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Ubuntu Developer Week Announced!

by | Mon 17 Aug 2009

I am pleased that [Ubuntu Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek) is now announced and ready for the masses. The glorious week of Ubuntu development tutorials and sharing of know-how happens from **Monday, 31st August 2009** to **Friday, 4th September 2009**. You can see the timetable for the week [here](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek). You can also go and download our new snazzy brochure for the event [here](https://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/Ubuntu_Developer_Week4.pdf) – the brochure is great for sending to and sharing with people you know in your LoCo teams, LUGs and elsewhere!

The way the week works is simple:

* Take a look at the schedule [here](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek) and pick the session(s) you are interested in.
* For each session you want to join, join `#ubuntu-classroom` on `irc.freenode.net`.
* Feel free to ask your questions in `#ubuntu-classroom-chat`
* Have a great time learning how to make Ubuntu better and get to know our awesome community!

We have a stunning range of sessions available, including:

* Getting Started with Ubuntu Development
* Packaging Perl Modules
* Fun with Python Plasmoids
* Fixing small bugs in Ubuntu
* Kernel Triaging and Debugging
* Getting started with Launchpad development
* Hooking your app into your desktop CouchDB
* Quickly fun
* How to update a package
* Bug lifecycle, Best practices, Workflow, Tags, Upstream, Big picture
* Paper cutting 101
* Translations for developers
* Hacking Soyuz to get your builds done
* Packaging from scratch
* Fun with Python Plasmoids

Thanks to all the fantastic folks involved in making this rock: dholbach, rickspencer3, jawnsy, agateau, Riddell, ogasawara, didrocks, leonardr, bdmurray, gmb, lukasz, stuartm, aquarius, kees, jcastro, pedro_, ara, jsiegel, ted, seb128, mok0, rockstar, sbeattie, danilo, dpm, pitti, liw, james_w, Laney, noodles775, cprov and wgrant!

**[Digg this!](https://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Developer_Week_31st_August_to_4th_September_2009)**

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