July 13th, 2010 |
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Chicago, Cycling, LoCo, Ubuntu
The Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team is hosting its first ever group ride this Sunday, July 18. The ride will kick off from the Geneva, IL Metra Train Station at 12PM. If you are in Chicago and would like to come out, hop on the 10:47AM train on the Union Pacific/West line out of the Ogilvie Transportation Center. The train will arrive in Geneva at around 11:50AM. Once everyone is there we will take off and cruise either south or north on the Fox River Trail for a few hours. We will make stops for some ice cream, food, or cold beverages, and the speed will be as fast as the slowest person. This is a cruising ride for the team to come together and hang out on a great summer day in the Chicagoland area. We can either ride until 4PM so people can get back to the train station to head back downtown or 6PM. We can play this by ear and see how long people want to hang out for, but I am guessing 4PM will probably be more than enough on many people’s rear ends.
If you are interested, RSVP here in the comments, on our mailing list, or hop into our IRC channel on freenode in #ubuntu-chicago. Hope to see you there!
March 23rd, 2010 |
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Chicago, Documentation, Event, Gnome, KDE
Thanks to Silke “If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, then it’s a duck” McCance for taking pictures during the entire weekend and uploading them.
The Official Pictures of the 2010 Desktop Help Summit.
January 15th, 2010 |
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Chicago, Documentation, Event, LoCo
Hey everyone, just wanted to drop a quick note to those of you who are in or around the Chicago land area, on Sunday, January 17th from 12:30PM until 5:30PM the Ubuntu Chicago LoCo team will be meeting up in Chicago for a documentation jam. If you would like to show up, here is the address of where we will be hanging out:
On-Shore Inc.
1407 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL
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If you can’t make it to the event, no worries, as you can join us on IRC in #ubuntu-chicago channel on the freenode IRC network. Plans are to work on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu system documentation, as well as cleaning up the team wiki pages as well as community documentation on https://help.ubuntu.com/community.
If you plan on working on system documentation, here is what you can do prior to joining us on Sunday:
READ how we use the Bazaar repository for doing system documentation.
Ubuntu Documentation
Install build dependencies for the ubuntu-docs package:
sudo apt-get build-dep ubuntu-docs
Kubuntu Documentation
Install build dependencies for the kubuntu-docs package:
sudo apt-get build-dep kubuntu-docs
Xubuntu Documentation
Install build dependencies for the xubuntu-docs package:
sudo apt-get build-dep xubuntu-docs
Once you have done that, then you need to check out the latest documentation for Lucid for the documentation you are going to work on:
Ubuntu Documentation
bzr branch lp:ubuntu-docs
Kubuntu Documentation
bzr branch lp:kubuntu-docs
Xubuntu Documentation
bzr branch lp:xubuntu-docs
System documentation is in DocBook/XML format, which is a very simple markup language. Don’t worry if you really don’t know it as Jim Campbell and myself can quickly teach you what you need to know, in order for you to get up and running.
Don’t worry, if you don’t feel you are ready to work on system documentation, there is also plenty of wiki documentation that needs to either be cleaned up or added.
Hope to see you Sunday!
January 14th, 2010 |
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Chicago, LoCo, Ubuntu
To go along with the spirit of most big things in the United States, Ubuntu Chicago is filing Chapter 13. Well almost big things, as they all filed Chapter 11 pretty much. Anyways, Ubuntu Chicago isn’t going anywhere, it is just going to restructure itself to become a much more efficient LoCo team. Some of the restructuring is going to bring:
- Regular online meetings
- Regular in-person group meetings
- Regular Jams (we are doing a Doc Jam this weekend as a matter of fact)
- Much more visible in the community
- and more…
So, we have already started the process for regular online meetings and online gatherings where we will follow and not follow an agenda. We are going to start scheduling regular in-person group meetings as well, which will more than likely go hand-in-hand with the various LUG meetings in the Chicago land area. We are going to start doing regular jams, and starting this week we will be kicking off a Doc Jam. We are planning on becoming much more visible to the community and to people who are outside of the community. One major complaint we had was our website not only sucked, but was so outdated. To alleviate any issues regarding the website, I will now be hosting our website, which will bring news, events, information and more to the people of Chicago. The buzz right now is pretty high in Ubuntu Chicago and I feel like I did the day myself and Mike Greenwood decided to make Ubuntu Chicago a reality damn near 5 years ago. I will keep you updated with the changes coming and being implemented as I am sure Nathan and Jim will as well. If you are in or around the Chicago land area, please do not hesitate to join us in #ubuntu-chicago on the Freenode IRC network, or join our mailing list to follow along with current and upcoming activities.
Ubuntu Chicago Coming Soon!
"We’ve got this LoCo team, and it’s f@#kin’ golden!" – Governor Tuxgojevich
October 5th, 2009 |
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Chicago, Community, Event, LoCo, Ubuntu
That’s right, just like Chicago and their Olympic bid, the Global Jam has been olyminated! We spent the better part of 6 plus hours teaching quite a few new faces how to get involved in the Ubuntu Community. We covered everything from filing a bug to triaging that sucker, and even covered the packaging as well. We went over, in pretty good detail what all is involved with packaging as well as breaking down the files that are required and important for Debian and Ubuntu packaging. Typically our events are a lot of the same faces, however this time we went for a suburban Chicago feel for the get together and this collected a bunch of new faces. Awesome, as Jorge would say. Everyone of them was interested in learning how to contribute too. Hey Matt East, keep your eye out for my buddy Vaughn, he is interested in some Ubuntu docs! I know we will have a few more MOTU, or Ubuntu Developers, or whatever it will be called soon, hailing from Chicago. This rocks! During all of the instructing we actually triaged a bug, one bug! Of course it was a KDE bug too, go figure! Nonetheless, it was very productive and I feel we will have new contributors from Chicago in the near future as well. Anyways, here are just a couple of photos from the ones that I took:
Ubuntu Chicago
mr. swoody and ms. swoody
musikgoat
MIDWEST!
October 3rd, 2009 |
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Chicago, Community, Event, LoCo, Ubuntu
Can you hear me now?
OK, if you are reading this post from Planet Ubuntu, more than likely you have noticed the posts about the various teams and their participation in the Global Jam. What you haven’t seen yet is the report from the Ubuntu Chicago Team just yet. Well there is a reason. As it seemed that a great deal of the teams would be hosting their jams on Saturday, aka today, we decided to hold ours on Sunday. Various reasons of course, one being people don’t like geeking out on a Saturday, plus we all realized that all of the teams today would have messed up so much, that the Chicago team can then go in and fix every thing :p
OK, that isn’t the real reason, but anyways, just a heads up. If you are in or around Chicago tomorrow, the team will be meeting up at the Schaumburg Library from 12:00PM until 8:45PM. Here are more details. See you tomorrow!
