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With only a week away, we are we well underway for the Ubuntu Ireland Global Jam, however this year we’re going to make it a bit more interesting and open it up for everyone to come along.

The idea behind Open Jam is that it will be a chilled out type of community event. Where you can work on your projects, help folks if they have some questions, hack, logs bugs, documentation, translations, whatever you like the big thing being we get to do it together in one place.

It would be great to have as many people from the different Open Source communities mingling on the day as possible. So whether your from PHP, Ubuntu, Debian, KDE, GNOME, Python, Ruby, Alt.NET or the human race at large, then come on down and check out why it’s great to be Open! And have your chance to contribute!

Thanks to Enterprise Ireland who’ve come on board to support this venture and are our lovely hosts for the event. – Enterprise Ireland’s Head Office, The Plaza, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3

Sign up page for the event is here

Note. You need to sign up (costs nothing) for this event if you want to be able to access the Internet on the day (as network access accounts need to be provisioned in advance by Enterprise Ireland admins). You can turn up on the day but your bits and bytes will need to find their own way into the cloud

More information is HERE More info .

HOUSEKEEPING

We hope to have the event streamed pop in and say hi to us.

10am start  Welcome to Open Jam (2 rooms joined into 1 room)

The importance of getting the different Open Source groups together under one roof.

Explain about other aspects of Global Jam – Documentation, Translations, Wiki clean up, bug triaging etc.

10.30 The ‘I Like..’ Slot (get everyone to stand up and give one line shout out on what project/area they’re into

10.35 approx Split rooms into 2
- one ‘talker room’ for presentations
- one ‘activity room 1′ (we can add more activity rooms as we need)
10:30 TALKER ROOM: How to log into Launchpad
10:35 TALKER ROOM: Creating GPG keys and signing the code of conduct
10:45 TALKER ROOM: How to log bugs / Triage bugs
10:45 ACTIVITY ROOM 1: Ruby Ireland Coding Dojo, etc
12:30: TALKER ROOM: Round of lightning talks
1-2pm Lunch
2pm Do a general check around to see what activities are going on

People split into groups and work on projects or help one another.

use #gbj#openjam hashtag on twitter for tweeting and

Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Pádraigh oraibh – Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you all

With so many people taking part in tomorrows celebrations and everyone feeling a little more Irish than usual I thought I’d wish you all a great day and Happy St. Patrick’s Day from us all over here in Ireland!

Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Pádraigh oraibh

I had a very boring lunch hour today, made yummy scrambled eggs with ham on toast and a large mug of tea.  Now what, not in the mood to go out side as I may not come back in it’s so sunny out there.

I was curious on the Yahoo V Google search so decided to have some fun at lunch, though as one of the charming folks in the #ubuntu-uk channel “If that’s what you call fun … sheesh”. Anyway I chose 4 things very simply Laura Czajkowski, Ossbarcamp and something not related to me but I enjoy Ubuntu UK Podcast and finally I asked in channel for a topic any topic, “Pubs” was the final one. The reason behind the first two topics was I was curious what the results would be and had an idea already what Google would return.  The final two were just random ones that I could compare the results from.

I’m a little shocked over the disparaging results returned.  At present I run Karmic, and once I get a chance will upgrade my laptop run lucid and  then switch to Yahoo for a while as long as results improve as at present the results aren’t great for yahoo compared to Google.

Laura Czajkowski Google Results

Laura Czajkowski Yahoo Results

Ossbarcamp Google Results

Ossbarcamp Yahoo Results

UUPC Google Results

UUPC Yahoo Results

Pubs  Google Results

Pubs Yahoo Results

All of the results in a larger form are HERE

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.