During last week's developer summit in Sevilla, the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded (UME) project has progressed quite a bit. Some technical specifications, source code, and even a few preliminary packages have been uploaded to the Launchpad archive.
UME now has a mailing list, and you can talk to them on freenode at #ubuntu-mobile. Check their wiki page for more information about available resources.
Today, we received an update on the current activities of the Catalan LoCo team. The team meets every Sunday at 22:00 CET (20:00 UTC) on IRC (#ubuntu-cat). While it is not an official Ubuntu LoCo team yet, it is scheduled to appear in front of the Community Council at the next meeting (May 15) as another step in that direction.
On Sunday May 20th they will hold an install party in Barcelona. Other planned actitivies include attending the Jornades de Programari Lliure in Girona (July 4 to 7), helping with the Software Freedom Day in Barcelona (on September 15), and holding a GPG signing party for team members in June (date and location to be announced).
If you want more information about the team, please visit their Ubuntu Wiki page.
From Sunday to Friday this week, the UDS Sevilla (Ubuntu Developer Summit) is taking place in southern Spain. Organised with the help of the team behind Guadalinex and the regional government, the summit brings together many K/Ubuntu developers to outline what the next release of Ubuntu will contain.
Under the disguise of testing out video-editing in Ubuntu, a 3 minute has been shot to give people an idea of the event. For those who have never been, Ubuntu Developer Summits are a bit of a black box, an unknown entity. The music for the video is some free/libre music from Ubuntu community leader Jono Bacon; a recording of his song Voices of Freedom.
Grab the video now: high-quality OGG/Theora (40MB) or on Google Video. Alternatively:
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Imagine Ubuntu running on your Internet-enabled mobile device… How cool is that !?
To make this dream a reality, Ubuntu plans to extend their software development to handheld Internet-enabled devices in partnership with Intel, thereby enabling us to change the way we communicate and collaborate.
Targeting an initial release with the next version of Ubuntu in October 2007, the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project will target “mobile Internet devices” (MIDs), along the lines of Nokia's N800 web tablet. This was announced recently on the developer's mailing list by Matt Zimmermann, CTO of Ubuntu.
Since these devices place new demands on open source software and require innovative graphical interfaces, improved power management and better responsiveness, Ubuntu developers are brainstorming on ideas at the ongoing developer summit at Sevilla (Spain).
Read this wiki page to learn how you can participate in the UDS-summit sessions remotely.