[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Global Jam [ & Karmic Release Parties ]

[Grant Bowman]

I'm thinking of upcoming California events.  CLS and OSCON would be
good places to tell people about upcoming events. Currently Karmic is
scheduled for release on Thursday, October 29th. [1]  I started a new
wiki page for this, copying and pasting from the Jaunty page and
removing details.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/KarmicRelease

It was great to see the twit on June 29th "@jonobacon recorded a video
tutorial: How to run an Ubuntu Global Jam Event.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1730589"  His sharing of best practices
related to Date, Venue, Equipment & Buzz are good reminders to help in
organizing an event.  The recommendation to focus on Bugs, Testing,
Documentation, Translations and Other give great opportunities for
even the most neophyte Ubuntu user to contribute in some way.

20090616 15:50 <nhaines> Don't panic, but I just sort of told Jono
we'll be doing a Global Bug Jam event in October.

Everyone that knows about Bug Jams will be tripping over the name
change for awhile to come.  I don't see any California event linked
from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam/Events yet as recommended
by Jono in his video cast.  What are your plans, Nathan?

Would anyone else be interested in volunteering to run other Global
Jam events Sunday, October 4th in California?

Grant Bowman
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam


[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Grant Bowman<grantbow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anyone else interested in participating?
>
> Grant
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Jono Bacon" <jono at ubuntu.com>
> Date: Jun 15, 2009 5:43 PM
> Subject: Ubuntu Global Jam - Let's light this one up...
> To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts"
> <loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> At UDS we spent some time discussing the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam and felt
> it could be expanded to cover additional areas instead of just bugs.
> Well, I just announced some dates and created some wiki projects to add
> events to. See
> http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/06/16/the-ubuntu-global-jam/ for the details.
>
> I have also organized some monthly meetings on the 3rd Thursday of each
> month to discuss the event. The first meeting is this week at 6pm UTC in
> #ubuntu-meeting on Freenode. The details are on the Fridge calendar.
>
> This is an incredible opportunity for LoCo teams to get people involved
> and to do some awesome work for Ubuntu. It is also LoCo teams who are
> going to be the wheels that will drive this machine: we need LoCo teams
> to host events and encourage others to host events. As such, take a look
> at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Jams for details of how to run an event, and
> add your event to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam
>
> Let's make this rock. :-)
>
>     Jono
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