Jim Hutchinson:

Good news, everyone.

I just heard from Canonical that they will sponsor a booth at TIE. All discussions involved members of CoLoCo doing the actual manning of the booth and I doubt that has changed. So far, David, Bryan and I have agreed to pretty much cover the booth. However, I think we’d all appreciate it if we can share that among some more members. Please reply to this email if you can donate some time to representing Ubuntu at the conference. Also add your name to the wiki page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TIEColorado

The booth will be open from 11-3 on Wed, June 20 and 10-4 on Thurs, June 21. Setup is Wed morning. I’m not sure how much time we will need but I think it would be good to be there by 9:00 (any other thoughts on that?). We also need to clean up right after on Thursday.

Outside of the booth times I think we are still hoping to have a table somewhere in order to maximize exposure.

We are still in need of volunteers to help with lesson plans as well (see the wiki page). I should have three lessons finished before the Ubu-boulder-con this Saturday. Stay tuned.

Thanks,

Jim Hutchinson
Media Specialist
Windsor High School
970-686-8125

I heard from Canonical today that they will pony up the cash for a booth in the exhibition hall. I think this will be a great opportunity to spread the word about ubuntu. We plan to have a working thin-client set up at the booth (2-3 terminals and the server) to show everyone the basic idea. Canonical is also sending/has sent a conference kit with goodies to give away. If anyone has any other ideas for the booth please share them. Also, sign up below if you will be spending any time at the conference and can help with the booth.

Ubucon Boulder will take place on Saturday, June 2. Among other things, part of the time will be devoted to discussing, planning and/or developing content for TIE. Visit the wiki page to learn more and sign up.

Neal:

When: Saturday 2007-06-02, probably 9-5
Where: Google’s Boulder office: 1433 Pearl

What: An “unconference” like Barcamp: a spontaneous day of
Ubuntu-related demos, talks, chats, etc

We’ll have a small conference room with wifi and LCD projector. About
20 people can squeeze in. The space will be tight, so sign up early.

The focus is to share cool Ubuntu stuff with each other. Be prepared
to share how YOU do stuff with Ubuntu. E.g. bring your laptops and
demo some application, or show how to participate in ubuntuland via
launchpad and the wiki, propose some projects and specs, set up an
Edubuntu thin client network, or whatever. But what you propose to
talk about should be possible with Ubuntu. And that doesn’t limit
things very much E.g. we’ll probably spend some time helping Jim
out with https://wiki.edubuntu.org/TIEColorado

We’ll announce it first for Colorado LoCo team members, but we’ll
invite anyone interested in Linux to sign up if there’s space.

For a taste of similar gatherings, see http://barcamp.org/BarCampBoulder . The general unconference process
is to show up with ideas, list them on a whiteboard at the beginning
of the day, and let people decide then and there what the agenda
should be and what they’re interested in. Besides the main “track” in
the conference room, folks can propose other things to talk about in
the anteroom or outside.

Where

The Google office in Boulder is on the Pearl St Mall, next to
Starbucks, and has wifi and a small conference room. Our biggest fear
is that it is too good a location and we’ll have too many people
But other attempts to quickly find a bigger place haven’t panned out.

Naturally enough they don’t want us wandering around the development
cubes…. I figure 20 can squeeze into the conference room, and others
can stand and watch. And they also have a waiting area right outside
the conference room, and for spillover we can always go a few steps
outside into the beautiful ambiance of the mall.

Our very friendly host is Jim McMaster, a developer at Google. And our
contact came thru Leslie Hawthorn, of Google’s Open Source Program
Office in California. She manages the Google Summer of Code
program. Everybody thank Jim and Leslie

How to participate

Sign up via the wiki. If we’re overcrowded (probably around 30 at any
given time) we’ll give preference to those that signed up first.

Help organize

Organizers include, NealMcBurnett, Mitch Mahan, and anyone else who
steps forward…

If you would like to join go sign up at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubucon-Boulder

When: Saturday 2007-06-02, probably 9-5
Where: Google’s Boulder office: 1433 Pearl

What: An “unconference” like Barcamp: a spontaneous day of
Ubuntu-related demos, talks, chats, etc

We’ll have a small conference room with wifi and LCD projector. About
20 people can squeeze in. The space will be tight, so sign up early.

The focus is to share cool Ubuntu stuff with each other. Be prepared
to share how YOU do stuff with Ubuntu. E.g. bring your laptops and
demo some application, or show how to participate in ubuntuland via
launchpad and the wiki, propose some projects and specs, set up an
Edubuntu thin client network, or whatever. But what you propose to
talk about should be possible with Ubuntu. And that doesn’t limit
things very much E.g. we’ll probably spend some time helping Jim
out with https://wiki.edubuntu.org/TIEColorado

We’ll announce it first for Colorado LoCo team members, but we’ll
invite anyone interested in Linux to sign up if there’s space.

For a taste of similar gatherings, see http://barcamp.org/BarCampBoulder . The general unconference process
is to show up with ideas, list them on a whiteboard at the beginning
of the day, and let people decide then and there what the agenda
should be and what they’re interested in. Besides the main “track” in
the conference room, folks can propose other things to talk about in
the anteroom or outside.

Where

The Google office in Boulder is on the Pearl St Mall, next to
Starbucks, and has wifi and a small conference room. Our biggest fear
is that it is too good a location and we’ll have too many people
But other attempts to quickly find a bigger place haven’t panned out.

Naturally enough they don’t want us wandering around the development
cubes…. I figure 20 can squeeze into the conference room, and others
can stand and watch. And they also have a waiting area right outside
the conference room, and for spillover we can always go a few steps
outside into the beautiful ambiance of the mall.

Our very friendly host is Jim McMaster, a developer at Google. And our
contact came thru Leslie Hawthorn, of Google’s Open Source Program
Office in California. She manages the Google Summer of Code
program. Everybody thank Jim and Leslie

How to participate

Sign up via the wiki. If we’re overcrowded (probably around 30 at any
given time) we’ll give preference to those that signed up first.

Help organize

Organizers include, NealMcBurnett, Mitch Mahan, and anyone else who
steps forward….

The second planning meeting was held today. A brief summary of outcomes is listed below.

Attention: The next planning meeting is scheduled for May 18 (Friday) at 6:00pm at the Saxby’s in Loveland (west of I-25 on 34 in the Chili’s shopping center). See below for more info.

Channel: #ubuntu-meeting
Info:: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings

Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumCouncilAgenda

Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting