Nigel Babu wrote: > Hey folks, > > At the Ubuntu Developer Summit for version 10.04 a couple of weeks ago, > there was a discussion for extending Ubuntu Open Week throughout the > release cycle by having a few smaller "days" in #ubuntu-classroom which > were devoted to certain things. > > The idea for a Day that took shape was "Ubuntu User Day" where a > series of beginner-ish level sessions would take place. Our vision is > for this to happen on a Saturday and probably last 8-10 hours, > depending on how many folks we get volunteering to host sessions. > > A wiki page is taking shape here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDaysTeam > > We are pleased to announce the first User Day on January 23rd, Saturday > from 1200 UTC to 2200 UTC, which comes to 1730 IST to 0330 IST. It drags > a bit late, but that is to accommodate a wide range of time zones. > > The proposed topics can be seen in the link above. If anyone is > interested in leading sessions, please add your name, topic, and time > slot at the bottom of the above link. > > Right now, we don't have many volunteers, so we're looking for a bit of > participation from the Indian LoCo both in terms of teachers (and > participants too). I'd like to re-emphasize that most of this is going > to be beginners friendly. > > For those who haven't understood the concept, we generally have sessions > using IRC on during the Ubuntu Open Week and Ubuntu Developer Week. If > you are new to IRC and want to participate, please see > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat
If you are very new user to IRC, I would also recommend Lernid [1] (Development Branch). Now it's in version 0.2. I hope it should contain the entries for Ubuntu User Days :) [1] http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/11/25/introducing-lernid/ -- Hardik Dalwadi -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
