Czajkowski

I forgot to update folks on how well the Ubuntu Hour is going here in Ireland. We held a poll to see what day best suited folks to meet up as we wanted to meet as many people as we could. The last Wednesday of the month was the winner, our venue . The Trinity Capital Hotel.  It has free wifi, food, beer and cosy couches and great service. They don’t seem to mind a bunch of geeks with their laptops out, dragging chairs over to a table we have occupied as more and more people arrive.

Tonight saw 10 people attend the Ubuntu hour, I was there from just before 6pm as I came straight from work, one by one folks started to arrive, take out their laptops and chat and talk about Christmas the weather and you guessed it, Yahoo and Ubuntu hand in hand.

It was great to catch up with folks and make plans. There are 6 of us going to FOSDEM, all on the same plane on the Friday morning 6:50am flight so that should be fun. We started to plan out Global jam day also this evening, as we’re hoping to add an Irish slant to the event and call it Free Jam, we want to invite other groups here to take part in the day and work on their projects side by side. That way throughout the day we can give talks and hopefully some of the groups will to and break up the day a bit for us.

I also announced the next OSSBarcamp taking place in Dublin, on Saturday 17th April so I got some feedback on what we can differently this time as the room layout is a bit different, perhaps some hands on tutorials, more LPI exams.  I’m still not sure, but I’m sure I’ll think of something.

All in all it was a great evening and nice to catch up with folks and plan things out face to face and bounce ideas off one another. Thanks for coming folks and see you next month.