Jul 8, 2011 12:59 GMT  ·  By

Daniel Holbach from Canonical proudly announced a few minutes ago the schedule of this year's second Ubuntu Developer Week event.

The second Ubuntu Developer Week event for 2011 will take place between July 11th and 15th, and will cover several aspects of Ubuntu development, from crash-courses in getting started with working on Ubuntu to more advanced topics.

"I'm happy to announce Ubuntu Developer Week next week. Again, we have brought together a huge variety of sessions to inform, teach and interest you in what's currently going on in the world of Ubuntu Development." - said Daniel Holbach.

Ubuntu developers and enthusiasts wanting to contribute will get together online for five days of sessions hosted by some of Ubuntu's greatest developers.

Here are some of the topics the developers will go over in the sessions:

· Getting Started with Ubuntu Development; · Packaging sessions (Mono, Python, Java); · How to collaborate with Debian; · Porting from PyGTK to GObject Introspection; · How to work with bugs reported by apport; · Launchpad hacking; · Compiz hacking; · Kernel debugging; · Lubuntu development; · How to triage Ubuntu bugs; · Introduction to LAVA; · Introduction to Upstart; · How to create apps with QML; · and much more!

To participate, all you have to do is join the #ubuntu-classroom channel on irc.freenode.net. Sessions start Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 16:00 UTC. The odd hour was chosen to accommodate for as many people from around the world as possible.

The main channel will be in English, to ensure that the highest number of people can join, but there will be translations in several languages for those who aren't comfortable enough with their English to ask questions. Translations include: Arabic, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Catalan, Finnish, Danish and Polish.

In only 5 years, Ubuntu has become the most popular Linux-based operating system in the world with millions of users. Did you ever wondered how the Ubuntu development works? Do you want to know how to get involved yourself? You can get more information about Ubuntu Developer Week here.