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lundi 30 novembre 2009

Ubuntu Party Paris: 5 000 visitors \o/

It's another milestone that the ubuntu-fr French team has achieved this week-end. We had in Paris 5 000 attendees[1] at the Karmic Koala ubuntu party!

After the ubuntu release party (just a few people, mainly ubuntu-fr directly related, joining to have a great time on a dinner) we finished to prepare the Ubuntu Party as our last sprint on Karmic. Only few core organizers[2] but more than 100 of volunteers all over the week-end were present to give an hand on helping people, being at the different booths and others miscellaneous tasks!

mark.jpg This party was particular in the sense that Mark Shuttleworth visited us on Saturday, following the Party the whole day. Mark's kindness was greatly appreciated inside the community and a lot of people have been able to discuss with him. He also had, of course, some interviews at the radio and by press... The first day was concluded by his plenary session where a lot of questions has been answered too. We hope to be able to broadcast the videos very soon.

plenary9.10.jpg

The public seems to have enjoyed this event and that was our goal! You can see below before the plenary when Tristan Nitot asked to "raise both hands if you use Ubuntu!"

use_ubuntu9.10.jpg

We also had a roundtable on Internet neutrality which had attracted a bunch of people. Internet neutrality is unquestionably one of next hot subject that FLOSS has to dealt with great care.

hadopi_table_ronde9.10.jpg

As usual, our party tries to cover a lot of different activities for a wide range of public: obviously, people are able to install Ubuntu with a volunteer, but we also had a bug jam, workshops (drupal and "how to make a conference"), multiple multimedia demonstrations (gimp, video, music, compiz, cairo-dock), video games...

Some non profit organizations related to FLOSS also had a booth to show the whole "Libre" ecosystem to the visitors and present the philosophy behind Ubuntu, and more generally, the free software movement. Namely, April, Framasoft, FDN and La Quadrature du Net joined the pary!

couloir9.10.jpg

As at each Party, we also had our ubuntu-fr booth with a lot of goodies : our French localized ubuntu CD, stickers, Tee-Shirts, Framakey Ubuntu-fr remix (USB key), our updated mug, Simple Comme Ubuntu (ubuntu book)... I'll specifically talk about them in the following days.

boutique9.10.jpg

Conferences was also a great place to get and covered interesting topics as on other GNU/Linux distributions (debian, mandriva, fedora...), how to contribute, design experience at Canonical, free software in France... In a nutshell, more than 20 conferences over the two days.

We also gave different lessons on discovering ubuntu, GNU/Linux shell learning level 1 and 2, customizing your desktop... formations9.10.jpg

Of course, Oxyradio covered the whole event and made possible the link with people who can't attend it.

oxyradio9.10.jpg

5000 attendees is just awesome for a voluntary only non profit organization. Thanks to everyone who made this possible in a 4 months preparation. It's time to get some rest until we have to start again for another round!

groupe9.10.jpg

Photos licenses:

* Tristan Nitot / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
* Nicolas Barcet / CC BY 2.0
* Raps / CC BY-SA 2.0

Notes

[1] using the La cite des sciences et de l'industrie count system

[2] thanks again to olive for all his work

dimanche 8 novembre 2009

Ubuntu-fr French release party

On 30th October, it was time to celebrate the new Koala invasion!

Contrary to our Ubuntu Party (next one will be in Paris on 28 and 29th November) opened to any kind of public and especially computer science non specialist, we also have at each release a dinner in Paris with few people more or less in the FLOSS ecosystem. 51 persons came this time and enjoying sharing good time with friends.

It was also the perfect time to have some little meetings to prepare all futur (and past) ubuntu-fr events and actions (I'll speak about them in my next post, coming soon!). Karmic photo 1

jeudi 8 octobre 2009

NotifyThis 0.1: notify everything easily!

In our French ubuntu party organized by ubuntu-fr, we have approximately 20 free and ready to use computers for people to be able to try ubuntu on their own (we have someone around to help new users).

