PackageJam 2009 - South Africa

Sat, 06/27/2009 - 16:12 — stefan

We just held South Africa's (possibly Africa's) first PackageJam! I would like to thank everyone who attended for making it such an enjoyable event.

There were 10 of us that made it, and although only planned for a morning, we ended up staying until late afternoon.

My personal aim for the event was to just assist enough to get people over that first 'i don't know whats going on hump' and hopefully encourage and get some more developers and MOTU's from South Africa!

Very often the MOTU wiki pages can appear daunting, but its really not that bad, but you have to just start somewhere.

We started with general introductions, watched all the awesome dholbach MOTU videos and landed up in the lab where everyone looked at packaging specific things they were interested in.

We had the upstream author of 'gosmore' and 'virtaal' and also two bzr developers which was awesome!

Although nothing was actually packaged on the day, im hoping to be sponsoring some stuff really soon!

Rock on guys :)

More photo's can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35619044@N07/sets/72157620498148669/

Some resources that we used:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/GettingStarted
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Teams
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek
http://daniel.holba.ch/harvest
http://packages.qa.debian.org/
http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/uehs/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Basic

Comments

Sat, 06/27/2009 - 17:34 — Anonymous (not verified)

Looks awesome, sorry I

Looks awesome, sorry I couldn't make it.

Sat, 06/27/2009 - 18:20 — Jono Bacon (not verified)

This is epically, epically

This is epically, epically awesome. Great work, everyone! :-)

Sun, 06/28/2009 - 08:55 — Daniel Holbach (not verified)

FANTASTIC! :-)

Mon, 06/29/2009 - 07:04 — Sven (not verified)

Great work Stefan! We had a

Great work Stefan! We had a really cool time. Thanks

Mon, 06/29/2009 - 08:08 — Walter Leibbrandt (not verified)

All credit to Stefan for

All credit to Stefan for making this happen. It was loads of fun and I look forward to start annoying the MOTUs with patches, updates, etc. ;)

Fri, 12/18/2009 - 20:09 — Sophie26 (not verified)

Thanks because this is the

Thanks because this is the interesting.

Thu, 01/07/2010 - 01:40 — michelsterling (not verified)

i will be visiting South

i will be visiting South Africa too for a research for my term paper and I am so excited... Well, I decided to write my essay about South Africa because I really think it's a very nice country with interesting culture.. You gotta nice picture there looks like you had so much fun!

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 13:14 — webthesurfi rugs webdesign (not verified)

I love Ubuntu because it is

I love Ubuntu because it is an open source OS and it is lightweight compared to other OS.

But I have a difficulty on designing web pages in Ubuntu.

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 09:31 — John (not verified)

I really agree... Ubuntu is

I really agree... Ubuntu is the best OS ever I used.... I like It....

thanks
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