On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:32, Jono Bacon wrote: > Hi all, > > One thing we are looking to encourage are Packaging Jams - events that > LoCo teams run that teach a group of people how to get started with MOTU > and Ubuntu Packaging. > > I have written up a short guide of how to do this (based on some > guidance from the Michigan LoCo who ran an event) - you can read about > how to organise an event at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/RunningPackagingJam > > If you do organise one, be sure to add the date of your event on > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Events :) > > I would love to see a bunch of LoCo teams volunteer to run events to get > the concept of Packaging Jams off the ground. If you are planning on > running an event, get in touch with me. :)
Personally, I think that focusing events like this on bug squashing and packaging fixing would be more useful for this distribution and easier for new contributors to get traction on. I think it's more needed to make our existing packages better than to get more packages into Ubuntu. Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
