Ubuntu Developer Summit in Paris

[ubuntu_demon]

regarding the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Paris
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperSummitParis

Canonical offered to sponsor members of the forum staff to go to the Developer Summit in Paris.

AFAIK I'm the only one of us forum staff going. (others couldn't go due to work/visa)

I just received the train tickets! And I'm very grateful to ubuntu-geek and canonical.

Are any of you guys also going ?

[ubuntu27]

regarding the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Paris
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperSummitParis

Canonical offered to sponsor members of the forum staff to go to the Developer Summit in Paris.

AFAIK I'm the only one of us forum staff going. (others couldn't go due to work/visa)

I just received the train tickets! And I'm very grateful to ubuntu-geek and canonical.

Are any of you guys also going ?

:) 8)

[Rackerz]

I'd go, but I'm 15 :(

[ubuntu_demon]

We might get a specific forum section for specs. See : http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=184376

[ubuntu_demon]

from http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/32 :


so this is a call for folks who want to drive features in Edgy to document those in the wiki, and register them in the Ubuntu Blueprint (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs).


edgy wishlists are here :
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=149666
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=183958

Let's all post our specs to the wiki and launchpad!

[ubuntu_demon]

Too bad I don't have a laptop. I just read that gobby will be used.

$apt-cache show gobby


Gobby is an editor which allows to edit text documents and source files
collaboratively over a network. All users could work on the file
simultanously without the need to lock it. The parts the various users
wrote are highlighted in different colours and it supports syntax
highlighting of various programming and markup languages. A chat is
also included.
.
Gobby is portable to both Windows and Unix-like platforms and makes use of
the Gtk+ toolkit.
.
Homepage: http://gobby.0x539.de/

[ubuntu_demon]

I borrowed an old laptop from a friend. It's fast enough for icewm and it has a 10mbit pcmcia network card.

I will be leaving in less than two hours. I will probably arrive at the hotel before dinner time (19:30).

[adam.tropics]

<jealous>!

[ubuntu_demon]

After I've got out of the Thalys in Paris Nord I noticed that the temperature was quite high. I had still a bit of traveling to do to get from Paris Nord to the hotel. Luckily I've arrived in time to take a shower before going down to the lobby to find a bunch of Ubuntu people. After a bit of time it was dinner time.

The hotel is great. I've heard it even has a swimming pool. The hotel's restaurant is great as well.

I'm meeting interesting people here : for example during diner I spoke to the guy who wrote synaptic. He also did some work on the dist-upgrading part of update-manager. He was interested in experiences from users regarding dist-upgrading. So I've told him about the stickies about common problems in the installation and upgrade help forum right here. I'll probably talk to him somewhat more about this later.

At this moment not very much people are using internet so there's no problem but the internet upload speed isn't very much (128kbyte/s I believe).

The real stuff starts tomorrow morning at 9:00 CEST.

[ubuntu_demon]

People will be able to connect from outside using gobby and probably teamspeak :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperSummitParis/Participate

[Iandefor]

Very cool, ubuntu_demon! Congrats!

I might pitch in via Gobby once that wikipage you linked to gives more details.

[ubuntu_demon]

The schedule (currently only the one for today is online) :
http://people.ubuntu.com/~mdz/schedule/

[jsgotangco]

It's pretty hot in here!

[ubuntu_demon]

It's pretty hot in here!
Are you at the summit as well ? It's quite cool in ATLAS 4.

[ubuntu_demon]

I've started the following thread to help make a list of links for an interesting spec :

What do non geeks want ?
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199744

[Klaidas]

First, congratz that you are there :)
Will there be any pictures? :) Or maybe a video or something (like http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1165754797197197496&q=ubuntu+mark+shuttleworth ?)

[ubuntu_demon]

AFAIK there won't be videos. I have taken a few photo's but I don't an usb cable. Maybe I'll try to borrow one.

You can join the BOF sessions using gobby and teamspeak though.

[ubuntu_demon]

I was asked to start these threads :

xubuntu lighter design - help request
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=200316

WirelessClient specification - users feedback request
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1162294

[angkor]

Congrats ubuntu_demon!

Great to see this kind of collaboration between the forums and the ubuntu devs. Keep us up to date and have fun!

[ubuntu_demon]

I now have a blog right here :
http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/

[Iandefor]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonCustomizations

This looks like it'll eliminate the need for Automatix/EasyUbuntu/BUMPS. Aw, damn. Just when development was starting to get fun, too!

That blog looks good.

[ubuntu_demon]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonCustomizations

This looks like it'll eliminate the need for Automatix/EasyUbuntu/BUMPS. Aw, damn. Just when development was starting to get fun, too!

That blog looks good.

They will try to get as much as useful stuff as possible into gnome-app-install and they also want to create a meta-package in multiverse for the most common multiverse packages (and register it with gnome-app-install). I like this effort very much. It will make things a lot easier for most users.

But there are still some packages that can't end up in gnome-app-install for example w32codecs and libdvdcss2 see the section called "Why Ubuntu does not adopt certain packages" in here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonCustomizations

[ubuntu_demon]

I've met Micheal Vogt at the summit. He's a great guy. He's a core developer working mainly on package management tools. I'm currently communicating with him about common problems regarding upgrading to Dapper.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1194942#post1194942

[ubuntu_demon]

Matt Zimmerman asked me to start a thread for feedback on :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonCustomizations

The thread is right here :
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=206535

[ubuntu_demon]

Here's the thread about my new blog :
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=206527