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Nov26

UDS Lucid – Day 2

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UDS Lucid – Day 2

Sorry these are coming out slower than I had hoped but there is just so much going on and meeting new people and taking part in great discussions.

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.

Nov17

UDS Lucid – Day 1

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UDS Lucid – Day 1

USDS Lucid kicked off yesterday in Dallas Fort Worth. This is my 2nd UDS to attend and I’ve been really lucky to be sponsored to attend, so thank you Canonical for this opportunity to take part.

Up bright and early raring to go after having my fill of crispy bacon, lacking syrup this time and a bucket of Barry’s tea ( brought the tea bags with me as I  like a good cuppa tea!). Kicking off the day was the happy go lucky Mr.Community, Jono and explaining why we’re here and the goals of the week, it’s great to have everyone in one place and timezone to work on the project and we need to make the most of being together during the sessions and throughout the day.

I mostly stick to the Community track though later on in the week I’ll be popping my head into Q&A and some desktop as I want to get more involved in these areas. First up was the LoCo directory and hearing an update on how it’s progressing and what else we need in it to make it more up to date for it to be used efficiently. I think to be able to see at a glance how many LoCos we have is great, encouraging and motivating to others who want to set one up.

I’ve said it before and anyone who knows me, knows I’m anal at lists and planning things out. I like to see a plan, things need to get done, and know where I’m going. So it’s great to see this coming in a friendly manner with roadmaps.  To be able to plan for your LoCo or team project what you want to want5 to achieve for the next six months is fantastic.

LoCo Council discussion was interesting as there are a lot of teams out there

The use or lack of use of the Fridge I for one don’t use this resource as often as I possibly should.  It tends to be an after thought and I need to not think of it that way and I think many others are in the same boat. We have the planet which is a personal slant to a post coming from users, but the fridge should be show casing upcoming events or highlighting a successful event that took place.  One issue that came up was it’s not easy to get content on there, a case of not knowing who to poke re getting stuff there.  An issue of WordPress V Drupal discussion came up, perhaps making the site use openid for the fridge team to use to log in making it easier adn for more people to have access to get content on there.

Ubuntu Marketing V Spread Ubuntu, I know this came up last May and the marketing issue came  up last May.  An idea of getting LoCos to submit their artwork, posters, what they use to market their events to spreadubuntu as a massive resource should be encouraged.

LoCo events directory I’m so happy about this project, as I organise a lot of events and to me  this kind of tool would make it a lot of sense to keep an eye on the events a LoCo runs.  A useful way to see what types are out there, all in one place under each LoCo.

UDS Target practice was a great success! Thanks to all who came and had a great night and nice to meet you all! I’ve added the photos to my album, help yourself to copies.

UDS Target Practice

UDS Target Practice

Well chuffed

Well chuffed

Always Happy Mat

Always Happy Mat

Vey serious daviey

Vey serious Daviey

Shotgun Action

Shotgun Action