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Wow, we even out did our previous release party! Thanks to all those who came along! For those would missed out, we went to Jimmy Chung's a Chinese Buffet Restaurant in Dublin along the Quays. I arrived early (it's a pattern that is emerging), we had no idea how many were coming but I figured we'd get at least 8 rang Maciej and he said at least 3 from TOG were coming along, so the nice water guy added 2 more chairs. More and more arrived and it was great to see loads of new faces, some who didn't know any of us and yes, the usual regulars popped in.

In the end, we were 13 very stuffed and happy ubunteros and we had planned to to go to Messrrs for afternoon drinks. What started at 13 soon became 18 and that became over 20+ more and more kept dropping in. Folks turned up and started to burn CD's of differnt flavours of Ubuntu. Others got out their laptops and showed off what theirs could do. Was great to see such interaction between the new folks who arrived and had heard about our meet ups.

Later on (we were there a while) we had a pub quiz, I'll post the questions & answers here really got folks thinking, a great idea by Maciej who then gave some t-shirts he got as prizes! It was a great day and loads of interaction and so many people now looking forward to our next meet up and event. So we shall have to do something else before Karmic :)

Thanks to all those who came along, and brought CD's and signed up to the news letter, don't forget you can always find us on ubuntu-ie on irc.freenode.net or drop us a line on the mailing list.

I took some photos and in case folks want them you can get them here

The welcoming of Intrepid Ibex by the Irish Ubuntu Community in Dublin was another success.

Read Laura's summary of the event and have a look at some pictures on our wiki.

Hope you all had a great time.

Well the new version of Ubuntu, 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is out and the release party was last night in the Longstone Pub. It was a great night, with lots of new faces and old friends. A good turn out and lots of fun had.

A huge THANK YOU goes out to all the people who helped out with the preparations of the event and made the whole thing happen.

On behalf of the Irish Ubuntu Community, the organizer of the Software Freedom Day in Dublin, I would like to thank Elevate Learning for their support and for sponsoring the auditorium, all the speakers and participants: Camara, ILUG, IFSO, Computer Education Society of Ireland, OpenStreetMap, Ruby Ireland.

The Software Freedom Day 2008 in Dublin was the first event organized by ubuntu-ie and we would be grateful for your feedback and any suggestions for improvements for future events. To do so, please leave a comment.

Thank you for your interest in the Software Freedom Day 2008 in Dublin.

The event will start at 11am on Saturday, September 20th. The location is The Digital Exchange, Crane St., Digital Hub, Dublin 8.

Please use the comments below to register your attendance and also if you have any suggestions or thoughts.

If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail Maciej (byMeanMachine [at] googlemail [dot] com) or Laura (laura [at] lczajkowski [dot] com) .

What can you expect?

Talks [approx. 30min. each]

11:00am Doors open - time to explore the venue
11:30am Paul O'Malley - What You Should Know About Software Freedom - from GNU to Ubuntu!
12:00pm Camara - "Who are we and what do we do?
12:30pm Glenn Strong (IFSO) - "DRM and Software Freedom"

1:00pm LUNCH

2:00pm Gareth Eason - "Free & Open Source Software: Why you want it!"
2:30pm Ciaran O'Riordan (IFSO) - "The Free Software Movement in 2008"
3:00pm Break
3:30pm John Looney - "Open Source Engineering in Google"
4:00pm Dermot McNally "The OpenStreetMap Project"
4:30pm Maciej Danielski - "Ubuntu Ireland"

6:30pm Refreshments at the Longstone Pub

Activities [Running all Day Long]

Info Stalls – PHP / Open Ireland / Open Street Map / IFSO / Digital Hub / Camara /ILUG
Ubuntu Demo machines running
Games for Kids
Ubuntu Installs
Tours of Camara

Elevate Learning - taking part as a supporter and sponsor of SFD 2008 in Dublin