UbuntuOpenWeek

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Open Week!

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Takes place from Mon 2 November - Fri 6 November on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat.

Road test our community

In just four years, Ubuntu has become one of 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 tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this week for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved.

Ubuntu Open Week was a series of online workshops where you could:

  • 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 Desktop, Server, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mobile, UNR, 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.

Time

Mon 2 Nov

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

Thu 5 Nov

Fri 6 Nov

15.00 UTC

Introduction - Jono Bacon

Ubuntu Moblin Remix - Bill Filler and Crew

Ask Mark - sabdfl

Getting Started in Ubuntu Development - James Westby and Daniel Holbach

Xubuntu - Lots of Kittens and Mice - knome and charlie-tca

16.00 UTC

Be your neighbor's Ubuntu Guru - FabianRodriguez

Writing a book - emmajane

Leadership Workshop - Jono Bacon

How to fix bugs in Ubuntu - James Westby and Daniel Holbach

How to run Ubuntu+1 - JorgeCastro

17.00 UTC

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter: Or How To Achieve Organization Out Of Chaos - tyche

Getting People Involved in your LoCo/Team - Jono Bacon

Making Screencast - DKcross (Needs a Spanish->English translator help)

Basics of and Behavior in Ubuntu IRC channels - KurtvonFinck and JussiSchultink

AppArmor - JohnJohansen

18.00 UTC

Scratch your own itch, learn how to write your own app - Rick Spencer

Byobu - DustinKirkland

First steps in translating Ubuntu - DavidPlanella

KVM and Virt-Manager - DustinKirkland

Kernel QA - Leann Ogasawara

19.00 UTC

Ubuntu One - Joshua Hoover

ISO Testing Tracker - Ara Pulido

Kubuntu Netbook Edition - Scott Kitterman

Welcome to the new Edubuntu - Stéphane Graber

Resolving Bug One - BethLynnEicher

20.00 UTC

What to do when things go wrong - AlanPope

Learning Project - Elizabeth Krumbach

Intro to GIMP - akk

WIOS - Issues - Elizabeth Krumbach

Introduction to the Ubuntu Documentation Project - TBA

21.00 UTC

Reporting Bugs - Brian Murray

Writing Secure Code - KeesCook

Giving Useful Feedback - Murat Güneş

WIOS - Encouragement - Mackenzie Morgan

Introducing the Telepathy Stack - Ken Vandine

22.00 UTC

Running a FOSS Event - czajkowski

Getting KDE 4 ready for LTS - JonathanRiddell

Ubuntu Membership - Nathan Handler

How to win with compatibility (and why Wine is made of win) - ScottRitchie

Feedback and Ideas for next time - JorgeCastro

The schedule is available in iCalendar (ics) format, subscribe to the calendar using Google Calendar or Evolution. Interested in claiming a spare slot? Let JorgeCastro know!

If you use identi.ca, you can subscribe to @udscommunity to be informed whenever a new Open Week is about to begin.

* Note: For help on time equivalents around the world, visit Time and Date World Clock, and specifically for the equivalent of 15:00 UTC see 15:00 UTC around the world.

OpenWeek in other languages

Spanish

For the very first time we're going to have a week of IRC sessions in Spanish in order to motivate community members from Spanish speaking countries to get involved in the Ubuntu community. More info here. 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

Developer Week

Ubuntu Developer Week is a similar workshop, but targetted more to developers. You can find out more information here.