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Ubuntu Open Week

Starts Monday 28 April, Ends Saturday 3 May on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom

Apr 18, 2008 07:19 GMT  ·  By
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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 Valc?rcel. ? 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.