Vincent wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Charlie Kravetz > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:20:02 +0300 > Pasi Lallinaho <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Jorge O. Castro wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > We are preparing for the next Ubuntu Open Week, which is the week > > > after release, 27 April - 1 May. Ubuntu Open Week is a > week-long set > > > of IRC workshop sessions held by various members of the > community to > > > the public. They cover a vast set of topics, anything from > > > development to LoCos, translations, bugs, answers, launchpad, bzr, > > > packaging, community development, and more. > > > > > > As you can see, the schedule is blank: > > > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek/ > > > > > > I am collecting interested topics for discussion here: > > > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek/Prep > > > > > > I am looking for volunteers to run sessions! > > > > > Hi everybody, > > > > just a quick reminder that we are close to Ubuntu Open Week. > Maybe we > > should have a session about Xubuntu? > > > > If somebody wants to keep a session, I'm open in helping, if I'm > > needed. > > > > Okay, a little help, please. Am I the only one that sees a great > opportunity here? Ubuntu Open Week is a time to show the community > what > a great distribution Xubuntu really is! Why don't I see us doing a > "how > to get involved in Xubuntu", "Xubuntu is made for lower-end hardware", > "XFCE 4.6 and upwards". > You are not the only one. Or "What Xubuntu is, how has it grown up and how to get involved". > > These are a few ideas. This is for the USERS, > not the inside group. UDS and Ubuntu Developers Week take care of > insiders. Is there anything we want to tell the world? > > How do we get more people involved in Xubuntu without showcasing some > of it? I am not the best person to run a presentation. That does not > mean I won't. I can't do it alone, though. We have a whole week > here to > "show and tell". Are we just going to let it go by without being > involved? > I think we should try to keep a presentation which involves the great community (read: more than one guy talking) but without making it overloaded and messy. This means we have to plan this before *in a group*, not just throw parts of the presentation to somebody. Also, this way we wouldn't tell the same things over and over again. > > Well, I'll try to be there to assist (do be sure to send a reminder > here ;-), but I'll be going on a holiday in two hours so I don't > really have much time to spend planning... Furthermore, from the 24th > to the 26th I'll also be away, so I'm quite busy this month ;-). But, > as said, I'll try to be there, and perhaps when I get back (the 19th) > I can prepare something, if someone wants to collaborate :) I definitely want to collaborate. It's not a problem if you can't plan much beforehand, because we can always plan together in a group and I suppose we also want some kind of Q&A -part.
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