Mon 18th Feb to Fri 22nd Feb is Ubuntu Developer Week! No traveling required offered via IRC on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode! We are pleased to announce the first ever Ubuntu Developer Week . What does this mean? We'll have one week full of action-packed IRC sessions where you can:
* learn about different packaging techniques
* find out more about different development teams
* check out the efforts of the world-wide Development Community
* participate in open Q&A sessions with Ubuntu developers
* and much much more!
All your favourite Ubuntu developers will be there who will introduce
you to lots of parts of Ubuntu development including packaging,
virtualisation, desktop application testing, development processes,
collaboration techniques and lots lots more. This is the perfect time to
get started, get up and running and in touch with future team members.
So, what are you waiting for? Go and see the timetable and then see how
to attend. Oh, and lets spread the word!
Main page => http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek
The timetable => http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek
How to attend => http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/JoiningIn
The Sessions:
* Patching packages - Martin Pitt will explain the different techniques
of patching packages. His session will help you get started with
UbuntuDevelopment as it's a good entry point to improving the software
we use every day.
* Launchpad PPAs - Launchpad Hackers Celso Providelo and Matthew Revell
will introduce you to a great feature of Launchpad: Personal Package
Archives. Building packages for testing and preview reasons made easy.
* Packaging 101 - Daniel Holbach will talk you through the most
important properties of Ubuntu and Debian packaging.
* MOTU School - Working with Debian - We'll have James Westby around,
who is very interested in collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu. His
session will showcase tools, initiatives and processes to make this happen.
* Introduction to the ?ServerTeam - Interested in servers and services
in the Ubuntu landscape? Matthias Gug introduces you to the ?ServerTeam.
* MOTU Processes - Interested in becoming a MOTU? Daniel Holbach will
explain the MOTU processes: how to get involved and how to get things done.
* Virtualisation - Virtualisation is definitely one of the hottest
topics at the moment. Virtualisation Specialist Søren Hansen will talk
you through the state of things and answer all your questions.
* Kubuntu - For those of you interested in development of the big K,
we'll have the Kubuntu developers around.
* Ubuntu Derivatives Team - We have new Derivatives coming up almost
every day. The Derivative Team aims to make collaboration seamless and
help derivatives to get things done.
* Debdiffs and how to get them submitted - Daniel Holbach will showcase
one of the most important entry points to get involved: how to produce
good patches and explain how to get them submitted for inclusion.
* First steps on contributing (MOTU/TODO & MOTU/TODO/Bugs) - MOTU
contributor Nicolas Valcárcel will talk about his experiences and give
you first-hand hints how to get started.
* Desktop Packaging Session - Mastermind of the french Desktop mafia
Sébastien Bacher will take you on a tour through Desktop Packaging: your
entry point to the Desktop Team
* SRU/Security updates - Two of our MOTUs, William Grant and Luca
Falavigna, experienced in doing security and stable release updates will
talk about exactly that.
* Firefox 3 Extension Packaging - We'll have Mozilla hacker Alexander
Sack around, who will talk you through packaging of Firefox 3 Extensions.
* Writing Scripts For Automated Desktop Testing - QA developer Lars
Wirzenius spent quite some time thinking about testing of applications
and will take you on a tour through testing Desktop applications.
* Bughelper - making bug work easier - Bugmaster Brian Murray and
bughelper hacker Markus Korn are the de-facto maintainers of
python-launchpad-bugs and bughelper. Numerous tools make use of the
interface and make working with bugs much much easier.
* BugTriage - Pedro Villavicencio has an incredible record of triaged
bugs and even managed to give Sébastien Bacher a run for his money.
He'll get you started doing bug triage which is one of the most
important points of development.
* MOTU Q&A session - This session has become an institution and happens
every Friday at 13:00 UTC. For once we?ll move this to a later time and
invite you all to be there. Prepare your questions and let's get started
together.
* Library Packaging - Long-time MOTU Stefan Potyra will talk about the
bread and butter of almost all packages: libraries and how to package
them right.
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