As you may have heard, we are hosting an event geared towards the Ubuntu Community. We are calling it “Ubuntu Summit” and it’s taking place November 7–9th in Prague, Czech Republic. You can find more information at summit.ubuntu.com… or you can just keep reading.
But wait… is this the same thing as the “Ubuntu Developer Summit” events that occurred once upon a time? Well, not quite. There are some notable differences that we will outline in this post.
Ubuntu Developer Summit: The Good Ole Days
[CC BY-SA 2010 Sean Sosik-Hamor]
Back in 2004, Ubuntu releases were planned during regularly scheduled summits, where the greater Ubuntu community would come together for planning and hacking sessions. This event occurred two times a year, each one running for a week. The discussions were highly technical and heavily influenced the direction of the subsequent Ubuntu release.
We called these events the…