Global Jam - An Irish slant

[Peter Malone]

I like the TOG suggestion.

Tom Salmon wrote:
> I think the first two suggestions, Standard Bug/Translation Jamming and Workshop/Tutorials may work best for such occasions.
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> The Ubuntu Hour may be better suited for Lightening talks, and general programming sessions may be better handled by an entity like TOG.
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> Just my thoughts :)
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> Tom.
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:37:51PM +0000, Rory McCann wrote:
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>> Some ideas for things that could happen at it:
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>>  * Standard Bug/Translation/etc Jamming (i.e. commenting on bugs, doing
>> translations, etc) Pros: Worked well when we did it in DIT last year.
>> Cons: a bit ubuntu specific
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>>  * Workshop/Tutorials on how to do the above (ie bug jamming etc). Pros:
>> also worked well when we did it last year, cons: again ubuntu specific
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>>  * Lightening talks, about anything really. Cons: We need volunteers to
>> do it!
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>>  * General programming thingie, ie people just hacking on their own
>> thing for their own projects, cons: a bit isolation?
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>>  * Bug Jamming Challenge - Given X 'contestants' see who can increase
>> their launchpad karma the most in that 24 hours. cons: is this a bit too
>> macho compeditive
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>>  * OSM mapping party, cons: central dublin is mapped well
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>>  * Play videos from some conferences on a big(ish) screen, it's like
>> being at a real conference! pros: better quality talks than getting
>> people to do it ourselves, cons: who has a projector / large screen?
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>> Thoughs?
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>> On 21/01/10 18:35, Laura Czajkowski wrote:
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>>> Aloha!
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>>> It's me again.....
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>>> Ubuntu has a Global Jam, mind way through a release cycle to encourage
>>> participation in working on bugs, translations, documentation, cleaning
>>> up of the wikis. In the past Ireland has run them.  I'd hope this year
>>> would be no different.  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam
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>>> At the 1st Ubuntu Hour we were discussing getting more groups involved
>>> in a day like this, so it's not just focused on Ubuntu, by asking other
>>> dev groups to take part.  Perhaps making the global jam section of the
>>> event more structured would be a good idea, so that we spent 2 hrs on
>>> topics or work in teams. I'd be interested in hearing ideas.  Ideally we
>>> might run this in the trinity capital hotel as there is space, but we
>>> would definitely need to confirm numbers as the room I'd be looking to
>>> get sponsored. There is free wifi there.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thoughts please....
>>>
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>>
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>>>       
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