Events

Regular Events

Ubuntu Hour Meet ups

The Ubuntu Hour is held on the last Wednesday of every month, in the Trinity Capital Hotel, Dublin starting from 18:00. These typically last longer than one hour.

The venue is quiet, has food, drink and free Wifi. Everyone is very welcome.

Upcoming Events

Global Jam with an Irish slant

OSS Barcamp

The Ubuntu Ireland LoCo are organsing for a 2nd year in a row and for the second time this year, OSSbarcamp. This is an un-conference style event taking place in UCD over 2 days on the 25th and 26th of September, 2010. It's a free and open event for everyone to attend. There will be talks, discussions, LPI exams and lots more going on over the weekend.

This event gives advocates an opportunity to discuss and talk about projects they working on or are passionate about. It is also a great way for attendees to learn more about Open Source.

More details on ossbarcamp.com

Release Parties / Geeknic

The venue for the next Geeknic will be the Peoples Park, Dun Laoghaire. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.29015&mlon=-6.12834&zoom=15&layers... See map. The plan is to meet in the park at the band stand at around 2pm on Sunday 18th of July, 2010. This is a great opportunity for geeks, and there family and friends, to meet up and have some fun. This is most definitely a family friendly event and kids are more than welcome.

The venue can be easily be reached via car (parking should not be a problem) or DART.

As this geeknic is to take place in a public park there will be no cost. Just bring your own picnic fare for yourself and a little extra to share. For those who forget to bring food, don't panic, there will be a farmers market on the day in the park selling all sorts of nice food.

Previous Geeknics have always been great fun. Hopefully the sun will shine on July 18th and we'll see you there!!! For those unfamiliar with the term, a Geeknic is a picnic for geeks.

Past Events for 2010

Limerick Meeting Featuring Ubuntu

On Saturday February 27th, Skynet, the University of Limerick Computer Society, hosted an afternoon of talks with Ubuntu in mind. The Keynote Speaker for this event was Matt Zimmerman of Canonical Ltd. It was a very entertaining and informative session and many of the related discussions went on well into the night. More information on the event is located at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/Events/February-2010-Talks

Open Jam, Global Jam with an Irish slant

The Irish LoCo held an Open Jam event which is a Global Jam with a few twists to suit the Irish circumstance. On Saturday 27th of March Open Jam took place, with the kind support of Enterprise Ireland who hosted this event at Enterprise Ireland's Head Office, The Plaza, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3.

OSS Barcamp

OSS Barcamp returned in 2010. The first OSS Barcamp of 2010 took place in Dublin on April 17th. More details on ossbarcamp.com

Release Parties / Geeknic

A geeknic was held on the afternoon of a wet and windy Sunday 2nd May 2010 to celebrate Lucid Lynxs April 29th release.

The venue for this geeknic was Farmleigh Park in the Phoenix Park. A Food Market was also held at the same location on that day. As always, all of the family were welcome.

The geeknic was followed up by moving the release party to The Bull and Castle, Christchurch, Dublin that same evening.