Laura Czajkowski

I moved back home to Limerick from Dublin and I thought I’d start up an Ubuntu hour here.  On Thursday 29th July, we’re going to have the first one down here. The idea of an Ubuntu hour is to just chat, meet new people, put a face to a name and talk about Ubuntu, Open Source, [...]

Monthly reports are a really good habit to get into for all of us!  But for LoCo Teams it’s especially good.  It will help you keep track of your events and possibly if you aren’t doing much highlight this to you as you’ll see events decreasing which isn’t a good sign of an active team. What is a [...]

It went ahead even if it was a miserable wet and windy… Summers day! At least the rain held for the time we all met up and had some lovely food from the farmers market.  Well worth going to if you are in the area.  1st Sunday of the month there is a farmers market [...]

I’ve had some time recently to review a lot of wiki applications for LoCos.  It is truly amazing the amount of work some teams do and is a great source of ideas to try for other teams. With that said, I’ve also seen some wiki pages which are less than clear on what the team is doing which [...]

The LoCo Council meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month to re approval and approve LoCo Teams.   The meeting is open to everyone, not just teams that are going through the process.  We encourage others to come and learn how the process is done but to also ask questions. This months meeting summary: LoCo Team [...]

Who knew in a short space of time we could go from 24%  -  92% So I’ve been listening to people talk over the last week about this proposal, why they are for it and for others why they don’t support it. I do support it and it’s very simple why. A lot of people use [...]

Barry Smyth has kicked off a project for the Irish Team.  Each week he’s going to pick a profile from the Irish team and mail it around  to get a discussion going on who the person is and how they interact.  The profile is picked from the lauchpad account and many people link from there [...]

Firstly for all those who turned their noses up at Leeds, you’re wrong it’s really pretty and very nice.   Last week I went to Leeds to take part in the National CLC – (City Learning Centre) Conference in Leeds.  I was asked to take part by Robbie who runs a CLC in Leeds to [...]

What: Geeknic?? Its a picnic for geeks and there family and friends. Please feel free to bring your family and friends. This is a family friendly event and kids are more than welcome. Where: Peoples Park, Dun Laoghaire. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.29015&mlon=-6.12834&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF We will meet in the park at the band stand. See map. When: 2.00pm Sunday 18th of July. How to get there: Dun Laoghaire Dart station is [...]

LoCo Council Health Check session will be run on the 1st Tuesday of the month in #ubuntu-locoteams from 17:00-19:00 UTC  It’s open for everyone to come along and ask questions about how to get the most from your team.  If you have suggestions on how to improve the information and also any issues you need [...]

Now that I’m back living in Castleconnell I may or may not make the Ubuntu Hour in Dublin so I’m trying to set up one of them in Limerick.  But in June I made the drive up as I wanted to meet Orla O’Donohue  she was the winner in the Ubuntu Women World Play Day [...]

We asked for your help to chose an event to do something during the summer! So we had a clear winner which was out to Dun Laoghaire and have a bit of  a Geeknic.  Every Sunday in the park the farmers market is on and lots to chose from. It’s easy to get to using [...]

We asked for your help to chose an event to do something during the summer! So we had a clear winner which was out to Dun Laoghaire and have a bit of  a Geeknic.  Every Sunday in the park the farmers market is on and lots to chose from. It’s easy to get to using [...]

If you’ve not heard about the LoCo Directory by now, something is wrong! It’s a great site full of some really useful information for you, your team and also for anyone visiting places they can find out all about your team! All of your team information is stored and displayed here.  You (admins) can edit your [...]

I’d noticed a while back there was a session on the fridge for LoCo teams that was vacant and thought how best I could use it to get more discussions going with teams. We’re trying out the LoCo Health Check sessions on the 1st Tuesday of each month in #ubuntu-locoteams. In this session if you have [...]

Aloha! I’ve been doing more thinking lately ( this lack of working thing is doing my noggin in and leaves me a lot of time to ponder) Some folks hang out in #ubuntu-locoteams on IRC mostly the guys working on the development of the LoCo Directory, there are others there who just idle or pop [...]

It’s easy to get complacent in summer when there’s not much on and the sun is out. Jeffrey/Tdr112 has gone about sorting this out.  We’re going to do something in July and that something is what we want you to decide.  He has created a poll and we’d like you to vote on the activity. The [...]

So I’ve been pondering and mulling  trying to figure out how best to interact with LoCo Teams.  I’m on IRC and run a screen session so even when not there folks leave me a message.  It’s handy but I know not everyone uses IRC. Then we have a mailing list LoCo contacts list which isn’t [...]

I’m not sure how many people actually read or are subscribed to the Ubuntu LoCo Contacts mailing list or if information is being passed down to LoCo teams – which it should be ! From now on I’m going to post the minutes and any outcomes from the meeting to my blog here to read and link back [...]

On the last WEDNESDAY of the month in Dublin, some of the Ubuntu Irish team members meet up for a face to face gather.  Having a bite to eat, drink and chat is a great way to mix and relax and chat about Ubuntu and see what folks are doing. It’s very informal, anyone can turn [...]