eric’s extremeboredom

I’ll be heading down to Portland tomorrow afternoon for Ubuntu Live! and OSCON. I’m really looking forward to meeting up with Chris and Steve, both of whom I haven’t seen in over a year.

Hacking BoF

I’ve organized a “hacking session” BoF at Ubuntu Live, anyone interested in improving Ubuntu and GNOME is invited to attend.

Here’s the official description:

Do hackers of a feather flock together? Let's find out at Ubuntu Live!

Anyone interested in hands on experience improving Ubuntu is invited to come by
to share ideas, bugs, code, or whatever else is on your mind.

Agenda may include (and is certainly not limited to):

    * Overview of technologies that make up the modern GNOME/Ubuntu desktop
    * Problem solving/debugging tips
    * Brief introduction to launchpad.net (reporting bugs, suggesting features,
      etc.)
    * Going through the Ubuntu Desktop team TODO list and working on small
      tasks.

I'd also like to throw everyone in the room at a specific project, such as
fixing out-of-the-box touchpad support for laptop users, and see what we can
accomplish in a night. This will be a great opportunity for both experienced
and brand-new developers to make something cool that will (hopefully) see it's
way into a future release.

See you there!

P.S. If you're from the area and have a projector and/or whiteboard to bring,
that would be great!

The event will be taking place on Sunday from 8:00pm to 9:00pm. If things are going well, we will find somewhere else to keep hacking after they kick us out at 9.

More information at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuLive2007

See you there!