[ubuntu-us-ma] Ubuntu-us-ma Digest, Vol 49, Issue 4

[steven morth]

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>    1. Re:  Global Jam (Michael Terry)
>    2. Re:  Global Jam (Martin Owens)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:49:42 -0400
> From: Michael Terry <mike at mterry.name>
> To: Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team
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> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Global Jam
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> We now have a venue, and the timing has changed as well.  We can run
> this from the Canonical Lexington office, on Sunday, April 3rd from
> 11:30 to 17:00.
> 
> -mt
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> On 4 March 2011 18:29, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey Massachusetts People,
> >
> > I'm putting together an Ubuntu event for the 2nd April 2011, it's the
> > bi-annual Global Jam where we get together and test the new release and
> > report bugs. It should carry on to the next day, Sunday too.
> >
> > Although I want to focus our testing on the indicators and file services
> > (things like nautilus/places etc) you're free to come and work on what
> > ever part of K/Ed/L/X/Ubuntu you feel like.
> >
> > We're searching for a location to host the event and I am opening a
> > request to any of our friends with contacts in the local universities if
> > they could spare a room for the weekend. Anywhere warm with internet
> > should do. Email me if you can offer such a space and are interested in
> > getting involved.
> >
> > If you'd like to participate, you can mark your attendance here on our
> > official event page:
> >
> > http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/753/detail/
> >
> > Best Regards, Martin Owens
> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:31:12 -0400
> From: Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com>
> To: Michael Terry <mike at mterry.name>
> Cc: Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team
> 	<ubuntu-us-ma at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Global Jam
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> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 08:49 -0400, Michael Terry wrote:
> > We now have a venue, and the timing has changed as well.  We can run
> > this from the Canonical Lexington office, on Sunday, April 3rd from
> > 11:30 to 17:00. 
> 
> There is almost certainly be pizza, it will almost certainly be good
> fun. If you're going to come, make sure to pop over to the loco
> directory here:
> 
> http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/753/detail/
> 
> The idea is to spot bugs and fix them, and it can be in _any_ project
> that you're interested in testing and reporting bugs for (not just core
> ubuntu or unity), as well as triaging. We'll do a demonstration for
> people too, so people know how to do it.
> 
> Best Regards, Martin Owens
> 
> 
> 
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There is no public tranportation on Sunday

I would like to attend but I am carless (by moral choice)

The MBTA in their infinitesmal bureacratic wisdom does not

operate any useful buses(62,76) Neither does Lexpress

closest bus stop is Burlington Mall

This also infuriates my atheist sensiblities
I have installed Narwhal Alpha on a stick which does run on my Acer
netbook but does on my Lenovo x301 Thinkpad

I have many concerns about the future of Ubuntu

I hate the Unity desktop for being too dumbed down for experienced users

I hope that the X Windows replacement will be absolute functionally
transparent

Perhaps I have outgrown Ubuntu