Ubuntu Release Party

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Release party for Ubuntu 9.10, the Karmic Koala.

Tentative date: October 29, 2009

Event Page

Email Darcy ( dscassel at gmail ) and/or add yourself here if you want to give talks/demos, or want to help out in some other way.

Contents

TODO

  • Advertise! Ideas needed.
    • Ubuntu wiki
    • Identi.ca
    • Local event boards
    • UW/WLU/Conestoga
    • high schools
    • online fora
    • online classifieds
    • Handouts at OLF.
    • Posters at Canada Computers/Computer XS/elsewhere
    • ...
  • Finalize date.
  • Design poster/handouts. --in progress --Darcy Casselman 04:48, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
  • Make announcement at KWLUG, Oct. 5
  • Talk to UW CSC
    • Sent email. No response. Should poke in person.
  • Get list of demos/talks (see below)
  • Nag people to do demos/talks
  • See if anyone has any interesting (or otherwise) hardware to lend.
  • Arrange pizza/pop, coffee/tea/desserts
  • Get projector for demos
  • Set up local repo mirror
  • Burn CDs on release day
  • ...

Ideas

  • "Demo potluck": Demo stations (in the lab) with people presenting
    • Each station has a theme?
  • Main screen demos in the lab, with a projector.
  • Food is important
  • Show stuff that's new and cool. Show off the release.
  • For prep, watch and learn from the Windows 7 release party video. Very informative. :D

Demos

5-15 minutes on tools, toys and gadgets. Shorter the better. Focus on general desktop user, and things a hacker can use to make cool stuff. Introductory developer demos welcome.

  • Wubi
  • Compiz (Ooh, pretty)
  • Pulse Audio
  • Ubuntu One
  • gPodder for podcasts
  • version control with git
  • Bazaar + Launchpad
  • Rails zero to website in 5 minutes
  • Writing a quick python GTK app
  • GnuCash
  • The Gimp
  • Blender
  • Tomboy Notes
  • Running Windows in VirtualBox
  • Command line fu
  • Ubuntu on netbooks - UNR
  • ...

Talks

Again, the shorter the better...

  • What's new in 9.10?
  • Contributing to Ubuntu (and upstream and OSS in general)
  • Ubuntu Canada LoCo

Install fest

  • need volunteers.
  • Is anyone interested?

Swag

  • System76
  • T-shirt screening?
  • Stickers?
  • Buttons?

Food

  • Pizza/pop
  • Coffee/tea
  • Desserts
  • Covering costs:
    • Pass the hat/request donations?
    • Charge for food ($2/slice, etc.)
    • Charge admission (I'd rather not --Darcy Casselman 21:43, 6 October 2009 (UTC))
    • Corporate sponsorships? (Dare I dream?)

Money

If we collect money for food, any profit should be either put into the Kwartzlab Project Fund (which I probably just created) and/or donated to the Ubuntu project (or Debian.

Local Repo

It'd be great if we had a copy of the Karmic repository in the Lab. I think our 'net connection is pretty good, but local gigabit is better.

Notes

  • It's Open Source Week!
  • Put out an announcement at the KWLUG, and there's quite a bit of interest there.
  • Asked an artist for original artwork for posters.
  • Started working on posters, but I suck at graphic design. Will ask around for help.
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