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Jaunty UDS

Jaunty UDS has finished. I haven't been there but planet.ubuntu.com provided a good coverage.  Jono Bacon posted on his blog a link to videos from the Jaunty UDS. You might find schedule to be helpful while downloading/watching them.

I couldn't find the most interesting sessions though =( the Upcoming Lauchpad Features, Brainstorm Overview, Becoming MOTU, Python 3000 QA, ext4 and so on. Basically anything that happened in Olympus Mons hall. That's disappointing because there also was a session on Google Apps Engine.

Maybe we will find it on Google Code YouTube channel or something like that.

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