[Ubuntu-US-CA] Meeting up in SFBA for UDS next week?

Sat Mar 9 04:12:35 UTC 2013

I didn't get any replies (unless I missed an email), which is unsurprising 
given the short notice.

I am strongly considering whether it would be worth organizing such a 
thing (and better-planned than "meh, show up at my apartment") for the 
May/June UDS. We don't know the timing of it yet, unfortunately, but I'd 
be curious to know who's interested and would show up to at least part of 
it.

-- 
Geoffrey Thomas
http://ldpreload.com
geofft at ldpreload.com

On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Grant Bowman wrote:

> Geoffrey,
>
> How did this go?
>
> Grant
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Geoffrey Thomas <ubuntu at ldpreload.com> wrote:
>> I know I'm not going to be the only person in the Bay Area who's going to
>> take Tuesday and Wednesday mornings off work to pay full attention to this
>> UDS. Would other people in the area be interested in meeting up in person
>> for this? It won't be as good as being able to run into everyone at UDS in
>> person, but it would be fun to chat with some people nonetheless.
>>
>> Depending on how many folks get back to me, I'll try to find some place
>> where we can fit everyone. Let me know what would be convenient to you (I
>> would default to SF proper, personally) -- and also if you know somewhere
>> that might host.
>>
>> --
>> Geoffrey Thomas
>> http://ldpreload.com
>> geofft at ldpreload.com
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> This news just came through this morning, they're moving UDS to an
>>> online format which will take place every 3 months.
>>>
>>> Most notably for the team though: "This online event will replace
>>> future physical UDSs, including the event originally planned in
>>> Oakland, California in May 2013."
>>>
>>> So unfortunately no UDS in Oakland!
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Jono Bacon <jono at ubuntu.com>
>>> Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM
>>> Subject: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months
>>> To: community-announce at lists.ubuntu.com
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> From the beginning of the Ubuntu project the Ubuntu community has
>>> discussed, designed, and planned each release of Ubuntu at the <a
>>> href="http://uds.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu Developer Summit</a> (UDS), which
>>> happens every six months at the beginning of a new release cycle.
>>>
>>> The event, organized and funded by Canonical, is designed to get the
>>> brightest minds in the Ubuntu community together and develop a
>>> rigorous set of blueprints and work items for the forthcoming release
>>> of Ubuntu. These blueprints are tracked openly in
>>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ and work items tracked openly
>>> at http://status.ubuntu.com.
>>>
>>> UDS has had a long culture of openness and transparency, including
>>> remote participation features, but Canonical wants to continue
>>> improving and refining the openness and accessibility of the event.
>>> Furthermore, we also want to open the opportunity for those to
>>> participate who cannot travel physically to the event, particularly
>>> those who can bring specialist experience and expertise across the
>>> convergent goals of Ubuntu across the client and cloud orchestration
>>> in the server. Finally with the change and evolution of Ubuntu and the
>>> increasing diversity of experience joining the Ubuntu community, we
>>> want to be able to have community-wide discussions more often than
>>> every six months.
>>>
>>> With these goals in mind the Ubuntu Developer Summit is transitioning
>>> over to an online event that takes place for two days every three
>>> months, and driven by live video discussion sessions, complete with
>>> integrated discussion, note-taking, and harnessing social media. This
>>> online event will replace future physical UDSs, including the event
>>> originally planned in Oakland, California in May 2013.
>>>
>>> In the new online format the event will make extensive use of Google+
>>> Hangouts On Air split across four channels, Client, Server & Cloud,
>>> Community, and App Developers, with each channel having two video
>>> streams totalling 8 potential concurrent UDS topics. UDS sessions will
>>> be spread across these channels with integrated IRC, Etherpad, Social
>>> Media sharing, and links to blueprints and specs.
>>>
>>> As with the physical UDS, the event will also include keynotes,
>>> plenary sessions and lightning talks; providing a great online venue
>>> for planning the future of Ubuntu as well as delivering news,
>>> education, demos and other related material. As with the physical UDS,
>>> the new online format is open to all to participate as a contributor
>>> or viewer, and we are confident that the online format will open up
>>> UDS to more and more people around the world.
>>>
>>> The new format of UDS provides an enhanced level of openness and
>>> transparency that is optimized for online participants. Unlike the
>>> physical UDS where a portion of the agenda is recorded in video form,
>>> *every* session in the new UDS format will be recorded and available
>>> from the schedule. Likewise, with the format of the event being
>>> online, the audio and video quality of the online experience should be
>>> much improved compared to recording a physical room of people with a
>>> single microphone and camera and variable sound levels. The full set
>>> of recordings will also make reviewing past sessions easier and make
>>> it easier for the press, enthusiasts, partners and others to review
>>> the details of the discussions.
>>>
>>> The event will continue to be scheduled at http://summit.ubuntu.com
>>> and due to the lighter nature of organizing an online event as opposed
>>> to a physical event, the new UDS format will be scheduled
>>> approximately every three months (as opposed to every six months).
>>> This will provide an increased level of participation and discussion
>>> around how we create and build Ubuntu across the desktop, devices and
>>> cloud.
>>>
>>> With the fantastic level of interest in the recent phone and tablet
>>> announcements, we decided that we couldn’t wait until May to run this
>>> new format for UDS, so the first online UDS will be taking place next
>>> week from 5th - 6th March 2013 from 4pm UTC - 10pm UTC and the next
>>> event will take place around the same time as the originally scheduled
>>> physical UDS in Oakland; we will confirm the dates soon. Canonical
>>> will review the success of the next two online events and then then
>>> assess whether to continue the online format. We look forward to
>>> seeing you at the inaugural online UDS next week!
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>   Jono
>>>
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