Ubuntu Developer Week Sessions

Our Sessions

We have a number of sessions next week for all tastes and interests. Feel free to come to as few or as many sessions as you like. All of them are free and open to anyone.

Monday

• 16:00 UTC + 17:00 UTC: 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.
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• 18:00 UTC: Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development (UDD) -- barry

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• 19:00 UTC: Taking bite out of Unity -- jcastro and DBO

  • Description: The duo of Jorge and DBO return after a session during Ubuntu User Days with a session about how you can contribute to Unity and the bitesize bugs

• 20:00 UTC: Getting your fixes into Ubuntu , how to make sponsors happy -- tumbleweed

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Tuesday

• 16:00 UTC: How to write a compiz plugin -- smspillaz

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• 17:00 UTC: How Stable Release Updates work -- jibel

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• 18:00 UTC: The Ubuntu One App Developer Programme -- aquarius

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• 19:00 UTC: Rocking with Zeitgeist -- seiflotfy and manish

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• 20:00 UTC: Getting your fixes into Debian, how to make community happy -- Rhonda and nigelb

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Wednesday

• 16:00 UTC: TestDrive -- RoAkSoAx

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• 17:00 UTC: LoCo Directory Hacking -- mhall119 and cjohnston

  • Description: Learn how to get started hacking on the Ubuntu LoCo Teams Directory. We will walk you through getting the code, learning what all the pieces are and how they work together, and finally how to fix bugs and submit patches. By the end of the session, you'll have everything you need to become a LoCo Directory contributor.

• 18:00 UTC: Ubuntu ARM and the OMAP4 images -- ogra

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• 19:00 UTC: Developing IRC bots -- tsimpson

  • Description: Find out some basics about the IRC protocol and learn how to create custom IRC bots.

• 20:00 UTC: Rocking out with libunity -- kamstrup

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Thursday

• 16:00 UTC: Integrating your package with Launchpad Translations -- dpm

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• 17:00 UTC: Getting Started with Unity 2D -- Kaleo

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• 18:00 UTC: Q+A with Ubuntu Engineering Director -- rickspencer3

  • Description: Talk to Rick Spencer, the Ubuntu Engineering Director

• 19:00 UTC: Getting your app into Ubuntu (Post-release) -- stgraber

  • Description: Stéphane Graber will be talking about the App Review board and how to get applications into Ubuntu post release

• 20:00 UTC: Good stuff in ubuntu-dev-tools -- bdrung

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Friday

• 16:00 UTC: Getting better bug reports -- nigelb and bdmurray

  • Description: Developers will get to know about getting quality bug reports by writing apport hooks for applications so that basic information will always be collected

• 17:00 UTC: Introducing boto EC2 Cloud API -- kim0

  • Description: Learn Amazon cloud 101, how to run and control cloud instances of Ubuntu server from python

• 18:00 UTC: Introduction to Django Development -- lukasz

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• 19:00 UTC: Getting started with daily builds in Launchpad -- Quintasan

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• 20:00 UTC: Project Lightning Talks

  • Description: 5 minutes each to introduce your project
    • Stéphane Graber, arkose (desktop application sandboxing)

    • Keimpe de Jong (UndiFineD), SpeechControl (an accessibility program to control computer, by voice and other input types)

    • Dustin Kirkland, Bikeshed (All those handy scripts)
    • Alan Bell, Meetingology a new meeting and minute taking IRC bot
    • Michael Hall, XDG Launcher (XDG-Menu panel)

    • Jason Gerard DeRose, Distributed Media Library (aka dmedia)

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