The already popular Ubuntu Open Week was announced yesterday and it will take place from Mon 28 April 'till Sat 3 May, 2008, on IRC in the #ubuntu-classroom channel. 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:

• Welcome to Ubuntu Open Week! with Jono Bacon.
• QA: Using piuparts to test your packages with Lars Wirzenius.
• Reporting Bugs with Brian Murray.
• Ubuntu Bugsquad + Triaging Bugs with Pedro Villavicencio.
• Building Upstream Kernels with Leann Ogasawara.
• Kubuntu Development with Richard Johnson.
• Bazaar with Robert Collins.
• Packaging 101 with Daniel Holbach.
• Ubuntu Mobile Edition with Adilson Oliveira.
• Merging Packages 101 with Nicolas Valcárcel.
• Using Launchpad PPAs with Celso Providelo.
• Intro to the Ubuntu Server Team with Mathias Gug.
• Ubuntu Security Team with Kees Cook.
• Xubuntu with Cody Somerville.
• Community Q+A with Jono Bacon.
• Intro to Mobile Testing with Chris Gregan & Dave Morley.
• Packaging Firefox Extensions with Alexander Sack.
• Ubuntu Artwork with Ken Wimer.
• KDE 4 with Richard Johnson.
• Producing Podcasts in Ubuntu with Alan Pope.
• Ubuntu Training - How to get involved with Billy Cina.
• Preseeding d-i / Ubiquity with Evan Dandrea.
• The Future of the Ubuntu Desktop with Ted Gould.
• Community Support with Ubuntu Forums with Mike Basinger.
• Python Packaging with Emilio Pozuelo Monfort.
• Ask Mark with Mark Shuttleworth.
• Wubi with Agostino Russo.
• Ubuntu Documentation Project with Richard Johnson.
• Unwinding Stacktraces with Emmet Hickory.
• Reporting Bugs with Brian Murray.
• Ubuntu Bugsquad + Triaging Bugs with Pedro Villavicencio.

If you're wondering how to attend to the Ubuntu Open Week sessions, I mean what software (IRC client) you should use, then Pidgin will be the perfect IRC client for this job! Find out more about the Ubuntu Open Week here.