Developer News

General

Concept

We aim to get weekly news out about Ubuntu Development. With such a huge variety of teams and efforts going on, it's important that we do our best to

• keep everybody up to date
• celebrate excellent work that is going on
• provide insight into Ubuntu development
• invite new developers in

Examples

• http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/08/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-10/

• http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/15/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-11/

• http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/25/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-12/

• http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/30/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-13/

Outreach

Currently the weekly development update is posted on:

• http://fridge.ubuntu.com

• http://omgubuntu.co.uk

Also is it mentioned by the @ubuntudev account on social networks:

• http://twitter.com/ubuntudev

• http://facebook.com/ubuntudev

• http://identi.ca/ubuntudev

• http://gplus.to/ubuntudev

Help out

We need help to write these updates and collect great information. If you are interested in joining a young team interest in Ubuntu development, please join the ubuntu-news-team mailing list and introduce yourself. We're happy to have you on board!

Submit news

If you have development news you want us to include, get them to ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com (and prefix the subject with "[dev]") until Thursday. We are interested in almost every story. If you want to

• highlight some great work done by somebody else
• explain some changes that are upcoming
• ask for help on a project
• give a bit of background about something your team is working on
• an interview you did
• ...

Thanks a lot in advance!