The Ubuntu Global Jam is an incredible opportunity for the Ubuntu community to unite together around the weekend of 7th - 9th September 2012 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.

To check out the list of participating teams in the world, or to add your event, have a look at the LoCo Directory event.

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 themes:

• Bugs - finding, triaging and fixing bugs.

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

• Upgrade - upgrading to Quantal from Precise and reporting your upgrade experience.

• 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.

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.

Things to do

Here's a list of suggestions and ideas on activities you can do at the Ubuntu Global Jam. Choose your pick!

Translations

• Check out Jams/Translations for now.

Development

Design

Testing

• Also check Jams/Testing or Jams/Upgrade

  • update Ubuntu on your machine to the latest release and see how it works
  • download a Live CD image and see how it works for you
  • run through all kind of test cases listed on the wiki

Packaging

• Check out Jams/Packaging

  • Check out our Packaging Guide and

  • find more things to work on

  • More specifically we need help with:

    • Fixing packages which don't build any more

    • Making sure that fixes for release-critical bugs in Debian get also fixed in Ubuntu

Documentation

Promotion

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 goes on during the event?

• 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. You should stop by #ubuntu-locoteams to join in on the action. Also don't forget to microblog with the hashtag #ugj to spread the word!

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 neighbourhood local. Contact your local translation team.

Artwork

Please help out by reaching out to your friends and everyone interested in the event. Find Artwork to raise awareness.

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