Global Jam - An Irish slant

[Mike O'Donohue]

Hi Everyone,

I fully agree with Jeffry's comments and suggestions.  As a
home user of Ubuntu and a non programmer I don't see where I could be
of any use to the group at a global jam event (in fact I believe my
presence would be detrimental to the ongoing work!). If on the other
hand it was structured in such a way that I felt I could be of some use
then, providing no conflict existed with my work schedule, I would be
happy to attend.

regards,

Mike O'Donohue


On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:10:56 +0000
tDR112 <tdr112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
> >
> >
> > It's me again.....
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > 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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