Welcome to the Ubuntu Developer Week! We will have one week of action-packed sessions from Aug 31st 2009 to Sep 4th 2009!
In just four years, Ubuntu has become the most popular Linux distribution in the world with millions of users and a spot regularly at the top of Distrowatch. Ever wondered how Ubuntu development works? How to get involved yourself? Find out from Aug 31st 2009 to Sep 4th 2009!
Ubuntu Developer Week is a series of online workshops 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
- much more…
The timetable
If you’re unsure about UTC times: just run date -u in a terminal to find out what the current UTC time is.
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Mon 31st Aug |
Tue 1st Sep |
Wed 2nd Sep |
Thu 3rd Sep |
Fri 4th Sep |
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16.00 UTC |
Getting Started with UbuntuDevelopment — dholbach |
Fixing small bugs in Ubuntu — dholbach |
Getting started with Launchpad development — gmb |
Let Mago do your Desktop testing for you — ara |
Translations for developers — danilo, dpm, pitti |
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17.00 UTC |
Getting Started with UbuntuDevelopment — dholbach |
Kernel Triaging and Debugging — ogasawara |
Developing websites with Django — lukasz and stuartm |
Paper cutting 101 — djsiegel, ted, seb128 |
GTD for hackers — liw |
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18.00 UTC |
$quickly fun — rickspencer3 and didrocks |
How to update a package — didrocks |
Hooking your app into your desktop CouchDB – aquarius |
Learning from mistakes – REVU reviewing best practices — mok0 |
Fixing an Ubuntu bug using Bazaar — james_w |
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19.00 UTC |
Packaging Perl Modules — jawnsy and Debian pkg-perl team members |
Using the LP API for fun and profit — leonardr |
Writing secure software — kees |
Being productive with bzr and LP code hosting – rockstar |
Packaging from scratch — Laney |
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20.00 UTC |
Fun with Python Plasmoids — agateau and Riddell |
Writing Apport Package Hooks — bdmurray |
Bug lifecycle, Best practices, Workflow, Tags, Upstream, Big picture — jcastro and pedro_ |
Effectively testing for regressions — sbeattie |
Hacking Soyuz to get your builds done — noodles775, cprov and wgrant |
Where ?
Use your IRC client (such as xchat, irssi or mIRC)
to connect to the Freenode IRC network at irc.freenode.net. You can do
this manually by typing:
/server irc.freenode.net
Then
join #ubuntu-classroom for the time and date of the session you want to
attend. You can manually join the channel by typing:
/join #ubuntu-classroom
You should also join #ubuntu-classroom-chat
which is the general discussion channel for the session. Questions
should be posted there. You should prefix your questions with QUESTION: to make them easier to spot.
Most sessions last for around an hour. Contact dholbach on IRC if you have any problems.
For users who cannot or will not use IRC software (corporate policy, blocked IRC ports, etc.) you can click here to join in the discussion.
Fore more details:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek
Get a Brochure here:
http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/Ubuntu_Developer_Week4.pdf
