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mgalvinhi all02:04
Burgundaviasalut mgalvin 02:07
Burgundavianice work on the faqguide02:07
mgalvinBurgundavia: thnx, i am trying to make it easier to work on, it such a pain looking thru a 10000 line xml file02:13
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Burgundaviamgalvin, jerome and I were talking about the userguide last night02:15
Burgundaviahey thoreauputic 02:15
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thoreauputicBurgundavia: just to elaborate on what I was saying - as a non-technical type I would like to know a non-technical way that one can contribute02:16
Burgundaviathe wiki is probably the best way02:16
thoreauputichmmm02:16
Burgundaviaa lot of pages needs to be cleaned up to reflect ubuntu best practices02:16
Burgundaviagui over cli, etc.02:16
Burgundaviamost of the wiki pages are too wordy02:17
thoreauputicwell, I'm probably not aware of "best practices" - I know a bit about debian-style stuff02:17
Burgundaviabasically, if there is a gui way, offer that02:17
thoreauputicbut I'm just an intermediate user...02:17
BurgundaviaUbuntu uses sudo, so root stuff is right out02:17
thoreauputicyes I know that ;)02:18
robotgeekmaybe we could just copy stuff over from ubuntuguide02:18
Burgundaviaif we can write for your parents, we can write for anybody02:18
Burgundaviarobotgeek, the ubuntguide is already the basis of the faqguide that mgalvin and rob stoffers are working on02:18
robotgeekyeah, the focus has to shift from RTFM, though sometimes, it wud help02:18
Burgundaviathe ubuntuguide offers one solution to the problem02:19
Burgundaviasometimes it is not the best one02:19
robotgeeki liked the way gentoo articles work02:19
Burgundaviaon their wiki?02:19
thoreauputicBurgundavia: I feel there should be a "first time druid" or similar that points people at documentation02:19
mgalvinBurgundavia: so what were you and jerome discussing about the userguide?02:19
robotgeeki use them to setup debian machines02:19
Burgundaviamgalvin, pretty much that it can't be shipped and nobody is working on it02:19
Burgundaviathoreauputic, we are still hashing out the main yelp page02:20
robotgeektheir wikis...they explain why we are doing and what we are doing02:20
thoreauputicBurgundavia: right - but the average punter won't even open yelp without a nice popup that says "Welcome to Ubuntu! Start here..."02:20
Burgundaviayes02:21
robotgeekcorrect...02:21
Burgundaviapretty much at this point the likely main page is the faqguide02:21
Burgundaviabecause after people graduate the faqguide, they are likely to be googling instead02:21
thoreauputicmajor questions: 1) multimedia 2)multimedia 3)sound 4) wifi  ... and so forth02:22
robotgeekmaybe we shud grep the irc logs?02:22
Burgundaviaalready did02:22
thoreauputicthe repetition is intentional :)02:22
Burgundaviaand ubotu reports what is common as well02:22
thoreauputicah, good to know02:22
Burgundaviawe pretty much know what people want/need02:23
Burgundaviawe now need to decide how to deliver that02:24
robotgeekyeah, can help out a bit02:24
thoreauputicI would say aim at Aunt Tilly ;)02:24
robotgeekwrote some documentation for Adium before, not much though02:24
Razor-Xis there any compiled list for stuff users need docs on?02:25
BurgundaviaCategoryCleanup on the wiki lists pages that need help02:25
Burgundaviathe other thing that is in the beginning stages is our QuickTour marketing guide02:26
thoreauputicI think the search function for the wiki needs to be more obvious 02:26
Burgundaviahttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuickTourDraft02:26
Burgundaviayes, that would be nice02:26
thoreauputicor rather, more emphasised, visually02:26
Burgundaviafile a bug about it02:26
thoreauputic:)02:27
thoreauputicnoted02:27
Burgundaviaright now, we need help is just about every area02:27
Burgundaviaso find something that interests you and do that02:27
robotgeeknoted02:28
Burgundaviathe doc team is pretty spread around the world, so you are likely to find someone in this channel at all times02:28
Razor-XI made a little script to automate MPlayer compilation for those who want all the codecs, or whose AAC is broken, or who want more than 2 GB file support02:28
robotgeekmakes sense, if you just want it working02:29
Burgundaviaif you want to cleanup up the mplayer stuff that would be great02:29
Burgundaviamake a main mplayer page and link all the various mplayer things off of that02:30
Razor-Xhmmm, nice idea02:30
BurgundaviaI don't know that any of doc team uses mplayer02:30
Razor-Xalso, I'll put the Cedega automated install method up02:30
