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, 31^st August 2009

  • 16:00 UTC, Getting Started with UbuntuDevelopment -- dholbach

    • Preparation:

      • Enable "Source code" in System -> Software Sources -> Ubuntu Software

  • 18:00 UTC, $quickly fun -- rickspencer3 and didrocks

  • 19.00 UTC, Packaging Perl Modules -- jawnsy and Debian pkg-perl team members

  • 20:00 UTC, Fun with Python Plasmoids -- agateau and Riddell

    • Preparation: apt-get install kdebase-workspace-bin plasma-scriptengine-python

• Tuesday, 1^st September 2009

  • 16:00 UTC, Fixing small bugs in Ubuntu -- dholbach

  • 17:00 UTC, Kernel Triaging and Debugging -- ogasawara

  • 18:00 UTC, How to update a package -- didrocks

  • 19:00 UTC, Using the LP API for fun and profit -- leonardr

  • 20:00 UTC, Writing Apport Package Hooks -- bdmurray

• Wednesday, 2^nd September 2009

  • 16:00 UTC, Getting started with Launchpad development -- gmb

    • Preparation:

      • Make sure you're set up for Launchpad development by following the guide to getting the Launchpad source code.

      • Take a look at the guidelines for hacking on Launchpad (you don't have to know this back-to-front to take part in the session, but it'll give you a good idea of our coding standards).

  • 17:00 UTC, Developing websites with Django -- lukasz and stuartm

    • Preparation: make sure you have python-django package installed.

  • 18:00 UTC, Hooking your app into your desktop CouchDB - aquarius

    • Preparation: desktopcouch is only available in karmic, so you'll need to be running karmic to try things out, but a lot of the talk is about how things will work so you don't necessarily need to try things out to follow the talk

  • 19:00 UTC, Writing secure software -- kees

  • 20:00 UTC, Bug lifecycle, Best practices, Workflow, Tags, Upstream, Big picture -- jcastro and pedro_

• Thursday, 3^rd September 2009

  • 16:00 UTC, Let Mago do your Desktop testing for you -- ara

    • Preparation:

      • Please, follow the guide at http://mago.ubuntu.com/Documentation/GettingStarted before the session.

  • 17:00 UTC, Paper cutting 101 -- djsiegel, ted, seb128

  • 18:00 UTC, Learning from mistakes - REVU reviewing best practices -- mok0

  • 19:00 UTC, Being productive with bzr and LP code hosting - rockstar

  • 20:00 UTC, Effectively testing for regressions -- sbeattie

• Friday, 4^th September 2009

  • 16:00 UTC, Translations for developers -- danilo, dpm, pitti

  • 17:00 UTC, GTD for hackers -- liw

  • 18:00 UTC, Fixing an Ubuntu bug using Bazaar -- james_w

    • Preparation:

      • Install the bzr and bzr-builddeb packages. (Those on earlier releases may have trouble with some parts of the session, installing from https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive/ppa would help with that)

  • 19:00 UTC, Packaging from scratch -- Laney

    • Preparation
      • Please install the build-essential, devscripts, debhelper and ubuntu-dev-tools packages.

      • Create a karmic chroot in pbuilder by running the command pbuilder-dist karmic create.

      • Set up DEBEMAIL and DEBFULLNAME as in step 1 on this page.

  • 20:00 UTC, Hacking Soyuz to get your builds done -- noodles775, cprov and wgrant

    • Preparation

      • See preparation for Getting started with Launchpad development above.