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Posted on September 8, 2009 - by jono

Call For Ubuntu LoCo Stories

Look at this man. Do you recognize him? does he look familiar? If not you should. His name is David Planella and he works on my team at Canonical as the horseman responsible for ensuring we have a rocking Ubuntu translations community. He is doing a stella job.

As part of his role I have asked him to contribute to making the incredible Ubuntu LoCo Community rock too. For a long time now we have said that what the community needs is a regular stream of case studies of the great work our incredible LoCo teams are doing. Well, I have asked David to write and release a case study every two weeks as part of his work. This case study will appear on The Fridge.

While David has many talents, mind-reading is not one of them. As such, LoCo superstars, he needs to hear your stories. If you have organized an event, performed some work/advocacy in your local community, have built some resources, performed meetings or installfests or otherwise have an interesting story to tell, please [email David](david.planella AT ubuntu DOT com). This is a great way to (a) build awareness of your team and (b) build awareness of the wider Ubuntu community. David will hear your story and write the article.

Also folks, please point your LoCo teams to this post – we need to raise awareness of these articles across the community. So here are the essential steps:

  1. Think of something interesting your LoCo has done.
  2. Email David.

I can’t wait to read the stories!


Posted on September 8, 2009 - by jono

LugRadio Live 2009 Announced

I am proud to join my fellow large gents in announcing the power and the glory that is LugRadio Live 2009 in Wolverhampton on the 24th October 2009! Although LugRadio may be no more, LugRadio Live is alive and kicking and we are all tickled pink about the forthcoming fun-fest.

Featuring such legends as Andy “blackadder” Robinson (OpenStreetmap), Brock Craft (tinker.it), Bruno Bord (LugRadio Community), Craig Rothwell (OpenPandora), Des Burley (A Real Lawyer Speaks), Gervase Markham (Mozilla), Martin Meredith (Hack The Planet), Matthew Paul Thomas (Ubuntu), Matthew Somerville (MySociety), Patrick Finch (Mozilla), Steve Lamb (Microsoft), Tom Edwards (Linux Supercomputing) and more as well as the first live re-union of the LugRadio team, Stuart Langridge, Adam Sweet, Chris Procter and I, it is shaping up to be a rocking day. To top things off that little bit more, the inaugural OggCamp happens on the day after, also in the glorious city of Wolverhampton. Finally, don’t forget that on the Friday night before LugRadio Live 2009, we will be having our usual pre-show get together at The Hogs Head.

Two rocking events, one rocking weekend. If you are not there, the terrorists will have won.

So, what are you waiting for? Go and see the LugRadio Live and OggCamp websites and start making plans. I can’t wait to see you all there!