Utah Release Party: Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenBSD

Yesterday we held a release party in Salt Lake City, Utah to celebrate the release of several open source operating systems. The original announcement only mentioned Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and Fedora 9, but we realized during the party that OpenBSD 4.3 was released on May 1st.

We were all happy to celebrate the goodness of open source, without arguing over which distro was better. The Fedora guys showed us some cool improvements, and the Ubuntu guys also demonstrated some neat improvements. The great thing about open source is that all of these improvements will be shared by both distributions in a future release.

I want to say thank you to our excellent sponsors who made this party a success. First, the amazing location was provided by the web-development company Code Greene. Second, the delicious Chipotle burritos were donated by the Utah Open Source Foundation, ran by Clint Savage. Lastly, thanks to the Fedora project who contributed funds, and Ubuntu/Canonical who contributed swag (including hundreds of 8.04 CDs).

Here is a picture of the three Ubuntu babies! This is the second release party for my girl Chloe (on the right).

We had an estimated 50 people at this party, but there is not one shot that includes them all. We do have physical evidence that 32 burritos were eaten and many people did not get one.

Here is Clint Savage doing his best impression of a good speaker. Just kidding Clint, you did a great job! Thanks for helping foster open source communities in Utah.
Notice the Fedora posters and foosball table in the background. This web-development company also has a kitchen, ping-pong table, an air-hockey table, a gigantic over-sized chess set, and a high-def theater that was playing the original Star Wars. Sounds like a great place to work!

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  1. Anonymous5/05/2008 9:30 AM

    This is awesome, keep up the good work guys

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