Snap! Community weekly update: W28

[David Callé]

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 this Trello board
<https://trello.com/b/oMRh1Jtx/snappy-sprint-heidelberg-july-2016>.

## 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 README
<https://github.com/ubuntu/snappy-playpen/blob/master/README.md> 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 getting started upstreaming
<https://github.com/ubuntu/snappy-playpen/wiki/Upstreaming> page.

## Community highlights

* The Open Build Service <http://openbuildservice.org/> by OpenSuse is
getting Snapcraft support
<https://github.com/openSUSE/osc/blob/b6f7d1be6c9b58ca6bcd5a12f72652977d3935ba/NEWS>.
* Titania <http://titania.create3000.de/>, an X3D editor and browser, is
getting snapped upstream
<https://github.com/create3000/titania/blob/master/build/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml>.
* QDriverStation <https://frc-utilities.github.io/>, a driving station
for competition robots is getting snapped upstream
<https://github.com/FRC-Utilities/QDriverStation/blob/master/etc/deploy/linux/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml>.
* 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 there is a snap for it
<https://github.com/heia-fr/telecom-tower-snappy/blob/master/snapcraft.yaml>!

## Reading list

* Snapd 2.0.10: new media interfaces, channel switching
<https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/07/11/snapd-2010/>
* Daniel Holbach is giving you a lot of ways to contribute to snaps if
you are not a coder
<https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2016/07/contributing-to-the-world-of-snaps/>
* Didier Roche introduces you to the new desktop launchers parts for
Snapcraft
<https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/07/06/announcing-new-snap-desktop-launchers/>
* Zygmunt Krynicki is giving cross-distro updates: snapd on Arch has
moved to the main repo
<http://www.zygoon.pl/2016/07/snappy-in-arch-moved-to-community-repo.html>
and on Fedora, you can use a COPR to get snapd 2.0.10
<http://www.zygoon.pl/2016/07/snapd-2010-released-to-fedora-copr.html>
* Kevin Gunn is giving you an introduction to snapping mir apps on
Unity8 classic
<http://voices.canonical.com/kevin.gunn/2016/07/07/snap-on-unity8-classic/>

This is a list of news we are compiling weekly, but make sure you
subscribe to the following social channels for daily updates:twitter
<https://twitter.com/snapcraftio>,google+
<https://plus.google.com/+SnapcraftIo>,facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/snapcraftio>.

Cheers,
David
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