Plenary Ideas and Suggestions

After lunch at UDS we usually have an hour of plenary talks to give people an opportunity to address Ubuntu developers as a whole. Usually these are broken up into :15 minute sessions. If you want to do a plenary then please add your topic below. Here are some hints:

The intended audience is the group of Ubuntu Developers and upstreams/downstreams in attendance.
"Here's what's going with this upstream project and how it will affect Ubuntu" makes for great plenaries.
15 minutes is preferred but if you need more time then please note that.
The presenter should not bore people to death, remember it's right after lunch.

When scheduling starts JorgeCastro will slot your plenary into a session and it will show up on the schedule. It is up to YOU to ensure that your presentation gets delivered to Jorge ahead of time. This can be via USB stick, mail, Ubuntu One, or whatever. Unless you are demoing something that requires your own laptop we'd ask everyone to just use the projector already there. Jorge will also drive your slides if you want and take questions from the audience with the microphone.

Proposed Plenaries

Topic	Presenter(s)	Special Needs
What's in the Qt Pipeline	Jorgen Lind and Thiago Macieira	projector, Monday or Tuesday only
Making Meetings Awesome	AlanBell	projector + internet
Edubuntu - Plans for the future	StephaneGraber	projector
Happiness through Wine	ScottRitchie	own laptop + projector: first after lunch is probably best
Community Contributions	JonoBacon	projector
State of the Art of OpenPrinting	TillKamppeter	projector + internet
Contributing with a Ground Control	MartinOwens	projector + internet
Reviewing patches with Mergimus	Sense Hofstede	project, internet, access to Launchpad and a notebook. (Plenary most preferably before the two patch initiative talks scheduled for Wednesday)
Etherpad	AlanBell or Popey or Daviey	projector + internet + some people in the room on internet
Launchpad Translations: bridging the gap with upstreams	DavidPlanella + HenningEggers	projector + internet
Maverick Development Process, Schedule Overview	rickspencer3	projector
Application Developers and Maverick	rickspencer3 and others	projector
Touch Device Experience	repete	projector
What's this bit do? -- Ghosts of the plumbing layer; past, present and future	ScottJamesRemnant	projector, 30 minutes, spooky-sounding chains
First look at a new tool - Tracking kernel patches across many git repos	SteveConklin	projector + own laptop for demo

Lightning Talks

On the Friday instead of Plenaries we will have Lightning Talks. Remember that it's the end of UDS and everyone will be tired, so don't be boring. We're just going to queue you up next to the projector and fire off a 5 minute timer. Sign up here:

Alan Pope - Mumbuntu
Steve Langasek - 5 ways to break your system with upstart
Chris Johnston - Intro to ClassBot
Dustin Kirkland - UEC LiveCD Demo
Jonathan Lange - Hack like an evil overlord
Travis Hartwell - Debugging and source dependencies

Plenaries and Lightning Talks You'd Like to See

If you'd like to see a topic covered put it down here so we can hunt presenters down:

At GUADEC mpt gave a talk on ten things developers can do to improve their software from a design basis. That would be a great talk to have at UDS.
At GUADEC mpt once explained to me the details of what makes fonts awesome; stuff I never noticed. We should have mpt/mt do a combined font geek thing.
Boot speed progress report
Making people aware of what is needed for your application to provide proper accessibility support.
A quick talk on what to do and what not to do when starting a new project or team within the Ubuntu Community.