Events

Ubuntu Open Week Mon 28 April 2008 - Sat 3 May 2008

Thu, 2008-04-17 03:20 — nali

Monday 28 April 2008 - Saturday 3 May 2008

The always popular Ubuntu Open Week returns this month and we welcome everyone from all walks of life, distros, skills, opinions and curiosities to come along and get involved. The aim of the week is to help grow the Ubuntu community, and we have an awesome set of topics ready for you to attend. If you’ve considered getting involved in Ubuntu and don’t know where to start, thent his is a great opportunity to jump in.

The Ubuntu Open Week will take place from Monday, 28 April to Saturday 3 May on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode.

We have sessions on all kinds of subjects including Reporting and Triaging bugs, Building Upstream Kernels, Kubuntu Development (including KDE4!), Bazaar, Packaging 101, Ubuntu Mobile, Merging Packages, Launchpad Personal Packaging Archives, Ubuntu Server, Security, Xubuntu, Community Q+A, Packaging Firefox Extensions, Artwork, Producing Podcasts, Training, Preeseeding d-i/Ubiquity, the Future of Ubuntu Desktop, Community support with the Forums, Python Packaging, Ask Mark, Wubi, Unwinding Stacktraces, Documentation, and much more!

Remember, being part of Ubuntu does not have to be a technical, hardcore, programming or packaging job. You can be involved with artwork, marketing, advocacy, local community teams, documentation, translations and more. If you are interested in being a part of the Ubuntu project, there is sure to be a session for you, take this time to join the Ubuntu Community and become part of the world-class team that puts Ubuntu together. We are keen that everyone with every discipline can be a part of our growing community.

The session schedule can be seen here.

Events

Ubuntu at LugRadio Live USA 2008

Mon, 2008-03-10 15:38 — The Fridge Team

LugRadio Live USA 2008 is taking place on the 12th and 13th April at The Metreon in San Francisco (101, 4th St., San Francisco, 94103), and there will be a strong Ubuntu presence and an opportunity to meet lots of other Ubuntu fans and some well known Ubuntu celebrities.

LugRadio Live USA 2008 is an event that provides a very different atmosphere to most computer conferences. The organisers specifically go out of their way to produce an event that is very social, fun and loose, with an incredibly inclusive, approachable atmosphere. Organised and run by the cult-hit podcast LugRadio, LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings over 35 speakers, 30+ exhibitors and lots of fun sessions, events, prizes and other attractions. In addition to this, a live recording of LugRadio will happen in front of the audience.

Ubuntu is well represented at LugRadio Live USA 2008. Jono Bacon, our community manager, is the co-founder of LugRadio and one of the organisers of the show, so he will be there, but there will also be Ben Collins, leader of the Ubuntu kernel team, Matthew Garret, power management and kernel legend, and Belinda Lopez and Emma Jane Hogbin from Ubuntu Women. In addition to this, Nathan Haines and Neal Bussett from the Ubuntu California LoCo team will be there running a booth and showing off Ubuntu. Jorge Castro, who works for Jono at Canonical, will also be there. We are keen to invite as many Ubuntu users along for a big meet and greet. LugRadio Live USA 2008 is a great opportunity to meet other Ubuntu users and developers.

In addition to Ubuntu speakers and exhibitors the event also includes these speakers:

Miguel de Icaza (Mono / Novell / Co-Founder Of GNOME)
Ian Murdoch (OpenSolaris / Founder Of Debian)
Robert Love (GNOME / Google)
Aza Raskin (Mozilla / Humanized)
Benjamin Mako Hill (Ubuntu / Debian / FSF)
John Buckman (Magnatune)
Val Henson (Kernel / VAH consulting)
Christopher Blizzard (Mozilla / GNOME)
Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
David Schleef (GStreamer)
Matthew Garrett (Power Management / Kernel)
Danese Cooper (Intel / OSI)
Aaron Bockover (Banshee / Novell)
Liana Holmberg (Second Life / Linden Lab)
Emma Jane Hogbin (Hick Tech)
Joe Zonker Brockmeier (OpenSuSE / Novell)
Kristen Accardi (Kernel)
Joe Born (Neuros)
Selena Deckelmann
Stewart Smith (MySQL)
Dan Kegal (Wine)
Ben Collins (Ubuntu / Kernel)
Jason Kridner (Texas Instruments)
Jeremy Allison (Samba / Google)
Christian Hammond (VMWare)
Ian McKeller (Songbird)
Alison Randall (Parrot / Perl / OSCON)
David Huffman (LVM)
Brian Will (Pigeon)
Belinda Lopez (Ubuntu)
Ilan Rabanovich (SoCal Linux Expo)
Eddy Mulyono (Packaging)
Matthew Walster (Demo Scene)

Exhibitors confirmed at present include Ubuntu, Google, Dice, GNOME, PostgreSQL, O’Reilly, OpenSuSE, Linden Labs, Magnatune, Neuros, Sun, Texas Instruments, South California Linux Expo, Komputers 4 R Kids, San Francisco LUG, BytesFree.org, Ontario Linux Fest, Frets on Fire, OpenNMS, One Course Source, Haiku, Hyperic, BitRock, OpenStreetMap, The Digital Tipping Point and FreeBSD.

Because LugRadio Live USA 2008 is organised by and run for the community, the price is incredibly low - $10 for the full weekend. That is two days worth of fun and games. It is recommended that you pre-register your ticket here, although tickets are available on the door. For more details, see the LugRadio Live USA 2008 Website.

If you are going, spread the word, and lets have a great Ubuntu presence at LugRadio Live USA 2008!

Events

Ubuntu Developer Week February 2008

Mon, 2008-02-11 14:11 — The Fridge Team

Mon 18th Feb - Fri 22nd Feb @ #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!

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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Ubuntu Open Week October 07

Thu, 2007-10-11 16:26 — The Fridge Team

Mon 22nd Oct - Sat 27th Oct @ #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode

With the up-and-coming release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon coming, we’re pleased to announce another Ubuntu Open Week, this time taking place the week following the Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon launch - Mon 22nd Oct - Sat 27th Oct on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode. The sessions take place from 15.00 UTC to 21.00UTC

Ubuntu Open Week is a week full of 42 IRC tutorial sessions on a range of subjects, designed to help people get involved in the Ubuntu community. It is given by many of the brightest, most capable members of the Ubuntu community, and covers a range of subjects including packaging, bug triage, translations, accessibility, automated testing, loco teams, mentoring, Launchpad, kernel team, desktop team, training team and much more. In addition to this there will be sessions for Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and the newest member of the Ubuntu family, Gobuntu.

There will also be a special Ask Mark session (Wed 24th Oct @ 16.00UTC) in which you have two hours to ask Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, your burning questions. Jono Bacon will also be providing a Community Q+A session (Wed 24th Oct @ 15.00UTC) in which you can ask your questions about the community, Ubuntu, Canonical and anything else.