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'''''April 21, 2007, 12:00PM - 4:00PM CDT''''' '''''June 16th, 2007, 12:00PM - 4:00PM CDT'''''
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'''St Thomas United Methodist church''' [[BR]]
2S511 IL Route 53 [[BR]]
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 [[BR]]
'''"College of DuPage"''' [[BR]]
425 Fawell Blvd[[BR]]
Glen Ellyn, IL [[BR]]
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Location: [http://tinyurl.com/33vgg7 Google Map] Location: [http://tinyurl.com/2gadzy Google Map]

The meeting will be held in a room of the Student Resource Center at COD. Specific room location is TBD. You can find maps of the campus at [http://www.cod.edu the College of DuPage website].
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''Please note'': You will need to arrange a ride from a fellow Ubuntu-loco member to the event from the train station. Please contact a team member via the mailing list or IRC if you need a ride. The meeting is South-East of the train station. To arrive from the train state, head east from until Main Street. Going south (right turn) onto Main Street will get you to Roosevelt Road/IL38. Take that east (A left turn) until you hit Bryant Ave./IL 58. Then go south again (right turn) until you hit St. Thomas. The opposite is implied for getting to the train station.

Find it: [http://tinyurl.com/2gbffh Google Map]
''Please note'': You will need to arrange a ride from a fellow Ubuntu-loco member to the event from the train station. Please contact a team member via the mailing list or IRC if you need a ride.
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'''Google Employees''': Google employees can reach the event via Twix bar-powered hovercraft or Segways.
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 * Icebreaker - (Jim)

'''Helping the Chicago Loco get Loco''':
 1. Getting organized: Setting the meeting schedule for the remainder of 2007
       * Alternating between city/suburb meeting locations
 2. Loco-motion: What a loco is about, and what we're about
       * Balancing advocacy & learning
 3. Loco presentation schedule
       * What do we want to learn more about?
              * Research a topic individually, or collaborate with someone else, and then present it to the group. (e.g., packaging for Ubuntu, shell scripting, working with upstream, etc.)
       * Who is an expert at what? (I am good at "x" and would like to give a talk on it at the Chi-Ubuntu meeting.)

'''Celebrating the release of Feisty''':
 * Getting involved: Community ISO testing (Jim)
 * Looking forward to the Gutsy Gibbon.
       * Loco team contribution ideas: Adopting a package?
 * Other items?
 * Food?
 * TBD
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== Thanks To ==
 * Thanks to Chad Sutton for coordinating the venue.

Ubuntu Chicago Local Community Team Meeting & Agenda Page

Ubuntu Chicago is a group of local community members gathered to to advocate the Ubuntu Linux Operating System. Ubuntu Chicago get's their inspiration from bug #1, and uses this to aide in the process of marketing throughout the Chicago land area.

Table of Contents

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Next Meeting

June 16th, 2007, 12:00PM - 4:00PM CDT

"College of DuPage" BR 425 Fawell BlvdBR Glen Ellyn, IL BR (630) 469-1214 BR

Location: [http://tinyurl.com/2gadzy Google Map]

The meeting will be held in a room of the Student Resource Center at COD. Specific room location is TBD. You can find maps of the campus at [http://www.cod.edu the College of DuPage website].

Getting There

By car: Please refer to Google maps for directions from your location. Smile :)

By Train: From downtown Chicago to the meeting: BR

  • Getting on at the Ogilvie Transportation Center (Canal and Madison), take the Union Pacific West "Elburn". You will get off on the Glen Ellyn stop. Costs = 3.40 USD each way, 1.70 if you're a student in high school. Note: On weekends Metra offers a weekend pass for $5.00. Use it to go round trip, use it to connect to/from other Metra lines, and use it all day Sunday.

Train Departure times: Metra / Union Pacific West

  • Departs: Chicago (Ogilvie) 10:40am
  • Arrives: Glen Ellyn 11:25AM BR

Train from the meeting, back into the city:

  • Departs: Glen Ellyn 5:00pm
  • Arrives: Ogilvie 5:46pm

Please note: You will need to arrange a ride from a fellow Ubuntu-loco member to the event from the train station. Please contact a team member via the mailing list or IRC if you need a ride.

By Bicycle: Please refer to Google maps for a route to the venue, unless it requires that you take the highway . . . in which case, you're on your own. Bike safe!

Google Employees: Google employees can reach the event via Twix bar-powered hovercraft or Segways.

Agenda

  • TBD

Reports

Meeting minutes will be uploaded at ["/Minutes"].

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