Ubuntu Developer Summit - Oakland, 7th-11th May 2012

The Ubuntu Developer Summit is being held here in Oakland, California!

UDS is free to attend, you only need to register: http://uds.ubuntu.com/register/

Wednesday and Thursday nights tend to be available for the local Team (downtown 1/2 mile radius -26 degree planning map) to offer events to the visiting UDS attendees.

Confirmed Evening events

San Francisco Tourism (Wednesday)

A tour from the public transit BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station in Oakland at 7PM over to the Embarcadero in San Francisco.

Stops along the way may include:

• Ferry Building (http://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/)

• Historic Street Car ride down the Embarcadero (http://www.streetcar.org/streetcars/)

• Dinner options in Pier 39 (http://www.pier39.com/) and Fisherman's Wharf (http://www.fishermanswharf.org/)

• Hyde St Pier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Street_Pier)

• A visit to the cable car turn around (http://www.streetcar.org/cablecars/)

• Ghirardelli Square (http://www.ghirardellisq.com/) and The Buena Vista Cafe (http://thebuenavista.com/)

Please RSVP on the LoCo Team Portal event here: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/1619/detail/

Debian dinner in Oakland (Wednesday)

Details announced to the Bay Area Debian list:

http://bad.debian.net/list/2012-April/003491.html

Oakland A's Baseball Game (Thursday)

Mark Terranova will be giving out coupons for $4 tickets to the Oakland A's game on Thursday, May 10th at 7PM.

You must contact him at markdude@fedoraproject.org by Tuesday, May 8th so he can get you a coupon, you can coordinate meeting him to pick up your coupon before Thursday.

He will be meeting attendees in the hotel lobby at 6:15 to escort everyone to the stadium. If you don't make it, to get to the stadium take the Fremont BART train to the Coliseum/Oakland Airport station ($1.75 each way, BART buy ticket in station). Public Transit info here.

Gates open 1.5 hours before actual game starts.

Ubuntu Women dinner (Thursday)

Casual dinner at Elizabeth Krumbach's home in San Francisco for members of the Ubuntu Women project and anyone who supports women getting more involved with the Ubuntu community.

Further details are available on the mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2012-April/003500.html

Please contact Elizabeth Krumbach at lyz@ubuntu.com with any additional questions.

San Francisco Zoo and beach (Saturday, May 12)

Meet at UDS hotel Saturday morning following UDS and take public transit to San Francisco and to the Zoo and the beach. -- lyz 2012-04-24 19:59:24

Evening event ideas

Tour of Scientific Linux-powered supercomputers at NERSC

• nersc.gov (http://top500.org/system/176952)

Something with the City of Oakland

Grant Bowman has been working with with someone who has connections with officials from the city of Oakland

Shopping in downtown San Francisco (Sunday, May 6)

Meet in San Francisco around noon to do shopping downtown -- lyz 2012-04-24 19:59:24