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lundi 13 juillet 2009

End of 10th Libre Software Meeting in Nantes, France!

Par Didier Roche le lundi 13 juillet 2009, 10:20

Here we go! After 5 days of presentation on differents projects related to Free Software, the whole ubuntu-fr team is exhausted and happy of the result. This event is especially a great place to meet again and again friends of FOSS ecosystem (contributors, other distribution administrators…).

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We also used for the first time the ubuntu-fr.org flag we got from ubuntu Peru taken at last UDS thanks to nxvl.

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This edition was particularly oriented on migration and change management to FLOSS. Like each year, conferences, round tables, and workshops were proposed to the visitors during those 5 days. Therefore experts, beginners, professionnals or just curious people were able to find the interlocutors who had provided answers to their questions among the various addressed themes. Moreover there was the associative village where anyone could have a walk. Furthermore, people were invited to discover this universe which doesn’t just focus only on the IT domain. Indeed, the 10th RMLL was the opportunity to introduce new themes: "Free Hardware", and "Free Art & Culture".

Thanks again to all ubuntu-fr people present at the event. We gave 3 talks: one on organizing a Free Software event (by olive), one on ubuntu-fr organization (Christophe Sauthier) and the last one on the release process of Ubuntu (myself), following Lucas Nussbaum's speech on collaboration between Free software projects: the example between Debian and Ubuntu. No troll included of course. ;)

RMLL site.

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vendredi 26 juin 2009

In the heart of the French Ubuntu Party

Par Didier Roche le vendredi 26 juin 2009, 15:50

This is the transcript of kinouchou, a recent member of ubuntu party core team organizer, experiencing her first ubuntu party on the organizer side last May, for Jaunty Jackalope.

(Credit to tshirtman for the translation)

I started using Ubuntu 3 years ago, without ever being active in the community. After I went to the Ubuntu Party of November in Paris, I decided to take my share of community work. Even if I was well aware a Ubuntu Party (UP) was not improvised, I had not the slightest idea of all the connections under the hoods about the whole management. Here is a part of what's the Ubuntu party 9.04 of Paris looks like behind the curtain.

For me, It all started near of end of February, start of March, at the time of the launch of the new community site, ubuntu-party.org. Foundations where here, but a lot of things needed their share of care, and all the articles to write! Deadline? now!... Well I'm a bit exaggerating, we had a week, more than enough!

In the meantime, was the first IRL (in "real" life, whatever that mean) meeting for the preparation of the UP. This day, date and place for the event where chosen and booked; we just had to think about what to do, when to do it, and how to manage our place, simple details! :) It's not easy to create a planning, even being in agreement about what we are going to do, and it was not even the case for everything! So we had to juggle with schedules and rooms, which are not extensible. So we thank about lightning talks which were new. And for the communication plan, a flyer was anticipated, but we had to find the design, a printer (not the device) not too expensive, and a distribution plan. The good news was, March is a month full of events : Solution Linux, Intercite, Libre en Fête... As many occasions to make our advertisement. Obviously, as Ubuntu-fr (ubuntu-party is the events division of Ubuntu-fr) was present, we needed to make them up and find people to manage the stands.

April is already coming, 9.04 is nearer and nearer, and the second meeting happens. This time we start by going back on the March event, but the main subject is obviously the UP. Report on the website status, still a lot of articles to write. CDs! Yes do you remember why we are doing an UP? Because there is a new version of Ubuntu coming out. A French localised iso file and sleeve, and to put under press in time. Schedule is tweaked, slight changes are made and volonteers are recruited. Assessments are made about direction marks. This time UP is in the same as the "nuit des musée" (night of museums: all museums are open and free for some hours of the night), so the cité des sciences (which host the UP) proposed us to handle a nightly session. "Are we doing it? What are we going to do?", assessments on the associations that will be present. On the cost side, we have to count goodies (yes! it indeed cost money), communication and preparation costs of events (even if we try to get most of it for free), and small things as Ubuntu-fr servers and all what makes Ubuntu-fr alive. Choice of goodies is very important. This year, we have ubuntu-fr badges and updated mugs (with a very nice koala).

