Hi Everyone! Happy new year!
2014 is going to be a great year for Ubuntu App Developers. We laid down some fantastic foundations in 2013, but this year we want to extend and grow our community in multiple directions...building a solid, empowered on-ramp for creating awesome apps for Ubuntu. ...but we can't do this alone, we need your help! One effort here is to work with our fantastic LoCo Team Community (http://loco.ubuntu.com) to run a series of Ubuntu App Developer schools across the world. We have one of the greatest advocacy communities anywhere, so this seems like a perfect match. Fortunately, David Planella has already created some awesome slides and a good tutorial that these schools can work from (he did this for a previous event), and we are here to help provide help and guidance about how to run an event. As such, we are looking for volunteers to run a local Ubuntu App Dev school in your area. Doing this is as simple as: * Find a place to run an event and pick a date when to run it. * Find some other folks in your LoCo who would be interested in helping. * Get the material and tune it for your event if needed. * Promote the event locally and encourage people to join. * Practice the material a few times before the big day, then show up, run the class and have fun. * Take lots of pictures! The last step is really important as we would like to create a montage of the events. :-) So, if you are interested in participating, send me an email to j...@ubuntu.com and mention which LoCo team you are part of and where you would run the event, and lets make the magic happen! Jono -- Jono Bacon Ubuntu Community Manager www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org www.identi.ca/jonobacon www.twitter.com/jonobacon -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
