Events

Regular Events

Ubuntu Hour Meet ups

Ubuntu Hour, Dublin 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.

Ubuntu Hour, Limerick is held on the last Thursday of every month, in the Absolute Hotel, Limerick and these also kick off at 18:00 local time.

Both of these venue are quiet, have food, drink and free Wifi. Everyone is very welcome.

Upcoming Events

Global Jam

There will be a ubuntu ireland global jam this weekend. Saturday will take place in TOG, a Dublin hackerspace, and sunday online. More information: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/231/detail/

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

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. Photos of the event can be found here

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.

A Summer Geeknic for 2010 was held at the Peoples Park, Dun Laoghaire. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.29015&mlon=-6.12834&zoom=15&layers... See map. Despite the inclement weather we met early in the afternoon on Sunday 18th of July, 2010 and had a long chat and some lovely food. A write up of this event can be found here