uds-q

UDS-Q ended on May 11th, 2012, yet various interviews are still landing in the open, with a double-sided approach: as Ubuntu in the wild experiences but also as interesting insights about how Ubuntu gained portions of its overall success across the time.

UDS-Q was an exciting event that brought a solid amount of news for the next Ubuntu development cycle, where Quantal is the first piece of the next 2 years Ubuntu iteration (the period of time from an LTS to another).

Ubuntu Developer Summit Quantal reached its end Friday, May 11th 2012, event with exciting news that are to be observed across Quantal development cycle.

UDS-Q's sessions are available on Ubuntu's official Youtube channel in a limited number, nevertheless, for users who are seeking a more complete UDS-Q coverage, the live recordings (OGG format) are available for download (a massive number) on http://mirrors.tumbleweed.org.za/uds-q/ .

LibreOffice provides a great office experience in Ubuntu, nevertheless there are various complaints expressed by users related to LibreOffice's Ubuntu integration.

In a talk at UDS-Q, Ubuntu's Sebastien Bacher stated (minute 11:46) that LibreOffice will gain appmenu integration by default in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal.

Probably, blockages that kept lo-menubar as a non-default package are to be fixed, furthermore, by enabling the appmenu by default, users will be able to properly maneuver LibreOffice via the HUD, too.

One of UDS-Q's hot topics has been about Electronic Arts, a globally known game industry, that has already produced two free web-browser based games available in Ubuntu Software Center.

It seems that Quantal will probably introduce exciting new features, approach that is suitable for a release after the LTS, where stability was a focus much more important than new features.

According to a UDS-Q session, GNOME Control Center is to probably be renamed to Ubuntu Control Center, change that, although not entirely new (the developers patched the GNOME Control Center in Precise, etc), is to be a patched version or a fork.

UDS-Q is an interesting event in progress at-the-moment, generating exciting news, plans and objectives that are to probably land/materialize in the Quantal development cycle.

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is to probably feature the Linux kernel 3.5 or 3.6 (RC x), depending on how the 3.5 version will be received by the developers, furthermore, there is another possibility to ship Linux kernel 3.6 release candidate (3, 4, 5, etc), action that is to shortly be followed by the landing of 3.6 stable release (via the Update Manager).

Along with various exciting news, Mark Shuttleworth talked about introducing in the desktop theming new concepts, such as origami.

According to Wikipedia, the word origami comes from ori (meaning folding) and kami (meaning paper), so basically, origami is a centuries-old paper folding Japanese art, "the goal of this art is to transform a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques".

The long-awaited Mark Shuttleworth's keynote has just been ended, bringing interesting news that to probably be implemented in the next cycles, keynote that bears general approach touching various Ubuntu initiates from a macro level.

Ubuntu Developer Summit Q has officially started with Ubuntu's Jono Bacon introduction.

In the short introduction, Jono carefully explained various internal development components (like blueprints, etc), general proper behavior, a new social-based presentation interaction (where participants can go to the stage and present interesting things) , as well as safety measures that are to be taken seriously by attendees.