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Ubuntu Developer Week Coming Up!

by | Thu 8 Jul 2010

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 July 12th 2010 to Friday July 16th 2010. You can see the timetable for the week [here](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek).

Throughout the week we have an awesome set of sessions:

* Getting Started with Development — dholbach
* Getting Started with Development — dholbach
* Widgetcraft — apachelogger
* Desktop Team overview — seb128
* Authoring upstart jobs — SteveLangasek
* Packaging like a Ninja — shadeslayer
* «I Don’t Know Anything About Translations» — dpm
* Developing with Qt Quick and QML — JonathanRiddell
* How to work with Debian — IainLane & Rhonda
* Setting up a small validation dashboard — ZygmuntKrynicki
* Operation Cleansweep – reviewing patches — nigelbabu
* Forwarding bugs and patches upstream — pedro_
* Daily Builds and You — JorgeCastro
* Making your application shine with application indicators — TedGould
* Kernel Triage — JeremyFoshee
* Create an application for Ubuntu with Quickly — didrocks
* Improving Ubuntu In An Evening — vish
* Contribute to Ubuntu Server, do Server Papercuts ! — ThierryCarrez
* How to help with Xubuntu — CharlieKravetz
* Merge proposals: life on the sunny side — MartinAlbisetti
* Django and you — mhall119
* Adopt-An-Upstream — JorgeCastro
* How to help with Edubuntu — JonathanCarter
* Me, myself & QA — warp10, gaspa, BlackZ

As ever ou can connect with [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid) or a normal IRC client. For full details, see [this page](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/JoiningIn).

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