Snap! Community weekly update: W23

[Manik Taneja]

Great work guys. This is super useful in bootstrapping the ecosystem.

Cheers,
Manik

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 9:06 AM, David Callé <david.calle at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Here is an update on the highlights in the snap community this week:
>
> ## Snap examples
>
> - The first snappy Playpen event was a blast! With more than 40 people
> participating and a dozen of new branches, we felt it was a great learning
> process for all involved and we gathered many new examples:
>     - Leafpad
>     - SMPlayer
>     - Galculator
>     - Plank
>     - Tinyproxy
>     - Heroku CLI
>     - And a creativity winner: a snap for the Ubuntu Kylin icon theme,
> which bundles commands to enable/disable the theme
>
> There are more branches still being worked on (for example a git build of
> GIMP <https://github.com/wandrewkeech/snappy-playpen/tree/master/gimp-git>!).
> Check out the full details in our full recap of the Snappy Playpen kickoff
> <https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/06/08/snappy-playpen-kickoff-highlights/>
> .
>
> ## Documentation
>
> - General updates along the new snapd and snapcraft releases
>     - guides/interfaces
> <https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/interfaces>
>     - guides/autoupdate
> <https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/autoupdate>
> - Ongoing content review with the Web Team
>
> ## Community highlights
>
> - Vincent Jobard has posted a video tutorial
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR5avbskSdQ> in French about Snapcraft
> - Jean-Marie Verdun wrote a blog post
> <http://linuxfr.org/users/vejmarie/journaux/mon-premier-snap-sur-xenial>
> for the French-speaking community about snapping FreeCAD
> - The Mycroft team is working on snapping their core AI engine
> <https://github.com/MycroftAI/snapcraft-mycroft-core> and their Text-to-Speech
> Mimic engine <https://github.com/MycroftAI/snapcraft-mimic>
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
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