Ubuntu Developer Summit Mountain View!

UDS Paris: Ubunteros and Developers gathered in France

As time rolls on and the release of Edgy as Ubuntu 6.10 draws ever closer, discussion and planning of the next Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) has begun. At the summit, “Edgy+1” (the version of Ubuntu following 6.10) will be discussed, planned, debated and documented. We have been given sneak details of UDS Mountain View!

This Developer Summit will take place at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA between Sunday 5th November 2006 and Friday 10th November 2006. As ever, this is not a conference with talks and panels, but a developer summit with discussions that debate and flesh out specific ideas and plans for Edgy+1. These discussions result in specifications that are planned for the next edition of the distribution. The specific areas that will be discussed at the summit will be announced closer to the time, and for more details as they happen, visit the Ubuntu Developer Summit Mountain View page

UDS Mountain View is open for anyone to attend, but remember it is very developer focused, so probably unsuitable for those without an interest in participating in Ubuntu. If you would like to attend, click here to add yourself to the attendees page. We also have limited sponsorship available. To apply for sponsorship, click here.

If you can’t make it to the summit in person, we are also working to make the summit as accessible as possible for external contributors. The collaborative ‘Gobby’ application will be in use for writing specifications, see the Participation page as more information becomes available. Start planning those flights, ferries, trains and ride-shares to reach California!

Cook up your Edgy recipes for next Official Ubuntu Book

Ubuntu chef? Get cooking those new recipes

For a few weeks now, the Official Ubuntu Book has been released, and the reaction has been incredibly positive. The book is available in print as well as under a free license. Some chapters of the book are even included in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, click SystemHelpUbuntu Book Except).

One of the most valuable chapters in the book, and one that many reviewers found compelling, was the chapter filled with recipes to solve common problems. Eager-eyed readers of The Fridge will know that there was a call for recipes some months back to fill the book with your experience.

As we now edge towards edgy (no pun intended), we are looking for some more recipes for cool things in edgy. So, now we need your help again. We are looking for some more recipes, and like the previous call for recipes, we are looking for interesting solutions to problems, clever tips and tricks, and other fun and useful tweaks. There will not be a print edition for Edgy, but the recipes will be used in the free online documentation.

The deadline for this is pretty short and is 22:00 UTC on Monday 18th September. Send all your submissions to the awesome Corey Burger at corey.burger AT gmail DOT com.

Don’t forget: you must sign the agreement, attached to this article, before we can use your recipe. Don’t worry, you’re not signing your life away 🙂

Ubuntu Weekly News # 13

Issue 13 of Ubuntu Weekly News has been published and features:

  • News of Upstart, the new Kubuntu Community Coordinator, the Kubuntu support team and a new Ubuntu theme in Edgy.
  • The latest security updates.
  • Gnome 2.16 going into Edgy Ubuntu.
  • KDE 4 going into Edgy Kubuntu.
  • LTSP updates in Edubuntu.
  • Feature of the Week – Katapult.

To get involved in producing Ubuntu Weekly News, join the Ubuntu Marketing Team mailing list and visit the Editing Policies page.

Your PIC; Edubuntu or Windows?

Yes PIC, as in Personal Internet Communicator. A PIC is an inexpensive computer created by AMD, running a stripped down version of Windows CE. Now, 2 years after its initial release, there is a second-generation of the PIC available and the Computer and Peripheral Testing Laboratory, in the Thailand Science Park near Bangkok University, has successfully booted an official OLPC image as well as an Edubuntu on one.

Head on over to LinuxDevices.com and read the entire article. If you are interested in further reading and specifications, then check out the OLPC Thailand Wiki Page.

Magyarországi Ubuntu Konferencia 2006

Our friends in the Hungarian Ubuntu community are hosting the Hungarian Ubuntu Conference (Magyarországi Ubuntu Konferencia) on 28 October 2006, in Budapest.

With a mix of Hungarian and English language speakers, this is a great chance for Hungarian and international Ubuntu fans to get together in one of Europe’s beautiful old cities.

Hungarian speakers: Attila Dobi, Gábor Kelemen, Péter Mátó, Gábor
Süveg, Gábor Török.

English speakers: Mario Đanić (Edubuntu Developer), Ante Karamatić
(Ubuntu Developer, Ubuntu Printing Team), Jani Monoses (Xubuntu Lead
Developer), Raphaël Pinson (Kubuntu Core Developer), Szilveszter
Farkas
(Google Summer of Code student).

Get along to Building ‘I’ of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics on 28 October 2006 for a great day of Ubunting!

Ubuntu Hungary website (English conference information).