Hello all: Following up from this moment at the Natty UDS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT5fUcMUfYg#t=6m30s
Jono and I have been working on providing content to developer.ubuntu.com[1], and we think it's reached a state that is useful for discussion, participation, and feedback. Aside from discussions at UDS, we've been basing the content off of the ubuntu-developer-manual project[2]. Please note that we mean something specific by "developer" in this case, and it may be a little different than how "developer" is used in other contexts. The portal shares many of the goals of the ubuntu-developer-manual project. It is meant for people who want to write applications to run on Ubuntu, but are new to the Linux Desktop, at least new to developing apps for a Linux Desktop. The site strives to present a single reasonably unified "on ramp" for application developers, by picking and promoting a set of technologies to help developers go from blank slate to a working application. However, it in no way is meant to limit developers, so we think the portal will link to other useful documents and sites as well. Currently the site has an overall Information Architecture in place, and some start/draft content for many of the pages. So, this email is essentially to let folks know what's up, and to invite participation and contributions. For that purpose, we have set up a launchpad project[3], with a team and mailing list[4]. Since we're only starting, we don't have any formal processes for the project. However, we are envisioning suggested fixes coming in the form of bug reports and discussion happening on the mailing list. Cheers, Rick [1] http://developer.ubuntu.com [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-developer-manual [3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntudeveloperportal [4] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntudeveloperportal -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
