One thing that has gotten me excited about 10.04 is the possible eviction of that famously ugly GIMP. I hope it is going to be replaced with something better than that.
I am also very interested in the proposed Ubuntu One music store and look forward to making some suggestions about it in the brainstorm corner.

It’s been exhausting for me so far, and i’m not even there, so one would imagine its worse (relatively) actually being there.

I mainly follow the desktop stuff, so i’m not sure if other stuff is as lively, but even though a summit is the “how to do” i’ve learnt tons of stuff about Lucid i didn’t know from the wiki. Tiny small indifferent things perhaps, but this is all helping to shape my view and involvement in Ubuntu.

I think the hardest part about not being there was the session today on application changes – where GIMP is dropped and PiTiVi Video Editor is going to trailed during the Alpha’s. The decision to choose PiTiVi over another popular application was an incredibly weak one, and i’d have felt better had i had chance to sound down the points made… but hey!

I know this turned into an essay, but i hope it’s a warning to others: Go! Go! Go!