Taking place from Mon 22nd Oct – Sat 27th Oct on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom.
Ubuntu Open Week is a series of online workshops where you can:
- 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
- much more…
TIMETABLE
| Mon 22nd Oct | Tue 23rd Oct | Wed 24th Oct | Thu 25th Oct | Fri 26th Oct | Sat 27th Oct | |
| 15.00 UTC | Welcome! How to Join our Community – Jono Bacon | Packaging 101 – Session 1 – Daniel Holbach | Community Q+A – Jono Bacon | Ubuntu Training Team – Billy Cina | Launchpad Personal Package Archives – Celso Providelo | Xubuntu – Cody Somerville |
| 16.00 UTC | Ubuntu Server – Soren Hansen | Packaging 101 – Session 2 – Daniel Holbach | Ask Mark – Mark Shuttleworth | Introduction to Launchpad – Matthew Revell | Translating with Launchpad | Ubuntu Women – Elizabeth Bevilacqua |
| 17.00 UTC | Introduction to Launchpad – Matthew Revell | Automated testing – Lars Wirzenius & Henrik Omma | Ask Mark (cont.) – Mark Shuttleworth | Managing Ubuntu bugs in Launchpad | Planning features and sprints in Launchpad | LoCo Teams – Aaron Toponce |
| 18.00 UTC | Accessibility – Henrik Omma | Launchpad Q&A – Kiko | Desktop Team – Sebastien Bacher | Hosting code with Launchpad | Mythbuntu – Mario Limonciello | Ubuntu Studio – Cory Kontros |
| 19.00 UTC | Bug triage – Brian Murray & Pedro Villavicencio | Edubuntu – Oliver Grawert | Packaging 101 – Session 1 – Daniel Holbach | Launchpad Q&A – Kiko | Getting Started With Bazaar – Jelmer Vernooij | Documentation Team – Richard Johnson |
| 20.00 UTC | Kernel Team – Ben Collins | Troubleshooting with Launchpad Answers – Alan Pope | Packaging 101 – Session 2 – Daniel Holbach | Screencasting Team – Alan Pope | Patching Packages – Brandon Holtsclaw | Mentoring LoCo Teams – Aaron Toponce |
| 21.00 UTC | LoCo Teams – Aaron Toponce | Kubuntu – Richard Johnson | Gobuntu – Evan Dandrea | Kubuntu – Richard Johnson | MOTU Q+A – Brandon Holtsclaw | Patching Packages – Brandon Holtsclaw |
All times are in UTC time (London time, in Argentina, add 3 hours).
You can join to the rooms using your favourite IRC Software. For example: MIRC
Then just connect to the server irc.freenode.net and join to the room #ubuntu-classroom.
For instructions on how to use the various IRC clients, see XChatHowto, GaimHowto, and Irssi, respectively. General information about IRC is locate at InternetRelayChat. For Windows users just getting started finding out about Ubuntu, you can use XChat for Windows from http://silverex.info/download/ or Gaim/Pidgin from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ (both free).
Here, a bit extract of one of the sessions. October 23rd 21 Hs UTC (18 Hs Argentina):
(18:09:57) nixternal: there are a lot of K related bugs
(18:10:45) nixternal: which of course when we absorb the packages, Kubuntu absorbs the issues as well…granted the vast majority are minor and usually easy to work around, but we have some bugs that we are definitely interested in getting them worked out with Hardy
(18:11:15) nixternal: as for our plans, next weekend in Boston, most of our ideas will be on the firing line, or the drawing board in Boston at the Ubuntu Developer Summit
(18:11:56) nixternal: so as it stands, nothing is yet set in stone….so hopefully we will be able to get some user input this following week of likes and dislikes…because we create Kubuntu for you more so than we do for us
(18:12:15) nixternal: KDE 4
(18:12:25) nixternal: how many ofyou just woke back up?
(18:12:31) ***Rudd-X did
(18:12:34) ***Otenkiya raises her hand
(18:12:42) xjdriver69: me
(18:12:45) ***DShepherd yawns
(18:12:46) nixternal: I love how I can just throw that out and people perk right up like I dropped something in their drink
(18:12:49) ***daSkreech raises head
(18:12:54) ***BonesolTeraDyne ditches #kubuntu to hear this
(18:13:00) nixternal: hahaha
(18:13:17) Daisuke_Ido: i think i’m the only one not impressed so far 
(18:13:33) nixternal: Riddell: you can throw in a little with this one as well, since you are the boss, but I would like to toss out my idea for Hardy, and I am sure, well I know we have talked about it
(18:13:51) nixternal: How about a Live CD with KDE 4 by default?
.(18:14:05) Riddell: ooh, yes please
(18:14:16) ***daSkreech fires up his burner
(18:14:25) DShepherd: nixternal, that’s usable? sure
(18:14:27) nixternal: Seeing as we will not release the LTS with KDE 4, but instead keep with the more stable KDE 3.5 branch
(18:14:31) Riddell: lets do that on the day of 4.0 release
(18:14:43) Rudd-X: I think that would be a great idea *if* the packages in the KDE4 livecd are the same packages in a publicly available tentative repo
(18:14:52) nixternal: Rudd-X: they would be
(18:15:03) Rudd-X: Riddell: that would be a major PR coup
(18:15:21) nixternal: we only use the Ubuntu repos, so what would be on said CD, would be available for everyone no matter what *buntu they installed
(18:15:28) daSkreech: Rudd-X: do you mean if they track the KDE4 repos?
(18:15:59) Rudd-X: I basically mean what nixternal just confirmed. that we as users can use it as an everyday desktop choice, not just on livecds.
(18:16:08) nixternal: If I can push Riddell a little more, I would like to work on getting the Live CD started prior to the 4.0 release, maybe an RC release so we can get people to start filing bugs on it
(18:16:15) stdin: please keep the chat in -chat
(18:17:04) Riddell: how usable KDE 4 is of course depends on the KDE developers
(18:17:12) Riddell: it’s a first rate platform which will last for years
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