For all the Geeks out there who swear by open source technology , you have a friend in Ubuntu ! Yep , thats right ! Ubuntu , famous for being the most user friendly Linux based operating system , is compiling their second round of developer week ! The Ubuntu Opportunistic developer conference has been slated to be held from 1st-6th March 2010 , the details for which can be found on Ubuntu`s Home page .
What is the Developer Week ?
The Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer week is an Online meeting of aspiring developers and professionals , to help
inexperienced developers develop applications that suits their needs on the Open source framework. The agenda for the developer week this timearound, is to give the developers a head start on the various technologies that they will use to build applications , like python tools and frameworks , Bazaar , Launchpad and infrastructure etc.The previous developer week was held from Jan 25th 2010 toJan 29th 2010 .
If you want to be a part of the Developer week you need to register here . All the Developer sessions are conducted online. And if you think you can contribute to any one of the sessions you can drop an email at : jono@ubuntu.com .
The growth of Open source technology has indeed been phenomenal , from web servers to operating systems ! Linux has proven to be a robust operating system and is now barely trailing their competitors Microsoft. So , all you techies out there , pull up your socks and make the most of this Technovanza ! For any other information you can check Ubuntu`s website !
There are empty slots in the upcoming conference . The rough schedule is as follows :
| Mon 1st March | Tue 2nd March | Web 3rd March | Thu 4th March | Fri 5th March | |||
| 16.00 UTC (9:30 PM IST) |
Welcome ! Ubuntu for opportunistic developers – Jono Bacon | Getting your app in launchpad with Bazaar – David Futcher |
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| 17.00 UTC (10:30 PM IST ) |
CouchDB support in you app with DesktopCouch – Stuart Langridge | SHOWCASE: Gwibber- Ken Vandine | Creating stunning interfaces with Cairo- Lazslo Pandy | SHOWCASE: Lernid: Jono Bacon | Creating a PyKDE app-Rich Jonson | ||
| 18:00 UTC (11:30 PM IST) |
Creating an application from scratch from Quickly -Rick spencer |
Microblog from you app with the Gwibber API -Ken VanDine | Whats new in Quickly 0.4 – Didier Roche | ||||
| 19.00 UTC (12:30 PM IST) |
Building in Application indicator support -Sense Hofstede | Writing a RhytmBox plugin – Stuart Langridge | |||||
| 20.00 UTC ( 1:30 AM IST) |
Integrated development workflow with Ground Control – Martin Owens | Building multimedia into your app with GStreamer – Laszlo Pandy | Web browsing and rapid UI with WebKit – Ryan Paul |
If you would like to confirm what your local time is as compared to the UTC time : just run date -u in a terminal to find out what the current UTC time is.
Are you going to participate on this Open source frenzy? Do let me know via your comments.
2 replies on “Ubuntu opportunistic Developer Week”
I really would like to stay updated with this, since I have been using the Ubantu FF app.
Hope I could make it to this event but lets see how this year works out for Me..
Thanks
Norman Flecha
STRAIGHT TALK
Hope u make it to the conference mate . Like i mentioned above , Open source is the future , from Apache`s dominance to .Net framework being opened up for open source platforms ! Its best to take a ride now !