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[Roger Nunn <rogernunn1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is interesting for those of us who have been involved in IT since the days of the first PCs (micro-computers as they were then known).
The spread and the depth of computing is everywhere, with more and more specialisation as software gets ever more complicated. Even the proliferation of programming languages is incredible, with languages appearing for more and more specific uses. It is no longer possible to say "I am a programmer" or even "..a C programmer". It seems that you have to choose your speciality before you choose the languages you want to learn. Having said that there are many programming principles and even syntax that remains the same.
I would like to be part of a community that works at different levels, giving new "would-be geeks" the chance to see if they want to get involved while also sharing the knowledge of more experienced programmers. Think about something that you know so well you can do it in your sleep. You could easily put together a 5 minute introduction to get noobs a taste of what you do, thereby selecting those whose interests fit with the specialisation.
My interest is, of course, partly personal as I would to understand what others' specialities are about, possibly then to join in and contribute to its development.
My own experience shows that getting involved for half an hour a day is effective in progressing a project, even when it is not my main bread-winner. I realise that there are many forums that cater for interested developers but I do feel that most of them start from having a considerable amount of awareness of the subject matter.
These comments come from one who used to write scripts in DOS and unix.Roger

      From: Hans-Peter <hanspeterg@xxxxxxx>
 To: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 Sent: Monday, 19 December 2016, 9:42
 Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Virtualization of UP development
   
On Sunday, 18 December 2016 10:14:53 CET Edison Nica wrote:
> Dear Ubuntu/Canonical community,
> 
> I would like to suggest a way to speed up development of UP.
> 
> Imagine a cloud solution to edit, compile, run tests and play with UP.
> 
> There is a huge barier for people like me that would be able to contribute
> but don't have much time.
> 
> But if you would give me access to an web platform, where I can just pick
> up a bug, say a crash with the user dump ready or a failed test, I could
> get my hands in.
> 
> I know, I am lazy, and I could get involved if I really wanted.
> 
> But I am too busy for anything that requires more than 30 minutes of
> preparation, hardware access or messing up with my machine too much.
> 
> Ubuntu (Canonical) could help people to help them, it could scale and speed
> up development.
> 
> My 2 cents,
> Edi
> 

I would be developing for UP for a long time, if something like this would exist.

I've already tried to install ubuntu-sdk on my system (I'm on kubuntu) but never
succeeded. It takes a lot of time to install/deinstall/reinstall the sdk and is no fun at all. 
First time I tried, I was on kubuntu 16.04.  I came as far as having a working IDE,
but the emulator just hung. After the upgrade to 16.10 I am really stuck. ubuntu-sdk
crashes on startup, and qtcreator is gone. So not only it is not working, it also messed
up my system. But hey, I have a Ubuntu Phone, so life is great!

Cheers,
Hans-Peter

PS: Where is the right place to ask for help fixing the sdk?

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