Razor-XI use VLC and MPlayer, so that's where I can help02:31
mgalvinBurgundavia: has there been any discussion about which docs we will be including?02:31
Burgundaviaremember that Ubuntu best practices is to promote existing solutions02:31
Burgundaviaso totem and rb are them02:31
robotgeeki'll just have to find what i like. :)02:31
Burgundaviamgalvin, aside from the faqguide and maybe the quicktour, is anything else going to be ready?02:31
mgalvini want to start getting the deb package ready too02:31
mgalvinnot that i know of02:32
mgalvinok, so i will only include those few things for now02:32
Burgundaviaquicktour is not even in svn yet02:32
mgalvinright, i am just going to include the faqguide then for now as a first step, since the existing deb package doesn't even currently work02:33
Burgundaviaok02:33
Razor-Xare there any plans to create an Enlightenment based Ubuntu distribution?02:40
robotgeekenlightenment is full of eye-candy!!02:41
Razor-Xmeh02:41
Razor-Xyeah, it is02:41
robotgeeki liked what i saw, but too slow on mine...02:41
robotgeekbut why do u need whole distro?02:41
Razor-Xlike Kubuntu02:43
Razor-XUbuntu, Kubuntu, Eubuntu (possibly)02:43
thoreauputicRazor-X: Eubuntu sounds too much like "Ewwww... Ubuntu " ;-)02:44
Razor-Xmeh ;)02:44
thoreauputicEnlightened Ubuntu perhaps :)02:44
Razor-Xheh, yeah02:44
Burgundavianot current02:45
Burgundaviaand eubuntu is too close to edubuntu02:45
Razor-Xyeah, I was thinking that02:45
robotgeeki still don't understand why we need separate ubuntu/kubuntu02:45
robotgeekanyone can explain?02:45
Burgundaviathey are not really seperate02:45
Burgundaviasame repos02:45
Razor-XI like Kubuntu a lot, actually02:45
Burgundaviait is more marketing02:45
Razor-XI've been a KDE fan for a long time, I didn't want to bother with Gnome02:46
Razor-Xand I _love_ the document viewers in KDE02:46
Razor-X(like KPDF and KDVI)02:46
Razor-Xoh yeah, and any note when URW Palladio is going to get fixed?02:46
robotgeekuse kdm, but gnome with openbox02:46
Burgundaviaevince is better02:46
Razor-Xdoes evince allow continuous facing pages?02:47
Burgundaviayes02:47
Razor-Xhmmm, nice02:47
Burgundaviaevince is also going to do javascript stuff eventually02:47
Razor-Xthey use the same rendering engine, i'm told02:47
Burgundaviadon't know if kpdf has switched yet02:47
Burgundaviabut yes, they do02:47
Burgundaviapoppler, a freedesktop project02:47
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mgalvinBurgundavia: was any specifc ubuntu-doc install location discussed or do you think just putting everything in /usr/share/doc/ubuntu-docs/* (as html) seems fine?03:25
Burgundaviano idea03:26
Burgundaviabest ask the list03:26
mgalvink03:27
catlisten how can i help ubuntu 03:29
mgalvinwhat do you want to help with?03:30
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jsgotangcohi03:40
Madpilothi03:40
jsgotangcoBurgundavia, ping?03:41
Burgundaviajsgotangco, pong03:42
Burgundaviasalut Madpilot 03:42
Madpilotmeh - Freenode doesn't seem to be reporting "last active @ <time>" anymore when you do whois...03:42
Madpilothi Burgundavia03:42
jsgotangcoBurgundavia, did you receive an email from claire?03:42
Burgundaviajsgotangco, I did03:43
jsgotangcoahh goodie03:43
Burgundaviafedex contacted my gf (to whose workplace I am shippping the laptop) and said that there were customs fees03:43
BurgundaviaI am getting a Toshiba Tecra A503:44
jsgotangcoim getting a Tecra M203:44
jsgotangcowhich is smaller?03:44
Madpilotis Canonical absorbing the customs fee, or are you folks on the hook for that bit?03:44
mgalvinhey jsgotangco03:44
jsgotangcoMadpilot, good question03:45
BurgundaviaMadpilot, no idea03:45
jsgotangcohey mgalvin 03:45
BurgundaviaI emailed claire about it03:45
jsgotangcowe can ask claire on that03:45
jsgotangcooh did she reply?03:45
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Burgundavianot yet03:45
Burgundaviaour appear to be about the same03:45
jsgotangcowell i have no clue at the moment if i'll be charged customs fee because mine is expected to arrive on the 17th03:45
Burgundaviayours might be more powerful03:46
Burgundaviashe said the 17th for everybody03:46
Burgundaviamine might arrive tomorrow03:46
jsgotangcoah03:46
mgalvinwhere is my laptop ;)03:46
mgalvinso you guys are getting laptops for the testing work right?03:47
jsgotangcounfortunately, yes03:47
Burgundaviayes03:47
Burgundaviatoshibas are nice laptops though03:47
mgalvincool03:47
jsgotangcoindeed03:47
jsgotangcoit should work out of the box though03:47
Madpilotyeah, but they've got to babysit XP installs on them - Burgundavia's already been complaining about that! ;)03:47
BurgundaviaI am counting the days03:48
