Off to UDS
I can’t believe it’s already time to depart dear old London and head across the Atlantic to participate in another UDS. Although “participate in” doesn’t feel like the right verb, does it? UDS is a frantic, electric whirligig of meetings and conversations and decisions and on-the-spot calls, cool ideas and grand hopes, energy and exhaustion. “Almost drown in” would be closer. I’m looking forward to it, but I’m a little bit daunted. The last one took more out of me than I thought I had.
To make my own life easier and satisfy whatever stalkers I may have been fortunate enough to accumulate, I thought I’d post now about what sessions I’m planning on going to at UDS:
Monday
- 11: Linaro Roundtable / catch up with other Launchpadders
- 12: Review and planning for Ubuntu Distributed Development
- 15: Natty Harvest Plans
- 16: Ubuntu Development Advocacy
Tuesday
- 9: BOF for metrics for release and project management
- 10: Either Enhancements to the Software Center UI or Patch tracking for Linaro
Wednesday
Thursday
- 10: Git for Bazaar users
- 11: Discussion of topics related to Canonical-wide QA
- 12: Improve the workflow for “fixing a bug” or Define the end-to-end process for commercial apps in the software center
Friday
- 9: Discuss Soyuz work to be done in preparation for Archive Reorganization
- 10: Either Improve the image-building service for Linaro or Handling non-English bugs
- 11: Launchpad/Bazaar introduction
- 12: Linaro infrastructure stakeholder process
- 15: High-level development overview
Of course, I’ll probably be going to sessions other than the ones I’ve mentioned above. Sessions about how to design applications well or how to write code for Ubuntu One always catch my eye.
However, my job is about improving developer collaboration – that’s pretty much the whole point of Launchpad. So any session about development tools, development process or interactions between different groups of people always take precedence. I’m at UDS to listen and to learn, and to contribute what little I can.