Tag Archives: Freenode

Jul15

Been a busy couple of weeks

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Been a busy couple of weeks

I’ve been rather busy lately and not had much time to myself, finally getting some me time. Between moving house and getting things back in order and been busy at work I’ve neglected a few bits and pieces. So some housekeeping is needed!

I’ve been working with JonathanD on freenode with Fossevents for the past few week and it’s taken some tweaking, yes the orange is staying but has been toned down a bit ( I was vetoed on brown).  I have to say that I’m well impressed with the uptake from so many different communities from around the world submitting events. There are many different events on there at present, from Geeknics, general meet ups to conferences it’s great.  We’ve had a lot of feedback, and RSS feeds and mapping facilities are coming along as soon as we can figure out some bits and pieces and maybe a plugin or two.

I’ve also been working on my own little pet project which went live and has seen some folks already sign up so I’m pleased with that. It does however clash with another event Bizcamp in Dublin on the same day at the same time in a different location so it does mean start up companies will miss out on hearing about how useful Open Source software is. Shame….

I was asked recently on channel about the links I post as I shorten them and I thought I’d explain a bit further.  Firstly I like to support an Irish service or product wherever and whenever.  I use pix.ie for my photos, Blacknight for my hosting and short.ie for my urls.

But shortie has a really nifty feature which is why I use it, well two actually, 1 I can personalise a url like www.short.ie/geeknic and secondly I can keep track of them and view the amounts of clicks it has received.This is called the public timeline and you can share it with folks. I just find it rather neat. And the majority of these services all use open source :)

Screenshot-short.ie - Laura Czajkowski's public links

Screenshot-short.ie - Laura Czajkowski's public links

I’ve also just had one of the most productive IRC meetings so far for our LoCo.  We changed the day around to mid week as we had been meting on a Sunday for the last few months and it was just harder and harder to get people due to  travels. So this evening a load more new people joined and took on board new tasks, which is awesome! We used to just meet up and have a drink on the 1st Thursday of the month, but we’ve now decided to try and have a short talk before hand and see how that goes.  This will give people a chance to hear about a new project they are working on and also people a chance to practice giving talks.

Jul5

Foss Events

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Foss Events

I like going to events, but sometimes I miss out on hearing about them as I don’t find out about them till it’s too late. One has to troll the net or suscribe to multiple mailing lists.  Christel on freenode asked to join their team so I can work on community areas. One area I wanted to tackle was events and letting folks know about them.

There are so many groups and organisations who use freenode and who run meet ups, conferences, barcamps it would be great to know about them if you were travelling or just relocated.  With that we’ve been working on a new site Foss Events, I’ve added some events that I know of but would love to add more. So if folks have meet ups, geeknics, conferences, unconferences, giving a talk then let us know so we can have all of the events in one place.

Jun20

Freenode Event – Promotion

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Freenode Event – Promotion

Like many people I use IRC, and with that I use the freenode network. I’m in a few channels and a lot of them are Ubuntu related, I also have my own channel for Ossbarcamp. But Ubuntu isn’t the only group on there, there are many other organisations and groups of people who use their services.

With that in mind, Christel, the charmer that she is asked me this week would I be interested in coming on board and helping to promote the freenode community.  The events that take place, when, where and most importantly who to contact to get more information, as I know I find that annoying when trying to get information and I want more. I also believe the more people that know about your event the better it can be also inform more people gaining interest in your area.

Firstly, I’m going to start with getting as many groups to tell me about their events and where they are on, so I can add them to a calender which will be on the freenode site and everyone can see it, this will help get the word out about your event to let others who may be near by know about it and gain exposure for your event.  Secondly if folks have calender feeds set up I’d like to import them also.  This is for face to face meetings, conferences, Demos, meetings, talks etc, not really for IRC Meetings. Just let us know the date of the event, where it’s taking place, time of the event, if there is a link to it and who to contact.

If you want to let me know about your events please do, you can nab me on the freenode network as czajkowski, or leave a comment on here.