What will we do to celebrate Natty Narwhals release?

[Mike O'Donohue]

Hi Everyone,

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:21:10 +0000
Julie Pichon <julie.pichon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> On 22 March 2011 10:55, Mike O'Donohue <airurando at eircom.net> wrote:
> > With Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal scheduled for final release on
> > Thursday the 28th of April, 2011 we should decide on how we
> > plan to celebrate.   Initial questions that come to mind are:
> >
> > 1) Will we have a pub based release party or something different?
> > 2) Will we have it on the evening of the release day itself or
> > a different day, such as a weekend day?
> > 3) If so which day?
> 
> I must say I've gotten used to the traditional "Jimmy Chung Ubuntu
> Release Lunch" over the past few releases and wouldn't mind a repeat
> :) I understand if we want to change/shake things up a little though,
> even if I don't have any particular suggestions at this point. Looking
> forward to what people come up with! Has there been ideas proposed on
> IRC or elsewhere already?
> 
> Julie
> 

That's one vote for for lunch at Jimmy Chungs followed by something
else, thanks Julie. Am I right in saying that would imply a weekend
party? 

This topic was initially discussed at the March team IRC meeting.  No
concrete plans were formulated at that meeting.   It was suggested
that we have the release party on a weekday evening when folks
would already be in town.  A weekend trip to the Meerkat cafe at the
zoo was another suggestion and a geeknic was also suggested.  No one
could think of a Narwhal themed venue so a nautical themed venue was
mentioned as a possibility instead. 

Do people agree with any of these suggestions or are there different
ideas out there? I can't be sure but I suspect the only opportunity we
will have to finalise details of the party will be at the April team IRC
meeting on 20 Apr 11.  This will be quite late.  Again, what do people
think about this?

Regards,

Mike O'Donohue