Hiya, That's great Laura, thanks. I've just mentioned the Open Jam to the Ruby guys so hopefully we can get some of ye Pythonistas and Rubyists duking it out (ok, by that I mean talking amicably over a pint of beer :-) at the event!
All the best, Dec On Friday 19 February 2010 13:52:13 Laura Czajkowski wrote: > Aloha, > > Most folks know I'm involved in the Ubuntu Ireland community and love Open > Source, if you haven't gathered that by now, something is up :) > > In March, the Ubuntu community runs a Global Jam - a 3 day event to work on > Ubuntu documentation, bugs, wiki, translations, all aspects of the system > mid cycle. I appreciate not everyone uses Ubuntu. That's fine, I'm not here > to convert or preach to folks. > > I had an idea and Open Jam was born. - > http://openevents.ie/doku.php?id=openjam > A weekend Saturday 27th and 28th March I'd run a weekend where EVERYONE > from all areas, php, Ubuntu, Debian, KDE, GNOME, Python, Ruby, alt.net and > anyone who wants to come along to do so. > > You can work on your projects, help folks if they have some questions, > hack, logs bugs, documentation, translations, whatever you like the > difference being we get to do it together in one place. > > It's not a conference, unconference, very different from my ossbarcamp. > But what I thought we could do throughout the day would be run a series of > lightning talk, where folks could stand up and give a 3 min presentation > on what they were working on. > > Again, this was just an idea, and maybe folks won't be interested in this > kind of thing, but it would be beneficial to us all to work together. > I'm still sorting the venue out, but hope to have details next week. It > will be in Dublin as well, this is where I am. > > If you've any thoughts drop me a line or pop onto #ubuntu-ie on freenode, > > Laura > -- > http://www.lczajkowski.com > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski > skype: lauraczajkowski > > > > ________________________________________________ > Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.10 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en.
