Daily Archives: 24/08/2010

Aug24

New Conference packs for LoCo Teams

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New Conference packs for LoCo Teams

I am very pleased to announce the new Conference packs for LoCo Teams, this came from a session at UDS-M in Brussels of this year but also was something we’ve been looking at for a while.  So it’s great to see an action item marked DONE (which makes bacon happy) but also has a positive effect for a lot of people.  We wanted to encourage teams to become and stay an approved LoCo Team and how we could possibly help. With that in mind we looked what was currently available, we talked to many people on what they thought might be helpful to them. When you attend an event you are representing your team and Ubuntu, so to present yourself in a professional manner we looked at things like a banner for teams.

The LoCo Council would like to thank Jane Silber for this as she was one of the people in the session who encouraged us to bring this action item to light and also we’ve had great help from Cezzaine Haugh and also Canonical for making this happen for all LoCo Teams, thank you very much!

The following has been approved for conference packs, and the wiki has been updated to reflect this

Once off gift to approved loco teams
When a LoCo Team is approved, part of what they need to do is nominate someone to receive and manage their LoCo Welcome Pack, which Canonical will provide.

  • x1 PVC banner – (one design only)
  • x1 Table cloth – (one design only)

Pack A – Approved loco teams

  • x55 Lanyards
  • x2 caps
  • x25 mixed sticker sheets
  • x25 pin-badges – (These have yet to be produced)
  • x2 t-shirts (release t-shirt) for give-away/booth staff
  • x1 Official Ubuntu Book (prize/give-away) – (Only while stocks last, we will not produce anymore than the amount received after each release)
  • CDs (250 Desktop, 25 Server, 25 Kubuntu) – (To be requested via shipit as per usual process)
  • Name badges (Loco to produce their own)
  • Ubuntu leaflets (Loco to create a project to produce their own ideas)
  • Ubuntu video (Canonical to provide – will be available for d/l on wiki once completed)

Pack B – UnApproved loco teams

  • x25 mixed sticker sheets
  • x55 Lanyards
  • CDs (75 Desktop) – (To be requested via shipit as per usual process)
  • Name badges (Loco to produce their own)
  • Ubuntu leaflets (Loco to create a project to produce their own ideas)
  • Ubuntu video (Canonical to provide – will be available for d/l on wiki once completed)

Also discussed and decided last week on was:

  • Ubuntu leaflets – not relevant in most countries due to various languages. Loco council will introduce a community driven project for loco teams to design their own Ubuntu leaflets based on brand guidelines and access to assets. Assets for these can be found at: http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/ubuntu-brand-guidelines/
  • Name-badge designs - this is mainly when hosting their own events. Again Loco’s to create their own using assets and brand guidelines.
  • Ubuntu video to run on machines at events – Canonical is currently working on a generic Ubuntu video in English and a few other languages – this will be added to the wiki page once completed.
Aug24

Limerick Hackerspace meet up a success

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Limerick Hackerspace meet up a success

Yesterday I found out about the Limeick hackerspace meet up and I thought I should pop along.  I signed up to the Google group and read some of the past threads, seemed interesting and with that I popped along.

We met at the absolute hotel in the bar area, and there were a few faces I knew so that was nice, folks began to chatter .  James Corbett kicked off the welcome and got the ball rolling with discussions, folks began to talk about what they wanted but it was a little hard to hear in the pub, very nice bar staff muted the music.  We kicked off a formal introduction as it’s always nice to put the face and name to the people who have been talking on mailing lists.

It was interesting for me to see all the different backgrounds looking to take part, from developers, to hands on knitting and sewing to welding and making robots.   We also kicked off what we would like to see in a place, what are our requirements and the various empty buildings in Limerick that could possibly be a potential place for us to dwell. A name for the place also was discussed, in Dublin it  is called TOG and in Galway 091labs, s to make it unique what do folks want it called, this is rather important to sort out as effects on domain names twitter acs and marketing of the organisation.  Which also lead us onto what kind of organisation do folks want.  So lots of discussion! I also suggested to make it regular, have the event on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 6pm, any later means people have longer to wait around after work and  if you can come to some place after work  you’re more inclined to come along.

It was lovely to meet people and great to see this kind of initiative taking off here in Limerick!