Global Jam - An Irish slant

[tDR112]

Hello all,
I don't think these global jam days do a lot for are loco in there
current format. The numbers of people going to these events seem to be
droping each time we have one. I think the normal person is taken back
from the idea of fixing bugs , its too much for them. I think for
these events to work and everyone to be involved they need more
structure. It needs to be easier for the non programer to come along
and help.
Some ideas for more structure.

Lighting talks on,
reporting bugs
Fixing bugs
Testing
Documentation
Translations

After these mini talks give people a chance to work on them. Or work
in small groups with someone already good with bug fixing helping out
other people.
Also we could use these days for people to work on the loco website and wiki.

Over all I think stuff like this has to be done if we want to make
these sort of events open to the wider members of our loco and the
general public .


Jeffrey Roe,
www.tog.ie



On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Laura Czajkowski <laura at lczajkowski.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> Thoughts please....
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