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Ubuntu Developer Week Begins and New Lernid Release To Enjoy It With

by | Mon 25 Jan 2010

This week the always awesome [Ubuntu Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek) starts! I am hugely excited about this week, and I can’t wait to see the many fantastic sessions that will be taking place. Connecting to *Ubuntu Developer Week* has never been easier, with [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid).

Just in time for Ubuntu Developer Week I have rolled out a new release of Lernid; a simple tool for connecting to our learning events. The new release fixes a bunch of bugs, makes the IRC Chatroom view a native widget (instead of the crusty web view), modularizes Lernid, adds a terminal for making playing with Linux commands simple, adds application indicator support on Lucid and fixes some daylight savings time issues. Thanks to the many contributions to this release from the Lernid team. 🙂

Quick screenie:

With a new release of Lernid out and an awesome week of Ubuntu developer learning events ahead, I wanted to explain how you can get all this goodness up and running. It is a doddle…

### Step 1: Install Lernid

Installing Lernid is a piece of cake. There are packages available for *Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala* and *Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx*.

Alan Bell did a wonderful screencast showing how to install Lernid. You can see it by [clicking here](https://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/lernidlive.ogv). Please note the screencast shows an older version (0.4) but the steps should be the same for the new Lernid 0.5 release.

Just click *Applications->Accessories->Terminal* and enter:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lernid-devs/lernid-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lernid

You can now load Lernid from *Applications->Internet*.

### Step 2: Join Ubuntu Developer Week

Joining *Ubuntu Developer Week* is also deliciously simple:

1. First load Lernid by clicking *Applications->Internet->Lernid*.
2. When Lernid starts, select *Ubuntu Developer Week* and enter a nickname and click *Connect*.

You can then click on *Schedule* to see the list of events happening and the times (in your local timezone). The sessions will happen in the *Classroom* pane and you can discuss the session in the *Chatroom* pane.

**NOTE:** We have heard of a bug when clicking *Edit->Preferences* causing Lernid to crash. Right now the workaround is *don’t click on preferences*. 🙂

There we go! Having a rocking week and I look forward to many of you getting your first taste of Lernid. 🙂

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