jorge's stompbox

Palmers, ftw.

People have been noticing that I am addicted to a certain beverage (no, not beer):

It's called an Arnold Palmer. Half iced tea, half lemonade. Most restaurants will make one for you. I've just started buying it by the case. I've lost a ton of weight just by drinking these instead of Dr. Pepper. YMMV. Apparently if I work out more I will lose even more weight, but that takes work ... pfft.

Half-way through Ubuntu OpenWeek

The participation in OpenWeek has been outstanding so far, thanks to the session presenters and everyone for showing up.

We have 3 more days of sessions, make sure you check out the schedule for more information.

Special thanks to Stéphane Graber, Nosrednaekim, James Westby, Dylan McCall, and J AustinBardo for ensuring that the wiki page is up to date with logs of the sessions and general maintenance. Also thanks to the IRC team for keeping things flowing so well.

There will be no rest.

Now that the parties are out of the way (pics later), we can relax right? Wrong! The Ubuntu train never stops, there will be no rest for the wicked. Just a quick reminder that OpenWeek starts this Monday at 1500UTC.

OpenWeek is a weeklong set of IRC sessions designed to grow the Ubuntu community.

The timing is particularly good this time, we're at the very beginning of the cycle for Ibex (not even a UDS yet!) - so now is a good opportunity for you to get involved if you want to learn about packaging, filing bugs, running upstream kernels, and the entire bunch of workshops we've got planned for you. See you there!

Lugradio Live USA 2008 and Penguicon

Whew, what a busy month it's been so far.

I spent last weekend at Lugradio Live USA where I got to meet a bunch of great people. I am convinced this show is going to expand a great deal. I think it's excellent to have community-driven shows, since ours are a great deal smaller than the ones in Europe and the rest of the world. Penguicon 6.0 is this weekend in Detroit. Check out the plethora of events.

• More Lugradio Live coverage from Sandy Armstrong.
• Other great community shows in the US are SCALE, Penguicon, Ohio LinuxFest, and the new kid on the block, Ontario Linux Fest. I spent some time talking to one of Ontario Linux Fest's organizers, Richard Weait, it's going to be a great show this year, so stay tuned.
• Don't miss Scott James Remnant's updates on Upstart.
• Bored? Help test the Ubuntu 8.04 release candidate images.
• After all that testing, reward yourself by attending one of the many release parties in an area near you. If there isn't one, make one!
• Check out Aaron and Gabriel's talk about Banshee from LRL-USA.
• Thanks to Zonker and Novell for taking care of shipping the GNOME North American Event Box back to the Foundation.
• Thanks to Nathan Haines and his whole family from the California LoCo for taking care of the Ubuntu Booth at LRL and making that rock.
• Shout out to Dave, Vlad, and Chris from MoCo, Ian and Stephan from Songbird. Ian has an old Eazel shirt, I wonder how many people remember Eazel.
• Review Board is quite cool.
• This is getting too long, if I missed you, post a comment. :)

Edit: Duh, of course, thanks to Aq, Matt, and Chris, whom I've never met before, for being real life versions of their radio selves.

Announcing Ubuntu Open Week

The always popular Ubuntu Open Week returns this month and we welcome everyone from all walks of life, distros, skills, opinions and curiosities to come along and get involved. The aim of the week is to help grow the Ubuntu community, and we have an awesome set of topics ready for you to attend. If you've considered getting involved in Ubuntu and don't know where to start, then this is a great opportunity to jump in.

The Ubuntu Open Week will take place from Monday, 28 April to Saturday 3 May on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode.

We have sessions on all kinds of subjects including Reporting and Triaging bugs, Building Upstream Kernels, Kubuntu Development (including KDE4!), Bazaar, Packaging 101, Ubuntu Mobile, Merging Packages, Launchpad Personal Packaging Archives, Ubuntu Server, Security, Xubuntu, Community Q+A, Packaging Firefox Extensions, Artwork, Producing Podcasts, Training, Preeseeding d-i/Ubiquity, the Future of Ubuntu Desktop, Community support with the Forums, Python Packaging, Ask Mark, Wubi, Unwinding Stacktraces, Documentation, and much more!

Remember, being part of Ubuntu does not have to be a technical, hardcore, programming or packaging job. You can be involved with artwork, marketing, advocacy, local community teams, documentation, translations and more. If you are interested in being a part of the Ubuntu project, there is sure to be a session for you, take this time to join the Ubuntu Community and become part of the world-class team that puts Ubuntu together. We are keen that everyone with every discipline can be a part of our growing community.

See you in the sessions!

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America's Oldest Enemy.

I mentioned to someone at our LUG meeting tonight that I was attending Lugradio Live USA 2008 this weekend. He mentioned something about a English invasion ... which inevitably led my brain to think about this video. Tally ho.

FOSSCamp 2008 coming up

The list of attendees for FOSSCamp continues to grow. Recently added are people from Tango, Netbeans, Inkscape, openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, glom, gtkmm, Campware.org, Media Development Loan Fund, and of course, more GNOME and KDE folks.

FOSSCamp will be taking place 16 and 17 May in Prague, Czech Republic and is open to all at no cost, so if you're project is not represented, then please consider coming!

David Zeuthen, from DavidKit, will also be attending. :)