For all the Geeks out there who swear by open source technology , you have a friend in Ubuntu ! Yep , thats right ! Ubuntu , famous for being the most user friendly Linux based operating system , is compiling their second round of developer week ! The  Ubuntu Opportunistic developer conference has been slated to be held from 1st-6th March 2010 , the details for which can be found on Ubuntu`s Home page .

What is the Developer Week ?

The Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer week is an Online meeting of aspiring developers and professionals , to help
inexperienced developers develop applications that suits their needs on the Open source framework. The agenda for the developer week this timearound, is to give the  developers  a head start on the various technologies that they will use to build     applications ,  like python tools and frameworks , Bazaar , Launchpad and infrastructure etc.The previous developer week was held from Jan 25th  2010 toJan 29th 2010 .

If you want to be a part of the Developer week you need to register  here .  All the Developer sessions are conducted online.  And if you think you can contribute to any one of the sessions you can drop an email at : [email protected] .

The growth of Open source technology has indeed been phenomenal , from web servers to operating systems ! Linux has proven to be a robust operating system and is now barely trailing their competitors Microsoft. So , all you techies out there , pull up your socks and make the most of this Technovanza ! For any other information you can check Ubuntu`s website !

There are empty slots in the upcoming conference . The rough schedule is as follows :

	Mon 1st March	Tue 2nd March	Web 3rd March	Thu 4th March	Fri 5th March
16.00 UTC (9:30 PM IST)	Welcome ! Ubuntu for opportunistic developers – Jono Bacon		Getting your app in launchpad with Bazaar – David Futcher
17.00 UTC (10:30 PM IST )	CouchDB support in you app with DesktopCouch – Stuart Langridge	SHOWCASE: Gwibber- Ken Vandine	Creating stunning interfaces with Cairo- Lazslo Pandy	SHOWCASE: Lernid: Jono Bacon	Creating a PyKDE app-Rich Jonson
18:00 UTC (11:30 PM IST)	Creating an application from scratch from Quickly -Rick spencer	Microblog from you app with the Gwibber API -Ken VanDine	Whats new in Quickly 0.4 – Didier Roche
19.00 UTC (12:30 PM IST)	Building in Application indicator support -Sense Hofstede	Writing a RhytmBox plugin – Stuart Langridge
20.00 UTC ( 1:30 AM IST)	Integrated development workflow with Ground Control – Martin Owens	Building multimedia into your app with GStreamer – Laszlo Pandy			Web browsing and rapid UI with WebKit – Ryan Paul

If you would like to confirm what your local time is as compared to the UTC time : just run date -u in a terminal to find out what the current UTC time is.

Are you  going to participate on this Open source frenzy? Do let me know via your comments.