jsgotangcoi dont mind, an M2 has a geforce 2go03:48
Madpilot18 months of XP, right?03:48
mgalvini just bought a new one for myself, i can't wait to get it, but i know getting ubuntu on it is going to be a battle03:48
Burgundaviamine is ati03:48
Burgundaviayes03:48
jsgotangcomgalvin, what brand?03:48
mgalvinhp nx6125, the new one with the AMD Turion 64 chip in it03:49
Burgundaviahttp://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en&section=1&group=1&product=459203:49
Burgundaviathat is what i am geting03:49
Burgundaviahttp://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en&section=1&group=1&product=419603:49
Burgundaviathat is what jsgotangco is getting03:49
Burgundaviathe next model to be exact03:49
mgalvinhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Sku=H24-PZ092%20SB03:49
jsgotangcowonder how many laptops were purchased03:50
jsgotangcoi dont see any M203:50
Burgundaviayours has bluetooth, mine does not03:51
jsgotangcook that's one more thing to test03:51
jsgotangcoheh03:51
jsgotangcoand i dont have a bluetooth phone03:51
jsgotangcohmm you're getting a widescreen03:51
Burgundaviaboth have slots for cards03:51
Burgundavianope03:51
Burgundavia14"03:51
Burgundaviayours has tpm on it, mine does ot03:52
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Burgundaviasalut rob^ 03:52
Burgundaviathey are very similar laptops03:52
jsgotangcoerr we seem to have a big number here at the moment, do we continue with the meeting later or postpone it?03:52
mgalvinhey rob^03:52
rob^hi Burgundavia 03:53
rob^hey mgalvin 03:53
Burgundaviameeting?03:53
rob^what time is it?03:53
jsgotangcoDocteamMeetingAgenda03:53
Burgundaviaisn't it tomorrow>?03:54
jsgotangcolet me check03:54
jsgotangcoAugust 1103:54
Burgundaviaubuntumeeting says 11th03:54
jsgotangcolet's just move it03:54
Burgundaviato right now?03:54
jsgotangcolol03:54
jsgotangcosure just a lightning meeting would proabably do03:55
jsgotangcoor just move it for tommorow?03:55
jsgotangcoguys?03:55
rob^now is better for me03:55
Burgundavialet me check the agenda03:55
Burgundaviaright now is better for me03:55
rob^I'm on shift for the next few days..03:55
jsgotangcoBurgundavia, there's not much on the agenda03:55
mgalvini guess i can hang around a little longer for it03:55
Burgundaviayes03:55
Burgundaviasure, why don't we meet quickly now03:56
jsgotangcosure let's move then03:56
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Madpilotcan people who just happen to be here at the right time sit in on the meeting?03:56
Burgundaviasure03:56
jsgotangcosure03:56
jsgotangcoits open anyways03:56
Madpilotubuntu-meeting, right?03:57
Burgundaviayes03:57
Burgundaviajeffsch, thanks for the help on the Quicktour layout04:15
jeffschnp04:15
jsgotangcook anything more, it seems we have coveredgood for a quickie04:28
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Burgundaviajsgotangco, I am going to wait for your brain dump on QuickTourDraft before i start refactoring04:32
jsgotangcook but i can't do that right now, i'm going to the dentist later04:32
Burgundavianp04:32
jeffschre: meeting times - maybe instead of two alternating times, would three be better?04:33
rob^maybe04:33
jsgotangcowhat would be the other time?04:33
rob^I just wish it was on the friday instead of the thursday04:33
jsgotangcoThursday 22UTC is Friday morning for us04:33
rob^then it wouldn't matter much for me04:33
jeffschyeah, friday is good04:33
jsgotangcobut if we move to friday, it'll be better for me an rob04:34
rob^as in friday 1400z04:34
jsgotangcobecause it would be a weekend for us04:34
jsgotangcoyeah04:34
rob^yep04:34
jsgotangcofriday 22UTC is morning for us on saturday04:34
jsgotangcowhich is acceptable04:34
BurgundaviaI am not adverse to moving to friday04:34
jsgotangcosure friday seems favorable to all of us04:35
rob^yeah I dont mind a 2am meeting if I dont have to get up for work the next day04:35
jsgotangcoon the 26th then?04:36
rob^man, I have to work out time zones for a job..04:36
rob^I'm having a real brain fart today04:36
Burgundaviahttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=10&year=2005&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=004:36
Burgundaviacheck out that04:36
Madpilotthanks Burgundavia04:37
Madpilotanyone know if there's a timezone app in the repos?04:37
Burgundaviano idea04:37
jsgotangcook how does Aug. 26 14UTC sound04:38
Burgundaviasure04:38
rob^ok I'm going to sleep before work tonight04:38
rob^umm night all04:38
jsgotangcook Aug. 26 14UTC it is04:38
rob^:)04:38
Burgundavia04:38
Burgundaviasorry, playing with random utf-8 character from spam I recieve04:39
jeffschjsgotangco: :)04:39
jsgotangcoerr is that ok?04:39
