This is a presentation held at eLiberatica 2007. http://www.eliberatica.ro/2007/ One of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica brings community leaders from around the world to discuss about the hottest topics in FLOSS movement, demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions. The eLiberatica organizational committee together with our speakers and guests, have graciously allowed media representatives and all attendees to photograph, videotape and otherwise record their sessions, on the condition that the photos, videos and recordings are licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License.

1. THE OPEN SOURCE ECOSYSTEM
AND UBUNTU
Kurt von Finck

2. Ubuntu
Ubu what?

3. Ubuntu Goals
 Create a usable, free operating system
utilizing free software
 Release predictably
 Contribute in meaningful ways to upstream
projects
 Build a sustainable development model
 Community development
 Paid staff for distro guidance, core development, support,
and partner relations

4. Ubuntu Releases
 Release every 6 months
 Commercial, security and critical bug
fix support for 18 months
 LTS versions support is longer
 3 years on the desktop
 5 years on the server

5. Ubuntu Releases
 Release numbers based on dates
 6.06 LTS (June 2006)
 6.10 (October 2006)
 7.04 (April 2007)

6. Ubuntu Releases
Development cycles have names
 6.06 LTS – The Dapper Drake
 6.10 – The Edgy Eft
 7.04 – The Feisty Fawn
 7.10 – The Gutsy Gibbon

7. Engineering Ubuntu
Start of a release cycle:
 Collecting feature specifications in
Launchpad
 Techboard review
 Ubuntu Developers' Summit
Gutsy UDS - Seville, Spain - May 7-11

8. Engineering Ubuntu
th
 June 21 – Debian Import Freeze
th
 August 16 – Feature Freeze / UVF
 September 20th – Beta Freeze
 September 27th – Beta Release
 October 4th – Kernel Freeze
 October 11th – Release Candidate
 October 18th - Release

9. Engineering Ubuntu
What goes in?
 Upstreams
 Debian
 GNOME / KDE
 Linux Kernel
 Toolchain
 x.org

10. Engineering Ubuntu
What goes in?
 Software Communities
 Ubuntu-studio
 Ubuntu-xen

11. Engineering Ubuntu
What goes in?
 Other Ubuntu Communities
 Documentation
 Artwork
 Translations

12. Summary
Where do you fit?
 IT Professional
 Free / Open Source Software developer
 Passionate end user
TOMORROW
Getting involved in the open source process.
Why and how.