The more the deadly deadline approach the more we see the whole lot of things waiting to be done. Did all the lecturers confirm their presence? Woo! New planning change! New work-group ideas... well, we will save this for next time, no time left!

Jaunty comes out at least, and pressure rise up again. Finish the iso image and the sleeve, finish the paper schedule, open lecture inscriptions. There is a weird feeling of both wanting to be the 16th for being at the event, and wanting to be the 18th for all being ended, and be able to rest, at least. This sums up with the feeling that time pass to quickly and nothing will be ready in time.

End of May, last meeting, we only speak about the pratical organisation of the two days, mainly useful to new volonteers, for they need to know what to say and what to do. I only spoke about IRL meetings, IRC meetings being impossible to count.

The real day is here, everything is ready, or so. The general impression is not of very big crowd, but the public is really here. Some times are cooler than over, but no time to get bored. The two days passes at incredible speed, and all already finished. Times of the first reports, some thought we would have few people (we even polled on the probable outcome), but no! Despite the fact May is the month of exams and long week ends, this new UP gathered about 4000 persons like the November one!

Why this article only now? Well two weeks ago was the debriefing, a good way to know what went wrong and make it better next time. If we had 4000 people in May, although the period not being very favorable, November's one is likely to be out of magnitude, so we will need again many new people for preparations, design, disc image, website(s) and obviously the very day of the UP :).

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lundi 25 mai 2009

UDS day 1 and 4K attendees in Ubuntu Party Paris!

Par Didier Roche le lundi 25 mai 2009, 22:35

I was able to attend to some very great meetings today. Sorry for delaying photos for tomorrow, but procrastination is a continous process ;)

After the plenary session (and some Wi-Fi connection issue… never rely on it when people that attends your conference are geeks and massively connected to it) to introduce the biggest UDS ever, where Jono, Mark and Scott James gave an introduction talk. I followed some desktop tracks where I will give a little help (Rick, I will hopefully send you a merge request later ;)) and Community ones. Last hour was consecrated to Kubuntu.

Don't forget that you can connect and follow what happens during UDS :

PS: apparently, my title "oooppss, we did it again" was not attractive enough for people to look at planet ubuntu and be aware that we had again more the 4 000 people at our party, in Paris. So, that's the time to get it fixed. Done! ;)

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UDS day 0

Par Didier Roche le lundi 25 mai 2009, 01:20

Thanks to Canonical sponsorship program, I'm abled to attend to the Ubuntu Developer Summit handled at Barcelona, Spain!

The hostel is luxurious - especially the view from the room I share with the great "4K man" at the 15th floor, obligatory screenshot photo tomorrow - and the athmosphere is awesome (already met a lot of people I usally speak with in IRC). Of course, I have already hugged Daniel Holbach. ;)

Consequently, tomorrow, discussions on Ubuntu will begin. I will try to post on planet ubuntu in a daily basis in my main interests that are desktop/server/community topics.

For French people, there is some quite similar (but not exactly same) post entry here.

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mercredi 20 mai 2009

Ubuntu Party Paris: Oooopss, we did it again!

Par Didier Roche le mercredi 20 mai 2009, 12:30

We have had, as every 6 months, another Ubuntu-party in Paris organized by ubuntu-fr. It has been a success: more than 4000 attendees - exactly 4019, as counted by Cite des sciences et de l'industrie, our host - in two days!


Those two days were handled under the sign of conviviality: friendliness, sharing of knowledge... In a nutshell: Ubuntu :)

More than 15 conferences were broadcasted directly over the Internet, covering large topics (technically targeted or not), like for instance "computer science and freedom", the GNOME project, virtualization, the Mozilla fundation, the Debian project, the open formats, without forgetting the crowded conference of the quadrature du net related to the French HADOPI "3 strikes" law.

Regarding what we added to this event comparing to previous ones, we had a nightly part from 7PM to 11PM: more advanced topics on green IT and Free software, how to customize ubuntu, a LAN party made with FLOSS games...

As usual, a lot of classrooms have been done during the whole event, dealing with basics needs "how to use Ubuntu - beginners' guide", "go deeper into Ubuntu" and more difficult ones like "initiation to command line", "how to triage bugs" and then even a bug jam! That way, we can have a wide variety of profiles attending. Lprod was also present and made an awesome work showing without any interruption video and audio capabilities of our lovely GNU/Linux distribution.

