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Contributing to Ubuntu August 19, 2009

Hello !

Its almost been two whole months since my last post, no excuses

I’ve always wanted to contribute to Ubuntu ever since I started using it about 15 months back. I found packaging to be the most interesting, although a little intimidating at first. But I checked out http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/GettingStarted and watched a few tutorial-like clips by Daniel Holbach at http://video.ubuntu.com/motuvideos . Those helped a lot, I finally set up my PPA on Launchpad.net a few days back, although I’ve had a Launchpad account since September 2007 when I first ordered an Ubuntu Live CD.

Well all that aside, even though, I packaged a few simple packages fairly easily, I am still unsure as to how to get around all the files and the little bit of fiddling(in a positive sense !) that is required.

Ubuntu Open Week takes place twice a year and has some really good sessions at #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net and luckily I have attended a few sessions during both the last two Open Weeks. I had also then heard of the Developer Week taking place but did not really know when it happended. Now finally, with the announcement that Ubuntu Developer Week will happen from Aug 31^st 2009 to Sep 4^th 2009 , I will get a chance to attend the fantastic sessions that take place and hopefully take a step forward

in contributing to Ubuntu !