On 06/17/2014 11:13 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Scott DuBois <li...@roguehorse.com> wrote: >> I'm (fairly) confident Hurricane Electric would let us use their >> facilities for hosting some sort of event if someone has something in >> mind. As this is my first year getting involved with UbuntuCA as well as >> the local CA LUGs I'm not sure what kinds of stuff has gone on in the >> past to use as a reference for other events. > > That's great, we have a few offers for venue space on the table now, > but more is better! It's good to have options :) > > What I think we need right now are drivers for events. I've done a lot > of it in the past few years, but I have a pretty hectic travel > schedule this year and work is taking up a lot of my time. It would be > great to see some new faces planning events. > > Some event ideas: > > - Participate in Ubuntu Global Jam: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam (I did a Quality Assurance Jam > a couple years ago, went really well). > > - Installfest (need a full day for this, so probably 6 hours on a > Saturday with a venue that has parking in case people bring > towers+monitors) > > - Presentations on Ubuntu topics that may not be of interest to the > broader LUG community (like rww's app dev suggestion) > > For some insight into past work, see: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects > > We used to participate in the Solano Stroll in Berkeley in September, > and SFSU often has Software Freedom Day (also September) events on > campus that it would be great to us participate in that more. >
Has there been any new progress on this topic? I haven't seen anything come through so I wanted to follow up. : ) -- Scott DuBois President EBLUG BSIT Software Engineering Freenode: Roguehorse -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
