Canonical and Ubuntu are betting on their new products and above all on their ecosystem. If during the last months we have seen how hackathons have been made to develop apps and scopes for Ubuntu PhoneNow it is your turn to snap and your new package.
Thus, Planella announced yesterday that they have created an event that will take place on July 18 in the city of Heidelberg. Canonical's intention is to bring this new universal packaging closer to developers as well as promote the ecosystem it can provide to the end user. The event will begin on July 18 but will end on July 22. For the celebration of this event, Planella has confirmed the assistance of Shuttleworth and the presence of developers of famous projects such as VLC, KDE, MATE or Debian. Both these developers and various users of the Ubuntu Community will demonstrate how to use snapcraft, how snap packages work and even how to create them yourself so that the most popular applications can convert their applications to the snap format, as well as create a stream that makes all new programs create in snap format.
The event in Germany will introduce the development system of the snap packages as well as promote them more
There is no money, nor will a Play Store or Apple Store be created, but this event in Germany is still eye-catching for developers and also promotes this new software among the German and European community. Something that other companies or mobile operating systems do not have, such as Windows Phone, an operating system that is currently in free fall.
This event may not cause all Gnu / Linux applications to snap, but of course it will be a first step towards a promising and much desired future by some sysadmins who go crazy with the various installation formats and processes. I personally think unification is the best thing about the snap package, but Will it really achieve that unification?