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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.

    • 18:00 UTC: Widgetcraft -- apachelogger

      • Description: Ever wanted to create your own amazing Plasma Widget? Now is your chance! Harald Sitter will show you how to create such a magical program and how to get your own fan club.

    • 19:00 UTC: Desktop Team overview -- seb128

      • Description: Sébastien Bacher will talk about how the desktop team is building your favorite desktop, what the common tasks are that the team is working on and what you could do if you want to contribute as well

    • 20:00 UTC: Authoring Upstart Jobs -- slangasek

      • As you all might've heard upstart is Ubuntu's init system for quite a while now. Upstart offers a bunch of nice features, which you can easily make use of, after Steve Langasek showed you how.

  • Tuesday

    • 16:00 UTC: Packaging like a Ninja -- shadeslayer

      • Description: The Kubuntu team has lots of ninjas on their team. Rohan Garg is one of them and will show you how to join the team.

    • 17:00 UTC: «I Don't Know Anything About Translations» -- dpm

      • Description: If you've heard yourself saying exactly that at least one time, Translations Mastermind David Planella is here with the remedy: one hour of translations goodness.

    • 18:00 UTC: Developing With Qt Quick and QML -- Riddell

      • Description: Jonathan Riddell will bring you up to scratch with the latest goodness for developing Qt applications. Qt Quick and QML will bring a lot more fun to your life.

    • 19:00 UTC: How To Work With Debian -- Laney and Rhonda

      • Description: Debian is the most important project to Ubuntu. Being able to work effectively with Debian will make your life easier. Iain Lane knows this quite well and will give an excellent session about this. Rhonda from the Debian Project will round it up with some comments looking from the other side at it.

    • 20:00 UTC: Setting Up A Small Validation Dashboard -- zyga

      • Description: Zygmunt Krynicki will talk about a tool he is writing for Linaro and how to make use of it in other places. Dashboard is a tool for visualizing results from unit tests and performance benchmarks. Dashboard can be applied virtually everywhere where performance or regression monitoring is required.

  • Wednesday

    • 16:00 UTC: Operation Cleansweep - Reviewing Patches -- nigelb

      • Description: OperationCleansweep is in full swing, the goal is to review around 2000 patches and help to push them into the right direction. Nigel Babu will give a session that will explain very easily how to help with this fantastic initiative.

    • 17:00 UTC: Forwarding Bugs and Patches Upstream -- pedro_

      • Description: This session together with the one before will give you all the tools to effectively help Ubuntu, Debian and other upstream projects. Pedro Villavicencio will deliver this session and has great experience: he does a great job working primarily with the GNOME project.

    • 18:00 UTC: Daily Builds And You -- jcastro

      • Description: Hold tight for Jorge Castro's session about the latest piece of awesome of our Launchpad infrastructure. Daily Builds will change how we interact with projects a lot because it helps to bring the latest awesome to testers and enthusiasts very easily.

    • 19:00 UTC: Making Your Applications Shine With Application Indicators -- tedg

      • Description: Application Indicators clean up the panel and are easy to use. Find out how to use them in your application for a great user experience.

    • 20:00 UTC: Kernel Triage -- JFo

      • Description: Interested in the core parts of Ubuntu that make hardware work? Jeremy Foshee will take you on a tour through kernel wonderland and show you how to help out.

  • Thursday

    • 16:00 UTC: Create An Application For Ubuntu With Quickly -- didrocks

      • Description: If you ever had a great idea for an application that makes the life of users easier and didn't want to waste hours of getting everything set up, you'll be absolutely right here. Didier Roche will show you how to get it done quickly.

    • 17:00 UTC: Improving Ubuntu In An Evening -- vish

      • Description: All you got is an Evening of Love for Ubuntu? Vishnoo will show you how to make an impact in just one evening.

    • 18:00 UTC: Contribute To Ubuntu Server, Do Server Papercuts! -- ttx

      • Description: Thierry Carrez works hard making the Ubuntu Server experience even smoother than it already is. Helping with Server papercuts is a great and easy way to get involved in Ubuntu Server development, so if you're interested and would like to help out, be there!

    • 19:00 UTC: How To Help With Xubuntu -- charlie-tca

      • Description: Xubuntu is alive and kicking, but needs your help! Charlie Kravetz will show you how!

    • 20:00 UTC: Merge proposals: life on the sunny side -- beuno

      • Description: Martin Albisetti will talk about merge proposals, how they work, why they make your code better and how you can easily learn more by using them.

  • Friday

    • 16:00 UTC + 17:00 UTC: Django And You -- mhall119

      • Description: Michael Hall will run a double session about everybody's favourite Web Framework. Django is a great way to build a dynamic website very easily. Sit back, relax and enjoy a session from one of the very busy LoCoDirectory hackers.

    • 18:00 UTC: Adopt-An-Upstream -- jcastro

      • Description: Jorge Castro is back again and will tell you how to adopt-an-upstream: how to take care of the one project you're deeply interested in and make Ubuntu users and the upstream project even happier.

    • 19:00 UTC: How To Help With Edubuntu -- highvoltage

      • Description: Edubuntu is alive and kicking, but needs your help! Jonathan Carter will show you how!

    • 20:00 UTC: Me, Myself And QA -- warp10, gaspa and BlackZ

      • Description: Andrea Colangelo , Andrea Gasparini and Lorenzo de Liso are not only all from Italy, but are also deeply interested in making Ubuntu applications shine. How to take a package and make it rock from a quality assurance point of view is their topic. Join in and help to make Ubuntu rock!