Laura Czajkowski

With less than two weeks to FOSDEM taking place a weekend of talks, catching up with old friends and making new ones nearly here.  Jan Claeys has created a wiki page if anyone is going, taking part, wants to meet up or help with the stall. As always it’s voluntary but having lots of people [...]

I’ve noticed recently how badly disorganised some organisations seem to be when it comes to making their artwork easy accessible to people who wish to promote their work.  Organisations, projects and groups all want their newest release covered, or what they’ve just announced is going to happen, unfortunately it’s hard to write about something when you’re missing their logo. What I’ve [...]

Just a reminder that the IRC Council nominations are soon closing.  If you want to nominate yourself or someone else you only have a few more days to do so. If you are interested in the Ubuntu IRC community, feel you have a lot give to it and can help to improve it, please review the [...]

It’s a sad day, it’s the last day, and I’m still running around like a headless chicken trying to get to meet people I’ve not seen or need to resolve some issues which have come up during the week with the people that are there and in hands reach! Today was the day we confirmed and [...]

Can’t believe the week is almost past, it’s been great fun, really intense at times at sessions, exhausting and brilliant all in one go. People don’t seem to understand you’re in sessions from 9am – 6pm, you start talking and interacting with people from breakfast through lunch and then hang out in the evening.  It [...]

The week is flying by and it’s been great to meet new people  I’m really trying to make an effort to sit with new people at breakfast so I can talk about new topics where possible and I do think it’s important to mix it up and meet new people. I do like having the continuity of [...]

It’s been really great to meet people so far that I’ve been talking to via IRC or mailing lists and get to know them. Putting the faces to the names helps communication in the future. The day kicked off again with the Community round table session, we discussed the results of the Community Survey that [...]

Right as rain and day 1 begins literally lashing out of the heavens with rain. Early start 4am and wide awake so the day kicks off with a blog post to Ubuntu IE and UK and post about remote participation as I do think it’s essential for people to realise that although they may not [...]

This week the Ubuntu Developer Summit – UDS is taking place in Orlando Florida. It is a great opportunity to listen in to the sessions as they are streamed in audio and some such as the keynote are streamed by video http://video.ubuntu.com/live/ If you  would like  to follow a session click on it’s details on [...]

I’m somewhat gobsmacked here.  I and 6 others have been elected to the Ubuntu Council.  There were many excellent candidates and all are deserving.  Thank you to all those who voted and took part in the election. I look forward to working with the rest of the council and working on future plans and if [...]

Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to work out how best to get people motivated to go for  membership.  There seems to be something lacking as to: A) Why the should go for it ? B) Do they deserve to become a member  ? C) How to go about it? So to address [...]