jeffschyep04:39
jsgotangcojeffsch, toronto right04:39
jsgotangco?04:39
jeffschvancouver04:39
jsgotangcook 7am then04:40
jeffschyep04:40
jsgotangcojeffsch, question04:40
jeffschshoot04:40
jsgotangcowhy does the styleguide pdf script doesn't work04:40
jeffsch!!!!!04:40
jeffschi didn't know that... I take a look right away04:40
jsgotangcoi stole those scripts for edubuntu btw04:41
jeffschnp04:41
Madpilotcool, there is a timezone app in Hoary repos - sunclock - does a bunch of other stuff too04:41
mgalvini commited the ubuntu-docs packaging changes so if anyone can take a look at some point that would be great04:41
jsgotangcojsg@pingu:~/ubuntu-doc/styleguide$ make pdf04:41
jsgotangcoxmllint --dtdvalid /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd/4.3/docbookx.dtd --noout --xinclude --noent --postvalid styleguide.xml04:41
jsgotangcoxsltproc -o ../build/styleguide/styleguide.fo udp-pdf.xslt styleguide.xml04:41
jsgotangcoMaking portrait pages on USletter paper (8.5inx11in)04:41
jsgotangcofop.sh -fo ../build/styleguide/styleguide.fo -pdf ../build/styleguide/styleguide.pdf04:41
jsgotangcomake: fop.sh: Command not found04:41
jsgotangcomake: *** [pdf]  Error 12704:41
jsgotangcoooopps04:41
jsgotangcosorry04:41
jeffschahhh.... you don't have apache fop installed04:42
mgalvini commented out the old stuff(for now) just incase we need it for something at some point04:42
jeffschjsgotangco: apache fop is needed to build the pdf's04:42
jsgotangcoi have to install apache?04:43
jsgotangcojezz04:43
mgalvinrob^: while working on the faqguide, please feel free to finish splitting into pieces04:43
jeffschno, not apache.04:43
rob^mgalvin, yeah :)04:43
jeffschapache has more than the web server04:43
rob^ok gtg to bed04:43
jsgotangcoi dont think we have that on the repos04:43
jeffschjust a sec, i will find the link...04:43
rob^cya's04:43
jeffschjsgotangco: it's not in the repos, you can only get it from the apache web site04:44
jsgotangcoand the make html doesn't include the images04:44
mgalvinlater rob^04:44
jeffschjsgotangco: http://xml.apache.org/fop/04:44
jsgotangcoi see04:45
jsgotangcoi was furiously lookfing for fop.sh04:46
jeffschjsgotangco: the makefile in styleguide folder is only good for pdf... it is there for that only04:46
jeffschI should revise it someday. To build the html, use the same make file as the other docs04:47
jeffschin ubuntu-doc/gnome, type make sg04:47
jsgotangcook i will try that04:48
jeffschwhen can we move our previews to the linode server?04:50
Madpilotsomebody was asking how many laptops Canonical was shipping out - it's quite a list: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam04:51
jsgotangcoMadpilot, i dont think everyone in that list got one04:51
Madpilotwondered about that - that's a lot of lappies to give away!04:52
Burgundaviaquite a few did04:52
mgalving'night guys, c y'all later04:55
jeffschlatervdude04:55
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jsgotangcoMadpilot, its not free hehe we had to sign an ageement but after 3 releases, its ours05:13
jsgotangcoa year and a half to be exact05:13
Madpilotyeah, I know how the deail works - 3 releases and babysitting XP too?05:14
jsgotangcoits not so bad...heh games on XP are nice :)05:14
Madpilot... and you'll be able to stay abreast of all the exciting developments in spyware, malware & viruses, too! ;)05:15
BurgundaviaI will be able to play Dunegon Seige again05:16
Burgundaviablah05:16
Burgundaviamy girlfriend confirmed that if I pay the customs, I should be able to have it tomorrow05:16
Madpilotcool - but what's the customs damage going to be?05:17
Burgundaviano idea05:17
jsgotangcooh so you have it already05:22
jsgotangcoi mean so its there already05:22
jsgotangcoBurgundavia, better wait for claire's resonse 05:22
BurgundaviaI intend to05:23
jsgotangcolet me check my tracking number05:23
Burgundaviaas she starts work at 2am my time, shouldn't be an issue05:23
Burgundaviahmm, my tracking number spits out not found05:25
jsgotangcomine too05:25
Burgundaviahmm05:25
BurgundaviaI tried Canada and the UK05:26
jsgotangcosame here i also tried UK05:26
jsgotangcoTNT express?05:26
Burgundaviahttp://www.tnt.com/tntgroup/en_corporate.html05:26
jsgotangcosure just check on TNT express05:27
BurgundaviaI did05:28
Burgundaviahave you got anything?05:28
jsgotangcomy guess is that the consignment number is not yet in the system05:28
jsgotangcobut its strange if your machine is already in canada05:29
Burgundaviait should be05:29
Burgundaviamine is not yet in Canada, or on the easy coast05:29
jsgotangcomaybe we only have a number that is not yet in the system05:29
Burgundaviacould be05:30
