Getting started within the Ubuntu Community
summary
Practical steps: create an Ubuntu SSO account, join your local Loco and RC channels on Libera Chat, and register on discourse. Contribution options include writing or updating documentation (Discourse wikis, legacy Ubuntu Wiki via Launchpad access), artwork for Yaru and flavours, triaging bugs, and packaging apps as snaps (many apps remain un-packaged). Ubuntu Accomplishments is relaunched as a snap daemon that scans activity, awards trophies via Python scripts, with a Flutter/Dart viewer and translations managed through Transifex.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:18Welcome
- 1:07Background
- 2:45Getting started
- 3:34Discourse
- 4:39IRC
- 5:15How did I get started
- 6:43Writing documentation
- 8:11Art Design
- 9:30Technical Support
- 12:33Development
- 13:52Gamification
- 16:12Contributing
- 17:55Where to find me
- 20:17Loco Portal
- 22:21Ubuntu Podcasts
- 22:50Launchpad
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