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So tonight is my flight to Paris and then onto Barcelona where I will attend the Ubuntu Developers Summit (as most of you probably know).

This is where all of us interested and employed Ubuntu geeks will get together and hash out the next version of Ubuntu marked “Karmic Koala” 9.10 and is due to be released in October of this year. I also want to make sure that some sessions dedicate some time to talking about more long term projects and directions. It can be frustrating when you can’t plan for 10.10 because it’s too far ahead, but some projects are going to need that more long term thoughtfulness and we should always be looking out for chances to plan ahead.

There are a number of things I’ll be focusing on, some infrastructural, some QA and some desktop experience; but most of what I’ll be doing will be community stuff. I love to meet the other developers of Ubuntu (all flavours) and I look forward to meeting other LoCo members, team leaders and talking some more to the head-honcho Jono Bacon (Buy his book, In stores Now!).

I have some printed copies of Ubunchu which I will give to dedicated fans of my blog¹ and I’m planning on asking Mark to sign two for Seotch and C-quel who did so much hard work on it without even being in the ubuntu community themselves (yet).

We did send 100 CDs and 50 printed copes of the manga to the Boston Anime convention, big thanks to DPic for organising and dragging me out of bed to get the editing done for the booklet format and folding lots of paper. They all disappeared in a few hours on Friday, even when all the other leaflets on the table had disappeared. Looks like next year we’ll have to take a few thousand CDs.

Things I’m excited about discussing are further thoughts towards unified data access systems, config management, infrastructural qa and some hardware management topics. Look for me if any of these pip your interest. Oh and don’t forget about the LoCoRST project, I’ll be trying to hack on that some more on the flight.

Happy traveling everyone!

¹Or people who I wish to carry favour with *bribe smile*

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