Czajkowski

There is an enormous amount of useful information on wiki.ubuntu.com however there is also a lot of duplicate triplicate and redundant material on there also.  This weekend why not get your loco reviewing a section of the wiki and help to clear up some of the pages.  I’ve noticed sometimes that a page was created in lower  case and then never used as someone else created the wiki in upper case, well then the one not used should be removed.

The LoCo Council are going to be looking over the sections of the pages LoCo Teams and if you want to help that would be great.  A lof of that information is on the LoCo Directory – I’d hope by now folks know about the directory………………

If you go through the wiki and find all the pages that are out of date, unused or the information is over on the LD already  add the Category “CategoryLoCoObsolete” to it.   We the LC will review the pages and decide their fate.  So don’t be worried.

FYI — to add a Category, just append:

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CategoryLoCoObsolete

to the bottom of a page. If there’s already a Category, do this:

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CategoryAwesomeTag CategoryLoCoObsolete

I’ll be in #ubuntu-locoteams on Satuday from 9am UTC – 4pm UTC and on Sunday from 10am UTC – 7pm UTC

Not long left till Maverick Meerkat aka 10.10 is released with that in  mind it’s time for loco teams to start to plan for their release party.  I’ve added the global event to the LoCo Directory Maverick Meerkat is scheduled for  release on the 10th of the 10th 2010. To celebrate 10.10 LoCo teams have  organised parties to celebrate these events.

Release parties are a great way to celebrate, meet new friends and often introduce new people to Ubuntu and to our local communities. Release parties are not only great way to meet people but also they are a lot of  fun.  Please add your event to the LoCo Directory

If you want to organise a release party:

* Learn more. Read the guidelines on how to run a party.  Many of the release parties are organised by Ubuntu LoCo Teams. Check with your local team to see if  you can work together on a party.

* Get advice. Ask other loco teams what they have done in the past and what to do, ask on the loco contacts list, or in #ubuntu-locoteams
* Let everyone know. Announce your party on the loco-contacts mailing list to spread the word!

If you have a release party scheduled, be sure to:

* Add your party to the LoCo directory – http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/add

* Spread the word. Blog about it, advertise it, tell your friends, tell local media, tell podcasts and otherwise promote it, tag it with #locoteams

* Stay in touch. Join the IRC channel #ubuntu-release-party on irc.freenode.net

* Add picture tags. If you post photos to Flickr, please tag them with *ubuntu*, *release*, *party*, *2010*, *10.10* and *Maverick*.

Jono Bacon the Ubuntu Community Manager is wanting to put together a collage of release party group photos, so take a group photo of your party people and email jono AT ubuntu DOT com with a link to the photo online and the subject *”Maverick Release Party Photo”* — ensure that you specify which LoCo Team party it is at.

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!

Just found this out today, there is a meeting tonight to discuss the plans to set up a Limerick Hackerspace.  If you can make it, come along to the Absolute Hotel at 7:30pm or you can join up to the group on Google Groups HERE. Nice to see one taking off here as there are ones in Galway, Cork and Dublin.

Just for those who might not be keeping up to date with developments at other hackespaces – there are now three in the country – TOG.ie in  Dublin, 091Labs.com in Galway and a new one in Cork

There’s an active forum on Boards.ie for 091labs

There is a Twitter list for people involved in the various  spaces - http://twitter.com/eirepreneur/hackerspaces

What started off as a one time event has surely grown.  This is my 4th OSSBarcamp I’ve run in two years. I decided to run this event as quite frankly there was diddly squat in open source events happening over here and I was spending a small fortune between time off work ,travel and and bits and pieces.  I thought if I got 70 attendees I would be very happy and this was my target…………130 people turned up. As you can imagine I was more than a bit surprised.  I was asked to run another and then well another, the rest is history.

This event is running with the help of UCD Netsoc, the college computer society who have very kindly sorted out the venue for me, which is half the battle.  It’s going to take place this time over 2 days, Saturday and Sunday 25/26th September.  We have a lovely new site done up thanks to James Forbairt , the guy is a saint! We have some new sponsors this time also, Enterpise Ireland are coming on board to help us with getting some new speakers over to talk, such as Stefano Zacchiroli and Daviey Walker, Alan Pope and Tony Whitemore of the UUPC fame who will be doing a live show! Linux Fund is also a sponsor this year. There will be lots of things going over the weekend, so do come along and sign up take part, either give a short talk, a demo or a presentation it’s entirely up to you.

OSSBarcamp is what you make it. It’s not just about Ubuntu, it’s about all forms of open source, if it’s about development, programming or other distros we want to hear about it, everyone is welcome to take part. There will also be an after party on the Saturday at the Landsdown hotel.