[Ubuntu Chicago] Regular Jams

[Jim Campbell]

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Hey Everybody,

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Nathan Handler <nhandler at ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> Hello everyone,
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> We have been talking on IRC about holding regular
> packaging/bug/documentation/marketing jams. Micah Gersten (micahg)
> said that we can use onShore Networks (1407 W Chicago Ave., Chicago,
> IL 60642 ) to hold the meetings; however, Micah must be present for
> duration of the meeting. He is available Sunday through Thursday night
> from 6PM on. The table in the conference room there holds 12-14
> people, and we can fit in about 6 more people by using chairs along
> the walls.
>
> One thing we need to decide is when to hold these regular events. I
> personally was thinking that holding them on Sundays. I think that
> this will allow more people to attend than if we were to hold it
> during the week. As for how often these sessions are to be held, I was
> thinking once or possibly twice a month. I think that any more
> frequent than that would be pushing it. I can only commit to once a
> month, but if the rest of the LoCo wants to meet more frequently, I
> certainly do not have to attend all of the sessions.
>
> Another thing that we need to discuss are the different types of jams
> that we can hold. As I mentioned earlier, we can hold packaging, bug,
> documentation, and marketing jams. In order for these to be effective,
> we need to ensure that when we hold a certain type of jam that we have
> at least a couple of people there who understand it enough to help
> other people. When replying to this email, if you could please mention
> which types of jams you feel you could help out with, it would be
> greatly appreciated. We should also come up with a few goals that we
> would like to accomplish with each type of jam.
>
> One more thing that I would like to try and do at these events would
> be a gpg key signing party. Especially at the packaging jams (where
> users will most likely need to create a key), I think these sessions
> would be an opportune time to very identities and sign keys.
>
> I am interested in hearing what everyone else thinks about these
> ideas. I started putting some brief ideas up on [1], but it could
> definitely be expanded on.
>
> Sincerely,
> Nathan Handler
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChicagoTeam/Projects
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This sounds great, and I would definitely be up for this. I would be most
interested in packaging and documentation jams, but other jams would be ok,
too. I would be a participant in a packaging jam, but would be willing to
lead or help lead a documentation jam.  A GPG key signing party would be a
good idea, too. Perhaps we could have one of those (a bit less formal . . .
) to kick things off.  We could use that a social event / planning session.

Sundays would work well for me, and once or twice a month would be fine,
too. If we do packaging jams (which I think would be good at this point in
the current release cycle), I would recommend having them 2x per month so
that we can build knowledge from one session to the next without losing much
momentum. We tried to do one of these before, though, and it didn't go off
very well, I think primarily because there are so many different facets to
packaging . . . we would just need to plan things out very well.  (I would
rather have us take longer to plan something like that so that we do it
right, and people can learn a lot from it.)

Other jams would likely not be as technical, so . . . we would still need to
plan, but the learning curve isn't as high for stuff like documentation or
marketing as it is for packaging.

Jim
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