On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Amber Graner <akgra...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know everyone is insanely busy at this time in the cycle; however, > your assistance is needed as Open Week is less than 2 weeks away and > the schedule is still *very* open. > > Please take a look at the schedule > (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek) and lets see what we can do > to bump this thing up a notch. Remember the target audience for > Ubuntu Open Week is the *End User*, so think about what sessions can > be offered to help users (all of us) to become even better, more > efficient and effective. Each of us has knowledge we can share through > what we do for the Ubuntu project, whether it is explaining what the > council you are on does and what it means to the community, how does > your Loco Team work, a Q&A session with your team so that end users > understand what you do and how they can be part of that picture. What > about a session on screencasting howto's, Filing bugs, testing and > more. There are so many things to share and we share them everyday in > some capacity. > > How about introductions to the derivative distro's such as Kubuntu, > Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and more. If you are on the Server, > Desktop, Kernel, Foundations, QA, DX, Design or other Team consider > giving a Question and Answer Session. As mentioned above if you are > on the Community Council, Forums Council, IRC Council, LoCo Council do > you have an hour where you can talk about issues and overviews related > to those areas and let the community know how to engage these areas > better. > > What about projects such Beginners Team, Docs Team, Spread Ubuntu, > Ubuntu Marketing etc, let's reintroduce some of these to the community > again and share those things during open week. > > Please take a moment to see if you can carve out 1 (one) hour of your > time to give to help end users learn more about the ins and outs > Ubuntu and the community that makes it what it is. Share your > knowledge. Don't worry if you haven't given a session before we can > help you get started. > > If 14 people or teams of people can step up and give a session for > open week this would be *awesome*! Take a look at the schedule > (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek) and either let me know where > to add your session or fill it in on the time table > (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek/Timetable). If you have any > questions, please email myself or Jorge Castro or ping either of us on > IRC (akgraner or jcastro). > > I know I still have a lot to learn and I personally look forward to > open week more than any other Ubuntu week because I always learn > something new that helps me become a better end user and Ubuntu > community member. > > Thank you in advance for those who will give sessions and those who > will attend as every session leader and participant makes open week > successful. > > with much gratitude and appreciation, > > ~ Amber :-D > > > Amber Graner//akgraner//
I'll take the last slot, 17:00 UTC on May 5, and introduce Kubuntu. I tried to edit the schedule, but I'm no good on the include stuff. My LP page is at https://launchpad.net/~valorie-zimmerman -- http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter, Identica, LinkedIn, Delicious: valoriez -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
