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Description
Have you already thought about how the applications you develop get distributed to end users?
Often developers only provide the source code. So for not so tech-savvy users the major distributions need to pick up projects and package them, and maintain them for new releases.
This is why there is a need for distribution-independent, secure, and easy-to-use packaging, like on smartphones. This exists also for Linux ... Among the options, there is Snap! Applications are easy to find in the Snap Store and they are installable on most Linux distributions.
More about Snap: The Powers, The People
https://snapcraft.io/
In this workshop we introduce you to the Snap packaging format and guide you on how to create your first Snap. Hands-on exercises are done with 3 simple GTK/GNOME applications. To be well prepared to do the exercises please download the slides (Under "Presentation Materials" below) already before coming to the conference/the workshop and follow the instructions in the "Setup" section.
So if you are creator/developer/maintainer of an application and want to reach a wider audience with it, make it easier to install for end users, you will learn what you need to do to get your work ready for the Snap Store here.
Even if your application is not a desktop application, command line applications, system applications and daemons, ... could be packaged as Snaps, too.
Also if you want to help snapping applications whose upstream developers do not have snapped them, you should also attend this workshop and join the Snapcrafters.
Session author's bio
Till is leader of OpenPrinting since it was founded in 2001, introduced the CUPS printing system in Mandrake Linux in 2000 working at MandrakeSoft and with this and a lot of evangelism (booths, talks, workshops) made the other distros also switch to CUPS, since 2006 printing maintainer at Canonical, co-organizing annual meetings with the Printer Working Group (PWG), since 2008 every year mentoring in Google Summer of Code, doing everything to make printing on Linux and alike operating systems "just work". With his OpenPrinting work Till has many years of experience with presenting on conferences and participating in their organization. Till is also fellow of the Linux Foundation.
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| Level of Difficulty | Intermediate |
| In Person Attendance | In-person |