Meeting 2010-02-13
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Saturday February 13, 2010
We're currently planning a meeting for this day, from 12:00pm to 4:00pm.
Venue Information
Topic
This months topic is Contributions. All ways to contribute to an open source project. Bug reports, documentation, package maintenance, etc.
Schedule
12:00 PM: Arrive, get settled, mingling
12:15 PM: Welcome & announcements
- Venue details (where is the bathroom?)
- Introductions
- Announcements such as (for example) upcoming events, jobs, new distro releases
Upcoming events
- Ubuntu Washington LoCo Team elections are beginning.
- Bellevue Linux Users Group meeting on January 12, 2010
- Seattle Linux Chix meetup on February 9, 2010
- Seattle Amazon Web Services User Group meeting on February 2, 2010
- Seattle Blender Users Group meeting on February 6, 2010
12:30 PM: Talks
The first hour (give-or-take) is reserved for talks & presentations of varying length. GSLUG encourages open sharing and speakers of all skill levels are encouraged to share, discuss, learn and grow. Tell us about a project you're involved in, a nasty problem solved, etc.
lightning talks go about 5 minutes each plus time for questions. Regular talks are usually 15 minutes +. Please keep the length under 30 minutes without prior consent from the organizers.
If you're interested in presenting, copy/paste the next two lines to add yourself and change the details.
Ubuntu Bug Triage Demo plus Q&A - Brian Murray
How the heck do you triage bugs, anyway? Estimated time length 30 minutes.
Video: download or view online (Time 42:40, Size 169M)
Working with SCM systems - Blair Kutzman
A big part of contributing to an open source project is working with their source control system. Quick talk on the different systems and what to watch out for! Estimated time length 20 minutes.
Video: download or view online (Time 37:30, Size 159M) Presentation: view online
trac - William Hale
A talk showing trac, an software project manager used for rTorrent and many other open-source projects.
Video: download or view online (Time 8:59, Size 36M)
~2:30 PM GSLUG Trivia
(Confirmed)... Bri Hatch has books and questions. (Feel free to bring other goods to raffle.)
~2:45 PM - 4:00 PM: Workshops, chatting etc.
The rest of the meeting is open format for the following types of activities.
- Chatting
- Learning more about what you heard in the talks
- Working together on projects
- Getting support... for instance, you want to install Linux on your computer and need some assistance
- Fixing bugs - see Bug Jam & participate in the triaging and fixing bugs.
- Swap stuff - bring your surplus gear, back-issues or books read and swap/trade with others
- PGP key-signing
- Upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic, the latest (and greatest?) version of Ubuntu Linux
- Google Wave: Anyone have invites to share for this service? Anyone want invites? Set that up here.
Who's Coming? - PLEASE RSVP HERE
Planning to attend? Please add your name below
- Jason Self
- William Hale (Salt)
- Dan Bair
- Rich Lundeen (mopey)
- Carlos
- Michael J Evans (_hopefully with new WA EID_ / Late as expected, now that the olympics are starting maybe it'll show up next week.)
- Conrad (kmeyer)
- Victor
- Alan O'Dannel
- Kollin O'Dannel
- Andrew Gray
- Merwyn D'Silva
- Blair Kutzman
- Alwanza
- Mark Foster (delimiter) - I plan to shoot video again
- H. Ryan Jones
- Jaron
- Rob Lanphier
- harvey
- Craig Arno - Will be arriving from child's choir practice in U-District (possibly late)
- Elaine
Suggestion, Post meeting overflow area? (Maybe some restaurant/cafe with free parking & wifi?)
- There's a coffee shop not very far away that could be used for this.(Map)
