Ubuntu Release Party

Release party for Ubuntu 9.10, the Karmic Koala.

Thursday, October 29, 7pm

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 1 TODO 2 Ideas 2.1 Demos 2.2 Talks 2.3 Install fest 2.4 Swag 2.5 Food 2.6 Money 2.7 Local Repo 3 Notes

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
  • LightScribe discs?
• ...

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
• Gnome Shell
• ...

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.