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Previous Ubuntu Developer Week Sessions
January 2009
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The Timetable
February 2008
Timetable
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Mon 18th Feb |
Tue 19th Feb |
Wed 20th Feb |
Thu 21st Feb |
Fri 22nd Feb |
16.00 UTC |
Patching Packages (Martin Pitt) |
Virtualisation (Søren Hansen) |
MOTU Processes (Daniel Holbach) |
Firefox 3 Extension Packaging (Alexander Sack) |
Patching Packages (Martin Pitt) |
17.00 UTC |
Launchpad PPAs (Celso Providelo, Matthew Revell) |
MOTU Processes (Daniel Holbach) |
Hosting Code With Launchpad (Tim Penhey) |
Writing Scripts For Automated Desktop Testing (Lars Wirzenius) |
Launchpad PPAs (Celso Providelo, Matthew Revell) |
18.00 UTC |
Packaging 101 (Daniel Holbach) |
Kubuntu (Jussi Kekkonen) |
First Steps On Contributing (MOTU/TODO & MOTU/TODO/Bugs) (Nicolas Valcárcel) |
Bughelper - Making Bug Work Easier (Brian Murray & Markus Korn) |
MOTU Q&A Session (Daniel Holbach) |
19.00 UTC |
MOTU School - Working With Debian (James Westby & Nicolas Valcárcel) |
Ubuntu Derivatives Team (Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá) |
Desktop Packaging Session (Sébastien Bacher) |
Bug Triage (Pedro Villavicencio) |
Library Packaging - Part 1 (Stefan Potyra) |
20.00 UTC |
Introduction To The ServerTeam (Mathias Gug) |
Debdiffs And How To Get Them Submitted (Daniel Holbach) |
SRU/Security Updates (Luca Falavigna, William Grant) |
Debdiffs And How To Get Them Submitted (Daniel Holbach) |
Library Packaging - Part 2 (Stefan Potyra) |
You may also read the schedule via Google Calendar, available in the HTML and ICAL formats.
Details
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.
Hosting Code With Launchpad - Launchpad Hacker Tim Penhey will talk you through how using bzr and Launchpad's Code Hosting is good for your project.