Exhibitors and BOFs: We Need You!
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The fun and games for [LUGRadio Live 2007](https://www.lugradio.org/live/2007/) is ramping up, and we will soon be announcing the speaking schedule for the weekend of pure greatness in Wolverhampton, England on the *7th and 8th July 2007*.
So now, our attention focuses to Exhibitors and BOFs. Read on for more…
## Exhibitors
Do you contribute to a free software project? Do you work for an Open Source company? Do you have cool and interesting things to show off, demo and otherwise feel smug about? Well, we want you to come and show off your wares (not *warez*, that would be weird) at LUGRadio Live 2007.
We are really keen for fun, interactive and different booths as well as the usual booths that show off a project or company. Interested? Well, do the honourable thing and [mail us](mailto:show AT lugradio DOT org)!
## BOFs
BOFs are loose and informal discussion sessions scattered around the event throughout the entire weekend. We have a number of BOF Points where BOF sessions will be happening, and we are keen for people to come along and run sessions. In the past we have had sessions about Ubuntu, SuSE, running LUGs, accessibility, women in Open Source, Jokosher, Ruby On Rails and more. The idea is to get some like-minded people together to discuss something and maybe make plans for things to do after the event. It is a *great* way of growing community and projects. π
Interested? So you should be…in which case [mail us](mailto:show AT lugradio DOT org) to volunteer for a BOF. π
*LUGRadio is ramping up and the pace is the pulse is ticking faster – more news as it breaks.*
ΓΕber Ubuntu Open Week Update
Well, [Ubuntu Open Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek) is in full swing, and has been a huge success so far, with nearly 300 excitable people crammed in #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode, sucking in the goodness. Thanks to everyone has who given a session and to everyone for coming along to get involved. I hope you are all enjoying the week so far. π
Now, a few scheduling changes:
* The *Ask Mark* session in which you can probe our fearless leader Mark Shuttleworth in any way you feel he should be probed, conventional or otherwise, is now on **Wed 25th at 18.00 UTC** instead of Fri 27th.
* The *Ubuntu Marketing Team* session is now on **Thu 26th at 20.00 UTC** instead of Wed 25th.
* The *Ubuntu Desktop Team* session is now on **Fri 27th at 17.00 UTC** instead of Thu 26th.
Got it? If UTC just confuses the hell out of you, see [this site](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html?year=2007&month=4&day=23&hour=15&min=0&sec=0) to figure out when to show up. π
Thanks also to Jeremy Austin-Bardo who has been working on the logs of each of the sessions. On the main [Ubuntu Open Week website](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek) you can see links to the session logs. Thanks Jeremy! π
I hope to see a bunch of you in my Q+A session at 3pm UTC today. Questions about ducks or bottle dancing may be ignored. π
Life can treat you in new and different ways
Sometimes a situation in life unveils itself, and it is a thing of unparalleled beauty. Such experiences are infrequent, but their rarity is compensated by magnificence, elegance and grace. Importantly, these occurrences are defined by the combination and the whole; the elements, seemingly bland and uninteresting in the singular, coming together to form an event unmarred by the norm and pushing towards the divine.
Such an experience happened to me a few days ago:
* Aq, in Marks & Spencers (a relatively upmarket retail chain, for those of you unfamiliar with it).
* I call him on his mobile.
* He accidentally places me on speakerphone.
* His phone crashes and he can neither switch the speaker phone off…or…hang up. π
Cue, your brave narrator shouting things down the phone as an embarrassed Aq desperately tries to remove the battery to silence the Bacon onslaught.
Beautiful. I could have not wished for a finer person to be stuck in M&S with a phone locked on speakerphone. Oh, and if the tables were turned, he would have milked it for all its worth too. π
He will climb it, fish it, ride it, jump it and then blog it
[Glynn Foster](https://www.gnome.org/~gman/blog/), the Face Of Sun, [is](https://www.gnome.org/~gman/blog/24042007) [clearly](https://www.gnome.org/~gman/blog/24042007-1) the new [MacGyver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver). Respec’
LUGRadio Live 2007 Speakers Confirmed!
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[LUGRadio Live 2007](https://www.lugradio.org/live/2007/) is coming and its going to rock your socks off. Expect a number of announcements about the event as we get closer to the big event on the **7th and 8th July 2007** in Wolverhampton, England.
