Ubuntulive keynote by Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth is doing the first keynote address. He's talking about how development of Ubuntu is geographically diverse and there's no advantage in building it in any single place. Looking at free software as well as free hardware solutions. He's mentioned Dell and how customised hardware and thin clients are where we're moving.

Canonical is investing on Ubuntu on the server and we'll see a lot over the next 12 months.

Virtualisation is another area where they're concentrating, and this includes community driven intitiatives like Xen.

Interest in professional services and custom engineering.

Talk about Landscape (Steve George) for system management and monitoring.

Next LTS based on Ubuntu 8.x

Call for announcing release schedules across distributions so that the Free software community can show that it can manage releases that are predictable.

Mobile: New experience. Nokia N800 is an example. How to put the Internet in your pocket? Motorola says that 60% of their devices will be linux powered. Bring linux to a larger audience as a complete platform. Talk by Matt Zimmerman, first feature out in September.

Developers: How to balance something that works for end users as well as developers? Launchpad is key. Should not need to abandon existing tools. Allow projects to stay on their own tools but collaborate better. Public and explicit guarantee of availability of Launchpad. Will give anybody their data on demand from the database. Data will be accessible programmatically.

New service for developers to publish software as deb packages.

Bazaar will reach 1.0 in September.

Standardized engagements for any participant to engage with the Ubuntu community.

Thanks to sponsors and hand over to Mark Murphy