Notes from LaserJock (Jordan)

Jordan Mantha, aka LaserJock, gave 2 great talks at The UbuCon, both on how to contribute to the Ubuntu project. One was more technical going into detail regarding the various aspects of Launchpad, and the other was targeted to a beginner audience, who wanted to learn what this Ubuntu thing is. He was kind enough to send his notes on the conference, so I’m posting them here: from Jordan: – Google rocked, it was awesome to see the place and see Google people there. Plus the food and rooms were really good – Great mix of attendees (beginners all the way to the CTO of Canonical). The “What non-geeks want” session was really good because lots of non-geeks showed up and in the end we were able to have some things to take to the developers to get into Edgy – Great talks. Mostly informal, quite a bit of discussion. I think the Beginner Track was especially successful. People seemed excited and wanted to make Ubuntu even better. However, it didn’t seem like an Ubuntu love-fest either. People had tough questions and discussion was often about to current problems in Ubuntu (and Linux in general) and how to overcome them – T-shirts, CDs and books, way cool! Overall, it was lots of fun and should definitely happen again. The only thing I would like to see for the next one is earlier planning. There were a few people I know who would have liked to have come (from all over the US) but needed more notice to make arrangements. If it is going to be after LWE again then it shouldn’t be too hard get the date out there for people. Thanks again for all the hard work, it’s not easy at all. Rock on!