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Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Shaping up universal snaps

This article was last updated 8 years ago.


Following the announcement of snaps being supported across a range of key Linux distributions, the development teams working on snaps and Snapcraft are making universal snaps one of the main topics of their next sprint in Heidelberg, Germany, from 18-22 July.

Snappy sprints are face-to-face events where multiple teams working on snap technologies, including Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, get together to plan, design and develop their next release and longer term roadmap. After the initial positive reception amongst initial adopters, tech media and wider open source community, continuous improvement of the snap user and developer experience is a major focus.

A number of upstreams, contributors and developers of leading open source projects such as DebianElementary OS, Fedora, KDE, Kubuntu, MATE or VLC have already confirmed participation at the sprint to collaborate on better distro-agnostic snap support.

At this point, we’d like to extend this invitation to contributors of other projects to influence the roadmap and work together on shaping up the universal snaps story. If you are interested in participating, we have a limited amount of seats to financially sponsor travel and accommodation for contributors of upstreams, distros or desktop projects who are willing to actively work towards this goal.

If the answer is yes, feel free to apply for participation and sponsorship to the Heidelberg snappy sprint

Please note that a sprint is not a tech conference: it is a set of focused working and planning sessions where the snappy Engineering team execute work items and plan the next iteration of snapd and Snapcraft. Attendees will be expected to actively participate in discussions and decision making and be willing to take work items where appropriate.

Also do note that while all contributions are valuable, we have a limited capacity to sponsor participants and we cannot support everyone. As such, sponsorship will be subject to review and final confirmation. Once the requests are in, we will review all of the applicants and contact you as soon as possible to let you know if your request for sponsorship has been approved.

It will be a great chance to build together app distribution across platforms and we’ll be looking forward to working with you!

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