December 1st, 2009 |
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Community, Documentation, Kubuntu
AWESOME! This definitely shows that the Kubuntu community has grown over the past couple of years, even among the complaints, we seem to be succeeding, and this makes me super happy. Just over a week ago, I decided that we were going to totally wipe out the current set of Kubuntu documentation and start from scratch. My buddy Jonathan Jesse, the 2nd Kubuntu docs dude, was freaking. He was like, “that sounds like a lot of work!” Oh, it did, but our awesome community has stepped up and is taking control, writing documentation, and good documentation at that. I am really grateful to all of you who are helping, and because of you, there is no doubt in my mind that our docs will finally kick ass again!
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!
September 30th, 2009 |
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Chicago, Community, Event, LoCo, Ubuntu
Where will you be this Sunday, October 4th? If your answer is in or around Chicago, then come join us at the Ubuntu Global Jam.
Who?
Ubuntu Chicago Local Community (LoCo) Team
What?
Ubuntu Global Jam – world wide uniting and collaboration between the various LoCo Teams.
When?
Sunday, October 4, 2009 from 12:00 PM until 8:45 PM Chicago time, or Central Standard Time.
Where?
Schaumburg Township District Library – Central Library
130 S. Roselle Road
Schaumburg, IL 60193
Map and directions
Why?
To unite all Ubuntu people in and around the Chicagoland area where everyone can come together to learn about Ubuntu, learn how to contribute to Ubuntu, as well as spending an entire day working on Ubuntu.
How?
You stop by, no matter if you just started using Linux, might be thinking about using Linux, or spend your entire day hacking on Ubuntu or any free and open source project. This even will be for everyone, and you are more than welcome to join us in spending a fun-filled day being geeks. There will be various members of the Ubuntu community present covering every topic concerning contributing and hacking on Ubuntu.
September 29th, 2009 |
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Chicago, Community, Event, LoCo, Ubuntu
It is finally official, this Sunday, October 4, 2009 from 12:00pm until 8:45pm, members of the Ubuntu community will be meeting at the Schaumburg Library, which is of course located at the southwest corner of Roselle and Schaumburg roads in Schaumburg, IL.
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If you are planning on attending, please join us in #ubuntu-chicago on IRC (Freenode network), Send a message to our mailing list, or leave a comment in this post.
This event will be for everyone! Whether you are interesting in trying out Ubuntu, are just now learning how to use Ubuntu or Linux, or are a seasoned hacker, we would like you to join us. We will be giving overviews of the various tasks carried out in the development and maintenance of Ubuntu covering everything from totally beginner tasks all the way up to tasks for seasoned hackers. Notable members of the Ubuntu community that will be present include Jim Campbell, Nathan Handler, and others. Seeing as there are 2 Canonical employees in the Chicagoland area, who knows, they may even show up!
If you have any questions, please comment here, the mailing list, or IRC. Thanks, and I can’t wait to see you all!
NOTE: The event will be at the Schaumburg Library and not at Pumping Station One. The Schaumburg Library won out in a vote due to everything happening so quickly. We appologize to the PSOne folks and look forward to sharing space and working together in the future!
September 9th, 2009 |
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Chicago, Community, Event, LoCo, Ubuntu
Hey there you Chicagoans! It is that time where we gather our little Mafia of Linux hackers and brand new users and jam out. We were just discussing this on IRC and had a few ideas that I would like to run past the rest of you, and maybe get some input from you as well. One thing we have learned over the past 4 years is that it is tough running any type of event in Chicago on a Friday or Sunday, unless of course there is free beer available. And even in some cases, the free beer didn’t even help out. Another thing we realized is that when we do an event, we typically pick a 4 to 6 hour time frame, which works well for some cases. Now for the Global Bug Jam last year, or this year, can’t remember but I do remember it was snowing, we hacked all day long and into the night and people loved it. We even got Nathan Handler out of his hacker shell to come hang out for a bit. We are thinking maybe we should do the same. Run it one day, most likely Saturday, and run it all day long. This way here we can get people in and out at different times, hoping to accommodate as many people as possible.
So with that said, we are looking for a venue, in which I hope my homeskillet Kevin hooks us up with some space, as he does have the bomb office space. It would rock if we could get a sponsor or two to maybe cater a bit of food or snacks and some drinks, preferably of the caffenated variety, though some beer wouldn’t hurt. We think maybe a 10am to 6pm or later deal would be cool. Maybe a Noon to whenever we leave type deal. What kind of ideas would you have about the event?
As for what we would like to do, if we could get enough people, the options are endless. There will be a core developer, some MOTU members, documentation team members, bug triagers, new users, old user, young people, old people…You get the idea. With this type of group we could do some packaging how-to, bug triaging, documentation stuff, general Ubuntu/Linux use, and then some. Though seeing as it is getting close to the freeze point for Karmic, it would be nice to fix some bugs, do some hacking. The real idea is just to get everyone to hang out and be geeks for an entire day. If you just want to show up to see how silly Jim Campbell really looks in real life, that is cool, though be warned, he is a rockstar!
Let us know what you think. Respond in the comments, talk to us on IRC in #ubuntu-chicago on Freenode, send an email to our mailing list (ubuntu dash us dash chicago at lists period ubuntu period com). Thanks!
