For our Songbird blog readers who may not read Planet Mozilla or my personal blog.  I spent a few days last week in Mountain View for FOSSCamp, the Ubuntu Developer Summit, the Mozilla Add-ons Open House, and the first ever Add-on-Con.  Besides reinforcing just how much I hate Bay Area rush hour commuting, I had a great time meeting folks and talking about interesting topics such as getting Songbird into Ubuntu (at UDS), and web service media-oriented mashups (at Add-on-Con).  I won’t repeat everything here, but if you’re interested in reading more, here are some quick-links to my writeups on the various events:

• FOSSCamp
• Ubuntu Developer Summit & Getting Songbird into Ubuntu
• Add-on-Con & the Mozilla Add-ons Open House

Congrats to the fine folks at Canonical, Ubuntu, Mozilla, & Add-on-Con for hosting some great events.  I’ve uploaded photos to our Flickr stream (Add-on-con here, and Mozilla Open House here)

My thoughts on Ubuntu & Songbird got dugg, which led me to a couple of pages on Ubuntu’s site, including their Brainstorm page with some interesting thoughts on better GNOME/Songbird integration as well as a great community help page on downloading and installing Songbird on Ubuntu.

Speaking of distributions, this is probably as good a time as any to list some of our great community and contributed builds that have been kicked off since we launched 1.0.. so here they are (in no particular order);

• Fedora 9 & 10 (x86, x86_64, & PPC) builds, as usual, contributed and hosted by Auralvance and the fine folks at Rutgers University.
• OpenSolaris 2008.11 & SXCE (x86 & SPARC) builds, contributed by Alfred Peng at Sun Microsystems.
• Ubuntu Intrepid builds, built by the ever helpful guys at GetDeb.net & documented by the Ubuntu Songbird community
• Gentoo ebuild, contributed by everyone on Gentoo bug #139019
• Mac OS X 10.4 & 10.5 PPC builds, built by Thomas Legg.  These are currently test builds, and Thomas is looking for some community QA before qualifying them as final 1.0 builds.

For anyone looking to build Songbird on your own distro or OS, you can grab 1.0 final source tarballs for Songbird and its upstream vendor dependencies at our Contributed Builds page.  There are also links there with instructions on building the dependencies and Songbird… as as always, definitely drop by our IRC channel for any help or questions you may have.