14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical announced that the Ubuntu Open Week for Natty Narwhal (Ubuntu 11.04) will take place between 2nd to 5th May, 2011, on the Ubuntu IRC, in the #ubuntu-classroom channel.
The Ubuntu Open Week event was created to teach end users who to work with the tools included in the Ubuntu operating system. If you participate in the Ubuntu Open Week, you could:
· learn about the Ubuntu landscape; · talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project; · find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical; · participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu; · and much more!
Below is a list with some of the sessions you can attend in the Ubuntu Open Week:
· Mark Shuttleworth Q&A session; · Introduction to Unity; · Introduction to AppArmor; · Introduction to Audacity; · Involving in Ubuntu development/packaging and kickstarting your box for Ubuntu development/packaging; · Getting started translating Ubuntu; · Having fun with Ubuntu Testing; · Ubuntu and amateur (Ham) radio; · Making a poster to spread Ubuntu; · Conquering the command-line for beginners; · Bug triaging; · Getting involved via the Beginners Team; · Intro to Ubuntu Studio.
You can check out the complete Ubuntu Open Week schedule on its official homepage. If you are an end user and you want to attend the Ubuntu Open Week, you can connect using your web browser or any IRC client to the following IRC address: irc.freenode.net
The main session will take place on the #ubuntu-classroom channel and the #ubuntu-classroom-chat channel will be used for the chatroom. The Ubuntu team is looking forward to seeing you at Ubuntu Open Week, so make sure you're there between 2nd to 6th May 2011.
In only 7 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 Open Week here.