<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Here is an update on the highlights in the snap community for the past week. This is a special one: starting today, a lot of snappy developers, 3rd party app upstreams, distros leaders and contributors are together for a week-long sprint in Heidelberg, Germany! ## Heidelberg sprint, day 1 Here is an outline of all discussions planned for this first day in sunny Heidelberg: Snaps: * Content interfaces: allowing snaps to share content and libraries * Snaps update control * Defining stores * Connecting interfaces in a GUI * GNOME runtime snap: a snap exposing GNOME services to other snaps * Snapweb (formerly known as WebDM) design review Security: * SELinux policy module for snaps * Improving the cross-distro security story Core: * ubuntu-image future and planning * Boot variables changes Snapcraft: * Builds in LXD by default for Snapcraft * Extending Snapcraft plugins * Desktop launcher parts review and future * Snapcraft store integration UX review General: * Docs publishing and templates * Introduction to Snappy terminology The rest of the week is also packed with more discussions and hacking sessions ! You can find the sprint agenda on <a href="https://trello.com/b/oMRh1Jtx/snappy-sprint-heidelberg-july-2016">this Trello board</a>. ## Playpen You are starting to expect this, but we have a lot of new great examples in the Playpen! Thanks to this amazing community for allowing us to build expertise together, the repo now contains 44 examples, including the new: * ResidualVM, by LyzardKing * TexWorks, by LyzardKing * jTileDownloader, by dplanella * MirageOS, by elopio * Docker Compose, by elopio * QOwnNotes, by pbek * click-parser, by bhdouglass * 2048, by dholbach * The list of examples in the <a href="https://github.com/ubuntu/snappy-playpen/blob/master/README.md">README</a> has also been updated with tags, to let you see at a glance which technologies/plugins/snapcraft features are used by each example. * The snaps upstreaming initiative is going strong as well, and more info has been added to the <a href="https://github.com/ubuntu/snappy-playpen/wiki/Upstreaming">getting started upstreaming</a> page. ## Community highlights * The <a href="http://openbuildservice.org/">Open Build Service</a> by OpenSuse is <a href="https://github.com/openSUSE/osc/blob/b6f7d1be6c9b58ca6bcd5a12f72652977d3935ba/NEWS">getting Snapcraft support</a>. * <a href="http://titania.create3000.de/">Titania</a>, an X3D editor and browser, is <a href="https://github.com/create3000/titania/blob/master/build/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml">getting snapped upstream</a>. * <a href="https://frc-utilities.github.io/">QDriverStation</a>, a driving station for competition robots is <a href="https://github.com/FRC-Utilities/QDriverStation/blob/master/etc/deploy/linux/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml">getting snapped upstream</a>. * The School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg has a prominent telecom tower on top of its main building, covered with leds, and has created a piece of software to display messages on it. Unfortunately, I haven't found a good picture of it running, but <a href="https://github.com/heia-fr/telecom-tower-snappy/blob/master/snapcraft.yaml">there is a snap for it</a>! ## Reading list * <a href="https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/07/11/snapd-2010/">Snapd 2.0.10: new media interfaces, channel switching</a> * Daniel Holbach is giving you <a href="https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2016/07/contributing-to-the-world-of-snaps/">a lot of ways to contribute to snaps if you are not a coder</a> * Didier Roche introduces you to <a href="https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/07/06/announcing-new-snap-desktop-launchers/">the new desktop launchers parts for Snapcraft</a> * Zygmunt Krynicki is giving cross-distro updates: <a href="http://www.zygoon.pl/2016/07/snappy-in-arch-moved-to-community-repo.html">snapd on Arch has moved to the main repo</a> and on Fedora, <a href="http://www.zygoon.pl/2016/07/snapd-2010-released-to-fedora-copr.html">you can use a COPR to get snapd 2.0.10</a> * Kevin Gunn is giving you <a href="http://voices.canonical.com/kevin.gunn/2016/07/07/snap-on-unity8-classic/">an introduction to snapping mir apps on Unity8 classic</a> This is a list of news we are compiling weekly, but make sure you subscribe to the following social channels for daily updates:<a href="https://twitter.com/snapcraftio" style="text-decoration:none;"> twitter</a>,<a href="https://plus.google.com/+SnapcraftIo" style="text-decoration:none;"> google+</a>,<a href="https://www.facebook.com/snapcraftio" style="text-decoration:none;"> facebook</a>. Cheers, David </body> </html>