Hi All Sorry if this is off topic, I was not sure where I could ask about this.
I am not sure if anyone can help with this directly but perhaps as a community it is an opportunity to engage and perhaps recruit people who can help with the testing / development process and spread the word on Ubuntu, Free Software and GNU / Linux in general. For the past few years I have been involved in running the Torbay Tech jam in Paignton, Devon. This simply was a tech event designed to inspire people to learn about coding, and a place for like minded people to meet up, chat, share and work on projects etc. This event closed in 2018, but fast forward to 2019 and it has been re-launched as the South Devon Tech Jam, with a more formal structure and hopefully we can move forward in a more positive way. We will be running this once a month. I am not sure how the community in the Uk get involved directly with events. I know there is a need for people to download and test releases of Ubuntu, report bugs and problems and help fix them. This is a lot of work,and sometimes complex work but is a very important job. One thing I do know is platforms such as Launchpad are both very comprehensive but quite complex for beginners so having a good grounding in this would probably save developers and others a lot of time trying to get the right information out of anyone sending in test results or bug reports. I just wondered if: - Anyone would or does do outreach to small events either from the Ubuntu Community or from Canonical ? Engage with people so that people can become effective at this job and, perhaps as this will build up different skill sets, what sort of career path people are able to get in to, after all having something like Ubuntu Tester / Developer on a CV should count for something, to a potential employer and this will actually encourage people to get involved, (even if their initial motivation is to help) As Ubuntu is now more than a desktop / Server OS, but has moved in to hosting Snaps, Containers etc, would someone be able to give talks on that too. Granted people can look this information up, but there is actually something effective about face to face engagement, that allows conversation and networking between people. Also if you talk to 10 people about Launchpad, there is a chance 1 person won't remember everything but between those 10 people they should remember different aspects to then help each other later on. There are plenty of opportunities to help but also many barriers to doing so. If we can find a way to break down those barriers then we should be able to get more people confident enough to get involved. I would perhaps hope to also reach out to local organizations who work with Young people for example Princes Trust or Young Devon as being involved with Free software opens up many opportunities. As we are only just starting up as an event. I am not looking at anything such as the above in the immediate future, but thought I would set the ball rolling here, and just ask, and see what is possible for later on. On a similar note if anyone living in the area would be interested in such talks this could be a good opportunity to not have to travel too far. Thank you Regards Paul Sutton -- Paul Sutton http://www.zleap.net https://www.linkedin.com/in/zleap/ gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
