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title: What is UDS?
description: We’ve been talking a lot about UDS but some of you out there might not
  know what it is. Duncan McGregor, one of my colleagues, has had this very conversation
  with a speaker who will be attending this UDS. He took some time to compose a blog
  post explaining what the summit is all about.  […]
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on 18 October 2010

# What is UDS?

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[Ubuntu](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ubuntu)
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We’ve been talking a lot about UDS but some of you out there might not know what it is. Duncan McGregor, one of my colleagues, has had this very conversation with a speaker who will be attending this UDS. He took some time to compose a [blog post explaining what the summit is all about](http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2010/10/q-the-ubuntu-developer-summits.html).

It’s well worth a read 🙂

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