Today the UDS starts which takes place at Google in Mountain View, CA. They have nice office buildings, lots of parking space, a lot of green (grass, trees, flowers etc.) and it all stimulates creativity. It almost feels like a geek’s home. Bean bags, wifi everywhere (I still have to find a black spot), great food, post-it space invaders, non-stereotype geeky employees, they have got it all.

I followed a community track and at some point the question was asked “So why do you do Ubuntu?” Some of the answers included: it feels like doing charity work, fixing bug #1, equality, learning, great people, freedom of speech/technical/accessibility, sexy.

In the “Enabling 3rd party repositories” session the concensus was that you will still require root for installation and that one uses /opt/vendor if it can’t be built as a normal Debian package. When these repositories are implemented, they will probably also be backported to Hardy (if it catches on).

After a long day I decided to go to bed early, I did not feel well.