jsgotangcoi encountered that as well in ups some time ago05:30
jsgotangcoi wasnt charged by customs on the zaurus that was given to me05:30
Burgundaviacanonical gave you a zaurus?05:32
jsgotangcono05:32
jsgotangcothat was a long long time ago05:32
Burgundaviaoh05:32
jsgotangcothat was during my active time in OpenZaurus05:33
Burgundaviafedex spits up nothing for me either05:33
Burgundaviajsgotangco, please do that brain dump so I can continue working05:35
jsgotangcogive me an hour, i'm going to leave in 30 minutes05:36
Burgundaviaok05:36
jsgotangcobrb05:38
Burgundaviahttp://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/linux/www.kde.org/06:26
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Madpilotjust doing some wiki cleanup07:13
Madpilotthere are THREE PHP5 pages right now07:14
Madpilothttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/PHP5FromSource07:14
Madpilothttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/PHP5Installation07:14
Madpilothttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/PHP5Installation207:14
Madpilotcan someone who knows PHP5 & the whole install-from-source drill go thru them and take them down to one page, with redirects?07:17
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MadpilotOK, I"ve just added a note to all three PHP5 pages, and linked them all to ApacheMySQLPHP for ppl who actually want PHP4...07:47
Burgundaviawelcome to the fun of CamelCase07:49
BurgundaviaTHings with two caps in a row must be explicitly linked07:49
Burgundavia["like this'] 07:49
Burgundavia["like this"] 07:49
Madpilotack, shite, I see what you mean. back to editing07:49
Madpilot<mutter, mutter, mutter>07:50
Burgundaviaalrady did it07:50
Burgundavia[" is  terrible way to link07:50
Madpiloton all three PHP5 pages?07:50
Burgundavia[[ is much easier07:50
Burgundaviayes07:50
MadpilotOK, done - but editing on top of each other gets messy...07:53
BurgundaviaI just asked on #moin about why [" was chosen07:54
BurgundaviaI really want to drop camelcase and force explict linking, with [[07:54
Madpilotwikipedia is [[thing] ] , right?07:54
Burgundaviayes07:54
BurgundaviaCamelCase is actually less intuitive than [[07:54
Burgundaviabecause CamelCase falls down in corner cases like this one07:55
Madpilotplus you get odd unwanted pseudo-links sometimes - OpenOffice.org turns into a fake link, for example07:55
Burgundaviayes07:55
Burgundaviaand then you need ugly hacky code to prevent it07:55
Madpilotis there a way to force Moin to *not* CamelCase-link?07:56
BurgundaviaI think so07:57
Burgundaviano idea how07:57
Madpilotit would be useful w/ OpenOffice.org - right now every time that gets mentioned, the wiki looks... less than competent07:58
Burgundaviaif I had control over the wiki, CamelCase would already have been dropped07:58
Burgundaviamind you, we would also have been running mediawiki07:59
Burgundaviawhich is designed for presentation docs07:59
Madpilotwhy doesn't U run mediawiki? it's just as Free as Moin, AFAIK08:00
Burgundaviabecause it is PHP08:00
Burgundaviaand Canonical has no PHP expertise08:01
Madpilotwhat's the backend to Moin?08:01
Burgundaviapython08:03
Burgundaviamoin has 2 things going for it: speed and python08:03
Madpilotah, OK. Fair enough for Canonical, anyway.08:04
Burgundaviafor everything else, mediawiki kics the crap out of it08:04
cathey people08:04
Madpilothi08:04
cathey to help aroound on the project what do i have to do?08:04
Burgundaviathe wiki is a good place to start08:05
Madpilotsign up at the wiki, find a page that needs some help!08:05
catoh ok08:05
BurgundaviaCategoryCleanup is a good place to start on the wiki08:05
catBurgundavia, ?08:06
Madpilotcat  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryCleanup08:07
Burgundaviacat, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryCleanup08:07
catok08:09
catso when i picked a category what do i do?08:09
Burgundaviafind a page in that category and fix it08:09
cati'm sorry i'm kind of slow,08:10
cat=)08:10
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Burgundaviathat page lists other pages08:10
Burgundaviaall those pages need help in one way or another08:10
cathttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/3Ware9xxxAsRoot?highlight=%28CategoryDocumentation%2908:10
cati'm there08:10
cati don't really see no other links08:10
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Burgundaviathe category page lists pages taht need cleanup[08:11
Burgundaviacat, you don't need to click on the first link08:12
Burgundaviascroll down and pick something that you know about and that interests you08:12
catoh ok,08:13
catis there something else i can do?08:15