As dozens and dozens of computers, our now famous mugs in recycled plastic have been updated too. You can now see in this new edition a beautiful koala, referencing Ubuntu 9.10 mascot, the "karmic koala". It was also the occasion to discover the 6th update of the Free Book (CC:BY-SA licence) "Simple Comme Ubuntu" (Let's translate it to "Easy like Ubuntu"). We were almost running out of time to release it for the party. A big hug to Mathieu (my editor In Libro Veritas) in having succeeded in this performance so quickly.

Oxyradio , a French webradio promoting Free culture has broadcasted during the entire event and interviewed most of speakers. A lot of photos, conferences and oxradio podcasts are available in the mutimedia section.

Thanks to every non profit organization present in the little "Free culture Village" (parinux, framasoft, l'april, mozilla) and every participant, making this event a real success, again!

The lotery has been appreciated as well, closing the event: goodies, Tee-shirts, books, a fonera, a linutop... and some Ubuntu Cola, imported from the UK :)

Over 4000 attendees, challenging last november record: it's just awesome! We - the core organisation team - were the first surprised as we were pretty pessimistic about how many attendees we can have this time because May is traditionnaly more difficult to attract people to such events. Indeed, this month has a lot of free/off vacations days, exams and even the weather itself didn't help to have people indoor. We were wrong and that's a good news. :)

So once again: thanks to everybody involved in it! We need a lot of people on D-Day in the differents booths and thanks to them, we can deal with such a wide public. Never forget: "I am what I am because of who we all are".

The next Ubuntu Party in Paris is scheduled the 28th and 29th November. Will you be there? We will!


 

All pictures are licenced under CC:BY: quesh, mauriz, ricomorotrad

Disclaimer: my apologies for the headline. Seems that I was having some troubles listening to the radio when hacking during my childhood :)

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mardi 28 avril 2009

Jaunty release party in Paris

Par Didier Roche le mardi 28 avril 2009, 19:46

Last Friday, ubuntu-fr had our release party in Paris, gathering a whole bunch of Ubuntu Party organizers. There were some added Mozilla contributors and April members.

Jaunty photo 1

It was great to share with more than 30 people this dinner, composed of flammekueche. Jokes and discussions/trolls on the new release were part of the party, of course! :)

There were a birthday feist next to our group and can you guess what they got as an unexpected present? Exactly! An jaunty CD and an Ubuntu Party flyer with no extra charge. ;)

Jaunty photo 2

jaunty flyer Next round? The Ubuntu Party in Paris, dedicated to a larger audience, with conferences, installations, training sessions, multimedia demonstrations, animation, events… and lots more!

We had 3000 flyers for free[1] and distributed them during Solution Linux. Hope to see a lot of people there!



Credit for photos to XioNoX and olive (:p). juli for the flyer.

Notes

[1] So, they are free as in beer… and the design is free as in speech

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mercredi 15 avril 2009

Packaging training session: how to update a package

Par Didier Roche le mercredi 15 avril 2009, 16:45

As already posted on planet ubuntu, do not forget to attend this lesson if you want to learn an usual way to update a package, how to avoid typical traps, plus some additional hints and hidden bonus points :-)

If you want to follow the session and practice a little, it's better that you get some downloaded packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts ubuntu-dev-tools debhelper diff patch quilt fakeroot lintian libtool gnome-common gnome-doc-utils gtk-doc-tools

You should also have "deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted" in your /etc/apt/sources.list (and then sudo apt-get update).

Ready? The session is scheduled for: 16th April, 18:00 UTC, and it will take place in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net.

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lundi 9 mars 2009

Last week-end's stroll

Par Didier Roche le lundi 9 mars 2009, 13:00

Hum, I think we have to patch this car :)

Koala on car

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mardi 24 février 2009

A good experience from bug jam in Paris

Par Didier Roche le mardi 24 février 2009, 12:00

Logo Bug Jam avec titre The bug jam in Paris has taken place on a cloudy Sunday, where ubuntu-fr organizes twice a year, the French parisian Ubuntu parties. More than 20 people have been able to learn what LP is and how to deal with bugs. Most of them had never triaged bugs before, so, that's a good point such a wide public can learn an easy way to contribute to Ubuntu and in FLOSS in general.

