web Startup Group
4. Utah Python Users Group

Incidentally, I’d also enjoy being at home with my family, but this abundance of events centered around professional networking and personal development shows that Utah really does have a great (albeit budding) tech and business ecosystem. These mostly non-profit knowledge-sharing groups constitute, I believe, some crucial intangibles that are important underpinnings to a vibrant economy. I’m glad to see them, and I’d love to see them grow.

Anyway, there’s no excuse to not be developing your personal and professional skills at some of these events. Just don’t try to substitute them for hard and diligent work. :)

If you’d like to be a contributor to out local tech and business calendars, please ping me or any of the other calendar admins. Especially if you’ve got a utah-based business or tech group and would like a channel to attract more people, we’d love to hear from you.

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Utah Mobile Developers Group

I’m way excited about the Utah Mobile Developers user group that is forming. Their first activity is on the schedule for Wednesday, October 29 and will discuss both iPhone and Android development. Here’s the agenda and RVSP:

6:00pm Doors open, pizza, networking
6:30 Opening, recognize sponsors, review agenda, review door prizes
6:40 Presentation 1 – iPhone Development
7:40 Presentation 2 – Android (Google Phone) Development
8:40 Door prizes
9:00 Meeting over
Afterward – trip to someplace local for pie, drinks, fries, whatever

Please rsvp by sending an email to glen@glenlewis.com.

I’ve already added it to the Utah Tech Events Calendar. If you’re a nerdy Utahn who loves mobile phones you should come. This is going to be an area of explosive growth and opportunity.

For those who didn’t know, I’m working on a tech business that’s very mobile-phone related, so I’m very excited to see this group forming in Utah.

UVLUG on IPv6

UVLUG will host Dave Heldenbrand’s presentation on IPv6 this Saturday.

From Answers.com:

“IPv4 supports 4.2 billion addresses, which is inadequate for giving even one address to every living person, much less support the burgeoning market for connective devices. IPv6 addresses this problem by supporting 340 undecillion addresses. For scale, this would allow an average of about 430 quintillion unique addresses per square inch of the Earth’s surface.”

With these kind of numbers numbers, I hope to be able to boast a static IP address for every bacterium in my stomach…

Anyway, it should be pretty cool. I hope to see you there.

Utah Asterisk Users Group Formed

From their post:

“We will have our first Utah Asterisk Users’ Group meeting January 11th at 7:00 pm. it will be held in the conference room of the executive suites at Willow Creek Plaza. The address is 8160 S. Highland Drive, Sandy UT.

“We will be giving out free DID’s to all in attendance. We will also be giving out a few paperback O’Reilly books.

“Here is a tentative schedule for our first meeting:
7:00 refreshments
7:05 welcome
7:10 discussion about pronunciation of UTAUG
7:12 vote
7:15 Dave Packham! (Author of config Edit)
7:34 refreshments
7:40 more interesting speaking
7:45 raffle and games
7:46 Jared Smith! (Author of IAX2 Trunking )
8:00 refreshments
8:06 determine UTAUG objectives
8:15 mystery activity
and more!

UTAUG map and driving directions

This is great news for open source fans in Utah. Asterisk is an open source PBX that totally rules.

Update:

My company now does contract and consulting work to support Asterisk, OpenSIPS (OpenSER), FreeSWITCH and other VoIP / telephony servers and applications. We have a lot of experience and a broad industry knowledge, so if you need some paid support, please let me know and we’d be happy to help!