Packaging Jams

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:32, Jono Bacon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One thing we are looking to encourage are Packaging Jams - events that
> LoCo teams run that teach a group of people how to get started with MOTU
> and Ubuntu Packaging.
>
> I have written up a short guide of how to do this (based on some
> guidance from the Michigan LoCo who ran an event) - you can read about
> how to organise an event at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/RunningPackagingJam
>
> If you do organise one, be sure to add the date of your event on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Events :)
>
> I would love to see a bunch of LoCo teams volunteer to run events to get
> the concept of Packaging Jams off the ground. If you are planning on
> running an event, get in touch with me. :)

Personally, I think that focusing events like this on bug squashing and 
packaging fixing would be more useful for this distribution and easier for 
new contributors to get traction on.  I think it's more needed to make our 
existing packages better than to get more packages into Ubuntu.

Scott K