Bug Day Organizers HOWTO

This page explains how to organize a Bug Day. The central information page for people interested in joining a Bug Day is located here.

choose a time and day- traditionally Thursday, 9AM-9PM EST (1500-0300 GMT) - but any day will do
advertise it:
- email bugsquad, gnome-love, gnome-list
- post to footnotes, http://planet.gnome.org
- have in past also posted to lwn (though they tend to frown on it)
- we could create a bug team news feed for planet.gnome.org/news/ as well
if it's a targetted bug day, make sure you've got something that people can work through, eg. a tinyurl of bugs that need working on; see the list below for suggestions.
make sure you or other people are around on IRC to help newbies with getting involved and motivate curious people who drop by to get involved.
at least one person on IRC has privileges to create new bugsquadders (ie. can grant users editbugs and can confirm)

It's the being-on-irc bit which takes time, and the motivating/helping bit which takes patience. Both are critical to success.

Examples of topic for some bug days

Proposed topics should involve at least 100 but probably no more than 3-500 bugs.