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| '''Takes place from Mon 3 November - Fri 7 November on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom.''' | <<BR>> |
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| [[http://www.ubuntu.com|Ubuntu]] is a freely available, simple to use Linux desktop and server. The Ubuntu project has developed a strong reputation for technical excellence and a commitment to the free software community, and we are always keen to grow and extend our community where possible. Ubuntu does not distinguish between different Enterprise and Open versions - we have one single version of Ubuntu, and this version is and will always be entirely free. Ubuntu is used by over 8 million people and has a worldwide community of volunteers who contribute in many different areas such as packaging, documentation, art, translations, testing, marketing and more. | ~+ Click [[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-classroom%2Cubuntu-classroom-chat|here]] to join in the discussion from your browser, and check [[UbuntuOpenWeek/JoiningIn|this page]] for instructions on how to participate! +~ |
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| '''Find out more about the Ubuntu [[http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop|desktop]] or [[http://www.ubuntu.com/server|server]] and [[http://www.ubuntu.com/download|download]] them.''' | '''Takes place from Tuesday 22 April - Thursday 24 April 2014 on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat.''' |
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| == Road test our community == | == About Open Week == |
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| In just four years, Ubuntu has become one the most popular Linux distributions in the world with millions of users and a thriving community. Ever wondered what all the fuss is about? How have we achieved such a great feat in such a short space of time? Here's where you can find out. | Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC sessions and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. Want to find more about it? Check [[UbuntuOpenWeek/WhatIsIt | this page]]. |
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| Ubuntu Open Week was a series of online workshops where you could: | |
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| * learn about the Ubuntu landscape * talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project * find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical * participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu * much more... |
'''Find out more about the Ubuntu [[http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop|Desktop]], [[http://www.ubuntu.com/server|Server]], [[http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu/kubuntu|Kubuntu]], [[http://www.edubuntu.org/|Edubuntu]] [[http://www.xubuntu.org/|Xubuntu]], [[http://ubuntustudio.org/|Ubuntu Studio]], [[http://www.mythbuntu.org/|Mythbuntu]], [[http://lubuntu.net/|Lubuntu]], and [[http://www.ubuntu.com/download|download]] them.''' |
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| '''Notice: The schedule has been finalized, please do not edit without contacting JorgeCastro or JonoBacon''' | ## For more information on each session a [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek/Precise/SessionLeaders | Session and session lead wiki page]] |
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| || Time* || '''Mon 3 Nov''' || '''Tue 4 Nov''' || '''Wed 5 Nov''' || '''Thu 6 Nov''' || '''Fri 7 Nov''' || || '''15.00 UTC''' || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/Intro|Introduction]] - Jono Bacon || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/Edubuntu|Edubuntu]] -- Jordan Mantha || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/PackagePolish|Polishing a package]] -- Emmet Hikory || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/AskMark|sabdfl Q+A]] - Mark Shuttleworth || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/BugFixing|Fixing a bug in Ubuntu - it's easier than you think]] -- Daniel Holbach || || '''16.00 UTC''' || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/BehindScenes|Ubuntu behind the Scenes]] - [[Nxvl|Nicolas Valcarcel]] || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/Packaging|Packaging 101]] -- Daniel Holbach || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/NetbookRemix|Ubuntu Netbook Remix Overview]] -- Pete Godall, Bill Filler, Neil Patel || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/AskMark|sabdfl Q+A]] - Mark Shuttleworth || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/Xubuntu|Xubuntu]] -- Cody Somerville || || '''17.00 UTC''' || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/KernelBugs|Reporting and Fixing Kernel Bugs]] - [[LeannOgasawara|Leann Ogasawara]] || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/DebianUbuntu|Debian and Ubuntu]] - James Westby || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/Community_QA|Community Q+A]] - Jono Bacon || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/Wine|Wine]] - Scott Ritchie || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/REVUQA|REVU Q+A]] -- Siegfried Gevatter || || '''18.00 UTC''' || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/UMPC|Ubuntu on UMPC]] - Oliver Grawert || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/IntrepidServer|An Intrepid journey in Ubuntu Server land]] - MathiasGug || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/ReinventQA|Kubuntu - reinventing QA the resource-limited way]] -- JontheEchidna || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/VerifySRU|Verifying Stable Update (SRU) bugfixes]] - SteveBeattie || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/LPTranslateInternational|Translations and Internationalization with Launchpad]] - MikeRooney || || '''19.00 UTC''' || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/BugReporting|Reporting Bugs about Ubuntu]] - BrianMurray || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/BugTriaging|Bug Squashing!