But that's a lot of wasted space for advertising our conferences, scheduled demonstrations, lessons we have during the party! So, the idea was to create a daemon notifying this, resulting in: example.png

notifythis192.png NotifyThis is here to fulfill this need. It's a desktop daemon (no pid file) using dbus for single instance and actions like pausing, stopping, forcing configuration file reload[1]

Source file is in XML (default in /etc/notifythis-data.xml):

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <notifythis xmlns='http://launchpad.net/notifythis' xml:lang='fr'>
   <notiftypes>
       <type>
           <name>lesson</name>
           <priority>low</priority>
           <icon>/usr/share/icons/Humanity/apps/22/gnome-terminal.svg</icon>
       </type>
       <type>
           <name>conference</name>
           <priority>low</priority>
           <icon>/usr/share/icons/Humanity/stock/22/stock_people.svg</icon>
       </type>
       <type>
           <name>demos</name>
           <priority>low</priority>
           <icon>/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/22/user-desktop.svg</icon>
       </type>
       <type>
           <name>miscellaneous</name>
           <priority>low</priority>
           <icon>http://awesomeurl/dialog-warning.svg</icon>
       </type>
   </notiftypes>
   <notifevents>
       <event>
           <title>Beginners lesson</title>
           <content>Lesson for beginners in 10 min</content>
           <type>lesson</type>
           <time>2009-09-27 12:33</time>
       </event>
       <event>
           <title>Advanced lesson</title>
           <content>Advanced lesson starting in 15 min</content>
           <type>lesson</type>
           <icon>http://unexistingurl/stock_dialog-warning.svg</icon>
           <time>2009-09-26 22:01</time>
       </event>    
       <event>
           <title>Awesome conference</title>
           <content>An awesome conference on Ubuntu will start in 5 min.\nKeep it hot!</content>
           <type>conference</type>
           <time>2009-09-27 23:54</time>
       </event>
       <event>
           <title>End of the event</title>
           <content>Well… I guess you will have to leave NOW!</content>
           <type>miscellaneous</type>
           <icon>/usr/share/icons/Humanity/status/22/stock_dialog-warning.svg</icon>
           <time>2009-09-27 23:55</time>
       </event>
   </notifevents>
 </notifythis>

What can I do in this notifythis namespace?



You associate an event instance (in notifevents/event ) to a notifytypes/type/name declared in the file. Types enables you to set some default priorities and icons to events. <Icon> refers to a path to an icon, which can be local to your computer or distant served by your preferred web server (http://…). In the latter case, NT will cache it for you locally. Consequently, using multiple times the same icon in different types or events will download it only once.

Title is used as… notification title and content as… content :) <time> is used to specify when the event will be notified. Categorizing your event is just a way to avoid multiple icon/priority definitions, but those two values can be overridden for a particular event simply specifying corresponding tag (<icon> for instance). If it can't be found, event type icon will be shown. If this one doesn't exist/can't be reachable either, a warning is spawn in log file and no icon will be displayed.

So, you can for your event, but it can be bound with any kind of other things like calendar, TODO items, and so on…

But well, as unscheduled event changes may happen[2], you surely want to upload your xml file online and reload it in all NotifyThis daemon dynamically. It's possible too (and what we will do during our party).

In /etc/notifythis, you can set where the xml file is:

 # time in minutes beteen two xml file reloading, default is 30 minutes
 DELTA_BETWEEN_XML_RELOAD=30
 
 # xml files (separated by ';') by order of preferences.
 # It can an absolute or a relative path to this file.
 # It can be a network path (http://) too
 XML_FILES=notifythis-data.xml

You can even specify multiple XML_FILES and first found one will be use (like in XML_FILES=http://my/central/xml/file.xml; /usr/local/mybackupfile1.xml;notifythis-data.xml). XML file will be reloaded every $DELTA_BETWEEN_XML_RELOAD min (30 min if not specified) in each daemon. If no xml file is found, previous working configuration is preserved and a retry is done every minutes then.

By default, NotifyThis is a desktop daemon[3] launched with a classical .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart/. Log are in ~/.local/share/notifythis/notifythis.log

Well, NT uses Quickly to simplify project handling. I guess we should investigate in a desktop-daemon template, making properly the double forking, using dbus instead of a pid file and dbus communication to reload configuration file, stop, pause… this can be handy! We can perhaps add a way for a template to reference another template to avoid redefining same commands twice and gives an easy way to call them (without having specifying --template ubuntu-project, for instance).

Well, if you want to give it a try, NotifyThis 0.1 is out and is available in my ppa.

Notes

[1] --help is your friend

[2] and will certainly happen actually

[3] you can launch it interactively as well, with --no-daemon and set different verbosity levels

vendredi 26 juin 2009

In the heart of the French Ubuntu Party

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 :).

lundi 25 mai 2009

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

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! ;)

mercredi 20 mai 2009

Ubuntu Party Paris: Oooopss, we did it again!

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 :)

lundi 18 mai 2009

MERCI !

Que dire de plus ? Merci à tous ceux qui ont fait de cette Ubuntu Party un succès, totalisant plus de 4000 visiteurs en deux jours !


