Starting on Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th of November, a new edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking place next week.
Three days of free and live content all around Ubuntu and Open Source: discussions, tutorials, demos, presentations and Q+As for anyone to get in touch with the latest news and technologies, and get started contributing to Ubuntu.
The tracks#
As in previous editions, the sessions runs along multiple tracks that group related topics as a theme:
- App & scope development: the SDK and developer platform roadmaps, phone core apps planning, developer workshops
- Cloud: Ubuntu Core on clouds, Juju, Cloud DevOps discussions, charm tutorials, the Charm, OpenStack
- Community: governance discussions, community event planning, Q+As, how to get involved in Ubuntu
- Convergence: the road to convergence, the Ubuntu desktop roadmap, requirements and use cases to bring the desktop and phone together
- Core: snappy Ubuntu Core, snappy post-vivid plans, snappy demos and Q+As
- Show & Tell: presentations, demos, lightning talks (read: things that break and explode) on a varied range of topics
The highlights#
Here are some of my personal handpicks on sessions not to miss:
- Opening keynote: Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu founder will be opening the Online Summit with his keynote, on Tuesday 3rd Nov, 14:00 UTC
- Ask the CEO: Jane Silber, Canonical’s CEO will be talking with the audience and answering questions from the community on her Q+A session, on Wednesday 4th Nov, 17:00 UTC
- Snappy Clinic: join the snappy team on an interactive session about bringing robotics to Ubuntu - porting ROS apps to snappy Ubuntu Core, on Tuesday 3rd Nov, 18:00 UTC
- JavaScript scopes hands-on: creating Ubuntu phone scopes is now easier than ever with JavaScript; learn all about it with resident scopes expert Marcus Tomlinson on Thursday 5th Nov, 15:00 UTC
- An introduction to LXD: Stéphane Graber will be demoing LXD, the container hypervisor, and discussing features and upcoming plans on Thursday 5th Nov, 16:00 UTC
- UbuCon Europe planning: a community team around the Ubuntu German LoCo will be getting together to plan the next in-person UbuCon Summit in Europe next year on Wednesday 4th Nov, 18:00 UTC
Check out the full schedule for more! >
Participating#
Joining the summit is easy. Simply remember to:
Once you’ve done that, there are different ways of taking part online event via video hangouts and IRC:
- Participate or watch sessions – everyone is welcome to participate and join a discussion to provide input or offer contribution. If you prefer to take a rear seat, that’s fine too. You can either subscribe to sessions, watch them on your browser or directly join a live hangout.
- Propose a session – do you want to take a more active role in contributing to Ubuntu? Do you have a topic you’d like to discuss, or an idea you’d like to implement? Then you’ll probably want to propose a session to make it happen. There is still a week for accepting proposals, so why don’t you go ahead and propose a session?
Looking forward to seeing you all at the Summit!