http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/4478/
1) Many people just don't know where to begin. Create a developer resource website and a "Beginner Developer Package" as mentioned in idea #4354.
The website should mostly contain articles aimed at new developers. It can link to external resources (e.g. the KDE and GNOME developer websites) for more advanced information.

Both the website and the developer package should be maintained by the general Linux community. Although the project will not be distro specific, The Ubuntu community will benefit greatly by sponsoring the project.

2) Bring back Canonical Code Bounties to motivate new developers.
Integrate them with community bounties as mentioned in idea 1295.

3) Create a Ubuntu Design Rewards website. (Idea 2961.)
Most developers coding for OS X and Windows have never even heard of Ubuntu. Mac OS X in particular has a costant stream of neat new apps. We need to capture their attention and bring them to Linux by way of contests and prizes.

In particular, Canonical should focus on attracting high school and university students. Google has been sucessful in bringing students to open source by using prizes and monetary incentives (GSoC and GHOP). We need to be more welcoming and do the same.


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I would like to see a website with some simple "Hello World!" type of software.
That I can download and run, and if it works, try to change it todo something else, and see if it still works.

Microsoft has MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network).]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:49:14 +0000
I am a potential candidate for this. I've got complex script-writing, Java programming, a little bit of php, perl, python, and C++ in my background. I'd like to help out, but have never had the time to really get involved. That's changing in the near future, though.

I still don't know of a place to start, however...]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:08:51 +0000
You're right about trying to attract a younger crowd. Not because of older developers not wanting to help, but because we're essentially teaching a new generation the advantages of free software and the next generation will follow suit.

It's predicted that by 2012, Linux will have 3 times it's current user base. It may not sound like a lot, but to trpile your base in 4 years is astonishing.

The only thing I would suggest is targeting this to a wider audience. Ubuntu's purpose is to attract an every day computer user and not particularly developers. Make it a separate entity sponsored by different Linux distributions. We're all Linux users and despite our distribution, we should all be working towards collaboration to further unify the Linux community as a whole.]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:18:47 +0000
If the userbase triples it will need developers to triple to. Read this article --> http://www.bryceharrington.org/drupal/foss-win-paradox

+1]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:36:54 +0000
If anyone interested, please contact me at ndeschildre at gmail.]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:00:25 +0000
I'm a bit busy with Universal Applets at the moment, but I'll begin working on the website if other people volunteer to help out.]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:33:39 +0000
AHA! I just came up with a better idea! Only have a couple of toolbars. At the bottom of the top is the "standard toolbar", which isn't very standard. It can have font and size and bold, italic, underline, but then it's divided into neat, simple, small menus. "Text", "Pictures", "Other Media", and some other stuff. This can change for word processor to presentation, etc. Then there's the menubar with similar stuff as before for people who like the old, familiar, yet inefficient look, and then there's the custom toolbar (working name) as I explained before.

I think this is an awesome idea! I finally got inspiration! I'm going to design this on GIMP over the weekend! yay!!!!]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:59:49 +0000
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment

You should be able to get started, I think.]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:23:43 +0000 Learning the language is one thing, but the key thing is setting up the development environment...

I'm a fairly experience developer, but that is the major impediment for me. ]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:29:01 +0000

If you vote for this, maybe you should also consider voting for hosting annual Ubuntu Design Awards, which would showcase new projects, and the best of what we have:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2961/]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:29:45 +0000
That way the current awful gnome-screensaver might get fixed.]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:38:31 +0000
Along with http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2961/

These ideas all complement each other. ]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:12:01 +0000
http://www.progbox.co.uk/wordpress/?p=512]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:53:06 +0000
So yes, I'd love a beginners guide with decent tools. :)]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:12:43 +0000 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:43:09 +0000
The best IDE so far is Monodevelop, but this is one the evil .net things! *rolleyes* Anjuta is often unststable and Netbeans (i must use it for study) is quite ugly.

KDevelop is for KDE, i don't try it.

I have a friend, who is developer too. But he uses VisualStudio. He was very interested in concept (protability) of GTK+ (he said the MFC is quite ugly and i can confirm it ;-) ) but there are no (integrated) GTK+ editors for VisualStudio, like in Monodevelop. When Monodevelop has been worked on Win32 in this time he had tried and evaluate Gtk+ (positive i think). Now he use WinForms and .Net for his GUI needs and C/C++ for performance programming. In this time he works with CUDA[wich is not available as Ubuntu Package too this time] to encode h264 with GPU. ;-) And this is what i mean... that could be the power of Ubuntu to install needed development packages, without need of setting pathes or large config tasks. But when you add a request for packaging first, you don't know when/if it will be included. But as developer you need some things just in Time. (whats often ending in quick and dirty installation tasks)

PS: I my mind VALA is a really good thing and should be promoted!]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:10:06 +0000 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:42:35 +0000
Wikis are nice, but most of them lack good structure and readability.]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:49:46 +0000
THAT will help (future) Ubuntu developers I'm quite sure.]]> Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:27:57 +0000 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:31:00 +0000
Oké recently I wanted to start helping with the development of Ubuntu. After (finally) finding the development page, I had to jump endless from one to another page.

After a while i've stopped reading and went on doing some real programming on a other project...

Look at the chaos:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment)

Look how simple it can be:
http://quality.kde.org/develop/howto/howtohack.php ]]> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:00:55 +0000
If anyone has suggestions, please let me know by passing it to an related idea (do not vote it duplicate):

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7601/

I will take all the time needed to improve the page and meanwile begin helping developing Linux. I've twelve year of experience in java and c#, so need to learn some stuffe about c++. this combination should make me an effective quickstart writer (i will run into the same trouble as other beginning linux programmers.

I'll make this weekend an newgroup thread about this one, so we can discuss about the best way to make this happen.]]> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:40:16 +0000
Ubuntu must have an Visual integrated Development tools, That tools can be a key to attract Developers.]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:19:33 +0000 But is really neccesary a great promotion and i wish that.
CAnnonical, please help and request for help,and the Unam, (i expected) will response. ]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:58:52 +0000