Ubuntu 12.10 Release Parties, Durban first, more to follow

The ubuntu-za people in Durban had a release party/birthday party yesterday. You can see what they got up to on Google+ .Thanks everybody invovled for organising and for capturing the event in pixels.

The Pretoria/Johannesburg release party is scheduled to happen next Saturday, 27 October at 10 at House4Hack. Find more info about the event on the loco.ubuntu.com page.

Free Particle Webjay performance on ubuntu at the Wits Art Museum

I was part of the Free Particle Digital art exhibition. One of the events was a webjay performance with 6 other artists in collaboration with Anne Roquigny. In previous collaborations I find myself having to span multiple operating systems each with their own idiosyncrasies. This time, to my delight, Anne's entire system runs on ubuntu. The webjay system has a master which connects to multiple client machines. The client machines connect to a projector each. On the master you load a playlist of links and then you can control which links are presented on each client machine and projector. The performance projected images on the windows of the Wits Art Museum.

Successful Ubuntu Hour in Jo'burg today

Thank you queery1985 for sharing CDs and for organising the Ubuntu Hour. Here are the pics.

Ubuntu Hour in Joburg, 11/8/2012

queery1985 will host another Ubuntu Hour for the Gauteng Geeks. Excerpt from his email to the ubuntu-za mailing list.

I am organising another Ubuntu Hour for next week Saterday (11/8/2012) for
all the Gauteng Geeks.

It will be held at the Rosebank Mall Mugg&Bean again, which is right next
to the Rosebank Gautrain station. www.gautrain.co.za

Please come and join us for a coffee and/or a muffin, bring your toys and
your kids. There is also 30min free wifi.

http://ubuntu-za.org/news/2012/08/03/ubuntu-hour-jhb-11082012

Please RSVP: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-za/1886/detail/

I will also try and remember the Official Ubuntu CD's, so that will be the
spot to collect if you want any CD's.

Jo'burg Ubuntu Hour and CDs across the country

Thank you queery for organising an ubuntu hour in Joburg. Three people at the first one is a fantastic start. 

Each LoCo has it's own environment and culture and in ubuntu-za land we struggle with huge distances among members and expensive bandwidth. To alleviate this we have set up a network of 14 enthusiastic volunteers in all the major centers who are willing to help people get a copy of an iso. Last week I sent CDs to all the volunteers. The idea is that you find someone closest to you on the ubuntu-za website and get an iso from them. We still need to get the latest info of the volunteers on the website but you should also be able to ask on the mailing list and discover who is closest to you.

Pretoria Precise Pangolin Release party with steak

I wasn't there but it looks like fun. Lots of laptops in a restaurant. Thanks to Nic and Marius for making this happen and also Queery for the photos.

Cape Town Precise Pangolin Release party with cake

Henk did a sterling job hosting the Precise Pangolin Release party in the Shuttleworth Lab at UCT. We had a fair turnout for a public holiday which was also the first day of the 5 day weekend. Note too that this was the AfrikaBurn weekend. We also had a super delicious, home-made, Pangolin cake which was creatively decorated with chocolate scales. Thanks to Henk's friend. We planned to demo some games and we did, in an informal way. Mostly it was just an install fest. We also made some live CDs and liveboot USB disks for people. Thanks also Stefano for nursing the non-standard upgrades.