<div dir="ltr">We should do one in Portland indeed :) I can help with a venue </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Walter Lapchynski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wxl@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">wxl@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That's certainly something that we can get funding for as well. The<br>
turnout in Eugene was a little small last time I did it. That may be<br>
have been circumstantial, but I think it would be really best if we did<br>
this in Portland. Possibly Salem since it's closer than Eugene. tl;dr<br>
someone needs to pick a place and a venue. Anyone want to take point on<br>
that?<br>
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On 2017-11-03 17:41, Cody Smith wrote:<br>
> That reminds me, last month it was brought up at an Ubuntu Hour that a<br>
> release party might be called for for 18.04, not sure if it's related<br>
> to the above email, but in my head it's at least tangentially related.<br>
> I figure we should start getting the ball rolling now.<br>
><br>
> --c_smith<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Walter Lapchynski <<a href="mailto:wxl@ubuntu.com">wxl@ubuntu.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I've been a little quiet lately. Well, the past year or so. Had some<br>
>> family issues that have consumed most of my time and energy. That's<br>
>> quickly resolving itself and I'm raring to get back into the swing<br>
>> of<br>
>> things, but I'm not quite there yet.<br>
>><br>
>> That said, I wanted to just drop a quick note and say that Canonical<br>
>> has<br>
>> funds from the donations they get that can be used to pay for<br>
>> lodging,<br>
>> travel, and event entries. If there is a (preferably but not<br>
>> exclusively<br>
>> Pacific Northwest-located) conference that would be a good fit for<br>
>> Ubuntu (sorry, Alien Con doesn't count) and you'd like to go<br>
>> represent,<br>
>> please get in touch. I'll do the leg work to get you set up and get<br>
>> you<br>
>> some swag to give away, too.<br>
>><br>
>> I've used this before, but I shouldn't be the only one that gets the<br>
>> opportunity. Of course, some might view it as work.. Either way, I<br>
>> think<br>
>> as LoCos the more we can do to expose ourselves to the community at<br>
>> large the better for Ubuntu and the community behind it.<br>
>><br>
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