Monthly Archives: March 2013

First Ubuntu SDK Days kick off today

Today, 14th March 2013, will be the first day of our first ever Ubuntu SDK Days. During the event our Ubuntu SDK maintainers and app authors will talk you through how to get started building great apps for Ubuntu. Let’s have a look at the timetable and see what’s happening today. 15:00 UTC: Keynote – […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 307

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #307 for the week March 4 – 10, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Mir + Unity QML + Unity APIs = Unity Not convinced by rolling releases Follow Up from “Let’s Discuss Interim Releases” Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 306

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #306 for the week February 25 – March 3, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months Let’s Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release) Results from the Developer Membership Board restaffing […]

Mir – An outpost envisioned as a new home

A guest post from Thomas Voss’ blog. Thomas is the Technical Architect (Client) at Canonical: Some time ago, Canonical started internal discussions about our convergence strategy, clearly spelling out the distant target of shaping and developing a single computing platform and operating system that is able to power the cloud, classic desktop machines, laptops, TV […]

Mir + Unity QML + Unity APIs = Unity

A guest post from Olli Ries’s blog. Olli is the Engineering Director for Unity and Display Server at Canonical: It all sounds good in theory… Not too long ago, Mark communicated the vision for Ubuntu and Unity for 2013 as “[…] Unity in 2013 will be all about mobile – bringing Ubuntu to phones and […]