Open Jam
Laura Czajkowski
Most folks know I'm involved in the Ubuntu Ireland community and love Open
Source, if you haven't gathered that by now, something is up :)
In March, the Ubuntu community runs a Global Jam - a 3 day event to work on
Ubuntu documentation, bugs, wiki, translations, all aspects of the system
mid cycle. I appreciate not everyone uses Ubuntu. That's fine, I'm not here
to convert or preach to folks.
I had an idea and Open Jam was born. -
http://openevents.ie/doku.php?id=openjam
A weekend Saturday 27th and 28th March I'd run a weekend where EVERYONE
from all areas, php, Ubuntu, Debian, KDE, GNOME, Python, Ruby, alt.net and
anyone who wants to come along to do so.
You can work on your projects, help folks if they have some questions, hack,
logs bugs, documentation, translations, whatever you like the difference
being we get to do it together in one place.
It's not a conference, unconference, very different from my ossbarcamp. But
what I thought we could do throughout the day would be run a series of
lightning talk, where folks could stand up and give a 3 min presentation on
what they were working on.
Again, this was just an idea, and maybe folks won't be interested in this
kind of thing, but it would be beneficial to us all to work together.
I'm still sorting the venue out, but hope to have details next week. It
will be in Dublin as well, this is where I am.
If you've any thoughts drop me a line or pop onto #ubuntu-ie on freenode,
Laura
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Declan McGrath
That's great Laura, thanks. I've just mentioned the Open Jam to the Ruby guys
so hopefully we can get some of ye Pythonistas and Rubyists duking it out (ok,
by that I mean talking amicably over a pint of beer :-) at the event!
All the best,
Dec