UGJ dates (draft)

[Elizabeth K. Joseph]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> jose:
>>> I remember having a proposal for having two a cycle: one mid-cycle,
>>> and one by the end of the cycle. The mid-cycle one would be useful for
>>> translations, testing, docs, and more, while the other one at the end
>>> of the cycle would be focused on quality efforts (which is most of
>>> what can be done at that point).
>
> Incidentially the LoCo skellat mentioned (Oregon) has been planning on
> a UGJ for quite a while. I don't want you all to decide everything
> based on us, but if we could sneak that mid-cycle one back a little
> bit, that would be great. I have a great place to host but I'm a
> little unsure I can reserve something so quickly. I was anticipating a
> late-cycle Jam, and had communicated that with the venue. I do meet
> with them early next month to firm everything up, so making a
> relatively quick decision, whatever it may be would be very useful to
> me personally.

I agree that whatever we do, we need to have a decision soon. I have
venue problems as well when the events are announced less than a
couple months out.

> I do like the idea of having the UGJs focused on a particular subject.
> I think the sort of open-ness about the Jams is kind of a problem. I
> think a lot of times your translation/docs people, for example, are a
> little disinclined to join a Jam that might involve development or
> quality. Generally, they contribute early in the cycle, too, so I
> think that would be appropriate.

I've always understood that the open-ness of options was so that the
LoCo itself could decide what it wants to do, based on expertise of
members of their team volunteering for the event. I've done Mythbuntu
Jams when we had a number of MythTV folks volunteering (experts
installing Mythbuntu for attendees, and report & fix bugs along the
way) and QA jams where we all focused on ISO and package testing. In
each case it was nice to be able to decide what to do based on who we
had :) So I'd suggest that all teams pick a focus from the options
available and make their own events subject-specific (or focused on
just a couple subjects).

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