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Posted on February 12, 2008 - by jono

Performance #1. Check.

Just finished the always excellent SCALE conference in Los Angeles. All in all, an excellent event, and thanks again to the conference organisers for making myself, and all the other speakers feel incredibly welcome.

SCALE saw the first showing of my brand new talk Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants: The Coming Of The Linux Desktop and it seems have gone down pretty well – the audience were fun, joined in and I had a blast doing it. I was also surprised how busy it was – the room was pretty full, standing room only, and apparently there was an overflow room (with a video feed of the live talk) which also overflowed. Tempted to put my ego in that room – when I heard about an overflowing overflow room I felt unparalleled levels of smugness. It will be just my luck that there were free donuts in there or something, hence the crowd. :P

I am now sat at LAX about to fly to San Jose and over to Google to deliver the talk as a Google Tech Talk. I will be booking speaking dates in the next few weeks – if you are organising a conference and would like me to come and speak, do drop me an email.


Posted on February 12, 2008 - by jono

Ubuntu Developer Week – Your Shipment Of Win Has Arrived

Some time ago, I saw down with the other two horsemen and we hatched a plan to have a week full of incredible IRC tuition sessions that show how to get involved in Ubuntu as a developer with packaging. Well, this resulted in the incredible wickedness that shall be known to all humanity as Ubuntu Developer Week and it happens from the 18th – 22nd Feb.

All of the events happen on IRC, so get connected and suck up the following sessions, each led by a range of community experts:

  • Packaging 101 <—– a great place to get started with packaging
  • Patching Packages
  • Launchpad PPAs
  • MOTU School
  • Introduction To The Server Team
  • MOTU Processes
  • Virtualisation
  • Kubuntu
  • Ubuntu Derivatives Team
  • Debdiffs And How To Get Them Submitted
  • Hosting Code With Launchpad
  • First Steps On Contributing
  • Desktop Packaging Session
  • SRU/Security Updates
  • Firefox 3 Extension Packaging
  • Writing Scripts For Automated Desktop Testing
  • Bughelper – Making Bug Work Easier
  • Bug Triage
  • MOTU Q&A Session
  • Library Packaging

Bring on the love – I hope to see you all there. Remember, if you want to get involved with packaging – head over and read the Getting Started page – this is a great time to get involved with this week of sessions.

Spread the word, blog it and Digg it! Look forward to seeing you all there! :)