Ubuntu Developer Week Day 1 Review and Logs
Ubuntu Developer Week is off to a great start.
The day started out with Daniel Holbach introducing and welcoming everyone to Ubuntu Developer Week. There were plenty of questions from those who participated and the questions continued throughout the day. The active conversation really made each of the sessions come alive and the session leaders did a great job of answering as many questions as possible during each of their respective session.
Did you miss Day 1? Don't worry below is a description of the sessions that were offered and links to the logs from those classes.
* Ubuntu Developer Week Day 1 (July 12, 2010) Sessions and Logs:
Getting Started With Development -- dholbach
Description: As always we'll start the week with a session on how to get you started. In this session Daniel Holbach will get you set up, talk about helpful tools and make sure you get the big picture overview first. This was a 2 hour sessions broken up into part 1 and part 2.
Widgetcraft -- apachelogger
Description: Ever wanted to create your own amazing Plasma Widget? Now is your chance! Harald Sitter will show you how to create such a magical program and how to get your own fan club.
Desktop Team overview -- seb128
Description: Sébastien Bacher will talk about how the desktop team is building your favorite desktop, what the common tasks are that the team is working on and what you could do if you want to contribute as well
Authoring Upstart Jobs -- slangasek
Description: As you all might've heard upstart is Ubuntu's init system for quite a while now. Upstart offers a bunch of nice features, which you can easily make use of, after Steve Langasek showed you how.Preparation: Skim the init(5) manpage and bring your questions with you
* The line up for Day 2 (July 13, 2010) includes:
16:00 UTC: Packaging like a Ninja -- shadeslayer
Description: The Kubuntu team has lots of ninjas on their team. Rohan Garg is one of them and will show you how to join the team.
17:00 UTC: I Don't Know Anything About Translations -- dpm
Description: If you've heard yourself saying exactly that at least one time, Translations Mastermind David Planella is here with the remedy: one hour of translations goodness.
18:00 UTC: Developing With Qt Quick and QML -- Riddell
Description: Jonathan Riddell will bring you up to scratch with the latest goodness for developing Qt applications. Qt Quick and QML will bring a lot more fun to your life.
19:00 UTC: How To Work With Debian -- Laney and Rhonda
Description: Debian is the most important project to Ubuntu. Being able to work effectively with Debian will make your life easier. Iain Lane knows this quite well and will give an excellent session about this. Rhonda from the Debian Project will round it up with some comments looking from the other side at it.
20:00 UTC: Setting Up A Small Validation Dashboard -- zyga
Description: Zygmunt Krynicki will talk about a tool he is writing for Linaro and how to make use of it in other places. Dashboard is a tool for visualizing results from unit tests and performance benchmarks. Dashboard can be applied virtually everywhere where performance or regression monitoring is required.
If you want to know more about how you can join in on all the fun of Ubuntu Development go to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/JoiningIn
It's easy to join in!
If you already use IRC the just join #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat on freenode.net. #ubuntu-classroom is the channel where the session leaders present the sessions and answer questions. #ubuntu-classroom-chat is where participants can talk to one another and ask questions in. Participants just need to remember to preface each question with "QUESTION:" so that the classbot can pull it out of all the chatter.
Not an active IRC person don't worry use Lernid to participate. To find out more about Lernid and how you can use it click here.
Hope to see you there!
For more information on how you can participate in the Ubuntu Community go to: http://www.ubuntu.com/community
To get Ubuntu go to: http://www.ubuntu.com/
If you have suggestions on how people can participate and contribute to Ubuntu let me know. Know of an event that is happening in your area and want to get more Ubuntu users there - let me know about it. For questions, comments, suggestions email me at: amber [at] ubuntu-user [dot] com
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