Berlin

I’m looking forward to next week, as I’m going to Akademy. On Wednesday I’m going to give this workshop WHAT: Creating snaps with snapcraft MAR 0.017 - Wednesday, 7th September 10:00 - 12:00 So if you are interested in learning how to publish software easily and directly to users, this might be just for you. Snaps are self-contained, confined apps, which run across a variety of Linux systems. The process of snapping software is very straight-forward and publishing them is very quick as well....

I’ve been slacking a bit when it comes to DJing land picked it up this year again. Some of my mixtapes are on a part of my blog that’s not syndicated, but I set up a page with all the posts. I just posted a new one today. If you have no plans tonight and you’re in Berlin, come to the GNOME3 Launch Lounge (Facebook event page) in c-base tonight. I’ll be playing there as well....

If you have followed my blog and what I’ve said elsewhere you might have noticed, I’m TOTALLY looking forward to the Ubuntu Global Jam. :-D The Ubuntu Berlinians will meet in Berlin’s c-base on 29th August from 12:00 to 18:00. Please come and join us! Original announcement below: Freie Software lebt vom Mitmachen und das ist gar nicht so schwer, wie man vielleicht erwartet. Zum vierten Mal ruft Ubuntu zum “Global Jam”, bei der weltweit helfende Hände an einem Tag gemeinsam an der Verbesserung der freien Linux-Distribution Ubuntu arbeiten....

Guess who has all registered for the fun already: Berkeley, California, USA Birmingham, UK Novosibirsk, Russia Cape Town, South Africa Caldes de Montbui, Spain Dublin, Ireland Saudi Arabia Managua, Nicaragua Lots of other teams are discussing their events right now. We in Berlin will definitely be part of the fun. András Bognár also worked on new Ubuntu Global Jam badges: Awesome! Let your friends know! Get planning! This will be a weekend full of awesomeness!...

Earlier today I went to a goodbye party of a friend who’s going to Australia for a few months. Great things that happened: Party was outdoors, a few DJs played, great atmosphere, 100+ people at peak times Some of my awesome office mates were there, my sister too The police showed up and instead of shutting the party down, they told us where it was “OK” to have the party We moved all the equipment, the generator, drinks and everything else to the new place, which was nearby, everybody helped I played a 4 hour Drum’n’Bass set, which I (and others) were very happy with, they even collected money for the DJ - glad it was dark, so nobody could see if I was blushing I watched the sunrise by the riverside while the party was still going on I drove home on my bicycle A few guys stopped me to take a picture of them and as a thanks offered me their last beer Oh how I love this city!...

I’m very happy the Berlin team is going to participate in Lucid’s Ubuntu Global Jam. We’ll meet on Saturday 27th March at 12:00 in Berlin’s c-base and have a great time working on all the things that make Ubuntu great, so if you like to hang out, test Ubuntu, ugprade Ubuntu, translate Ubuntu, document Ubuntu, hack on Ubuntu, triage Ubuntu bugs or do anything else, we definitely want you there. Also if you are working on Debian, join us so we can learn to cooperate better and learn from each other....

So Robert doesn’t believe me… there’s only little barriers too far to walk over to the bridge and cross that TADAAAAA! dunno how these got here I wasn’t the only one who had the idea

I just had another look at the list of Ubuntu 9.10 Relase Parties and it’s AMAZING. There’s tons of parties all around the globe and they all are truly deserved celebrations of all the hard work that thousands of people put into Ubuntu and Open Source more generally. Make sure you add your party to the map. In Berlin we’ll celebrate on Saturday in our favourite hacker-space location: c-base. Caspar already spilled the beans about it: Berliner Fenster, heroes of Berlinian metro TV make sure Ubuntu and our party get a mention:...

We are only one-and-a-half weeks away from bringing together awesome people to do awesome things across the globe - it’s time for the Ubuntu Global Jam. The Ubuntu Berlin team is one of the lucky teams that are participating and I thought I’d talk a bit about what we’re going to do. The Venue I’ve been in touch with a lot of other LoCo teams and some told me that they had trouble finding a venue....

The preparations for the Ubuntu Global Jam are ticking on very very nicely. In case you haven’t heard of it yet: teams around the world are going to meet up on the weekend of October 2nd-4th and make Ubuntu better by doing whatever they do best: work on bug reports do packaging or development test Ubuntu translate Ubuntu document Ubuntu It really doesn’t matter what you or your team are good at, as long as you meet somewhere, have fun and improve Ubuntu in some way....

I didn’t see much news about the Ubuntu Global Jam in the last time and in the Berlin team, we took a bit of a break from regular jams. In a few days the Ubuntu Berlin team is likely to meet again and talk about how we can best accomodate all kind of people who want to work on Ubuntu directly, becaues that’s essentially what an Ubuntu Jam is: working directly on Ubuntu, with a lot of local people, having lots of fun....

Date: Saturday,June 27th 2009, beginning 18 pm Location: c-base, Rungestr. 20, Berlin-Mitte On Saturday, the Ubuntu Berlin Team invites everybody to participate in our third LinuxTag-Barbecue. We will provide free food (also vegetarian), and drinks are sold at the bar. c-base is a famous computer club right in the heart of Berlin, near Jannowitzbrücke. To get there you can take the S5 (direction Strausberg), S75 (direction Wartenberg) or S9 (direction Flughafen Schönefeld), all three are leaving from the station “Messe Süd”....

Thanks to the fantastic organisers team of Ubuntu Berlin we had a great release party at c-base. As some of you already know we had adverts in the Berlin’s metro TV system again, so we had a bunch of new people who had never heard of Ubuntu before but were curious about what it was. We had a barbecue there, more than 200 visitors, sold 70 CDs and 20 USB sticks, we copied Ubuntu on lots and lots of USB sticks and some nice music afterwards....

Ubuntu 9.04 will be out real soon now and it’s a fantastic release. It’s the tenth time the Ubuntu community pushes out a release and having used every single one of them the thought that what you’re downloading and installing is the combined work of dozens of thousands of Open Source contributors doesn’t cease to amaze me. My overall feeling of the Jaunty cycle is that we as the big Ubuntu Development team have matured a lot....

I was just thinking today “How many releases did we do already?” and I realised 9.04 is going to be our tenth release! Don’t believe me? Let’s count them through: Warty Warthog, 4.10 Hoary Hedgehog, 5.04 Breezy Badger, 5.10 Dapper Drake, 6.06 Edgy Eft, 6.10 Feisty Fawn, 7.04 Gutsy Gibbon, 7.10 Hardy Heron, 8.04 Intrepid Ibex, 8.10 Soon to come: Jaunty Jackalope, 9.04 Holy cow, it’s too easy to forget at which mad pace we together are spreading Ubuntu - sounds like we should have some HUGE celebration!...