<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hey folks! <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thank you for subscribing to the Ubuntu Summit mailing list! We will be using this mailing list to share exciting news as well as important information pertaining to the summit this year. Now for some updates! <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">The deadline for submitting talk abstracts for the 2023 Ubuntu Summit in Riga is July 3rd. This means that you have a little over a week left to submit your abstract(s). Make sure you get your abstracts(s) submitted in time!</li></ul> <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">Did you notice that “abstracts(s)” in the previous bullet is plural? That is because you can submit multiple talk abstracts! You are not just limited to one. We want you to submit abstracts for everything that you are passionate about.</li></ul> <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">Still on the fence about whether or not you want to attend or submit a talk abstract to the Ubuntu Summit in Riga this year? Check out this blog post with testimonials from attendees who came to the 2022 Ubuntu Summit:</li></ul> <a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/why-you-should-attend-the-ubuntu-summit" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://ubuntu.com/blog/why-you-should-attend-the-ubuntu-summit</a> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The TL;DR - Everyone had a great time last year! <ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">Coming up this Saturday, June 24th, representatives from Canonical will be hosting a live Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) session at 15:00 UTC[0] in the Ubuntu Hideout Discord event-stage room. You can use the following invitation link to join the Discord server: <a href="https://discord.gg/ubuntu" style="text-decoration-line:none">https://discord.gg/ubuntu</a></li></ul> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">That is all for now and we'll give some more updates next week. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at <a href="mailto:summit@ubuntu.com" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">summit@ubuntu.com</a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and we will get back to you. Otherwise, have a great weekend everyone, and hopefully we will see you during the AMA session!<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Cheers, <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Ubuntu Summit Organising Committee <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">[0] <a href="https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter?t=3pm&tz2=Coordinated-Universal-Time-UTC" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">15:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to your local timezone converter</a> </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div>