hug day (with more than hugs)

[t u]

Hi,
I just saw this in mozillazine, and it seems a nice idea. Can we do this
during a hug day? We could give away t-shirts or similar stuff...

from http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20100
> Testing will take place in #calendar-qa channel of irc.mozilla.org.
> Testers should use the latest trunk nightly builds of Lightning and
> Sunbird. There will be prizes for the two testers who make the
> largest contribution to the test day. The Mozilla Wiki page on the
> October 17th Calendar test day has complete instructions for
> participating.
> 
> The 25-hour test day runs from midnight UTC/GMT on Tuesday until
> 1:00am UTC/GMT on Wednesday. This equates to 5:00pm Monday until
> 6:00pm Tuesday in Mountain View (Pacific Daylight Time), 8:00pm
> Monday until 9:00pm Tuesday in New York, 1:00am Tuesday until 2:00am
> Wednesday in London, 4:00am Tuesday until 5:00am Wednesday in Moscow,
> 8:00am Tuesday until 9:00am Wednesday in Beijing, 9:00am Tuesday
> until 10:00am Wednesday in Tokyo and 10:00am Tuesday until 11:00am
> Wednesday in Sydney.

The stuff that I especially like about this one are:
1. the concise directive that the latest built should be used
2. that it takes exactly 25 hours and starts & ends at the same time UTC
3. requirement to come to the chat room (and moderators will be there)
4. things that will be tested, very specific

see also http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:QA_TestDay:2006-10-17

what do you think? this could be advertised using the ubuntu-users email
list, ubuntuforums.org, many blogs for ubuntu, wiki page, chat rooms and
so on.

thanks.

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