During the morning, there was approximately one hour of lesson to learn what the ubuntu release is, seing relationship between Debian and Ubuntu (and emphasize why we should report bugs[1] to Debian and upstream), register Launchpad accounts and presents its main bug-related features (no time to see others ;)), new 5 a day process… bug jam 22/02/09 img1

After a quick lunch, time to practice and catch some bugs, mainly focusing on adressing right package to bugs with no package, reporting bugs to upstream and link them to the bugtracker, using the Jorge's upstreamreport page… bug jam 22/02/09 img2

Thanks to everyone who attented there, the atmosphere was very good and I hope everyone get some joy in it, even if some only touched one bug in the afternoon :)

Now that more than 1500 were triaged by a whole bunch of teams during the event, ahem… it's time to fix them :)

PS: mr_pouit, you can't say you weren't there now :-) Photo credits to davromaniak, thanks again!

Notes

[1] and patches, but that was not the point during this event

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lundi 9 février 2009

What to do after Fosdem? Bug jam!

Par Didier Roche le lundi 9 février 2009, 09:00

FOSDEM was really a success with great talks, and people! I particularly appreciated the Debian conference on TDeb[1], upstart one by Keybuk and GNOME people framework talks.

On saturday night, we made an "Ubuntu dinner" with the Ubuntu tribe present at the event: Italian loco-team, Romanian and Belgian one, and of course, French one! :) After almost one hour of walk to find a restaurant that can accept 20 people, we were allowed to enjoy typical "Libanian Belgian" food. I am sure that Christophe[2] will post there some photos of strange pink food there. ;) It was a great occasion to meet and exchange on Loco team management methods we have.

Finally, meeting people you know and talk with by IRC[3] was fun. I had the chance to meet the friendly James Westby, the shy Jonathan Riddell, the upstart master Scott James Remnant, the kindly guy Raphael Pinson and just quickly see Loïc Minier, in addition to the unstoppable Vincent Untz, the new GNOME release manager Frederic Peters, the trolling lover (;)) Anthony Mercatante… but those guys are already known faces for me :)

Ok, Fosdem is now over and I'm back home. What's next? Ubuntu-fr will be present for the next global ubuntu bugs jam in 2 towns in France :

The announce is not officially done yet (it will be done in French in a couple of hours), but we will make people discover what bug triaging is, all this in a good atmosphere and harmony. Catch those bugs, join the tribe!

So, busy days for ubuntu-fr community are coming, be ready!

Notes

[1] Will Ubuntu take this for handling translation through tdeb packages, when it will be ready?

[2] he promessed anyway

[3] or not, but just know them ;)

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mercredi 7 janvier 2009

Recycling computer handled by LoCo-team

Par Didier Roche le mercredi 7 janvier 2009, 13:05

Reacting to jono's post about using Linux to recycle computers:

This is a great idea, of course, and really valuable project. Nevertheless, I think you largely understimate the load of work to complete to achieve such a thing. Personnally speaking, I have been involved during a full year on a non-governemental organization which, every year with a new team[1], collect computers from industry, upgrade/repair/trash them (we received a lot of garbains, which can't work with current standard desktop) and then ship them in schools from Africa.

With this non-governemental organization, Africedu, my team set up 60 computers with Ubuntu 5.10 (project 2005-2006: Lome, capital city of Togo), shipping in a school 60 computers set up with Ubuntu 5.10. At the end of the year, we made some training there during a month. Since my decision to take Ubuntu and ship it there, the organization continue to use this GNU/Linux distribution.

Despite communication and pratical issues in shipping and going to another continent, which is an additional problem that those kinds of organization targets have, taking old computers from industries, triaging them, doing some set up and creating a good network is very time consuming. I really think that is not something that LoCo team can handle, as most of them have relative limited human ressources[2] (yes, even French one ;)).