Ces deux journées ont été placées sous les signes de la convivialité : entraide, échanges et partages humains. Bref, Ubuntu n'a jamais aussi bien rencontré sa traduction, « humanité ».

Une des salles d'installation

Les conférences diffusées en directes par l'Internet, ont abordé de vastes sujets techniques et moins techniques, comme par exemple informatiques et libertés, le projet GNOME, la virtualisation, la fondation Mozilla, le projet Debian, les formats ouverts, sans oublier l'éveil citoyen de la conférence de la quadrature du net concernant la loi HADOPI.

La conférence de Jérémie Zimmerman de la quadrature du net 9.04

La nocturne, qui s'inscrivait dans le cadre de la nuit des musées fut particulièrement appréciée, tout comme le niveau des cours, activités et conférences données. Accessibles aussi bien au néophytes (prise en main d'Ubuntu, aller plus loin) qu'aux initiés (cours sur la ligne de commande, bug jam, personnalisation d'Ubuntu), nous avons pu rencontrer un large publique. Lprod a également fait un travail remarquable dans la démonstration des possibilités vidéos et audios de notre chère distribution.

Cours d'initiation

Lprod démontrant les possibilités vidéo sous GNU/Linux

Tout comme l'ordinateur de nombreuses personnes, les mugs en plastiques recyclés ont été mis à jour pour cette édition et arborent maintenant un petit koala qui sera la mascotte la future version d'Ubuntu, la 9.10, « karmic koala ». C'était également l'occasion de découvrir la mise à jour du livre libre « Simple Comme Ubuntu » où la course fut rude pour sortir le livre à temps. Un grand merci à Mathieu pour la réactivité de l'éditeur In Libro Veritas.

Mug mis à jour 9.04

Simple Comme Ubuntu, version jaunty jackalope (9.04)

Oxyradio a également pu couvrir l'intégralité de l'évènement dans un sprint éhonté. Bravo à vous \o/

Oxyradio, suivez la party en directe !

Les résultats de la tombola de dimanche sont accessibles sur le site de l'Ubuntu Party tout comme plus de photos dans la section multimédia. À suivre dans la semaine : les enregistrements vidéos/audios des conférences, et très bientôt des podcasts d’oxyradio !

Plus de 4000 visiteurs, égalant le record de novembre dernier : ce n'était pas gagné d'avance et peu de personnes dans l'équipe organisatrice pensait arriver à nouveau à ce résultat. Et ceci, particulièrement en mai, époque plus propice aux congés et examens. Mais les chiffres donnés par la cité des sciences et de l'industrie sont là et nous a donné tort.

C'est donc l'occasion rêvée de vous dire un grand merci : installeurs, personnes présentes à l'accueil, aux boutiques, les conférenciers, les associations présentes (parinux, framasoft, l'april, mozilla), oxyradio… Nous vous devons tous ce résultat ! Sans vous, ubuntu-fr ne serait pas une association avec laquelle nous avons envie d'y mettre tant d'énergie. J'y inclue bien entendu les équipes de modération (forum, IRC) et tous ceux qui travaillent sur le site, car c'est aussi grâce à vous que tout cela arrive. Merci également à tous ceux qui nous envoient régulièrement des dons. Nous n'avons que peu de temps pour vous répondre, nous le faisons maintenant : MERCI !

N'oublions jamais : « je suis ce que je suis grâce à ce que nous sommes tous ». Rendez-vous à la prochaine Ubuntu Party parisienne les 28 et 29 novembre.

En attendant, n'oubliez pas les autres Ubuntu party en France référencées sur la page d'accueil d'ubuntu-fr et sur Ubuntu-party.

Les photos sont toutes en CC:BY : quesh, mauriz, ricomorotrad

jeudi 14 mai 2009

Ubuntu Party parisienne les 16 et 17 mai 2009

À l’occasion de la sortie de la nouvelle version d’Ubuntu la 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), la communauté Ubuntu-fr organise lors du week-end du 16 et 17 mai 2009, une ubuntu-party au Carrefour Numérique, Cité des sciences et de l’industrie.

Ce sera lieu de conférences, cours d’initiation, ateliers, débats et une tombola marqueront les temps forts de ce week-end. Nos partenaires de cette fête seront l’April, InLibro Veritas, Mozilla, Oxyradio et Parinux.

Les horaires ? De 11h à 18h les deux jours.

Une nocturne de 19h à 23h le samedi.

