Czajkowski

I blogged a while ago about the Ubuntu LoCo Re Approval process and how we the Ubuntu LoCo Council were going to be contacting people regarding their Teams Re Approval.  We’ll the process is under way.

The first team to be re approved was the Belgian LoCo so congrats to them! Having a re approval wiki page set up for this made it simple to see and easy to navigate the review which was great. Listing past events they’ve taken part in, organised and the day to day stuff the do laid out easily for us to see was great. Photos make things very clear, and a great way to track events that have happened.

I’ve mailed more teams now and we’re hoping to step up the process by perhaps adding another meeting to get through the list.  If you do receive mails from us, it’s natural don’t panic you can find all of us on IRC or drop us an email asking for help or if you want to check things out. Each team is assigned a LoCo Council member, and they are there to help and answer any questions you have. Mail them or poke them on IRC.

The more you ask and are prepared means we can go through the process easily.  Please, Do reply and acknowledge you have received the mail, we will attempt three times in one month to contact a team after that they will be unapproved if they have not answered us.

We chose a random amount of teams for the Lucid Cycle for the LoCo Council to re-approve, don’t worry if we’ve not gotten around to you we’ll be continuing this process from now on choosing a number of teams for each cycle.

I had a pretty amazing weekend down home last weekend.  I was asked back to give  a talk as part of a weekend of talks that took place at my old University. It was a great honour and rather amusing at the same time.  Years ago I had set up the Skynet talks, where you’d invite a Skynet member back and members of the Industry.

Friday night kicked off in the stables, a flash back from my college days. We have two pubs on campus and a small bar. Walking into the Stables bar it was a flash back to the 90′s music.  All of the cheesy head wrecking songs that you know once your heard them the lyrics were going to be in your head for the night.

Clearly my age showed as I couldn’t hear myself and moved out to the courtyard to have conversations, albeit it was a bit chilly I could hear the music and have a conversations so worked out better.

Saturday morning, I was up in time to go into the Market for breakfast and collected Matt Zimmerman who kindly agreed to come over and take part in the days talks.  After a cup of tea in the what looked to be someones kitchen and listening to a Trad Session at 11am we were fed and set up for the day headed to UL for the talks.

1. “Talk 1″ - Paul O’Connor
2. “Google Summer of Code” - Jimmy O’Regan
3. “So you want to build a Hackerspace” - Jeffrey Roe
4. “Ubuntu Inside Out” - Matt Zimmerman
5. “To Ubuntu and Beyond – Where individual participation can take you” - Laura Czajkowski
6. “An introduction to CouchDB” - David Coallier

This time I was a little less nervous talking, but not by much! I gave a similar talk to the one last month but this time was a bit slower and updated slides as I knew the target audience had a clue about Ubuntu and Open Source.

Matt gave his talk with such ease and clarity and it was very enjoyable. All of the talks during the day were interesting and nice to bring people together. they covered a range of topics so there was something there for most people. Students came from Cork, Dublin and Galway so that was great that it wasn’t just one college having these talks. It was a nice way to spend an  afternoon. David and his entertaining ways gave his talk on CouchDB, and very nicely obliged to get us to the pub for the last half of the Ireland V England Rugby game.

It was great to be back again and I had a lovely weekend. glad I gave the talk, and I believe it was recorded and will be up at some point.  Here are the slides at least.