Ubuntu Open Week preparations

[Jorge O. Castro]

Hi everyone,

Now that we've got yet another successful Developer Week under our
belts it's time to get planning for Ubuntu Open Week underway. First
of all, Open Week is a weeklong IRC workshop for people to "road test"
our community. The audience for Open Week is more general than
Developer Week, so the sessions are more broad and simple. The wiki
page for OpenWeek is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek

As always, we depend on Local Team participation to make this week a
success. Not in just attending, but in participating in generating
content for users. This is the time when you can give those IRC
classes that you've always wanted to give to a captive audience.
Here's the wiki page:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek/Prep

I have a section called "Topics You'd Like to See Covered" and "Topics
You'd Like to Run". Use these as little brainstorming whiteboards to
write down what you think would make a great session, or if you have
an idea in mind of something you'd like to run. Right now concentrate
on getting some good ideas in there, don't worry too much about the
schedule yet, we'll start penciling them in after we get a bunch of
ideas down.

We're also planning to have a brochure for Open Week like
developerweek. We have that in a Google Doc, if you want to help hack
on it let myself of Amber Graner know and we can invite you in. Also
if you have any wacky or crazy ideas please let me know or discuss
here, we are keen on evolving Open Week from "a bunch of IRC sessions"
to something more interactive and exciting.

-- 
Jorge Castro
jorge (at) ubuntu.com
External Project Developer Relations
Canonical Ltd.