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[Stephen Michael Kellat <skellat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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FYI

I've already logged at Launchpad that I will be participating in the
event.  Will you be?

Stephen Michael Kellat
Ashtabula Township, Ashtabula County
Presenter, "The Burning Circle" http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/burningcircle


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Subject:     Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months
Date:     Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:29:17 -0800
From:     Jono Bacon <jono@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:     community-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Hi All,

- From the beginning of the Ubuntu project the Ubuntu community has
discussed, designed, and planned each release of Ubuntu at the <a
href="http://uds.ubuntu.com/";>Ubuntu Developer Summit</a> (UDS), which
happens every six months at the beginning of a new release cycle.

The event, organized and funded by Canonical, is designed to get the
brightest minds in the Ubuntu community together and develop a rigorous
set of blueprints and work items for the forthcoming release of Ubuntu.
These blueprints are tracked openly in
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ and work items tracked openly
at http://status.ubuntu.com.

UDS has had a long culture of openness and transparency, including
remote participation features, but Canonical wants to continue improving
and refining the openness and accessibility of the event. Furthermore,
we also want to open the opportunity for those to participate who cannot
travel physically to the event, particularly those who can bring
specialist experience and expertise across the convergent goals of
Ubuntu across the client and cloud orchestration in the server. Finally
with the change and evolution of Ubuntu and the increasing diversity of
experience joining the Ubuntu community, we want to be able to have
community-wide discussions more often than every six months.

With these goals in mind the Ubuntu Developer Summit is transitioning
over to an online event that takes place for two days every three
months, and driven by live video discussion sessions, complete with
integrated discussion, note-taking, and harnessing social media. This
online event will replace future physical UDSs, including the event
originally planned in Oakland, California in May 2013.

In the new online format the event will make extensive use of Google+
Hangouts On Air split across four channels, Client, Server & Cloud,
Community, and App Developers, with each channel having two video
streams totalling 8 potential concurrent UDS topics. UDS sessions will
be spread across these channels with integrated IRC, Etherpad, Social
Media sharing, and links to blueprints and specs.

As with the physical UDS, the event will also include keynotes, plenary
sessions and lightning talks; providing a great online venue for
planning the future of Ubuntu as well as delivering news, education,
demos and other related material. As with the physical UDS, the new
online format is open to all to participate as a contributor or viewer,
and we are confident that the online format will open up UDS to more and
more people around the world.

The new format of UDS provides an enhanced level of openness and
transparency that is optimized for online participants. Unlike the
physical UDS where a portion of the agenda is recorded in video form,
*every* session in the new UDS format will be recorded and available
from the schedule. Likewise, with the format of the event being online,
the audio and video quality of the online experience should be much
improved compared to recording a physical room of people with a single
microphone and camera and variable sound levels. The full set of
recordings will also make reviewing past sessions easier and make it
easier for the press, enthusiasts, partners and others to review the
details of the discussions.

The event will continue to be scheduled at http://summit.ubuntu.com and
due to the lighter nature of organizing an online event as opposed to a
physical event, the new UDS format will be scheduled approximately every
three months (as opposed to every six months). This will provide an
increased level of participation and discussion around how we create and
build Ubuntu across the desktop, devices and cloud.

With the fantastic level of interest in the recent phone and tablet
announcements, we decided that we couldn?t wait until May to run this
new format for UDS, so the first online UDS will be taking place next
week from 5th - 6th March 2013 from 4pm UTC - 10pm UTC and the next
event will take place around the same time as the originally scheduled
physical UDS in Oakland; we will confirm the dates soon. Canonical will
review the success of the next two online events and then then assess
whether to continue the online format. We look forward to seeing you at
the inaugural online UDS next week!

Thanks!

   Jono

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Jono Bacon
Ubuntu Community Manager
www.ubuntu.com <http://www.ubuntu.com> / www.jonobacon.org
<http://www.jonobacon.org>
www.identi.ca/jonobacon <http://www.identi.ca/jonobacon>
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