Taking into account everyones opinion and helping to shape Lucid.  It’s also been great to hear about what other LoCos are doing, it’s given me some ideas and I encourage other LoCos to try new events out. Doing the same talk/demo handing out a leafet can get boring and hard to get people involved.  Doing something new encourages more activity, making it fun!

The big session that stood out for me today, was Ubuntu Women, our 3rd session.  We did need 3 sessions to get a lot of things out in the open and be able to tackle some of the issues.  It’s been interesting hearing the opinions  of people taking part. Many of the men said they wanted to learn more and felt they could do this by sitting back and listening, but wanted to know how to get their female members involved or how they can help.  Again, please pretty please show them the #ubuntu-women channel, or the mailing list, poke me! and I’ll talk to them, or Amber she’ll happily talk to the wall!  We want to make sure as many people take part and enjoy working on the channel.

From our 3 sessions, we have clear defined and attainable goals we can achieve during Lucid. I hope many people join and take part in this great team and make these goals happen!

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Team Leadership Workshop – I’d been helping Amber out with brain storming a while back and she’s made massive improvements, leaps and bounds in the document.  The idea behind it is to help a loco leader, encourage them, and help them with getting set up and run a LoCo.  Yes sometimes you might think it’s common sense, and some of it is, but you often forget about the easiest things until someone points them out to you.  Also, sometimes the help is spread out over different wiki pages, and my most annoying gripe with wikis is they are case sensitive, so you may even miss reading the helpful document if you’ve searched using Upper case.

Progress was made in this session, the learning team are going to help get the document set up so more people can access it and help contribute to it, this will help get it going, and in the end, make it easier to be translated!

Launchpad Upstream Improvements -I sat in this as I hadn’t a clue and quiet frankly it was rather interesting and it’s great to know about these other community issues. Bugs sitting there and not being worked on due to perhaps upstream not knowing they were there, which isn’t really going to help anyone  The main idea is how can the charming folks over at Launchpad help make Launchpad even more effective for upstream projects. I’ll definitely be keeping more of an eye on this as I found it rather interesting.

Lucid Governance Changes Roadmap  -  This session was mainly clearing up and documenting all the councils that existed and listing all the members and the expiration date of members, when a call for new members should be announced and then when an announcement should be issued. Standardising the process.

Social outing, well this one was slightly unplanned, but rather eye opening.  I got to ride in a BIG RED AMBULANCE! To clarify actually, I was the passenger in the front seat, poor Grant was in the rear as he had fainted during one of the sessions and best to get checked out took a short spin up to the Trauma Hospital nearby.  I used to work in the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Limerick before I moved to Dublin.  I’m used to Irish Hospitals. I moved to Dublin and saw Dublin hospitals at 2am when my back had thrown a wobbly and needed to get an injection into my spine, you get to see some interesting people at that hour.  Nothing prepared me to having to walk through a metal detector or having armed guards on patrol in the wards.  The staff were very helpful and pleasant, but I still found it odd to see a prisoner being treated on a trolley nearby, I know from seeing prisoners treated in Limerick, they get brought in plain clothes, handcuffs are very discrete,to the point where you actually cannot tell who’s the prisoner or who’s the guard.

The hospital and medical staff were very pleasant and helpful, and a quick call to the hotel afterwards had a car come and collect us which was great, and Grant was able to go get some well needed rest.

Community Round Table – We possibly should have had this on the Monday in hindsight. But this was where we outlined what we’d like to cover during the week and what could be addressed in a roundtable that didn’t need a full session. Great way to lay out some ideas for the week ahead and due to free slots available, address the issues in their own time slot.

IRC Council Plans - Totally new for me and I know diddly squat about IRC Council so this was interesting for me and a lot has been set down for goals for the way forward.

Ubuntu Women – The steps forward – This was the 1st of 3 sessions and suffice to say I was rather nervous going into this session.  Last May we had a round table. This time we had a plan, what we wanted to discuss and tackle the issues that have been highlighted.

I have to say for me, this was one of the highlights of UDS.  We had great input and it has been videotaped and should be available soon. Amber, Liz, and Maco were all here to help drive the team forward and with the help of participants both on IRC and in the room I hope we have made a good start.  The idea of a roadmap and setting down attainable goals we can achieve during this 6 month cycle really makes me happy! I’d like to thank Jono for helping us drive this session forward as he sat back and offered advice and comments on the thoughts that were being aired in the room, as did Mark  Shuttleworth offer good advice on how we can achieve our goals.

Community Input in board and council elections – I was curious about this, as I’ve just been elected onto the LoCo council and wanted to know more about what happens and how we can get more community involvement. Rather interesting. Didn’t realise we have that many councils!

Adopting an upstream – in short ” Upstream projects need “bridges” between their projects and Ubuntu. While large projects might have the resources to work with distributions, all projects need to be able to efficiently work with Ubuntu. Not all upstreams know how things work in Ubuntu and concentrate on developing their software.

It would be nice if upstream projects had “an Ubuntu person” who cared about that project and its standing in Ubuntu; this “Upstream Contact” would be responsible for facilitating workflow between that project and Ubuntu.”

I am a firm believer in laying down the tools at the end of the day and doing something different, tonight was going for a team dinner – Ubuntu Women team dinner, started off as a conversation in the channel and I said to amber it’d be nice to meet more people who may not attend community tracks during the day and have a bite to eat and chit chat! Maria was AWESOME ! and found us a lovely restaurant and we had a great turn out. So thanks to all those who came.

It’s on in the Galleria Dallas so if folks want to do some shopping or perhaps grab some food.