The UbuntuBelowZero developer summit will be keenly focused on planning for Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake), and mostly of interest to existing Ubuntu developers… So we’ve dedicated an entire day to users and hopeful contributors with lots of great presentations from Ubuntu dudes, and workshops to help you get involved!

Whether you’d like to join the developer team or figure out how to contribute in another way, Ubuntu Love Day is for you! Join us in Montreal on October 30th.

Daniel Holbach has announced the next Ubuntu Bug Day. This is an event where users and developers gather on IRC and go through the bug tracking system. There they prioritize, assign, and confirm bugs reported by users; this process is called triaging.

If you ever planned to get involved anywhere in the Ubuntu world, bug triage is definitely a good place to start … Now is the best time to get into Ubuntu development as well.

You can get a head start by learning how to help with bugs and then heading over to #ubuntu-bugs on irc.freenode.net. How to report Bugs effectively is also a good place to start if you like to report bugs.

Nothing beats a nice custom touch to your newly minted Ubuntu installation. Many times a nicely done piece of wallpaper or icon can really liven up your desktop experience. You can indulge your artistic craving by stopping by the Art Team website at art.ubuntu.com, where you will find plenty of themes, icon sets, and backgrounds.

If you want to get involved in the process, check out the team’s mailing list and the Ubuntu Art Talk forum. You can find lots of great artwork from around the web in the related art sites thread.

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto has officially announced the Ports Archive for IA64 (Itanium), HPPA (1.1 or later), and UltraSPARC. A purely volunteer effort, the ports team will make Ubuntu available to communities sometimes neglected by other distributions. Find out more and say hello to the team in the #ubuntu-ports channel on freenode.