(How To Triage bugs in Ubuntu)]] - Pedro Villavicencio || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/UpstreamBugs|Upstreaming Bugs]] - Jorge Castro || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/UsbCreator|usb-creator]] - Evan Dandrea || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/LPPythonAPI|Writing Python programs using the Launchpad API]] - [[https://launchpad.net/~barry|Barry Warsaw]] <<BR>>''[[https://help.launchpad.net/API|About Launchpad API]]'' || || '''20.00 UTC''' || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/BazaarVC|Version Control with Bazaar]] -- EmmaJane Hogbin || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/MediaProduction|Media Production on Ubuntu]] - Tony Whitmore || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/BrainstormQA|Ubuntu Brainstorm Q+A, becoming moderator]] -- Nicolas Deschildre || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/CruftDescribed|Cruft. What is it and why it sucks]] - Michael Casadevall || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/KernelUpcoming|Kernel: From Intrepid to Jaunty]] - Ben Collins || || '''21.00 UTC''' || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/BazaarBeyondBasics|Bazaar: Beyond The Basics]] -- DavidFutcher || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/PrivateDirectories|Private Directories]] - Dustin Kirkland || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/Virtualisation|Virtualisation]] - Soren Hansen || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/CruftRemoval|Cruft Removal 101 Workshop]] - Michael Casadevall || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/ContributeDocs|Contributing to Ubuntu Documentation]] - MatthewEast || || '''22.00 UTC''' || || || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/Training|Training]] - Billy Cina and Belinda Lopez || [[MeetingLogs/openweekintrepid/Ubuntuandyourmoney|Ubuntu and your Money]] - Kurt von Finck || || |
## Logs can be found at [[MeetingLogs/openweekQuantal|MeetingLogs->Open Week Quantal]]. |
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| The previous Ubuntu Open Week session Schedule and Logs can be found [[UbuntuOpenWeek/Previous|here]]. | |
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| The schedule is available in [[attachment:OpenWeek.ics | iCalendar (ics) format]]. You can also [[http://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=93e91ijaim4djgctgcndl9vseo%40group.calendar.google.com|subscribe]] to the calendar using [[http://www.google.com/calendar|Google Calendar]]. The ICS file can be subscribed to as a Web Calendar via Evolution and other calendar tools. Feel free to upload changes to the wiki attachments as they happen. Please send feedback about Open Week to [[http://launchpad.net/~jorge|JorgeCastro]]. | <<Include(UbuntuOpenWeek/trusty/Timetable)>> |
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| * Note: For help on time equivalents around the world, visit [[http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/|Time and Date World Clock]], and specifically for the equivalent of 15:00 UTC see [[http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3&month=11&year=2008&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=0&sort=1|15:00 UTC around the world]]. | <<BR>> |
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| == Descriptions of Sessions == | You can subscribe to [[http://identi.ca/ubuntuclassroom|@ubuntuclassroom]] on [[https://identi.ca|identi.ca]] or follow [[http://twitter.com/ubuntuclassroom|@ubuntuclassroom]] on [[http://twitter.com|Twitter]] to be informed whenever a new Open Week is about to begin. |
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| '''Monday''' | * Hashtag for Ubuntu Open Week: '''#uow''' |
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| * ''Introduction and Welcome'' - Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community manager, will kick off the week with a short welcome and give you a quick tour of what to expect during OpenWeek. * ''Ubuntu behind the Scenes'' - You have some ideas and want to see them included in Ubuntu but don't know how or just wondered how the ubuntu developers make this awesome distro, this is the right place to know what happens under the hood. * ''Reporting and Fixing Kernel Bugs'' - Leann Ogasawara will touch on kernel bug reporting best practices and getting fixes incorporated into the Ubuntu kernel. * ''Ubuntu on Ultra Mobile PCs'' - Oliver Grawert will explain the ins and outs of getting Ubuntu on UMPCs * ''Report bugs about Ubuntu'' - Brian Murray will show you ways to file a more complete bug report. The more complete your bug report is the more likely it is to get fixed! * ''Version Control with Bazaar'' - The very basics of using Bazaar. Learn how to take "snapshots" of your most important code and files..and how to roll back time to undo those changes. * ''Bazaar: Beyond The Basics'' - Following on from Emma Jane Hogbin's Bzr basics, DavidFutcher guides you through some of the more "advanced" Bzr topics. |
* Note: For help on time equivalents around the world, visit [[http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/|Time and Date World Clock]], or click the time on the schedule. |
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| '''Tuesday''' * ''Edubuntu'' - Overview of the Edubuntu project, its purpose, and how you can get involved with this small, but vital community. "Do it for the kids" * ''Packaging 101'' - Daniel Holbach, who is very interested in the growth of the Ubuntu Development Community, will talk you through the bare bone essentials of Ubuntu's source packages. * ''Debian and Ubuntu'' - What is Debian? What is the importance of Debian to Ubuntu? How you can contribute to Debian? * ''An Intrepid journey in Ubuntu Server land'' - a retrospective of the features that the Ubuntu Server team worked on during the last release cycle and an outlook on what will follow. * ''Media Prodution on Ubuntu'' - A look at how Ubuntu can be used for all sorts of media, including photo processing and management, video capture and editing and audio recording and processing. This session will include a Q&A. |