Burgundaviayou can pull down the svn stuff and start hacking on our docbook08:16
catwhere?08:16
Madpilotwrite a new wiki page for something the wiki doesn't have but should?08:16
Burgundaviathe wiki is much much easier to get started on08:17
catoh08:17
catwell like helping around packaging reporting bugs08:17
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Madpilotbugzilla.ubuntu.com for bugs08:17
Burgundaviaif you want to help with non-doc stuff, #ubuntu-love can help you with that08:17
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jsgotangcoBurgundavia: have you seen the lycoris page?08:55
Burgundaviano, got a link?08:56
jsgotangcohttp://www.lycoris.com/products/desktoplx/desktop/08:56
jsgotangcothis was before they got bought by mandriva08:56
jsgotangcocheck out the flow of features08:56
Burgundaviaopening gets you a submenu?08:57
jsgotangcowell yeah its kinda dumb, but i wanted you to see how they wrote it08:57
Burgundaviaway too much clicking08:57
jsgotangcono not really on the presentation, its more on how they wrote it08:58
Burgundaviayes08:58
jsgotangcoso basically this is a tour of their features08:58
MadpilotI see Lycoris has gone the MS "My <everything>" route too... ;)08:59
jsgotangcobut we don't intend to be that specific unless we are making a marketing brochure08:59
jsgotangcoMadpilot: this was years ago08:59
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jsgotangcoMadpilot: they used to be called Redmond Linux08:59
Madpilotjsgotangco: interesting... still, the basic brochure style has some nice features09:00
BurgundaviaI find it massively click happy09:00
Burgundaviatakes too much effort to read09:00
Burgundaviaand their screenshots suck09:00
Madpilotyeah, there isn't enough on each page - but the tone & basic copy is nice09:00
Burgundaviayes09:00
Burgundaviatheir screenshots provide no context09:01
Madpilotin terms of the whole desktop, you mean?09:02
Burgundaviayes09:02
Burgundaviathe menu ones are the worst09:02
BurgundaviaI am left asking, where in the menu is this?09:02
Madpilotthey've been cropped down too much - and whatever tree/popout structure they've got isn't visible09:03
Burgundaviahere is another stupid thing09:03
Burgundaviaall their titles are verbs09:03
Burgundaviahttp://www.lycoris.com/products/desktoplx/menu/pictures.php09:03
Burgundaviauntil you hit that page09:03
BurgundaviaCreative is now a verb09:03
Burgundaviagot productive their as well09:04
Burgundaviaok, I take that back, it is worse09:04
Burgundaviathey are a mix of some verbs and some adjectives09:04
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Burgundaviait looks bad09:05
Burgundaviachoose one and stick with it09:05
Burgundaviamdke, T43? not bad09:07
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Madpilotno mono in Breezy yet, then?09:09
jsgotangcoT43?09:11
jsgotangcoIBM?09:11
BurgundaviaMadpilot, just muine borked09:12
Burgundaviajsgotangco, yes09:12
jsgotangcomdke should have gotten the biggest laptop since he's just in london :)09:12
Burgundaviahe did09:13
Burgundavia6 pounds to our 609:13
Burgundavia509:13
jsgotangcolol09:13
Burgundaviamine is the lightest at just under 5, yours is 5.309:13
jsgotangcoim subscribing to gnome-doc09:13
jsgotangcoit seems too quiet09:13
Burgundaviait is very very very quiet09:14
jsgotangcostir up the natives?09:14
Madpilotcue the creepy music?09:14
Burgundaviathe only sounds are the big guns off shore, firing the string change notices09:15
jsgotangcoits not that quiet at least Luis responds over there09:15
Burgundaviathe only thing deader than gnome-doc is ubuntu-ca09:19
mdke:)09:23
mdkewhat have you guys got?09:23
Burgundaviamdke, I got a Toshiba Tecra a5 and jsgotangco got a Toshiba Tecra M209:23
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mdkewhat are they like?09:23
Burgundaviavery similar09:24
mdkei have a heck of a lot of debugging to do ;)09:24
Burgundavialighter09:24
Burgundaviajsgotangco, has bluetooth09:24
Burgundaviamine is a full pound lighter than yours09:24
Burgundavia14" screens09:24
mdkeah09:24
mdkewell mine isn't too heavy, i quite like it09:24
mdkeit's sexy09:24
Burgundaviamine is only 5 lbs09:25
Burgundaviayou have a fingerprint reader in yours09:25
mdkeyes09:26
mdkebut it's a pile of shit09:26
mdkei get 3 tries for the power on password and it never reads my finger that quick09:27
jsgotangcowhoa09:27
mdke;)09:27
jsgotangcoyou already got yours eh09:27
mdkeratio is about 1 in 509:27
mdkeyes it arrived yesterday09:27
jsgotangconeat09:27
Burgundaviamine comes tomorrow09:27
jsgotangcodid you jump for joy?09:27
mdkehoary doesn't work too well on it09:27
jsgotangcomdke: dont fret you'll  have windows in it for 3 releases09:27
