Mark Shuttleworth's Q&A starts on Monday 4, 2015

May 2, 2015 09:30 GMT  ·  By

Canonical and the hard working people behind the Ubuntu development team announced the dates for the upcoming Ubuntu Online Summit event where they will reveal the plans for Ubuntu 15.10, due for release in October 2015.

Today, we report that the Ubuntu Online Summit will take place next week, starting May 5, and it will end two days later, on May 7, 2015. As a pre-show event to the Ubuntu Online Summit conference, which takes place online at the Ubuntu On Air website, Mark Shuttleworth's Q&A starts on Monday 4, 2015, at 14:00 UTC.

"Next week, from the 5th to 7th of May, another edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking off. Three days of sessions for developers, designers, advocates, users and all members of our diverse community," was stated in Canonical's announcement for the Ubuntu Online Summit conference.

Here's what you can expect from Ubuntu Online Summit

Ubuntu Online Summit is Ubuntu's biggest event of the year, where developers and users gather together to discuss the upcoming features of the next major version of Ubuntu. There, you can attend various workshops and sessions, as well as presentations of all kind of products.

For example, Ubuntu developers will reveal the roadmaps and plans for the Ubuntu SDK (Software Developer Kit), Ubuntu Phone core apps, Ubuntu Desktop, Snappy Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu convergence, Ubuntu for Cloud, Juju, DevOps, Charm, OpenStack, and community-related events.

On the other hand, during the Mark Shuttleworth Q&A pre-show event, users will be able to ask the founder of Canonical and Ubuntu anything they want about the world's most popular free operating system. Most probably, the release schedule and codename of Ubuntu 15.10 will also be announced during Mark Shuttleworth's Q&A.