## == OpenWeek in other languages == ## ## === Spanish === ## ## ''' La OpenWeek en Español para precise tomará lugar el 19 y 20 de mayo, para más información pueden entrar a la wiki. ''' ## ## El team [[https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-classroom-es|Ubuntu Classroom-Es]] es organizador de la Ubuntu Open Week en habla hispana . '''Visita el vínculo y súmate para aprender más acerca de Ubuntu, la comunidad, como usarlo y aportar. Hay charlas para principiantes, usuarios avanzados y expertos''' [[UbuntuOpenWeek_ES|link]]. ## ## Coordinador [[SergioMeneses|Sergio Meneses]] ## ## Proximamente estaremos suministrando mas información acerca del evento. |
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| '''Wednesday''' * ''Polishing a Package'' - Lots of packages in Ubuntu have outstanding bugs, and outstanding available patches. Emmet Hikory will demonstrate the process of ensuring that a package is the best it can be, including a review of available resources for package improvements. * ''Ubuntu Netbook Remix Overview'' - Learn about Ubuntu's offering for netbooks, with UNR Product Manager Pete Goodall and Engineers Bill Filler and Neil Patel. * ''Kubuntu QA'' - Learn the ways of the bat-triager and help improve Kubuntu and KDE's quality, with Jonathan Thomas (JontheEchidna) * ''Upstreaming Bugs'' - Ubuntu is a collection of software from a multitude of upstream projects (Like GNOME, KDE, Linux, Xorg) that is put together and released every 6 months. In this talk I will talk about how you can help be a bridge between Ubuntu and these projects by ensuring that bugs, patches, and feedback gets from Ubuntu to them. * ''Ubuntu Brainstorm Q+A, becoming moderator'' - You have some question about Ubuntu Brainstorm? You want to become moderator? This will be the right time to ask! * ''Ubuntu Training'' - The Community Training Team is an exciting and growing effort aimed at creating and updating learning materials for all Ubuntu Users. We're looking for new people to help us update the Ubuntu Desktop Course based on the 7.10 release to the 8.04 (LTS) version. Contributors need no technical background so come to the session to find out exactly which tasks are available and what deadlines we need to meet. For more info, please see the wiki at: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training |
## == Feedback == |
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| '''Thursday''' | ## Take the [[http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GBSK33S | survey]] and tell us how we can improve! |
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| * ''sabdfl Question and Answer'' - Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu will take questions from attendees in this two hour block. * ''Wine'' -- How to help with Wine, converting Windows applications into packages, Integrating Wine into the desktop. * ''Verifying Stable Update (SRU) bugfixes'' -- Walking through the process of verifying an update for released versions of packages. * ''Cruft. What is it and why it sucks'' - An overview of cruft, how its made, how it is handled, what NBS is, how to do a removal * ''Cruft Removal 101 Workshop'' - A crash course in removing cruft with actual packages staged in a PPA. Learn how to do from the pros. * ''Ubuntu And Your Money'' - How to make smart buying decisions as a free software user. Covers hardware, software, support, and services. |
== Developer Week == |
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'''Friday''' * ''Fixing a bug in Ubuntu - it's easier than you think'' - You want to get involved in Ubuntu, you'd like to fix a few bugs? Excellent, Daniel Holbach will show you how push the right buttons, talk to the right people and be part of the team. * ''Xubuntu'' - Cody Somerville, Xubuntu Project Leader, provides a general overview of the Xubuntu project and how to get involved. * ''REVU Q+A'' - Open Q&A about [[http://revu.ubuntuwire.com|REVU]] (the website where new packages are reviewed for inclusion into Ubuntu). * ''Translations and Internationalization with Launchpad - MikeRooney'': A guide from start (an English-only application) to finish (a translated localized application) using Launchpad to coordinate and gather community translations. * ''Kernel: From Intrepid to Jaunty - Ben Collins'': A review of what the kernel team did different during intrepid's development cycle, what we learned and what we plan to change in jaunty. |
Ubuntu Developer Week is a similar workshop, but targeted more to developers. You can find out more information [[UbuntuDeveloperWeek|here]]. |
Welcome to the Ubuntu Open Week!
Click here to join in the discussion from your browser, and check this page for instructions on how to participate!
Takes place from Tuesday 22 April - Thursday 24 April 2014 on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat.
About Open Week
Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC sessions and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. Want to find more about it? Check this page.
Find out more about the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Kubuntu, Edubuntu Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Mythbuntu, Lubuntu, and download them.
The Timetable
We organised a week long menu of events that touch many different areas of the Ubuntu community. If you are interested in being a part of the project, there is sure to be a session for you.
The previous Ubuntu Open Week session Schedule and Logs can be found here.
Time |
Tues 22 Apr |
Wed 23 Apr |
Thu 24 Apr |
Get started contributing to Ubuntu Core Apps [ON AIR!] – popey and dpm |
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Getting Acquainted with the Juju Review Queue and Process [ON AIR!] - lazyPower |
You can subscribe to @ubuntuclassroom on identi.ca or follow @ubuntuclassroom on Twitter to be informed whenever a new Open Week is about to begin.
Hashtag for Ubuntu Open Week: #uow
Note: For help on time equivalents around the world, visit Time and Date World Clock, or click the time on the schedule.
Developer Week
Ubuntu Developer Week is a similar workshop, but targeted more to developers. You can find out more information here.
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