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Ubuntu Developer Conference - Paris
Since Sunday, the second greatest GNU/Linux show on Earth (after
Linux.conf.au) rolled into Charles de Gaulle airport, just outside
Paris. This is the organized human carnival where terms like 'specs',
'BOFs' and 'lightening-presentations' fly about during the day and give
way to hushed mentions of Mao! and Talking! during the evening.
On the agenda for this week are nailing down all of the features that will make it into the next release of Ubuntu (codenamed the Edgy Eft, as covered by LWN previously), expected to hit your desktop in a mere four months. You can keep an eye on all the specifications on the brand new "Blueprint" component of Launchpad and even take part. There are over sixty people in attendance, including the majority of the core Ubuntu distro team---congratulations also to those busy expecting babies and not able to make it this time. Everyone is welcome to attend, just grab a peek at the schedule of the day and turn up at the Radisson hotel. Ubuntu has been gradually perfecting the ultimate open-source development conference, with each edition of the Developer Summit the process gets smoother and more refined. What matters here is high-quality, high-bandwidth person-to-person communication. It's important because the rest of the year everyone is working in separate countries and time-zones, with the only contact being via text-based IRC chat. If you want, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu, LTSP, they're all here and Wednesday's morning talk came from Intel aficionados (and Debian veterans) Mike Jennings and Max Alt. This was a sneak preview into the technology that Intel is expecting to release to the market in the next year and how Ubuntu can be ready for increased power-saving, hardware-based Xen and multi-core goodness; all out-of-the box, of course! Thirty years ago there were futurists with predictions of computers that would talk. During todays bird-of-feather accessibility session, that came just a little closer to reality... Thanks to the wonderful discovery of small and efficient GPL'ed eSpeak speech synthesizer, the next release is likely to feature text-to-speech right from the installer boot menu. If you want to know the future of computing for everyone, then perhaps this is the place to be. It's round, delicious and slightly caramel in colour---just like the crème flambeau we ate for pudding. (Log in to post comments)
Ubuntu Developer Conference - Paris Posted Jun 23, 2006 4:03 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link] Note that the blueprint component of Launchpad was in use to help with scheduling at the previous Ubuntu summit in Montreal too. It didn't have a name last year though (other than "the spec tracker").
Ubuntu Developer Conference - Paris Posted Jun 25, 2006 11:39 UTC (Sun) by phgrenet (guest, #5979) [Link] I believe you meant "crème flambée" :)
Ubuntu Developer Conference - Paris Posted Jul 3, 2006 13:17 UTC (Mon) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654) [Link] And it may be in fact "une crême brulée" non?
Ubuntu Developer Conference - Paris Posted Jul 6, 2006 22:18 UTC (Thu) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link] Actually, if you want to pick nits, it's "crème brûlée"...
Ubuntu Developer Conference - Paris Posted Jun 30, 2006 14:49 UTC (Fri) by kevinbsmith (guest, #4778) [Link] I'm a huge Ubuntu fan, but I found the (presumably) tongue-in-check "Ubuntu is perfect for everyone" flavor of this article to be a bit irritating. I hope lwn doesn't end up publishing a stream of "articles" like this, each promoting a different distribution. I enjoy humor, but prefer it to be sprinkled into large quantities of actual news, rather than the other way around.
Sorry to be a wet blanket. Just thought I should speak up now rather than after then tenth such article shows up.
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