[Ubuntu Chicago] Ubuntu 9.04 release party planning

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

I wrote this note just before going to bed last night in a rush to get
it out before the end of the night.  That was a mistake.  To me, it
comes off as pretty dry and matter of fact.

Truth is, I'm excited about having our release party.  A bunch of us
have worked pretty hard on this release, so it will be good to get us
together to celebrate a bit.  Right now we have our location in order,
and we have our meeting time set, but I was hoping that, over the next
couple of days, people could share ideas for what to do at the release
party.

I suggested talks, Nathan Handler suggested making it an install /
upgrade-fest, and I know we'll all want food.  :)  If you have any
ideas or thoughts on what you'd like to see at the release party (even
if you are new to the team or to the mailing list), please feel free
to share.

The initial details are up on the wiki,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChicagoTeam/ReleaseParty

Thanks, all.

Jim

P.S. The octo-mom is going to have her own reality show.  Just sayin'.


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have a date set for the release party, and we have our location in
> order (thanks to Kevin Harriss from the ChicagoLug).  Details are
> available on the wiki [0].  The release party will be on Saturday the
> 25th.
>
> I'm going to try and invite a few other groups (like the Drupal meetup
> group and a few others), so I think it would be cool if we could have
> a few talks about Ubuntu at the meeting.  Like a demo of something
> cool on Kubuntu, something else on Ubuntu... some less technical, some
> more technical.  Just neat things about this release that either you
> would like to give a talk on, or you think some other folks might like
> to learn about.
>
> Being prepared to do installations would be good, too.
>
> Also, we'll need to coordinate food and drinks and stuff like that.
> I'm mostly just sending out this note to get things moving for the
> release party now that we have the location details in place.
>
> Feel free to share your thoughts and ideas w/ the group.
>
> Jim
>
> [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChicagoTeam/ReleaseParty
>