Cette Ubuntu Party sera bien sûr l’occasion de vous faire installer, mettre à jour ou personnaliser votre Ubuntu. Pour ceux qui veulent contribuer à Ubuntu, une Bug Jam sera organisée. Pour préparer votre installation d’un système libre et efficace, nous vous proposons d’aller prendre quelques conseils sur le forum Ubuntu-fr.

Pour plus d’informations, consultez le programme détaillé et le plan d’accès.

mardi 28 avril 2009

Jaunty release party in Paris

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

mardi 9 décembre 2008

Ubuntu Party Paris: over 4000 visitors!

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!

vendredi 28 novembre 2008

Ubuntu Party Paris : c'est ce week-end !

J'inaugure donc ce blog (hé oui, écrire sur le blog de suivi d'ubuntu-fr m'a donné le virus) avec un billet pour vous rappeler l'imminence de l'Ubuntu Party dans sa version parisienne.

Nous serons à nouveau au carrefour numérique de la cité des sciences et de l'industrie de la Villette.

Voici donc ce qui vous attend et pour vous donner l'envie de venir à cette party : que vous soyez non initié (et souhaitez seulement découvrir ubuntu), novice (pour vous informez et perfectionnez), ou encore confirmé (on a toujours quelque chose à apprendre). Chacun y trouvera des activités à son niveau, le tout dans une ambiance de festive !

Encore plus grand !

Dès l'entrée, vous devriez apercevoir un petite guérite d'accueil, pour guider les visiteurs vers le carrefour numérique. Sachez de toute manière que ce dernier est au niveau inférieur de la cité des sciences, si vous n'êtes jamais venu dans cet espace.

Nous avons réussi à obtenir encore plus d'espace afin d'organiser un grand nombre d'activités.

Une Ubuntu Party tout public

… même pour ceux qui ne peuvent pas se déplacer

Commençons pas ces personnes : hé oui, on a même pensé à vous !

Par l'intermédiaire d'OxyRadio, jeune webradio associative à but non lucratif, toute son équipe se déplace à la Villette pour animer pendant deux jours de 11h à 18h non stop ! Une équipe composée d'une dizaine d'animateurs procédera à l'interview des conférenciers et donnera aux auditeurs n'ayant pas pu se déplacer la possibilité de découvrir les sujets et de poser des questions grâce au chat, téléphone ou mail.

Pour tous

Des conférences non stop!

Qu'est-ce qu'Ubuntu ? À quoi correspond un logiciel libre ? Que cela m'apporte t-il ? Quels sont les enjeux du « Libre » ? ... Ubuntu et les logiciels libres sont une source infinie de questionnements, d'inspirations, de solutions. Nous vous proposons une sélection de sujets abordables, couvrant les grandes lignes de l'utilisation quotidienne d'un ordinateur "libéré", notamment la bureautique et les jeux vidéos, en passant par GNU/Linux, les enjeux de l'ouverture des formats de données et des outils les exploitant, les communautés d'utilisateurs, etc.

Ce sera d'ailleurs l'occasion pour moi d'en animer une pour présenter la communauté et l'association ubuntu-fr. Retrouvez le programme exhaustif sur cette page.

Notez également que toutes les conférences seront filmées et diffusées en direct sur ubuntu-party.org, puis retransmises en VOD.

Une salle d'atelier Mozilla

Cette année, nous accueillons Mozilla en invité spécial !

Au sein de l'Ubuntu-party, dans une salle indépendante, Mozilla Europe organise un évènement fait d'ateliers, de conférences et de démonstrations. L'évènement souhaite cibler un maximum de personnes c'est pourquoi le sujet des différentes animations concernera les développeurs, les utilisateurs (avancés ou pas), les contributeurs et les curieux.

Consultez le programme des animations Mozilla !

Débats et tables rondes April

Pionnière du logiciel libre en France, l'April est depuis 1996 un acteur majeur de la diffusion du logiciel libre.

L'April a reçu le prix spécial du jury des Lutèce d'Or ; ce prix récompense les récentes actions menées par l'April (Candidats.fr, Assises du Numérique...), mais sa place d'interlocuteur de référence en France.

En pleine campagne d'adhésion, l'April organisera tout au long du week end des débats et tables rondes sur les logiciels libres et les actions de l'association.

Mieux qu'une tombola ? DEUX tombola !

Nous avons de très beaux cadeaux à vous proposer et avons même pu organiser un tirage par jour : gagnez un ordinateur portable, des livres, des tee-shirts, des posters, et plein de goodies ! Les billets de tombola sont en vente à l'accueil de l'Ubuntu Party et le tirage se fera sur place.

