Consilience

for a little while… I promise.

But, I just wanted to let everyone on Planet Ubuntu know how things went here in Michigan. As some of you may know, I wasn’t able to physically make it to the Michigan LoCo’s event due to my current internship in San Francisco. That didn’t stop me from participating though! I even set my alarm on a Saturday morning so i could wake up and have breakfast before it started (dang time zones!).

On to the report:

Even though only 7 people (including Jorge and I remotely) were able to participate we were able to squash or otherwise improve upon 54 bugs! I’d say it was a pretty successful day. We had at least 3 people who hadn’t triaged bugs before at all yet our average was over 7 bugs per person! To see how our team did in comparison to others around the world check out the 5-a-day stats page. Also, be sure to check out Craig’s write up of our event on his blog.

Overall the Global Bug Jam was a great success, in my own humble opinion. Not only did we as a community accomplish something amazing by just planning and executing the events but we also did a lot of good work. Daniel Holbach has created a nice image showing the results:

Two things. 1) The image will apparently be updated as needed and 2) WE HAD A GOAL NUMBER?! I didn’t know that!

I think what is going to be really awesome is comparing the results of this first GBJ and the next one we have. You did know that there will be more right? Oh yes, there will be more. So next time, your team should participate too!