We will be celebrating the release of Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) scheduled for release April, 2011. (see below) Natty is *not* a Long Term Support (LTS) release but continues to set the stage for the next (12.04) LTS. Physical and virtual (IRC & other) Natty events will be scheduled. Each release cycle a number of efforts happen focused around the release. Globally, UbuntuDeveloperWeek and UbuntuGlobalJam events happen a month or two before the release focusing on new contributors. Parties (listed below) and UbuntuOpenWeek happen near or after the release. If you are thinking about organizing one, BuildingCommunity/RunningReleaseParty has some hints more hints are described in a video how to do a release party. "... can be organized in literally 10 minutes."

Natty Release Parties

We will plan Natty release parties in future IRC meetings and on the mailing list.

These events are listed chronologically. Details have yet to be confirmed. World wide events are listed on the LoCo directory.

Parties

San Francisco

• Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011
• Time: 7:30 pm
• Location: Thirsty Bear Brewing Co, 661 Howard Street

• Location URL: http://www.thirstybear.com/

• Organizers: Elizabeth Krumbach (lyz@ubuntu.com) & Grant Bowman (grantbow@ubuntu.com)

• LoCo Directory entry & signup: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/920/detail/

• Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntu-us-ca/sets/72157626484097009/

• Blog post summary: http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=4306

Installfest

• Date:
• Location:
• Time:

• Event web page & notes:

General Info

• Natty Narwhal 11.04 was announced April 28. Release notes contain important information and should be read before upgrading or installing.

• When downloading 11.04, please use the *.torrent files and mirrors whenever possible. Using these usually increases your download speed.

• The Canonical press releases for the PC & business users which have helpful 11.04 overviews. For higher level descriptions, the Canonical Tours of features & business and the release notes.

• For general Ubuntu information please see www.ubuntu.com or ask in one of Ubuntu's community support areas.

• The Ubuntu Developer Summit for Natty Narwhal was held Monday, 25 October - Friday 29 October 2010, in Orlando, FL, US. A Technical Overview and Blueprints were used as guides for producing this release.

CD Distribution

The California LoCo has received the following:

If you would like CDs, please contact Elizabeth Krumbach at lyz@ubuntu.com with your name, address and purpose for request (Need some for your school or library? Handing out at small event?)

This is the only shipment the team gets per cycle, so please don't waste these CDs and request only a limited number to suit your needs! Follow these tips to help stretch our supply:

• At tech events, inform users that they can download and burn an ISO: BurningIsoHowto

• Burn ISOs as they wait! Bring along a system that can burn a CDR at the event and give them a fresh copy

• Use the pressed CDs as display copies and use our CDSleeves for burned copies

NOTE: For large conferences please contact Elizabeth Krumbach at lyz@ubuntu.com to request an UbuntuAtConferences conference pack plus CDs at LEAST 6 weeks prior to the event