[ubuntu-za] Jaunty Release Party Cape Town

[David Rubin]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Morgan Collett <morgan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 23:54, David Rubin <davidrub at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Ubuntu-za-capetown
>>
>> I was just wondering what the progress on this is?  Morgs I know you
>> said you were taking this on do we have a proposed venue/date?
>
> Thanks for your help, David...
>
>> I have created a very basic wiki page for our info [1]. I wrote down a
>> few things that I thought we might need to organise /do for the event.
>>
>> * Find a date
>
> Each time we've had the event on the Saturday after the release. That
> would be 25 April this time, unless anyone can think of a good reason
> to have it later.

I think we should push for april 25th. It is a date close to the
release as well as a week end and hopefully we will have max turn out.
>
>> * Find a venue
>
> Hilton Theunissen suggested a TuxLab equipped school - Camps Bay High
> again, or Groote Schuur Primary in Rondebosch (if I remember
> correctly). We'll need to arrange with the school and lab admin.
>
> If we can secure the venue in good time we can do better with our
> publicity this time (although we had a good attendance last time
> anyway).

Are you going to take this on? are you in contact with the relevant parties?

Good attendance last time doesn't mean we will have good attendance
this time.  Last time the mailing list was much busier on this topic.

>> * Organize Jaunty Local Repository
>> * Snacks
>> * Presentations / Talks about experiences
>> * Ubuntu in small business
>> * Get users to come :)
>>
>> I am trying to organize that we a a local Jaunty repository so we can do
>> installs and such with zero bandwidth usage. One reason users don't feel
>> like upgrading/re-installing they would have to redownload their apps.
>>
>> Any thing any one else can add or correct wiki link is below.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.ubuntu-za.org/Jaunty_Release_Party/Cape_Town (Thanks to
>> Johan Mynhardt)
>
> Regards
> Morgan
>
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