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Ubuntu Developer Summit Proceedings

Ubuntu The Project

The Upstream Contacts project will perform six-monthly surveys to get a finer impression of upstream perspectives on Ubuntu. There will be a continued focus on every project having an Upstream Contact assigned.
There was a discussion about the components needed to allow community developers to quickly build new web applications for Ubuntu projects. These come from the common aspects of loco-directory, summit, harvest and awstrial. A project has been formed to build a Django based solution using Bazaar and Launchpad to help community teams provide these resources.
Developer advocacy will continue to be a focus in Natty with work going into creating a demo script for explaining how development works, creating screencasts and reviewing our existing documentation.
Accessibility was a key focus at this UDS and in support of the plan to build accessibility support into Unity for 11.04, the community Accessibility Team reviewed and improved their on-boarding documentation, and will be providing bug triage and testing resources throughout the Natty cycle. In addition to this, accessibility tests will be appended to the regular release tests and ISO testing.
The sponsorship queue in this cycle will get some significant support with a new "Patch Pilot" scheme. The scheme will work by providing Canonical engineering staff throughout the month who will focus on reviewing new contributions made by developers who are working towards being approved Ubuntu developers. This should provide a faster review time and on-ramping of Ubuntu developers.

Application Developers

The Ubuntu One team will be delivering an application developer API that application authors can use to build Ubuntu One support into their apps. Core focus for this API will be desktop + web + mobile.
Natty will see significant work in the area of gestures. A high-level gesture language will continue to be developed, with support in GTK/Qt apps. The GEIS 2.0 gesture language resulted from experience with GEIS 1.0, and it addresses awkward aspects of usage so far.
Quickly will see further development, including better Glade integration, support for installing to /opt, and the Launchpad team are providing support so PPAs can be created by Quickly.

Read further notes from this track at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSProceedings/N/ApplicationDevelopers