Ubuntu Testing Day wrap up - 20161202

We have survived two testing days, and now we can safely say that it will become a Friday tradition :)

Last Friday our nice guest was Aaron Ogle, from Rocket Chat. He gave us a tour on the Rocket Chat UI and we discussed about how they packaged it as a snap.

If you missed it, click the image below to watch it.

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Building from what we saw on the first session, we tested the snap using a virtual machine again. But this time, we cloned it to keep a pristine machine and make following testing sessions faster. If you want to help the Ubuntu and Rocket Chat communities, this is an easy way to prepare your environment:

Once you have your clone ready, install the most recent and bleeding edge version of rocket chat with:

$ sudo snap install rocketchat-server --edge

Then you can follow this gist with the initial steps to start testing the Rocket Chat snap

Also you can test a real installation of Rocket Chat, joining our community channel, where we are available all day, every day. If you have a question, just ask. I am elopio in there.

During the session we took a look at the GitHub website, where many free software communities do their development in the open. They have a great guide to start contributing to open source projects. Go on and spread your love for free software in the form of bug reports :)

The gratitude this week goes to our newly acquired staff members Julia and Kyle, and of course to Aaron for letting us have a funny Friday evening. Make sure to take a look at the cool things he and his teammates are doing; and if you have some free time and want to join an exciting, open and nice community, give them a hand. Also try the Jitsi integration for video conference, it's mind-blowing that there are no closed components anywhere.

See you next Friday at Ubuntu On-Air.