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

[Grant Bowman]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Nathan Haines<nhaines at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 14:44 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
>> 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?
>
> The IRC joking with Jono Bacon aside, unless there are unforeseen
> circumstances, the LoCo will participate in the GBJ again, as we have
> since the Ubuntu community created the idea.
>
> My plan is to talk about this after OSCON.  But I doubt specifics will
> differ substantially from last October's jam at Chapman.

The Chapman event may not be the only event in California this time
around.  This year the name has changed to focus on more than just
bugs.  The "Ubuntu Global Jam" which
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam describes includes 1) bugs 2)
testing 3) translations 4) documentation and 5) other.

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