Announcing Ubuntu Open Week

[castrojo]

Hi everyone!

I've just blogged about the upcoming Ubuntu Open Week on my blog: http://castrojo.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/announcing-ubuntu-open-week-2/

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I am pleased to announce that this cycle's Ubuntu Open Week will be held the week after Ubuntu 9.04's release, from 27 April to 1 May on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode. The sessions take place from 1500UTC to 2100UTC (With a special session on Monday night after-hours)

Ubuntu Open Week is a week full of IRC tutorial sessions on a range of subjects, designed to help people get involved in the Ubuntu community. It is given by many of the brightest, most capable members of the Ubuntu community, and covers a range of subjects including packaging, bug triage, translations, accessibility, automated testing, loco teams, mentoring, Launchpad, desktop team, training team and much more.

There will also be the always popular "sabdfl Q+A" session (Thu 30 Apr @ 15.00UTC) in which you have two hours to ask Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, your burning questions. Jono and I will also be providing an Introduction and Community Q+A session (Mon 27 Apr @ 15.00UTC) in which you can ask your questions about the community, Ubuntu, Canonical and anything else.

New to this Open Week is nearly an entire day of Documentation team sessions, so now is the time to get involved. The schedule is up, so let's get started! (A few slots left open, if you want them, holler at me)


Here's the URL: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek

[TheIdiotThatIsMe]

Thanks a lot for the info! I would have totally missed it otherwise. I am off the 27th as long as I can remember there are two I'd love to do. No idea about the rest of the week, since I don't have my schedule for work for then yet ;)

[ddrichardson]

I just did a blog post about Docs Day on the 28th, http://blog.lynxworks.eu/20090425/docs-day/

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Ubuntu OpenWeek (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek) starts on Monday 27th April. The Documentation Team has five sessions starting on the 28th at 18:00 UTC which we’re referring to as “Docs Day”. Quite a change from Intrepid where I gave a single one hour session covering everything (the IRC log is available here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/ContributeDocs))!


Our team has quite a high number of new people volunteering but seems to have have trouble converting these into long term members. Its difficult to identify why but in the Karmic cycle we have a couple of initiatives to announce:


Playbooks - we have written three playbooks. One for bugs (http://www.lynxworks.eu/files/BugsPlaybook.pdf) in the docs, one for the wiki and one for more specific help with DocBook and creating new documentation.
IRC classroom sessions - covering step by step sessions on the main areas we work in, especially bug control and creating patches.
Doc Days: Much as bug days have done, we want to promote regular, weekly if possible, days where we target specific areas of the documentation.

Our first Playbook - “Fixing Bugs in the System Documentation” is available now and I encourage anyone to download a copy (http://www.lynxworks.eu/files/BugsPlaybook.pdf), make suggestions and have a go!


The Documentation Team (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam) is always looking for volunteers. You can apply to join the team on Launchpad - we just ask for an introduction on our mailing list (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc). You don’t need to join to contribute, feel free to submit patches to the mailing list or on Launchpad (http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs).

[23meg]

As part of the Ubuntu Quality Assurance Team (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam), I'm doing a session on "good practices in reporting Ubuntu bugs" tomorrow at 21:00 UTC. If you want to get started in helping improve the quality of Ubuntu and the broader world of free software by filing good bug reports, or aren't quite satisfied with the outcome of your reports so far and want to improve your bug reporting skills, this may be a good place to be at.

If you miss the session, or prefer to browse the log later, it will be available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekJaunty/BugReports.

[billgoldberg]

Someone should have said the SABDFL Q and A was moved to the 28th.

I missed it.