REMINDER: Ubuntu App Developer Week Begins September 27th, 2010

Ubuntu App Developer Week begins Monday, September 27, 2010 at 1500 UTC and continues through Friday, October 1st, 2010.

The line-up of sessions is in place and it’s going to be an awesome week for those who want to know more about writing applications to “scratch your itch”.

Take a look at this awesome lineup and plan on attending all or just the sessions of your choice.

Monday, September 27, 2010

* 1500 UTC:  From mockup to bling

* 1600 UTC: Hello World in Python (and maybe a bit more)

* 1700: UTC: Contributing without the Command Line

* 1800: UTC: Writing a dataprovider for Zeitgeist

* 1900: UTC: Making Programs with Quickly in Vala

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

* 1400 UTC: Using the indicator stack in your Python application.

* 1500 UTC: From vision to an Ubuntu application in 4 simple steps

* 1600 UTC: SHOWCASE: Pytask

* 1700: UTC: Unicorn sparkles with Qt development

* 1800: UTC: Open on the schedule for at time of posting

* 1900: UTC: Building your package daily

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

* 1400 UTC: Manage your source code history! – Version Control with Bazaar

* 1500 UTC: Integrate Ubuntu One in your applications

* 1600 UTC: Hacking on ‘testdrive’

* 1700: UTC: Take control of your desktop with DBus

* 1800: UTC: Enriching applications with Zeitgeist data

* 1900: UTC: Custom widgets

Thursday, September 30, 2010

* 1400 UTC: Catch that bug Quickly! – Debugging Quickly apps with pdb

* 1500 UTC: Making your application translatable in Launchpad

* 1600 UTC: Widgetcraft <3

* 1700: UTC: Infinity and beyond – gentle introduction to Ruby

* 1800: UTC: Writing help for your application (with Mallard)

* 1900: UTC: Using Quickshot to collect screenshots” in multiple languages for scalable documentation projects

Friday, October 1st, 2010

* 1400 UTC: When and how to schedule releases using Launchpad

* 1500 UTC: Pollka and the Ubuntu Women Mentoring Partnerships

* 1600 UTC: Using Grantlee to create application themes

* 1700: UTC: Posting into social networks from your app

* 1800: UTC: Automating tasks with Launchpad, Tarmac and Source Package Recipes

* 1900: UTC: Telepathy

You can participate in these sessions by joining #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat on freenode.net.  There are several was to join these irc sessions:

1. With the IRC client of your choice

2. webchat

* Ubuntu-classroom

* Ubuntu-classroom-chat

3. Lernid

For more information on the sessions and session leaders go to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAppDeveloperWeek