http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/02/ubuntu-developer-summit-to-move-online-be-held-more-often
Yeah its on lwn On Feb 26, 2013 11:03 AM, "Elizabeth Krumbach" <l...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > This news just came through this morning, they're moving UDS to an > online format which will take place every 3 months. > > Most notably for the team though: "This online event will replace > future physical UDSs, including the event originally planned in > Oakland, California in May 2013." > > So unfortunately no UDS in Oakland! > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jono Bacon <j...@ubuntu.com> > Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM > Subject: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months > To: community-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com > > > 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 > > -- > Jono Bacon > Ubuntu Community Manager > www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org > www.identi.ca/jonobacon www.twitter.com/jonobacon > -- > Community-announce mailing list > community-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/community-announce > > > > -- > Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2 > http://www.princessleia.com > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >
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