Burgundaviaironically, hoary worked better than colony 2 on my fathers laptop09:27
jsgotangcoBurgundavia: tracking works?09:28
Burgundaviajsgotangco, no, but fedex told my gf that it will be victoria tomorrow09:28
jsgotangcofedex?09:28
jsgotangcothought it was TNT09:28
Burgundaviatnt doesn't exist in NA09:28
jsgotangcoohh09:28
BurgundaviaI assume they partner with fedex here09:28
jsgotangcoTNT is big over here09:28
jsgotangcoalong with UPS09:29
mdkei like mine, but the one thing I really can't stand is laptops that put their function key on the left of the Ctrl key09:29
mdkegrrrr09:29
jsgotangcoi dont like IBMs at all09:29
jsgotangcoi like touchpads09:29
mdkethis has a touchpad09:29
jsgotangcoand thinkpads have this useless LED on top of the lid that is supposed to illuminate the keyboard09:29
mdkeyes it has that09:29
jsgotangcoyeah its uselss the LCD is too bright09:30
mdkeheh09:30
BurgundaviaMadpilot, scorched 39 out today09:30
jsgotangcoso you are 1 happy campter heh09:30
Burgundaviado we have any idea who else got a laptop?09:31
jsgotangcorobitaille?09:31
mdkeloads of people i think09:31
jsgotangcodholbach09:32
jsgotangcohmm09:32
jsgotangcoseb09:32
jsgotangcoogra09:32
jsgotangcohmm09:32
mdkewhere is the list?09:32
MadpilotBurgundavia: cool. is it going to make breezy?09:32
mdkehow stupid do you have to be to put the function key on the left of the ctrl key09:32
mdkeargh!09:33
Burgundaviahttp://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=5602709:33
Burgundaviacoolshould09:33
jsgotangcomdke: thinkpads are nicely supported on kde though with the keybindings09:33
Madpilotthis list? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam09:33
mdkeMadpilot, i think that is the list of applicants rather than the list of successful applicants09:33
mdkeunless it has been tidied since yesterday09:34
jsgotangcowe'll probably receive a test list when everything has been shipped09:34
Madpilotah, OK, I just tripped over it in the wiki earlier this evening09:34
mdkehmm since installing hoary I can't get into the rescue partition any more09:35
Burgundaviamdke, you can contact ibm and get cds09:37
Burgundaviamdke, they don't ship them by default09:37
mdkei made cd's09:37
mdkei've been there before ;)09:37
jsgotangcois that a lenovo?09:37
Burgundaviait is now09:38
rob^hmm our svn repo is about 200mb09:38
jsgotangcoit is09:38
Burgundaviathat includes 2 upstream vendor drops09:39
rob^just burning a copy to cd to take to work soon09:39
rob^kde's svn repo for its docs is only around 10mb09:40
jsgotangcohmm there's nothing on tv except korean dramas09:41
mdkejeez hardly anything works on this laptop09:41
Burgundaviajsgotangco, take a look at that forum link I just posted09:41
jsgotangcok09:41
mdkeis there a team meeting tonight?09:41
jsgotangcomdke: we had a quickie meeting a few hours ago09:42
jsgotangco:)09:42
mdkeeh?09:42
jsgotangcosorry i didnt say earlier09:42
jsgotangcoalmost everyone was online09:42
mdkeok09:42
mdkeperhaps planning would be an idea for the future09:42
mdkewill someone do a summary?09:43
rob^w00t! McGrath is playing in the third test!09:43
jsgotangcoBurgundavia: nice09:43
mdkerob^, noooo09:43
jsgotangcomdke: we just discussed what's the project status for people involved09:43
mdkecheating aussie bastards09:43
rob^our butts are saved!09:43
jsgotangcocricket?09:43
Burgundaviajsgotangco, yes. it also shows how we misleading the breezygoals page is09:43
Burgundaviajsgotangco, yes09:43
rob^aha09:44
Burgundaviajsgotangco, even an ignorant Canuck knows that09:44
mdkeok jsgotangco but a meeting is needed which discusses the Yelp frontpage sooner or later, i also want to discuss what will become of the userguide09:44
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rob^still have the normal meeting this week then09:44
jsgotangcoBurgundavia: this is full of erroneous info09:44
Burgundaviajsgotangco, did you see my post below?09:45
mdkerob^, it's a bit late notice...09:45
rob^yeah09:45
rob^I was only here before for it by chance09:45
mdkethat's np, but its a bit late notice for a full meeting09:45
rob^yeah09:46
jsgotangcomdke: we can arrange a quickie next week then09:46
rob^I wont be here if you did09:46
jsgotangcobesides we have less than a month to go before freeze09:46
Burgundaviaa specific meeting about the yelp front page?09:46
jsgotangcogood idea09:46
mdkenext week sounds good09:46
rob^early in the week maybe?09:46
jsgotangcosure09:46
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rob^come on stupid cd, I'm going to be late for work09:47
mdkerob^, back to the cricket, you cheating aussies have clearly done that on purpose09:47
