This year, Mary Reid, Chad Nelson, and Clint Tinsley from our group traveled to Sandy, Utah for this gathering to experience 2009 UTOSC! Mary Reid, Chad Nelson, and Clint Tinsley made the trip in Clint's Subaru, which any Suby owner knows spelled backwards is U R a bus, and the trip was made without incident. Arriving about noon on Thursday the 8th, the UTOSC Opening day, the 3 of us spent the afternoon and the evening attending sessions of interest to each of us. Its needs to be said that there were so many sessions and speakers to chose from, it was difficult to choose, and no one could attend all of them! Thursday sessions we attended included other User Group meetings, Networking 101, Intro to OS Virtualization (Scott Dowdle of the Montanna contingent). Clint finished off the day hosting a Birds of Feather session on Linux Home Servers where he talked about SLAMPP Simple Home Server and all you coud do with it. Chad Nelson was the photographer for our group and he has posted his photo's at http://www.flickr.com/photos/quvmoh/ with comments! Friday was a very full day with topics including "Getting Things Done - Life Without A GUI", "Why FreeBSD is the Best Linux Distro*" (*No, its not really Linux, sort of), "SSH Tips and Tricks" and "Using Blender 3D for Game Creatation" among the choices. There was something for almost any interest including System Administration. Saturday started off, somewhat tardily due to an accident that slowed arrivals to the conference, with a presentation by Adobe Open Source Evangelist and manager, Dave McAllister presenting "Big Company, Open Choice, Why Adobe is becoming Open" where he outlined what Adobe is doing with Open Source and being involved with the Open Source community. Sessions included a BZflag Tournament where Chad won a book for his skills at open BZflag, and numberous instructional sessions on using Gimp for face swapping and putting people on a diet, along with Multimedia ("Useing ffmpeg for, well everything"), "HDR Photography Using Open Source for Beginers", and techy stuff like GNome desktop scripting, iSCSI, and the Google Web Toolkit. Clint ended the day at 8 PM after attending the last session which was on PostreSQL database server. Clint commented that he came away from the 3 day conference with several golden nuggets of things he said "I did not know that!" All 3 of us came away from the 3 day experience with new knowledge and meeting other people in the Open Source community and felt that we would have been remiss to not have attended. And we are looking forward to next year!