A giant thanks for collaborating within the Ubuntu Summit! Whereas Canonical hosted the primary ever Ubuntu Summit (comparable however completely different to the Ubuntu Developer Summits of previous), it’s the folks—the sum of its elements—who collectively create the physique of the neighborhood. We couldn’t have had such a profitable occasion with out bodily and distant participation, so thanks!
This occasion was to carry the broader open-source neighborhood collectively to share experiences, concepts, and to encourage future thrilling tasks. To that finish, we’ve succeeded. With 5 discuss tracks and two workshop tracks—all in parallel—many of us usually wished they could possibly be in a number of locations at one time! There was excessive attendance and engagement throughout the board, which is energizing in and of itself!
Oh boy, there was a lot occurring! After an excellent opening by Philipp Kewisch (Group Chief) and Mark Shuttleworth (CEO), we dived proper again into the fondly acquainted convention routine, full with espresso and snacks. Courtesy of an expert photographer, Stanislav Milata, listed below are some pretty images of the Ubuntu Summit in Prague.
With so many tracks, it might be cumbersome to say each discuss and workshop, so a particular handful from every day have been highlighted to present the reader a really feel for what it was prefer to be there, and the joy buzzing all over the place. All the talks and workshops have been fantastic and left the viewers with a sense of motivation and keenness.
Day 1
Chosen talks/workshops
After an incredible opening, there was a chat by Craig Loewen from Microsoft on the newest WSL updates. His discuss included ideas and methods on setup in addition to what to see sooner or later!
Motivated by his creation of the snaps of the printing elements of Linux, Until Kamppeter, co-founder and chief of the OpenPrinting challenge for 21 years, organized the Snap tutorial workshop collection. It acquired kicked off with a Q&A snap panel, the place he had invited a number of people concerned with snaps, the snap structure, and the lively neighborhood round snaps, they usually all answered some copious nice questions.
The Flutter workshop collection was kicked off by Michal Predotka with a “mild introduction” to creating UI in flutter the place everybody was walked by constructing a wise dwelling hub utilizing Flutter.
There was an thrilling hands-on Mini Pupper workshop from Mangdang the place folks had nice enjoyable interacting with the robotic puppies! First, they tried out driving them manually, like an RC automotive, with a sport controller. Within the second half, they put in a robotic emulator on their laptops. And there was one partially dismantled Pupper, the place one may see its inside workings, particularly the mind, one thing many people are acquainted with …
The CutiePi challenge is a Raspberry-Pi-based pill. The challenge designer, Penk Chen, gave a superb discuss on the story of the CutiePi challenge and surviving provide chain shortages within the pandemic.
The primary day gave strategy to so many fantastic talks and conversations! Everybody wrapped up the tech aspect of the day with a handful of fabulous lightning talks after which went out for dinner.
stolní fotbal (foosball)
Out within the foyer of the ballroom, there was at all times sizzling water and occasional, and somebody on the foosball desk. It supported 10 folks on both sides and a 1:1 match meant working!
The foosball desk supplied a pleasant enjoyable outlet that was assured to place a smile on anybody’s face. Whereas typically it was an train, it was at all times filled with power.
Kinetic Knitting!
Many individuals got here again after dinner for a pleasant chill textile workshop. Utilizing near the Ubuntu orange and aubergine coloured acrylic yarn, Heather Ellsworth taught 10 people the best way to knit! Most picked it up and appeared to even get pleasure from it slightly, and some others joined in simply to speak. Those who caught with it made slightly rectangle with a row of 10 stitches. Due to everybody who participated, and carry on knitting!
Day 2
Chosen talks/workshops
After a quick intro, day 2 was began off with a cool keynote from Robbie Williamson on Ubuntu on Arm, the place he gave a historical past lesson on Ubuntu working on Arm processors.
Aleix Pol i Gonzalez, president of KDE, gave an informative discuss offering latest updates from KDE after which a complete tribe of GNOMies talked about latest updates in GNOME.
Within the hands-on enviornment, there was a workshop on constructing Flutter desktop apps from Frederik Feichtmeier and a second run of the Mini Pupper workshop, for individuals who missed the primary one!
After lunch many individuals attended Daniele Procida’s documentation workshop to get in-touch with their very own inside documentation author. In a while, Daniele taught folks the best way to construct a pen plotter from elements solely priced at 12.50 EUR, maybe the most affordable hardcopy machine in existence! It really works utterly with free software program and the output high quality is of course extra artwork than what you’ll count on!
How unbelievable that the pen plotter, Mini Pupper robots, and CutiePi pill are all utilizing the identical mind: a Raspberry Pi!
In a workshop on collaboration on music creation with open supply instruments, Tom Ray confirmed how utilizing Ubuntu Studio made distant music collaboration an achievable methodology of manufacturing artwork. He’s the frontman for Lorenzo’s Music (carried out on the closing celebration on the boat!), they usually produce all of their music below the Inventive Commons license.
The afternoon packed in much more full-length talks about snaps, Micro k8s, Juju, after which some. Additionally, if one crammed out a survey about Ubuntu Professional, they acquired a tasty cupcake, too!
Recreation evening!
Two of the rooms have been opened up and related to host a vibrant sport evening certainly! There have been two projectors related to varied gaming programs, and lots of tables crammed with excited folks desperately making an attempt to win a sport. Among the many varied card video games, there have been Carcassonne and Code Names. Robert Ancell even made his personal sport, Launch Champion, and lots of acquired to play it over the course of the occasion!
Day 3
Observe that we didn’t have the photographer for the third day of the convention. The photographer was solely on the boat celebration.
Chosen talks/workshops
After an excellent day 2, punctuated with gaming with mates, day 3 kicked off with a keynote by Eylul Dogruel on being a FLOSS artist. She took everybody by her inventive observe and the way free software program has influenced her strategies
In a while, there have been talks on Ubuntu in Colombia, and Ubuntu in Portugal. Each nations have vibrant Ubuntu communities and lengthy histories! Daniele Procida gave a few talks with the hiring leads at Canonical on the method of becoming a member of Canonical and the best way to apply. They talked about the place to search out the open roles, and answered the viewers’s hiring questions.
Since snaps are central to Ubuntu, there was one other nice Pi workshop that concerned Ubuntu Core, constructing an RPI monitoring station, the place Gabriel Aguiar Noury and Oliver Grawert confirmed to the viewers the best way to add a sensor to a Raspberry Pi, bundle a snap to learn and show the sensor information, and run this on an Ubuntu Core system. Subsequently, there have been different, extra superior matters of the Snap tutorial workshop collection: snapping daemons (one of many neat issues about snaps), snapping Flutter apps and snapping normal desktop purposes
Given the quantity of content material packed into three days of enjoyable, there have been different talks on matters similar to RISC-V, Juju, printing, Unity, automation.. and extra
This concluded the ultimate day, and all that was left was an enormous ole celebration!
Boat celebration!
All individuals have been invited to board a privately rented boat the place a full buffet, open bar, and stay music awaited. It solely appeared becoming to shut out with a stay efficiency of the fantastic artistic commons music from Lorenzo’s Music! The drinks flowed freely because the rain drizzled down exterior. Courtesy of the photograph sales space, many of us took away all types of foolish costumed footage of themselves with good firm.
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As soon as once more, Thank You, everybody who attended the primary Ubuntu Summit! Thank You, everybody who was concerned with the planning of the Summit, and Thank You to Canonical for throwing an epic orange celebration!
That is the form of our broader neighborhood, shaped from all corners of the world. We collaborate to have enjoyable and construct nice issues. Collectively we’re larger than the sum of our elements.
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