I believe the best thing to do is that LoCo teams provide some support to those kind of organizations, but shouldn't add to themselves this extra load. Some coordination is possible though, and I think that helping those organization is one of its duties (in promoting them, adressing some technical issues, requesting for company's help to have some computers and annoncing important events).

Being an active member of the French LoCo, I am really eager to help my "old" non-governemental organization, even if this one is not on the same town (Lyon), I usually redirect them company requests when they get in touch with us to tell that they have old computers to provide, but I believe than more efforts, in both sides, are possible.

So, I would just rename Jono's great post in "LoCo team: help in using recycle computer" and let's concentrate on what LoCo team do the best: promoting ubuntu and let people using this GNU/Linux distribution get in touch to shape this rocking community!

Notes

[1] because the organization is linked with the engineering school where I studied

[2] I really don't like to say that people are "ressources", but can't find any other good term

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mardi 9 décembre 2008

Ubuntu Party Paris: over 4000 visitors!

Par Didier Roche le mardi 9 décembre 2008, 10:37

Intrepid Party

As every 6 months, the Ubuntu Party has taken place in Paris, in addition to the 12 Ubuntu install parties in France.

This event, organized by ubuntu-party and the French loco team, ubuntu-fr, took place in the "Cité des sciences et de l'industrie" in Paris, during the week-end of 29 and 30 November 2008.

We received there 4000 visitors, awesome statistics given and certified by the "Cité des sciences" overtaken last year's record, when we reached almost 3000 visitors!

Entree CSI retouchee[1]

But an Ubuntu Party is not only a party where geeks come, eat food, drink beer and share great time[2]. An Ubuntu Party is made of a whole bunch of activities, for people of all levels... and of course, we share great time too :)

In a nutshell, we had:

  • 14 hours of conferences on various subjects. Some aiming our lovely distribution like "what is ubuntu?", "how to contribute to ubuntu?" and "what is the French community ubuntu-fr?". Others on more global problematics like accessibility, dealing computer science and freedom, art and free culture, open formats...

All those videos have been directly diffused over the Internet and will be soon available online.

  • 8 hours of initiation training: beginners (learn how to use ubuntu in a daily basis) and more advanced session (introduction to command line usage). Approximatly 200 attendees have been able to pratice on those two subjects.

  • Hundreds of machines where ubuntu was installed by lots of voluntary worker. More complicated cases have been handled by the parisian LUG: Parinux.

  • April non governemental organization and Mozilla European fundation were also invited and a dedicated room has been provided to them. They organized some conferences and activities which attracted and passionated its audience.

  • 10 demonstration PC, with some team members around to help guests to go through and discover ubuntu's interface.
  • We also runned a bug jam in one day where 10 persons have been able to learn how to triage bugs. Some programming and packaging courses have been also provided to people who wanted to get involved in FOSS development and contribution.

  • More than 20 hours of radio emissions thanks to oxyradio, a French webradio broadcasting only free music. They had interviewed people handling the conferences in a one hour debate, enabling those who could not go to Paris this week-end to interact with the party.

  • As the traditionnal loco-pack is not sufficient (futhermore, ubuntu-fr didn't received it this time, seems that the request has been lost..) Thankfully, ubuntu-fr has provided 3000 CDs and sold as the association has not other founds. Those are localized: that is to say the live CD embedded directly all softwares in French (OOo, Firefox...) which is not the case by default.

Ubuntu-fr sold also tee-shirts and new awesome mugs!

Press

Thanks to our press contacts, we had a full page dealing with Ubuntu in a French national newspaper called "Libération" (140 000 papers a day).

After the party, the national French press agency has published a news about the party and this has been widely diffused in all kinds of news feed.

To conclude

More photos available here, where those (except the first) have been extracted. They are all in CC:by licence. Thanks to Kagou, Mauriz, Rock_n_pol, Darksiegfried and Luc Byhet!

Great events, uncredible voluntaries, large audience of people just discovering ubuntu and free software! Some weeks to get off being tired and the road is opened for organizing the jaunty ubuntu party! Hope to see you, with more and more people on the next turn, in May 2009! Makes Tux fly!

Notes

[1] Ok, I must admit, this photo is a fake :)

[2] We organize some release parties for that!

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