Sounds fantastic. I love the idea. With such large loco areas, lots of people would feel like they don't feel really as "included" as others. Such as in UK, a lot of stuff is London central, which is fine, but this sort of thing would allow a lot more "local" stuff to happen. Sounds great.
Ymk On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Rob Beard <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was lucky enough to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at the > > end of last year. Probably the most inspiring of the lightning talks > > was one called Ubuntu Hour by Fabián Rodríguez. In it Fabián discussed > > the problems of organising major events with venues and other > > facilities, and diluted down a meeting to one hour. He explained the > > incredibly simple premice of Ubuntu Hour. > > > > It is based on announcing your intention to be somewhere public at a > > specified time and date for one hour only. No presentations planned, > > no marketing, just a brief announcement of intent to be somewhere. > > People are then invited to turn up and do whatever comes to mind for > > the hour. This could be advocacy, informal ad-hoc training, fixing a > > broken system, really whatever the attendees need at the time. It > > could happen weekly, bi-weekly or monthly depending on the need in the > > local area. > > > > What also got me thinking about this was a recent bug report filed > > against the Ubuntu Community (yes, the community has a bug tracker :) > > ). > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392986 > > > > In it Randall Ross explains how he thinks that perhaps LoCos aren't > > "LoCo" enough. There are plenty of people around the UK who run > > Ubuntu, and probably don't know about other people in their region. > > The Ubuntu Hour would be an ideal way to get mini-locos going. If > > you're interested in getting together with people in your area, this > > seems like an ideal initiative to do it. We can discuss what we're > > doing on the list, and figure out the best way to promote and run > > them. Remember they're designed to be informal, what works for an > > Ubuntu Hour in one town/county may not work for someone else. Lets be > > flexible. > > > > We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I > > wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be > > somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start hearing about > > Ubuntu Hours around the UK. > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour > > > > Here's a report of a previous Ubuntu Hour in the USA. > > > > http://www.ubuntu-user.com/layout/set/print/content/view/full/654 > > > > Cheers, > > Al. > > > That sounds like a great idea, I bet something like that could work at > LUG meetings, or in our case down in Torbay, possibly at one of > Paignton's new venues which will hopefully in the next couple of months > get an Ubuntu based internet cafe. I dare say having an Ubuntu hour > there would be good as not everyone going to the venue in Paignton would > be there as part of the LUG so it might be possible to spread the word > to others. > > Rob > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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