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Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week Kicks Off In An Hour

by | Mon 1 Mar 2010

Just a quick note to let you all know that [Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpportunisticDeveloperWeek) kicks off in an hour!

Here is the order of events for today:

* **4pm UTC** – Welcome! Ubuntu For Opportunistic Developers – Jono Bacon
* **5pm UTC** – CouchDB support in your app with DesktopCouch – Stuart Langridge
* **6pm UTC** – Creating an application from scratch with Quickly – Rick Spencer
* **7pm UTC** – Building in Application Indicator support – Sense Hofstede
* **8pm UTC** – Integrated development workflow with Ground Control – Martin Owens
* **9pm UTC onwards** – Hacking parts in `#ubuntu-app-devel` on freenode! Come and join us, work on your apps, ask questions and have fun in our community. 🙂

It is recommended that you enjoy the week in [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid). You can find out more details of how to install Lernid [right here](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid). Don’t want to use Lernid? No worries, just pop over to `#ubuntu-classroom` and `#ubuntu-classroom-chat` to join in the fun.

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