The Ubuntu Testing Days are an open, inclusive and safe space to get started contributing with free software communities.

Every Friday will be a testing day, and we will host a session in https://ubuntuonair.com. On each session, we will invite a developer from an active and interesting free software project to show us the things they have been working on recently. Then we will show a tool or process we can use to contribute with their current release cycle. During the day we will be available in https://rocket.ubuntu.com/channel/community to help anybody who wants to start contributing.

The sessions will be focused on testing as an introduction to the free software world, but we will also cover other things like translations, triaging, packaging, automation, bug fixing and new feature development.

Staff

• Leo Arias (elopio): bug bot

• Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa): of world fame for being the nice developer of snapcraft

• Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga): no habla español

Sessions

20161125-18:00UTC - Nextcloud and Virtual Machine Manager, with Kyle Fazzari: http://elopio.net/blog/ubuntu-testing-day-wrap-up-20161125/

20161202-19:00UTC - Rocket Chat and bug reporting, with Aaron Ogle: http://elopio.net/blog/ubuntu-testing-day-wrap-up-20161202/

20161209-16:30UTC - Unity 8, with Kevin Gunn: http://elopio.net/blog/ubuntu-testing-day-wrap-up-20161209/

20161216-20:00UTC - Snapcraft and brews, with Sergio Schvezov: http://elopio.net/blog/ubuntu-testing-day-wrap-up-20161216/

Ubuntu Core and crossover with 96boards Open Hours

During February and March our focus will be Ubuntu Core, the new full snappy operating system. And we will share the space with our friends from 96boards at Linaro.

20160203-16:00UTC - Ubuntu Core and Qemu, with Michael Vogt and Federico Giménez: http://elopio.net/blog/ubuntu-testing-day-wrap-up-20170203/

20160210-16:00UTC - Ubuntu Core and Dragonboard 410c, with Robert Wolff and Oliver Grawert: http://ubuntuonair.com

20160216-16:00UTC - Ubuntu Core 101 at 96boards Open Hours, with Robert Wolff, Zygmunt Krynicki and Sergio Schvezov: http://www.96boards.org/OpenHours/

20160217-17:00UTC - Ubuntu Core Kiosk, with Alberto Aguirre: http://ubuntuonair.com

20160223-16:00UTC - Ubuntu Core and Dragonboard 410 at 96boards Open Hours, with with Robert Wolff and Oliver Grawert: http://www.96boards.org/OpenHours/

Calls for testing

20170105 - ipfs: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quality/2017-January/006749.html

20170113 - snapcraft 2.25: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quality/2017-January/006752.html

20170201 - snapcraft 2.26: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quality/2017-February/006761.html

Old testing days

The testing days started a long time ago, but then in 2009 they took a long break. You can read about the old testing days in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/UbuntuTestingDay/old