Ubuntu Developer Week kicks off today

By Benjamin Humphrey, Published July 12, 2010

The Ubuntu Developer Week is back and at it again for another fun-filled, action-packed week of learning and education on how you can contribute to Ubuntu and become an exciting developer.

Developers are in shortage all around the world, and working on Ubuntu projects is all good experience for  future jobs – employers especially like work in open source.

If you’ve got the skills but don’t know where to get started with the tools, then this week is ripe for you. Sessions take place in IRC on the freenode network in #ubuntu-classroom and of course you can connect using Jono Bacon’s app, Lernid.

From the wiki:

Ubuntu Developer Week is a series of online workshops where you can:

  • learn about different packaging techniques
  • find out more about different development teams
  • check out the efforts of the world-wide Development Community
  • participate in open Q&A sessions with Ubuntu developers
  • much more…
Sessions to look out for:

  • Getting Started with Development (dholbach)
  • Desktop team overview (seb128)
  • I don’t know anything about translations (dpm)
  • Operation Cleansweep (nigelbabu)
  • Daily builds and you (jcastro)
  • Improving Ubuntu in an evening (vish)
  • Making your applications shine with Application Indicators (TedGould)
  • … and much, much more!
Sessions start at 1600 UTC on Monday (today!) so make sure you hit up #ubuntu-classroom on freenode IRC and partake in a few that spark your interest!
Rally the troops and become an Ubuntu developer, you too could look like this.
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    interesting but in work for some of the irc chat times – does anyone know if these will be documented anywere? why not take copies of the irc chat and post em on omg as tutorials????

    • http://modplanman.myopenid.com/ RyanT

      All the IRC logs will be posted on the Ubuntu Wiki, they do this every year.

      P.S. I keep hitting the like button instead of reply by mistake….

  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    The two sessions I’m most interested in are “Packaging like a ninja” and “Create an application for Ubuntu with Quickly”. I might actually be able to make both, with a bit of luck.

    I personally think that the biggest hurdle for the “opportunistic developer” is packaging. It’s utterly complex and the documentation is scattered and just plain sucks. Quickly does make it a lot easier, but that’s just for Python applications – I believe.

    • http://www.obfuscatepenguin.net/ Marc

      I agree about the packaging as a hurdle.

      It seems that almost whichever programming language you choose, it’s quite easy to find a combination of books and websites that can provide information for every level of understanding, whether you’re just checking an obscure point of syntax, new to that particular language, or even new to programming altogether.

      The packaging documentation, on the other hand, seems to largely assume that you’ve been taught the methods at uni and are just after a high-level reference. There are a few tutorials and videos that cover the basics of creating a very simple pacakage, but beyond that it seems that you’re left on your own, exactly at the point when you start thinking of questions but have no obvious place to find them.

      If I ever feel that I really understand packaging well enough to be sure that I wasn’t advocating a bad way that just happened to work in my limited experience, I’ll try to provide some documentation for human beings.

      • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

        When you do, be sure to let me know. :P Even if it takes you 3 years to figure it out, I’m pretty sure I’ll still be as perplexed about it as I am now.

        They (Canonical et al) have been talking a lot about targeting the “opportunistic developer”, so hopefully they’ll realize what a clusterfuck packaging is and figure out a way to make it easier; or at least provide proper, well-written, comprehensive documentation that doesn’t require 5 years of computer science to understand.

        • http://twitter.com/RobertSOakes Rob Oakes

          The first time that you go through it, it’s utterly terrifying. After that first time, however, it isn’t really so bad. Especially if you are packaging source or resource files files. What’s better, though, is that much of it can be automated via scripts.

          Which means I should probably get around to writing a tutorial …

          • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

            You most certainly should!

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  • http://thealphanerd.wordpress.com/ Calvin

    Off topic, just that I FLOSS my teeth with Bacon.

  • https://launchpad.net/~noz3001 Your Name

    Day 2 is near :D. dholbach was fantastic yesterday, great session!