Pour en savoir plus sur les lots et les modalités, faites un tour par ici

Activités dédiées aux personnes simplement curieuses ou novices

Espace démonstration

Découverte de l'univers Ubuntu, prise en main des outils de bureautique, effets 3D, synchronisation de périphériques. Venez vous informer et tester par vous même sur des ordinateurs récents ou plus anciens l'ergonomie d'Ubuntu.

Entrez dans l'univers des logiciels libres et faites partager cette expérience à vos proches !

Deux espaces d'installations

Vous pouvez venir avec votre portable ou votre tour (pas besoin de clavier/souris) d'ordinateur si vous souhaitez que des personnes expérimentées vous installent Ubuntu.

En compagnie d'utilisateurs expérimentés, Parinux dans cet espace capable de recevoir plusieurs dizaines de postes informatiques simultanément, vous pourrez apprendre à personnaliser votre Ubuntu, passer à sa mise à jour ou tout simplement installer Ubuntu pour la première fois.

L'association Parinux sera à la Ubuntu Party pour aider les visiteurs à installer Ubuntu, apprendre aux gens à découvrir leur nouvel environnement et les dépanner en cas de pépins.

Il vous est donc possible d'à apporter votre ordinateur afin de repartir avec Ubuntu installé et prêt à l'emploi...

Des cours d'initiation

Passer d'un autre système d'exploitation à Ubuntu peut déstabiliser. Lors de ce cours, découvrez l'interface classique d'Ubuntu, comment créer un compte, installer et désinstaller des logiciels, se connecter à l'Internet. Découvrez aussi quels sont les logiciels libres équivalents aux logiciels privatifs. Ces cours sont destinés aux débutants. Horaires sur http://ubuntu-party.org/cours/.

Sans oublier…

Les salles d'ateliers sont également des lieux idéaux pour échanger des idées, discuter de l'évolution d'Ubuntu et des logiciels libres, et découvrir des projets dérivés d'Ubuntu.

Pour les personnes plus confirmées et désirant aller plus loin

Cours d'initiation à la ligne de commande

La ligne de commande, un univers riche et complexe à la fois.

Ce cours vous permettra de connaître les bases de l'environnement qui est quasi-invisible mais qui est primordial au bon fonctionnement de votre système. Horaires sur http://ubuntu-party.org/cours/.

Une Ubuntu Bug Jam au sein de l'ubuntu party

Une Ubuntu Bug Jam est organisée samedi 29 novembre de 13h00 à 18h00. Plusieurs personnes se réunissent autour de contributeurs expérimentés, pour tous ensemble, chasser/trier des bugs. Vous voulez contribuer à Ubuntu ? Pas besoin d'être développeur ! Venez participer et apprendre le triage de bug dans une athmosphère conviviale. Important : Amener son portable permettra d'être également acteur.

Cet élément de la party sera un fil rouge, vous pouvez venir à n'importe quel moment de la journée de samedi dans le cadre des horaires précédemment indiqués. Un compteur reprenant le nombre de bugs triés sera diffusé sur les écrans de la Villette. Vous avez envie de vous lancer et de trouver un moyen simple de contribuer à Ubuntu ? Nous sommes là pour ça, n'hésitez pas !

Des cours de programmation sous GNU/Linux

Dimanche 30 novembre de 12h00 à 14h00 se tiendra un cours sur la programmation sous GNU/Linux. Comme précédemment, amener un portable vous permettra de participer activement à cet atelier

Qu'est-ce que l'on fait à Noël ? Des paquets !!!

Vous connaissez un superbe logiciel, mais vous demandez pourquoi il n'est pas disponible pour ubuntu. Plus d'excuse, apprenez à packager le dimanche 30 novembre de 15h00 à 18h00 et découvrez la clef de ce monde passionnant !

Ce n'est pas tout !

Sans oublier les goodies ubuntu-fr, dont les fameux mugs qui risquent de très vite être en rupture, des badges, CD ubuntu francophone, Tee-Shirts ou encore des livres de notre partenaire In Libro Veritas (des framabooks dont « Simple Comme Ubuntu » mis à jour à la dernière version, d'autres livres de libre diffusion ,…), des magazines Linux Pratiques…

Bref, comme vous pouvez le voir, nous sommes parés, mettons les petits plats dans les grands et vous attendons de pied ferme les 29 et 30 novembre, c'est à dire demain ! L'entrée est, comme d'habitude, libre et gratuite !

Plus d'informations sont disponibles sur le site web officiel : http://www.ubuntu-party.org