{"id":6749,"date":"2012-09-10T21:49:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T04:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:39:29","slug":"san-francisco-ubuntu-global-jam-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2012\/09\/san-francisco-ubuntu-global-jam-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Ubuntu Global Jam Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday the 8th I hosted an Ubuntu Global Jam focused on ISO testing over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Home\">Wikimedia Foundation<\/a> office in downtown San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival I met Andrew White, our Wikimedia host, and he outlined a few options for setup. Given power requirements we ended up in a conference room and I was able to set up all the materials:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/092012\/sf_ugj_sept_2012_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/092012\/sf_ugj_sept_2012_1_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As I mentioned in a previous post, I brought printouts of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Printable version of <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/ReportingBugs?action=print\">ReportingBugs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Printable version of <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Bugs\/FindRightPackage?action=print\">FindRightPackage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iso.qa.ubuntu.com\/qatracker\/milestones\/219\/builds\/22117\/buginstructions\">Bug reporting instructions for Ubuntu Desktop amd64<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Basic Ubuntu Live test: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/ubuntu-qa\/ubuntu-basic-live.odt\">ubuntu-basic-live.odt<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Basic Ubuntu Install test: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/ubuntu-qa\/ubuntu-basic-install.odt\">ubuntu-basic-install.odt<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Xubuntu Short test: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/ubuntu-qa\/xubuntu-short.odt\">xubuntu-short.odt<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Xubuntu Long test: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/ubuntu-qa\/xubuntu-long.odt\">xubuntu-long.odt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>People began arriving right at noon, such prompt geeks we are!<\/p>\n<p>Around 12:20 we had all the early attendees and I started with playing a youtube videos created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorangenotebook.com\/\">Nicholas Skaggs<\/a>. I quickly realized my error here. While these videos are great for people sitting at their computer just learning how to test, they weren&#8217;t so great for an interactive audience shut indoors on a sunny San Francisco afternoon. I ended up skipping through the video a bit to show key sections, but ended up doing live demos of everything I wanted to demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>I gave a quick tour of the <a href=\"http:\/\/iso.qa.ubuntu.com\/\">ISO tracker<\/a>, a crash course in bug reporting (use ubuntu-bug!) and introduced the <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.qa.ubuntu.com\/\">Package tracker<\/a> for folks who wanted to do application testing on LiveCDs, there was even a <a href=\"http:\/\/packages.qa.ubuntu.com\/qatracker\/milestones\/235\/builds\">Ubuntu Global Jam (Quantal)<\/a> set up on that tracker for use during the event (thanks again, Nick).<\/p>\n<p>Pizza arrived shortly after 1:30. Huge thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~geofft\">Geoffrey Thomas<\/a>, he was able to get his employer <a href=\"http:\/\/moka5.com\/\">Moka 5<\/a> to sponsor the pizza (note: they are based out of Redwood City and hiring software engineers who are familiar with Ubuntu development).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/092012\/sf_ugj_sept_2012_3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/092012\/sf_ugj_sept_2012_3_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, when I would tell people who are unfamiliar with the Ubuntu Community what this event was about, I had a really hard time making it sound fun &#8211; but I assure you it was! No boring, dry software testing here. We had lots of fun with strange and amusing errors and failures, fascinating bugs that <em>seemed<\/em> software based but which couldn&#8217;t be replicated on different hardware and in general a lot of joking about the perils of running development software (our daily builds hit <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/udisks2\/+bug\/1048211\">this bug<\/a> which crashed the installer before you began, fortunately LiveCD+install worked!). <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/testdrive\">TestDrive<\/a> ended up being a big hit, and I&#8217;m really glad I brought along live USB sticks, USB sticks with just the ISO files (awesome for seeding TestDrive!) and burned DVD-Rs, as all were heavily used.<\/p>\n<p>In all we had about a dozen people come out for the jam, one came up all the way from Santa Cruz, which is about 90 minutes away.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/092012\/sf_ugj_sept_2012_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/092012\/sf_ugj_sept_2012_2_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Huge thanks to everyone who came out and again to our sponsors, the <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Home\">Wikimedia Foundation<\/a> (who even offered to host again) and <a href=\"http:\/\/moka5.com\/\">Moka 5<\/a>. It was a great event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday the 8th I hosted an Ubuntu Global Jam focused on ISO testing over at the Wikimedia Foundation office in downtown San Francisco. Upon arrival I met Andrew White, our Wikimedia host, and he outlined a few options for setup. 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