ReleasePartyGutsy
GNU/Linux Ubuntu 7.10 SwissLoCo release party | November 10 2007
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Introduction
On October 18th the Ubuntu community released Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) and it's now time to celebrate it in Switzerland. The Swiss local community is happy to invite you to the release party which will take place at the Puzzle office in Bern on November 10th from 2pm to midnight (Puzzle ITC GmbH, Eigerplatz 4, 3007 Bern).
Gutsy Gibbon what's new
It would be impossible to talk about all improvements of Ubuntu here, so we will only have a quick tour to give a general idea of what you will find in Gutsy.
The most apparent change in Ubuntu 7.10 is the general look and feel. Ubuntu now integrates Compiz Fusion which offers 3D desktop experience. Gutsy Gibbon automatically detects whether the hardware is capable of running Compiz Fusion; if not, it falls back to normal desktop. All Compiz Fusion Visual Effects can be graphically managed from "System/Preferences/Appearance".
But Ubuntu 7.10 is not only about eye candy it will also improve your productivity by preventing you from loosing time searching for files. Ubuntu now includes the Deskbar applet out off the box. This applet let's you search files, open web bookmarks and search, launch applications and many more. In addition the Tracker indexer has been added to the desktop which will considerably tune your file search.
Ubuntu 7.10 includes lot more new features and improvements such as Firefox plug in install support. Which means you can now install your favorite Firefox plug in as you would install any other official Ubuntu package.
To see all details go to: http://www.ubuntu.com/
Activities
In order to offer you the best introduction to Ubuntu 7.10 (code name Gutsy Gibbon) the Swiss local community offers you the following activities lead by some off our most active members.
Rooms
We will have three rooms, two bigs used for the Install Party and the main activities and smaller one used for activities with smaller audience (Edubuntu, GPG, Cacert).
All day activities
What |
CaCert signing party |
Who |
Mike Steinmann, Marcel Härry, Martin Käser, Pierre Graber |
Where |
Room 5 (small) |
What |
Our Netztier available to sort all your network/hardware issues |
Who |
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Where |
Where the Netztier is |
What |
Install/Upgrade party |
Who |
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Where |
Room 1 (big) |
Scheduled activities
What |
Introduction session |
Who |
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Where |
GNU/TUX room |
When |
14:00 - 14:15 |
What |
GPG Key Signing Party (first) |
Who |
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Where |
GNU/TUX room |
When |
14:15 - 14:30 |
What |
Why will Hardy rock ? (Summary of Ubucon, FOSSCAMP and UDS) |
Who |
Myriam Schweingruber (Mamarok) and Stéphane Graber (stgraber) |
Where |
GNU/TUX room |
When |
14:30 - 15:15 |
What |
Edubuntu as a Thin Client Server |
Who |
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Where |
Small room |
When |
15:30 - 16:15 |
What |
Lighting talks (5 minutes to show your favourite software) |
Who |
Everyone |
Where |
GNU/TUX room |
When |
16:30 - 17:30 |
What |
Linux can be a 1337 gaming platform |
Who |
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Where |
GNU/TUX room |
When |
17:45 - 18:00 |
What |
What's new in KDE4 ? |
Who |
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Where |
GNU/TUX room |
When |
18:15 - 19:00 |
Dinner !!!
What |
Quick introduction to Launchpad (Bug tracking, PPA, Ubuntu infrastructure) |
Who |
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Where |
GNU/TUX room |
When |
20:30 - 21:30 |
What |
GPG Key Signing Party (second) |
Who |
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Where |
Small room |
When |
21:45 - 22:00 |
What |
How can I contribute to Ubuntu ? |
Who |
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Where |
GNU/TUX room |
When |
22:00 - 22:45 |
Not scheduled yet
What |
Boot the Live CDrom via PXE, by parallel use of LTSP as Boot - Server (not necessary) |
Who |
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During |
45min |
Where |
Big room |
What |
LAN Party |
Where |
Big room |
What |
Linux related movies |
Where |
Big room |
Whats up in four lines
What: Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon release party
Who: The Ubuntu SwissTeam
Where: Puzzle ITC GmbH, Eigerplatz 4, 3007 Bern
When: November 10th from 2pm to midnight
Brought Equipment
What: |
Who: |
Bootserver to install from Network |
Silvan Gebhardt |
apt and cdimage mirror server |
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2x 48port LAN Switch, maybe more |
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WLAN Access Point |
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Sun Ultra2: DNS, DHCP and router |
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Power Strips/Bars (as many as possible) |
everyone |
2x Beamer |
Marc Lüthi (netztier) and puzzle |
What you should bring
a Cat5 LAN cable, 3m, 5m or longer
if you bring your own computer, don't forget a power cable, keyboard, mouse, screen
good mood
Special thanks
The Ubuntu SwissTeam is very grateful to Puzzle ITC GmbH for supporting us. www.puzzle.ch
How to get there
By car (from the Bern Forsthaus highway exit): view map
Car parking
There are NO car parking facilities at Eigerplatz. It's possible to un- and upload in front of the house, but please do not park your car there, especially not in front of the public transportation garages nearby. Please, use City West parking facilities nearby (roughly 400 m away).
By train (from Bern main station):
- Tram number 3 direction Weissenbühl
- Bus number 10 direction Köniz Schliern
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