UDS Lucid Jour 1

Voici que se termine la première journée de l'UDS lucid. Beaucoup de discussions intéressantes, sur divers sujet. Cela fait toujours plaisir de rencontrer les veilles connaissances aussi bien upstream (projets amont) que ceux de la communauté Ubuntu. Voici un rapide résumé de la journée : - Première plénière de bienvenue avec la présentation des différentes tracks[1] et de la position globale pour la prochaine LTS, lucid lynx. Le déroulement des sessions et de l'UDS en général est également présenté.

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UDS Lucid Day 0

Après quelques 13 heures de voyages, me voici à Dallas afin de vous faire partager l'UDS Lucid! Pour les personnes qui ne le savent pas, l'UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) est la réunion binannuelle des dévelopeurs ubuntu (Canonical et la communauté) ainsi que quelques personnes de projets amonts qui sont invités (debian, GNOME…). J'ai la chance d'être sponsorisé pour la deuxième fois consécutive par Canonical pour assister et participer à ces réunions.

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Ubuntu-fr French release party

On 30th October, it was time to celebrate the new Koala invasion! Contrary to our Ubuntu Party (next one will be in Paris on 28 and 29th November) opened to any kind of public and especially computer science non specialist, we also have at each release a dinner in Paris with few people more or less in the FLOSS ecosystem. 51 persons came this time and enjoying sharing good time with friends.

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NotifyThis 0.1: notify everything easily!

In our French ubuntu party organized by ubuntu-fr, we have approximately 20 free and ready to use computers for people to be able to try ubuntu on their own (we have someone around to help new users). But that's a lot of wasted space for advertising our conferences, scheduled demonstrations, lessons we have during the party! So, the idea was to create a daemon notifying this, resulting in: NotifyThis is here to fulfill this need.

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En direct de la global jam à Paris

Hier, Christophe a posté sur le planet ubuntu anglophone quelques photos de Toulouse. Aujourd'hui, c'est au tour de Paris! Cet évènement est bien évidemment également organisé par ubuntu-fr. Au programme: la testing jam sur la version béta de karmic très stable une bug jam, tout comme il y a 6 mois une documentation jam (afin de nettoyer et préparer les 7000 pages du wiki d'ubuntu-fr

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Live from Paris global jam in France

Yesterday, Christophe posted some photos of Toulouse jam. Today, it's Paris time! This event is also organized by ubuntu-fr. We currently have: a testing jam on the new rocking karmic beta version a bug jam, as 6 months ago a documentation jam (to clean and prepare documentation reference. 7000 wiki pages to clean up!) Other photos and unattended teacher :)

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Global Jam à Paris ce dimanche 4 octobre !

MAIS QUE SE PASSE-T-IL CETTE SEMAINE SUR UBUNTU ? Eh bien, c'est la Global Jam, évènement regroupant toutes les loco-teams d'ubuntu à travers le monde afin de passer un week-end à apprendre et à contribuer au projet Ubuntu. Et Ubuntu-fr en propose deux en France. Pas besoin d'être technicien/développeur/programmeur/geek/...[très important) et lancez-vous ! Pour cela, plusieurs activités sont proposées : - une testing jam : jeudi prochain sort la version béta[2] de karmic koala (la 9.

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Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 9

We are now almost ready to land! Here is the last part of this long suit of blog posts about Quickly. Packaging your project It's the last, but not the least issue when you are writing your software: once your application is functional, you surely want to enable other users to install it. Well, you can give it into a tar.gz and run from a trunk, but what about creating a nice package, containing all dependency information for you[1]?

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Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 8

You have now your amazing and remarkable new Quickly "ubuntu-project" templated project but don't know how to start hacking on it? Here are some tips for you, just there, keep on! Modifying your ubuntu-project edit command Quickly edit is a convenient command to open all of your python files contained in your project in your default editor, ready for editing. Just run: $ quickly edit anywhere in your project tree.

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Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 7

We previously saw the general concepts around Quickly and more particular its core. So, now, it's time to dive into the different commands of the first Quickly template which is ubuntu-project. What brings me ubuntu-project template? To make programming easy and fun, we've made some opinionated[1] choices about what tools, apis, etc.. to use. In a nutshell: Python for the language pygtk for the UI framework Glade for the UI editor Gedit for the code editor (though this is easy for you to change if you choose another one) bzr for version control Launchpad for code hosting desktopcouch for storage/database (!

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