You will be able to register to attend the revived Ubuntu Summit from September 5, 2022.
A webpage to promote the 3-day in-person conference (which folks will be able to follow along with online) is live, ahead of the event itself, which is being held in Prague, Czech Republic between November 7th to 9th, 2022.
Canonical says the new summit is an “opportunity for the broader Ubuntu community to learn and speak about the amazing work and success stories happening in the ecosystem. We want to enable a wide and diverse group to connect, collaborate, and lower the barriers between what they do best and how Ubuntu can help achieve that”.
I blog about Ubuntu and I from my vantage point the Ubuntu community — which spans developers and technical enthusiasts through to users and companies — has waned since the peak years of 2012, which is when the last in-person conference under the UDS banner was held.
The reasons for why that has happened? Well, those are many, and are all subject to debate. However, losing the physical focal point that literally brought the community together, in the same room, to hash out “what’s next”, and communally celebrate their collective efforts, will have helped play a role to play.
Clearly, the hope is that the revived summit will breathe life into the wider Ubuntu community also.
More details on the conference, including the full schedule, are (presumably) going to be revealed in the coming weeks. We can apparently look forward to “a series of talks, workshops, panels and Q&A”.
Personally, I hope the event will also see some proactive action too, e.g., developer sprints, roundtables, planning, a place for ‘grassroots’ members to help positively influence the project, etc. As lovely as it is to be in a room with other people who use Ubuntu to listen to someone who works on Ubuntu tell you how great Ubuntu already is, it doesn’t provide any real momentum or opportunity to grow the community, or push the Ubuntu project forward.
Will you be attending?