Canonical Offering Sponsorships to Ubuntu Developer Summit

by Lisa Hoover - Sep. 09, 2008Comments (1)

Anxious to go to the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Mountain View, CA this December but lack the funds to get there? Canonical is accepting requests for sponsorship and a lucky few will receive travel, entrance, and accommodations at no cost. It's not a free ride, though. Event organizers will definitely put the winners to work.

Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon says, "This time around we expect everyone we sponsor to lead at least one discussion around a topic that relates to one of the above topics - this means that you will schedule at least one session, lead the discussion and make notes about the outcome of the discussion. For sessions you are not leading, we still expect you to participate through the week and join in the discussions....We will also expect you to make the notes available at the end of the week so we can provide UDS proceedings for the wider community."

To qualify for sponsorship, applicants ought to be regularly contributing members of the community and also willing to volunteer additional time working with the event crew. Get all the sponsorship details here, or go directly to the signup page to apply. The deadline for requests is September 25, 2008.


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Great maybe someone there can ask someone at Canonical waht the bloody hell is the snag with the Ubuntu on Mini 9 netbook because they are blowing it.

They had a year to do a customization and they missed the launch and the back to school period and Acer cut their prices the same week.

No mention of Ubuntu on the Dell Mini 9 on the Dell sites in Germany, UK, France, Canada. Not a word.

the US site has a pre-order for Linux which they call Ubuntu a Mini-OS (!!) and they offered to you an UPGRADE to real OS like XP.

so far, not impressed by dell and no one media has bothered asking Canonical/DEll why.

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