Announcing... the Badger Badger Badger Tour! JeffWaugh will be travelling for a month and a half, criss-crossing the northern hemisphere, to bring the world of Ubuntu to your doorstep. Expect [http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/ badgers], mushrooms, schnaaaaaakes, an awful lot of Ubuntu CDs, and a healthy dose of madcap hijinks. If you'd like to catch up with Jeff during the tour, add your details to this page or [mailto:jeff.waugh@ubuntu.com send him an email]!

Each section includes a list of people or groups I'll be catching up with. I will try to include contact details where possible, so anyone checking out this page can join in. Please email me if you would like contact details for a particular item.

TableOfContents

Boston, USA: October 7th - 11th

• Hanging out with all the GNOMErs at the [http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005 Boston Summit], 8th - 10th

• Keeping up appearances at the only place to be seen this year, the [http://www.acetarium.com/ Acetarium].

Todo:

• 11th: mid-afternoon, BLU presentation at MIT?

London, UK: October 12th - 15th

• Visiting the South London office

Todo:

• 12th: Cambridge debian-uk mafia and 'formal hall' with MatthewGarrett (arranging), RobertMcQueen, ColinWatson, etc.

• 14th: GLUE, organising with DeanWilson

• 15th: Wolves LUG meeting in Wolverhampton, catch up with StuartLangridge and LugRadio folks?

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: October 17th - 20th

• [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/ EuroOSCON]

Todo:

• 18th: MartijnVanDeStreek's birthday (some Lugradio people are coming as well)

• 19th: Talk to compsci students and beer with the DutchTeam!

Milan, Italy: October 22nd - 23rd

• Presenting two talks at [http://www.smau.it/english/ Smau e-Academy]

Todo:

• 22nd: SebastianoMestre and other Italian Ubuntites. Please see [http://www.sm4x.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ubuntu_Dinner Ubuntu Dinner]

Montreal, Canada: October 26th - November 6th

• Action and adventure at UbuntuBelowZero!

USA Major Cities Tour: November 7th - 16th

Would you like me to visit your local LUG or [:LoCoTeams:Ubuntu LoCo Team]? If you live in a city with a major airport, and can arrange a venue and audience on one of these dates, you have the chance to rearrange my itinerary in your favour! All you have to do is create a virtual petition of twenty supporters - the more creative the better! You could get twenty of your user group members to post their support on a mailing list thread... You could get twenty friends to blog about it... You could put up a photo of your LoCoTeam in a huge Ubuntu circle... Or you could come up with something even cooler!

• Send entries to [mailto:jeff.waugh@ubuntu.com Jeff Waugh]

• Submissions close September 30th. The first responses will be the easiest to award - get in quick!
• Please include a link to your virtual petition, along with your contact details (phone number, in particular)

Good luck, Ubunteros!

Petitions

• [http://mces.blogspot.com/2005/09/torontonians-we-need-your-help.html Toronto]: Might be a tough one, not being in the US, and with UBZ already in Canada, but they're going for it! They're [http://www.ubuntutoronto.org/ really going for it]!

• [http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14258742&postID=112796007151563341 Washington DC]: The Northern Virginia Linux Users Group! (Prefer 8th.)

• [http://www.lugip.org/ubuntu/ Princeton]: LUG/IP and other groups in New Jersey! (Prefer 9th.)

• [http://members.trilug.org/~lovelace/wordpress/?p=1 Raleigh/Durham]: The Triangle Linux Users Group of North Carolina wants Jeff to come give a talk at their meeting location at Red Hat World Headquarters. (Prefer 10th.)

• [http://uug.byu.edu/announcements.php?show=75 Provo]: BYU UUG and other groups in Utah!

• [http://dmarti.spikesource.com/badger.htm San Francisco]: Don Marti is leading the charge on the west coast!

Mexico City, Mexico: November 17th-19th

• Presenting a keynote at [http://congreso.gulev.org.mx/ GULEV]