rob^yeah, well we had to at least let you think you were in for a chance09:47
mdkelike we did last week ;)09:48
jsgotangcocricket is a cheater's game?09:48
rob^making it intresting09:48
mdkejsgotangco, only for aussies09:48
Burgundaviaonly if the aussies play it09:48
jsgotangcolol09:48
Burgundaviahow else you can explain 60 years unbroken winning at the ashes?09:48
rob^skill09:49
mdke15 years09:49
jsgotangcohow about august 17?09:49
MadpilotBurgundavia has been spending too much time on the BBC website...09:49
BurgundaviaMadpilot, still the best news out there09:49
rob^and the bad sports poms won't even let us take the trophy home09:49
jsgotangcoAugust 17 14UTC for special docteam meeting on Front Page finalization?09:51
Burgundaviasure09:51
Burgundaviagets me up early09:51
rob^midnight sunday09:51
rob^nah, its ok I have a long weekend09:51
rob^might be a bit drunk though, wifes birthday party that night :)09:52
mdkedude august the 17 is a wednesday09:52
rob^oops, I thought it said 1409:53
Burgundavia14:00 utc09:53
rob^heh my mistake09:53
mdkecheck out how many things aren't working on my laptop with hoary09:53
mdkehttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/MatthewEast/LaptopTestingHoary?action=show09:53
rob^yeah thats ok, I'll be out of town though so I wont be here09:53
mdkerob^, np a lot of the groundwork has been done by email09:54
rob^yeah09:54
rob^righto, gotta go to work now :...(09:54
mdkebye09:55
mdkewill think of you during the cricket09:55
rob^I'll be watching it at work09:55
rob^:)09:55
mdkebad thoughts...09:55
rob^at least I'm getting paid to watch it...09:56
mdke:p09:56
mdkeyeah that is cool09:56
Burgundaviamdke, did you shrink your windows partition with the hoary installer?09:56
rob^bye!09:56
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mdke_gah10:01
mdke_what did i miss10:01
HrdwrBoBeverything10:01
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Burgundaviamdke, did you shrink your windows partition with the hoary installer?10:01
mdkeBurgundavia, yes10:01
Burgundaviahow did that go?10:01
mdkeok i think, windows works10:02
Burgundaviawell, night all10:03
Burgundaviajob search tomorrow10:03
mdkenight10:03
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jsgotangcomdke: our quickie meetings are nothing compared to the quiickies of edubuntu meetings10:34
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jsgotangcobrb11:00
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jjessemorning02:11
jjessedid i miss the meeting again?02:12
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mgalving'morning all03:20
highvoltagegoodmorning03:24
jjessemoring mgalvin 03:56
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robitaillehttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamMeetingAgenda   August 26th is a Friday, not a Thursday.  So is the next DocTeam meeting on the 25th or the 26th?05:18
jjessedepends on what time zone you are in?05:21
robitaille"Thursday, the 26th of August, 2005 at 14:00 UTC".  Usually docteam meetings are on Thursday...must be a typo on the date05:22
jjessehmm just noticed that05:23
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mgalvinis there still a need for the release notes doc since we are going to have the quick tour?09:07
mgalvini was looking through it with the intention of updating it, but a lot of the stuff in the release notes will be in the quick tour(which also looks a LOT nicer)09:09
mgalvinthoughts?09:09
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mgalvinmpt: ping09:10
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jjessemgalvin: hasn't been much said here for a long time :)09:53
mgalvinghost town09:54
jjessemgalvin: can i ask a simple question? in authors my name is spelled in correctly, i would like to create a new file and remove the mispelled file10:09
jjessehow do i do this?10:09
mgalvinjjesse: you can just - svn move mispelled correct10:12
mgalvinthen make sure any docs that use the mispelled file now point at the correctly spelled file10:12
jjesseok i'll work on it10:13
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mgalvinhey rob^10:47
rob^hey10:48
mgalvini'll try and find some time when i get home to break out some more sections10:48
rob^the faq guide is all yours for the next 10 hours10:49
mgalvink, cool10:49
rob^cool10:49
mgalvini got the deb package all set too, hopefully we can start getting ubuntu-doc seeded into breezy soon10:51
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mgalvinlater all11:04
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mptWho here is running Breezy?12:04

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