The Ubuntu Global Jam is an incredible opportunity for the Ubuntu community to unite together around the weekend of 2nd - 4th Oct 2009 to work together to improve Ubuntu. Everyone is able to contribute to the Jam, and everyone is welcome and encouraged to get involved. Curious about how to make a real difference to Ubuntu? This is a great chance to make that difference.

The Ubuntu Global Jam incorporates events that have been organized over the world to get Ubuntu contributors and fans together to have a great time and improve Ubuntu. Each event has one or more of our four themes:

• Bugs - finding, triaging and fixing bugs.

• Testing - testing the new release and reporting your feedback.

• Documentation - writing documentation about how to use Ubuntu and how to join the community.

• Translations - translating Ubuntu and helping to make it available in everyone's local language.

• Packaging - work on Ubuntu packages and improve them

• Other - other types of contribution such as marketing, packaging, advocacy etc.

LoCos should not feel required to support all themes, but the Global Jam can be used as an opportunity to introduce members to different aspects of the community.

Share your stories.

Tasks

Once you have decided on what kind of jam themes you are going with, you do not only want to be prepared and all set up, you also want to have tasks ready for new folks to work on...

Preparation

Next IRC meeting is 24 September at 1800 UTC

• Jam Tutorial video

We will be holding tutorials on how to run a successful event. Have information to share? Schedule a tutorial session!

• "How to run a successfull Jam" - JorgeCastro

  • June 27 - 1500UTC - #ubuntu-classroom - IRC Logs

  • Sept 4 - 2100UTC - #ubuntu-classroom
  • Sept 18 - 1500UTC - #ubuntu-classroom
• Live videocast tutorial of how to run a successful jam

  • Jono Bacon - 29th June 2009 1800UTC - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon

  • Nick Ali - 7 September 2009 - http://people.ubuntu.com/~nali/events/UbuntuGlobalJam2009.html

• IRC Meetings

  • 20th August 2009 log

  • 16th July 2009 - log

  • 18th June 2009 - log

  • 24 September 2009

Basic Preparation FAQ

Q1. What is the Global Jam?

• A world-wide online and face-to-face event to get people together to fix Ubuntu bugs - we want to get as many people online fixing bugs, having a great time doing so, and putting their brick in the wall for free software. This is not only a great opportunity to really help Ubuntu, but to also get together with other Ubuntu fans to make a difference together, either via your LoCo team, your LUG, other free software group, or just getting people together in your house/apartment to fix bugs and have a great time.

Q2. What exactly things do you do in that period?

• Collect bugs, fix them, testing, documenting and translating. Get together and make Ubuntu better.

Q3. Do you meet in a specific place, or just talk on irc?

• Both would be great, but it's great to meet in person with other people.

Q4. What do we need?

• You need a place to be, with decent internet connection, some computers, and great people to share the work. Probably you can find a place in a University, school or even neighborhood local. Contact your local translation team.

Artwork

(Don't know if this is the right place to publish this, if not, please move All artwork is CC-BY-SA. The source files can be downloaded here

• Web badges

• Vertical web banners (English)

• Vertical web banners (Spanish)

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