Right now I want to announce the confirmed speakers for LUGRadio Live 2007! Aq and I have been beavering away at getting these sorted, so we are pleased to announce the line-up which are spread across three stages:
* Chris diBona (*Google*)
* Nat Friedman (*Novell and the Linux Desktop*)
* Aaron Seigo (*KDE4*)
* Ted Haeger (*TBC*)
* Simon Willison (*OpenID*)
* Scott James Remnant (*Ten Really Cool Things*)
* Matthew Garrett (*Linux Laptops*)
* Rob McQueen (*Telepathy*)
* Thomas vander Stichele (*Flumotion*)
* Karl Lattimer (*Wine-doors*)
* Christian Schaller (*Fluendo*)
* John Leach (*ELER: Kill Your Tribal Elders*)
* Michael Sparks (*BBC Research*)
* Des Burley (*I Am a Lawyer*)
* John Alfred Knottenbelt (*Making Linux games at Introversion*)
* Malcolm Yates (*ISVs and Ubuntu*)
* Szilveszter Farkas and Jelmer Vernooij (*bzr-gtk – Revision Control Made Easy*)
* Laszlo Pandy (*Inside Jokosher*)
* Daniel James (*Free software rocks*)
* Ben Lamb (*Konquering the Desktop with KDE4*)
* Kat Goodwin (*Alternative Advocacy: Taking it to the schools*)
* Bruno Bord (*The Great LUGRadio Quiz*)
* Becky Hogge (*Open Rights Group*)
* Gervase Markham (*How To Win Every Argument*)
* Joe Born (*The Path to the $100 Embedded Linux Media Center*)
* Gareth Qually (*OSS Graphic Design Tools*)
* Michael Sheldon (*SabreGL – Easy 3D Game Creation*)
* Barbie (*Selenium*)
* Andy Davidson (*Scaling up for Champions*)
* Pablo Ruiz MΓΒΊzquiz (*Desktop migration in a Savings Bank*)
* Dave Neary (*OpenWengo Communication and Community*)
* Michael Barker (*Meldware and the Buni Dev. Community*)
* Philip Coombes (*Open Source Video + Domestic Security*)
In addition to this fine selection of individuals we have some additional sessions planned on the main stages:
* **Adam Sweet’s Gong-a-Thong Lightbulb Talk Extravaganza** – Here we want to have people get on the main stage and talk about something interesting for literally a few minutes. We will let you figure out how this event will be run by the name of it. π
* **The Mass Debate** – Once again we line up the great and good in the free software and Open Source community to battle it out in the legendary mass debate.
* **The Hour Of Power** – A big hit last year, we again have The Hour Of Power penned in this year in which a range of cool demos will wow and entertain you. If you have something cool to demo (and this blog goes out on Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu and Planet GStreamer, so I am looking at you folks here) do [mail us](mailto:[email protected]) and we can add you to this legendary hour. There are limited slots, so get in quick!
And lets not forget **LUGRadio Live And Unleashed** – once again the LUGRadio team climb on the stage and record a show in front of a live, heckling, raucous audience. Always good fun. π
In addition to this we have loads of extra stuff going on, much of which we will keep for a surprise at the event. One thing we are looking for though are exhibitors. If you want to exhibit your project or company, and particularly if you have cool and interesting stuff to show, [mail us](mailto:[email protected]).
Exciting news folks, more news as it breaks! π
Quickies
Short bursts of stuff:
* This week [Ubuntu Open Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek) kicks off. Be there or be square – it is your chance to be a part of the Ubuntu community and learn from the masters. π
* A bunch of new speaking slots are confirmed for me including LinuxTag, OSCON, Ubuntu Live and others. I will be updating the [speaking calendar](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/?page_id=703) when I get a second.
* [Hatebreed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatebreed) are stunning. I saw them in Liverpool on Saturday with Steve. We were also blown away by [The Acacia Strain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Acacia_Strain) and I picked up their album and a few t-shirts. Stunning.
* Recorded LUGRadio on Wednesday with guest presenters Chris Jones from Canonical and Matt Lee from GNU. The show is out later today. Fun show. π
* New music is in the works. Emelye and I are working on two new songs and I am starting work on a number of metal songs.
* Go and look at the stunning [Little Big Planet video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taiurn541SE). Wow!
* Matt Lee gave me a rather cool “I’m a Musician And I support Filesharing” sticker for my laptop – thanks Matt! I am on a mission to plaster my laptop in stickers. Feel free to send any spares this way.
