Posted in events, Ubuntu, Ubuntu-ie on 08/31/2011 11:52 am by Laura Czajkowski
Just to confirm that the three great Makerspaces/Hackerspaces, 091Labs
in Galway, TOG in Dublin and Milklabs in Limerick will be hosting
Ubuntu Global Jam Events on this coming Saturday from 10am.
Full details of these Jams can be found on the corresponding LoCo
Directory Listings:
091Labs Makerspace, Galway -
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ie/1168/detail/
TOG, The Dublin Hackerspace -
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ie/1211/detail/
Milklabs Makerspace, Limerick -
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ie/1213/detail/
If anyone is free next Saturday and would like to join the Global
Jam hopefully you will be able to make you way to one of these
well spread out venues.
As always, everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend and
participate. Experience is not a prerequisite!
We’re all online in #ubuntu-ie if you can’t make it face to face but still want to take part
Posted in events, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Council on 02/23/2011 11:29 am by Laura Czajkowski
It’s that time of cycle again, where we all get together over a coffee/tea pizza  at home or where ever and work on Ubuntu as a community! Ubuntu needs your help!
We need your members of your loco team to help on testing and letting us know how and where it needs some looking into. This cycle we are shipping Unity as the new desktop interface, and we are going to be working hard together to ensure that as many Unity bugs are squeezed out as possible. The Ubuntu global Jam (UGJ) is a great chance to come along and help test Unity, report bugs, fix bugs, triage problems, write documentation, help advocate Ubuntu in your area. Lets see if we can make Ubuntu 11.04 the best Ubuntu release yet!
With that in mind date of the Ubuntu Global Jam is 1st – 3rd April 2011. We are really keen that everyone has as much notice as possible to get your events ready! So all team contacts on here should be sending this mail to your loco team to let them know and so you can plan the event! I have  added the Ubuntu Global Jam in the LoCo Directory so feel free to go and add your events there! – http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/global/567/detail/
There are over 142 teams on the LoCo directory and only 7 have signed up to take part! Lets get more teams on there and help make this UGJ ROCK!!!!We will also be having some tutorial sessions about how to organize events soon! When you add an event, but sure to Tweet/Dent/Facebook it and use the #ugj, #ubuntu, and #locoteams tags so others can see them!
Posted in Ubuntu, Ubuntu-ie on 08/29/2010 11:51 am by Laura Czajkowski
Thanks to the folks over at Tog who kindly offered us space to meet up and work on Ubuntu Global Jam. Â It was I think the best one so far for us. 8 people turned up over the day and we worked on different areas and helped one another. Â It was great to see two people who’d never log a bug before get excited how they could log all their information in the ubuntu-bug command so that was pretty good to see.
Mike took on the task of giving the Irish wiki page a massive overhaul, we gave him some ideas and showed him how to create the fancy sub header, so it’s now looking very nice. Rory worked on some LoCo Directory bits namely the stuff he logged as bugs 
Others worked on Answers on Launchpad and triaging bugs so all in all a great day was had. Â Thanks to all those who came in it was great to see new faces there. It was great to get people using Ubuntu in ways they never had, learning how to create their own wiki pages and logging into the LoCo Directory and showing them how to look up events.
Posted in events, LoCo Directory, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Council on 08/27/2010 08:53 pm by Laura Czajkowski
There is an enormous amount of useful information on wiki.ubuntu.com however there is also a lot of duplicate triplicate and redundant material on there also.  This weekend why not get your loco reviewing a section of the wiki and help to clear up some of the pages.  I’ve noticed sometimes that a page was created in lower  case and then never used as someone else created the wiki in upper case, well then the one not used should be removed.
The LoCo Council are going to be looking over the sections of the pages LoCo Teams and if you want to help that would be great. Â A lof of that information is on the LoCo Directory – I’d hope by now folks know about the directory………………
If you go through the wiki and find all the pages that are out of date, unused or the information is over on the LD already  add the Category “CategoryLoCoObsoleteâ€? to it.  We the LC will review the pages and decide their fate.  So don’t be worried.
FYI — to add a Category, just append:
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CategoryLoCoObsolete
to the bottom of a page. If there’s already a Category, do this:
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CategoryAwesomeTag CategoryLoCoObsolete
I’ll be in #ubuntu-locoteams on Satuday from 9am UTC – 4pm UTC and on Sunday from 10am UTC – 7pm UTC
Posted in Ubuntu on 08/19/2010 09:39 am by Laura Czajkowski
I’m sure you’ve all heard about this, well if you haven’t I don’t know where you’ve been! Daniel, Nigel and Jorge blog about it every week and keep us all informed.
So what is it all  about ?
Operation Cleansweep was launched at UDS-M by Jono Bacon. The idea is to get the number of bugs with patches down to 0 by Maverick’s release. It is a huge undertaking considering that there are 2000 bugs with patches right now, and almost 80 new patches come in every month! It comes down to about 2000 bugs with patches to be reviewed by the end of the release.
How Can you help?
It’s easy to get involved in Operation Cleansweep. Just 10 minutes of your time can make a great contribution to the project. It’s coming up to UGJ folks, loads of time there over a weekend to spend some time on this!
We’ve set a daily target of 20 bugs per day. That should get us well on our way to reviewing all the patches in Ubuntu. We follow the Reviewers Guide for patches.
So Where can you start, there are a list of bugs waiting for your help, 1475 to be exact listed over HERE. Â If every team got on board with this project over the weekend of UGJ we could knock a large chunk off that list of bugs so lets get on board and help the team out!
