Hi everyone, With this event about a week and a half away, I have a couple things outstanding:
1. I need at least one volunteer to help out I'll be bringing over all the Ubuntu giveaways (stickers, pens, books), my laptops, printouts, usb sticks and more. It would be great if I had someone come out a bit early (say, 11:30) to help me carry these things over and get things set up. Please let me know if you can be this person and I'll email you details about where to meet. 2. If you want to come, please email me and/or RSVP at http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2984-ubuntu-california-san-francisco-qa-jam/ I need to know how much food to order and if there are any dietary restrictions I need to be aware of. Remember, no previous knowledge is required to attend this event. I'd really love to see some new faces there :) On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph <l...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm happy to formally announce that we'll be having an Ubuntu Global > Jam event in downtown San Francisco on Sunday, February 8th! > > Location: Gandi.net, 121 2nd st, Ste. 500, San Francisco 94105 > Time: Noon - 5PM > > This is just a block south of the Montgomery St BART/MUNI station. > Street and garage parking is also available, but not all free. Someone > will be at the door to let you up, if you come later in the event a > phone number will be placed on the door that you can call to be let > up. > > For this event, community members will gather to do some Quality > Assurance testing on Xubuntu ISOs and packages for the upcoming > release, Vivid Vervet, using the trackers built for this purpose. > We're focusing on Xubuntu because that's the project I volunteer with > and I can help put us into contact with the developers as we test the > ISOs and submit bugs. The ISO and package trackers used for Xubuntu > are used for all recognized flavors of Ubuntu, so what you learn from > this event will transfer into testing for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu > GNOME and all the rest. > > And Quality Assurance is not as boring as it sounds, honest :) Plus, > one of the best things about doing testing on your hardware is that > your bugs are found and submitted prior to release, increasing the > chances significantly that any bugs that exist with your hardware are > fixed prior to release. > > The event will begin with a presentation that gives a tour of how > manual testing is done on Ubuntu releases. From there we'll be able to > do Live Testing, Package Testing and Installation testing as we > please, working together as we confirm bugs and when we get stuck. > Installation Testing is the only one that requires you to make any > changes to the laptop you bring along, so feel free to bring along one > you can do Live and Package testing on if you're not able to do > installations on your hardware. > > I'll also have the following two laptops for folks to do testing on if > they aren't able to bring along a laptop: > > PowerBook G4 for Lubuntu ISO testing > > Lenovo G575 for Xubuntu installations > > I'll also be bringing along DVDs and USB sticks with the latest daily > builds for tests to be done and some notes about how to go about > submitting bugs. > > Please RSVP here: > http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2984-ubuntu-california-san-francisco-qa-jam/ > or email me if you're interested in attending. Also please feel free > to contact me if you're interested in helping out (it's ok if you > don't know about QA, I need logistical and promotional help too!). > > Food and drinks will be provided, the current menu is a platter of > sandwiches and some pizzas, so please let me know if you have dietary > restrictions so we can place orders accordingly. I'd hate to exclude > folks because of our menu, so I'm happy to accommodate vegan, gluten > free, whatever you need, I just need to know :) > > Finally, giveaways of stickers and pens for everyone and a couple > Ubuntu books (hopefully signed by the authors!) will also be available > to a few select attendees. > > Elsewhere in California and interested in hosting an event? The Ubuntu > Global Jam is an international event with teams focusing on a variety > of topics, details at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam > > -- > Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 -- Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