* My Playstation 3 userid is `captfishhead`.
That is all.
I dug Digg, therefore I dig Digg, ya get me?
Awesome, my devious plan to get [Ubuntu Open Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek) in all its glory [noticed via Digg](https://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Open_Week_2) seems to be working, and now its on the front page of the Linux/Unix section. I love Digg. I know people think it sucks, but when it fits in with my devious plans, I love it. More focus and attention on the incredibleness that is Ubuntu Open Week has to be a good thing.
Thanks also to you Ubuntu dudes and dudettes who have helped promote it and thanks to everyone for digging it. If you haven’t dug it, get over and (https://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Open_Week_2)!
Its gonna be a fun week next week folks – real community spirit in action; a community sharing knowledge and experiences so it can grow further. This is what its all about. π
Telly getting upgraded
After about two years of solid service, tonight my MythTV box is getting upgraded. It currently runs Breezy and was bodged to life by [lots of poking and prodding](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/?p=579).
Well, with [Feisty now out](https://www.ubuntu.com/), its time for a big upgrade, from scratch. I spoke to the incredible [MythTV Ubuntu Team]() and was informed that MythTV 0.20 (the current release) is fully packaged, and much of the hardware needed, and the hardware in my machine is supported out of the box. They seem to be doing an incredible job there. Not only that, but there is [documentation](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV)!
I will let you know how I get on. π
Google are the comedy
See for yourself:
* go to google.com
* click on Maps.
* click on get Directions.
* from: New York, USA
* to: Paris,France.
* …and read line #24
Nice. π
Feisty Released, Ubuntu Open Week and The Funky Feisty Competition…oh my!
Well, its out, thats right – Ubuntu 7.04, the Feistiest of Feisty Fawns is currently being slammed down the net into peoples computers. Go get your [lovely Ubuntu goodness here](https://www.ubuntu.com/).
Firstly, I want to thank everyone involved in this release. This has been my first full release cycle since I started work at Canonical, and its been a blast, and very, very satisfying. Thanks to our incredible community and my incredible co-workers – it really has been a team effort at every step of the way. The Ubuntu community *is the greatest free software community in the world*. I have *no* doubt about this.
To celebrate, I have two exciting announcements, so plug yourself in and get read for a fun few weeks to augment the kick-ass Feisty release…
## Ubuntu Open Week is back!
All next week, Ubuntu Open Week will be back, filling the week with over 40 IRC tutorial sessions covering many aspects of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu Studio, and covering subjects such as packaging, patching packages, marketing, LoCo teams, Launchpad, the desktop team and much, much more. Each of these sessions is delivered by leaders in the Ubuntu community, there to share their experience and knowledge.
We also have some Q+As planned with Mark Shuttleworth and I will be there on tap in some sessions too. The last Ubuntu Open Week was a blast, and this one is going to be incredible. π
Go and see the [Ubuntu Open Week website](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek)!
## The Funky Feisty Competition
Want to celebrate the Feisty release in style, have some fun and possibly win some great prizes as well? Well, you need to read on…this is going to be fun. π
The competition is open to both individuals and teams. For individuals:
> The task is simple – upload a picture of yourself with a logo from one of the Ubuntu family of distributions that has had a Feisty release.
> Be inventive! How about a picture of you in front of a famous landmark? Maybe be in the fancy dress of a well known Ubuntu contributor? Use your imagination – the most interesting pictures win!
> In this competition the first prize wins $500USD, signed Feisty CD by Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu t-shirt, Ubuntu book and the runner-up wins $250, Ubuntu t-shirt, Ubuntu book so get snapping!
And for groups:
> The task is simple – upload a picture of your group recreating one of the logos from the Ubuntu family of distributions that has had a Feisty release.
> Be inventive! Why not recreate the Ubuntu logo with a number of people laid on a large playing field? Why not recreate the Kubuntu logo with playing cards? Why not recreate the Edubuntu logo with school books? Use your imagination – the most interesting pictures win!
> In this competition the first prize wins $500USD, signed Feisty CD by Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu t-shirt, Ubuntu book and the runner-up wins $250, Ubuntu t-shirt, Ubuntu book so get snapping!
Go and see [The Funky Feisty Competition website](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TheFunkyFeistyCompetition) to see how to get involved!
### Spread the word!
So, its fun times ahead. Community folks…blog and spread the news about both the Ubuntu Open Week and The Funky Feisty Competition and lets see what we can do. π