I'd certainly be interested in getting something together for Manchester. All the best, -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
On 22 July 2010 10:50, Alan Bell <[email protected]>wrote: > The next version of Ubuntu will be the Maverick Meercat, version 10.10 > and it will be released on Sunday October the 10th, or 10/10/10. > This has a few interesting implications, firstly the final code will > actually be available on Friday 8th or thereabouts so as not to make the > Canonical release team work over the weekend, this means we should in > theory have access to the final .isos to use on the release day. > Canonical will no doubt organise a London party in a bar somewhere which > is great, but we can do different things, such as install fests, > geeknics, jams and whatever other things we can come up with. It would > be fantastic to find some kind of venue in every major city to do a > release day install party, so not just a night in a pub, but more of a > bring-a-box and install Ubuntu on it whilst chatting and eating cocktail > sausages type thing. Of course it is up to you what you do, maybe little > samosas or perhaps pizza slices could be used instead of sausages. So > the things on your task list are: > > Find a venue, perhaps a school or university, community hall or similar. > Somewhere that people can get to, which probably means in a city or > largeish town. > Make sure you have plenty of power sockets > Arrange sausages or other tasty snacks > Advertise it here and elsewhere, perhaps posters in libraries and > schools in the area > > More ideas on release related activities are welcome and if you have > half a plan but can't quite get it all together then let everyone know, > perhaps someone else can help. > > I think it is probably time for a biscuit about now. > > Alan. > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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