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One Week to OggCamp See you there

Laura Czajkowski — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:33:24 +0000

Wow I can’t believe it’s almost here again! For the 2nd year in a row I’ve helped in a small way to organise OggCamp! Glutten for punishment or the fact I love working working with the UUPC and LO folks. This year I’m over here which also helped so no flights and cross country travelling for me!

It’s just one short week until OggCamp 11! This year the event is bigger than last year, hard to believe good thing the venue is large to cope with it. Folks are travelling from all over the UK and from outside of the UK to make the weekend event, folks have even sorted out camping to help others and starting from Friday night Oggcamp is in full swing.

The Farnham Maltings venue has a really nice feel to it and is ideally located for the park and pubs. Venue aside it’s the people who come to the event, take part, giving a talk, demonstrating and getting together offline and face to face that make the event. Without people coming and taking a weekend out to join us there would be no point in having it, we could just tune into the podcasts

There are three stages, two of which are being run as an unconference. That means that the wonderful OggCampers volunteer talks and others vote for the ones they’d like to see most! Today I’ve been kind of mulling about giving a talk, contemplating life outside of IRC in a FLOSS community, it’s just a thought at present may need to do some scribblings using old fashioned pen and paper and see how it goes from there.

We’ll be using CampFire Manager by Jon Spriggs to schedule these talks for the first time this year and it looks like it’ll be great.

Our main stage schedule is basically complete. The Ubuntu Podcast team will be joining forces with the Linux Outlaws for the traditional live podcast recording. There will be a panel discussion and a raffle too! We’re also grateful for our main stage speakers, including

Simon Phipps
LornaJane Mitchell (careers in Open Source)
Chris Gutteridge (Southampton OpenData project)
Steve Lee (Accessibility)
Wayne Myers (professional music production on Linux)

We’ve got some exhibitors, including

O’Reilly (who are offering 40% off their books on the Saturday)
Free Software Foundation Europe
Hacker Public Radio
Ubuntu UK
Reprap 3D printer
FSF

We’ve also got some surprises planned for the weekend which you’ll only find out about by being there. If you want to come along and join in some or all of the weekend’s activities, you can. It’s free. That’s right, it doesn’t cost a penny. There are a few tickets left and you can get your hands on them here: http://oggcamp11.eventbrite.com

It’s free thanks to our lovely sponsors:

Bytemark (our headline sponsor!)
Google
Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk
Bitfolk (sponsoring the Saturday night party!)

On Saturday at lunch time we’re going to have a GEEKNIC! So come prepared with some nibbles or there are places close by to buy some food!

With a week to go the last bits of pieces are coming into play which hopefully means my inbox will stop filling up. Before we know it we’ll be standing in the William Cobbett pub sharing a drink or two with the lovely OggCampers on Friday night and won’t touch the ground until after the Sunday night drinks! The plan for the weekend is available on the OggCamp website.

Ubuntu Ireland August Geeknic

Laura Czajkowski — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:01:40 +0000

The poll for the August Geeknic is now closed. St. Stephens Green was the winner. It’s a big park so I recommend this location as the meeting point on Sunday the 14th August at 1pm.

Everyone is welcome, bring along some food, maybe a rug to sit on and come and chat with other people who want to meet you! We’re meeting HERE!!!
I’ll be the one with the Tux baseball cap. Plus crutches. Two other locations were suggested in comments for a the location. It

was too late to add them to the poll but I will make sure that they are offered as locations for the next Dublin Geeknic.

Fingers crossed the weather stays dry for us.

See you there,
moylan

PS Me – czajkowski won’t be there See you soon folks

Dun Laoghaire July Geeknic

Laura Czajkowski — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:17:16 +0000

It went ahead even if it was a miserable wet and windy… Summers day! At least the rain held for the time we all met up and had some lovely food from the farmers market. Well worth going to if you are in the area. 1st Sunday of the month there is a farmers market in people’s park in Dun Laoghaire.

Thanks to those who came along and braved the cold it was nice to meet some new folks as well and exchange some ideas and thoughts on Ubuntu and Open Souce and what people were doing. Big thanks to Jeffrey to organised the Geeknic also! More photos here

July Geeknic

Laura Czajkowski — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:13:07 +0000

What:
Geeknic?? Its a picnic for geeks and there family and friends. Please feel free to bring your family and friends.
This is a family friendly event and kids are more than welcome.

Where:
Peoples Park, Dun Laoghaire.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.29015&mlon=-6.12834&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF
We will meet in the park at the band stand. See map.

When:
2.00pm Sunday 18th of July.

How to get there:
Dun Laoghaire Dart station is you best bet by public transport it takes about 25 minutes from Connolly. Here are some trains leaving Connolly around 2pm.
18/07 13:07-Arr13:30
18/07 13:29-Arr13:53
18/07 13:45-Arr14:01
18/07 13:50-Arr14:13
18/07 14:09-Arr14:33
It’s a short walk from the train station.

Parking
There looks to be loads of parking around the park , with a carpark at Newtownsmith Park Parking near by.

Cost:
Noting, we are meeting in a public park.

What to bring :
Its a picnic. Bring anything(but I think there is no BBQ in the park) Bring food , drink for yourself and a little extra to share. For those who forget to bring food, there is a farmers market on the day in the park that sells all sorts of nice food.

Backup:
There is a chance of rain, come on it’s Ireland. If there is rain on the day, keep an eye on the irc channel and twitter account
http://twitter.com/ubuntuie for updates. We will be still going to Dun Laoghaire but we might move somewhere in doors.

WIFI
Don’t know don’t care. Come on it’s a picnic, the internet will be still there when you get back.

Ubuntu-ie Trip to Dun Laoghaire/Geeknick

Laura Czajkowski — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:23:02 +0000

We asked for your help to chose an event to do something during the summer! So we had a clear winner which was out to Dun Laoghaire and have a bit of a Geeknic. Every Sunday in the park the farmers market is on and lots to chose from. It’s easy to get to using public transport like the Dart which stops just 10 minutes away from the park.

What we need now is to decide on a weekend, please vote using the poll to decide on which day to meet up.

And just so we’re all clear, a geeknick is a picnic for geeks, and anyone else who wants to come along. Wives, Husbands, children, users of different distros not just Ubuntu. Everyone is welcome to come along and just meet up and have some food with friends as you can see from previous Geeknics. Also thanks to Jeffery for organising this!