Global Jam - An Irish slant

[Jarlath Reidy]

I agree completely with the last two messages.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Mike O'Donohue <airurando at eircom.net>wrote:

> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski
> > > http://www.lczajkowski.com
> > > Skype: lauraczajkowski
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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