My idea has been uploaded to the Ubuntu Brainstorm! It is an idea to create an Ubuntu Developer Network. Microsoft has it’s own network called MSDN, and Sun Microsystems has its own, SDN. So, why not have one for Ubuntu!?
I have felt this was one weak spot in the Ubuntu community for a while now. A page devoted to the development of Ubuntu applications (and Ubuntu itself) could be really beneficial to the project. Just picture this: a beginning programmer, just like one who would come to Windows, would come to the developer’s site from a link of the main Ubuntu page (or alternatively the “Get Involved” page). The beginning developer would find the track devoted to showing a beginner how to develop for Ubuntu, going from the available programming languages to the process of building a simple package. For more experienced developers, there could be a track for getting involved with uploading the packages to REVU, and running through the steps necessary to build and upload a program for Ubuntu. Beyond this, the Ubuntu Developer Channel videos from YouTube could be embedded into the site. Also, the Ubuntu Developer News could be hosted on the site. The main idea here is building a community around Ubuntu development, not just on the OS, but on applications for the system.
So, if you like this idea, help promote it (you can get to it via the link I posted above)! You have to register for the Ubuntu Brainstorm site if you have not done so already.
UPDATE: Here’s a mockup:
The mockup is only a basic idea, and stretches the limits of my skills with the GIMP. 
Many, many thanks, for posting such a good idea,
I am starting my own project based on launchpad and bzr
but I didn’t fully get aware of connecting to bzr-launchpad via
ssh and being able to make some commits, additionally I am a
computer science student in one of the nine best technical universities in Germany. And I do not have REALLY much time left…
(Interactive) Videosessions, discussion boards, playground (KDE) sandboxes, where new users could do the first steps without harm anything/anyone…. would be even for the developing countries regions absolutely great!
have a nice day….
This , is very much required ,consider my application now itself for managing a group from my country {India} , when this idea is implemented , i wish it will be very soon ATB from myside
Awesome idea!
I know open source always talks of how any one can help developing if interested but most projects seem to discourage that by their tape process. Also the documentation could surely use some love and commitment. I’m shocked that Linux and other open source projects don’t have many “code walk-through sites” or at the very least very accurate architecture documentation. I know some of this was happening early on in the Linux history but if you look at some of the more technical documentation on Linux internals some of it hasn’t been touched in years.
Count me in for a yeah!
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