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Madpilothi Burgundavia 08:11
nixternalits past his bedtime ;)08:11
nixternalwhats up Madpilot08:11
Burgundaviahey Madpilot08:11
Madpilotnot much08:11
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Madpilotjust watching the weather to see if I'm going to get a flight in tomorrow :)08:11
nixternalwhat do you fly?08:12
Madpilottomorrow, a Cessna 172, weather permitting08:12
nixternalnice08:12
MadpilotI've got my Private Pilot's License08:12
nixternalwhere ya plannin' on flyin' too?08:12
BurgundaviaI am flying to Ottawa, for work08:13
Madpilotup the coast about 50nm - dropping some friends of the family off08:13
MadpilotBurgundavia, CLA conf, right?08:13
Burgundaviayep08:13
Madpilothave fun. Don't let all those library types drink you under the table 08:14
nixternalhahah08:14
Burgundaviathere is a pub crawl on Thursday. I intend to be on it08:14
MadpilotLibrarians & vendors on a bender08:16
Madpilotdon't wreck too much of downtown Ottawa, OK? ;)08:18
jsgotangcohmm does anyone know the type of plug used in france08:18
PlugMe!08:18
Plug;)08:18
PlugIt's a two-round pin European plug08:19
jsgotangcoheh08:19
Madpilotjsgotangco, you going to Paris, then?08:19
jsgotangcodunno yet will know later but im going to the electrical shop just in case08:19
Plug(not the same as the UK)08:19
PlugI assume there are four major types in the world08:19
Plugas I have a three-pack that goes from NZ/AU/HK/Singapore etc to the other three.08:20
jsgotangcothat's weird its Type E with a ground pin08:22
Burgundaviajsgotangco: two prong european08:22
jsgotangcobut a Type C will do08:22
Burgundaviathere is a great chart on Wikipedia08:23
Burgundaviahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_AC_power_plugs_and_sockets08:23
jsgotangcothanks i will add this to del.icio.us08:23
PlugMmmm, type I!08:24
PlugI like what I know. :)08:25
Burgundaviahttp://goran.fimaks.net/moin.cgi/LibraryGnomeOrgMockupFirst08:29
Burgundaviamdke: ^08:29
jsgotangconice!08:33
Burgundaviamdke: edubuntu people want to use latex for their cookbook08:40
jsgotangcomeh not "want" there was a suggestion08:41
crimsun_s/want/are debating/08:41
Burgundaviayes, I replied, saying their own svn repo and latex are nuts08:43
Burgundaviain a more politic manner, of course08:43
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ghee22hi, anyone interested in welcome center?08:59
Burgundaviahey ghee2209:04
ghee22hey Burgundavia, there's been quite a lot of people with different ideas of what the welcome center should be09:06
ghee22it's getting to be overwhelming.  that's why i split the project into 2.  the slightest consensus is that the welcome center should explain the very basics of ubuntu, which is already done in your doc files09:07
ghee22Which leaves me with a confused look on my face.  Why can't people find the help files?  I'm not sure, i found them with no problem.  I don't see recreating them as a solution.09:09
Madpilotghee22, nobody ever reads the documentation, ever. This isn't just Ubuntu's problem. (...only half-joking...)09:09
Burgundaviaghee22: no, content should stem from us, whether we write it or just vet community stuff is to be decided09:09
Burgundaviaghee22: as for implementation, I really just don't see the place for yet another application09:10
ghee22Burgundavia, is this sentence yours: I think all we need to do here is point the users to the documentation and other help, not rewrite it. (from the wiki content page)09:10
Burgundaviano, but I agree with it09:10
Burgundaviait is likely mdke09:10
ghee22Perhaps the welcome center can highlight the help menu.  perhaps by showing users how to get there they will not "give up" looking for it.09:11
mdkeno, wasn't me09:11
mdkeghee22: hi.09:12
Burgundaviaghee22: yep. We have been considering a new start page for yelp, which might solve some of these issues09:12
ghee22hi mdke09:12
Burgundaviamdke: what is that brainstorm url again?09:12
mdkehttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/MatthewEast/HelpfulHelpVersionMinusOne09:12
mdkeghee22: I have something I wanted to say to you09:12
mdkeghee22: it's true that there have been a lot of people with different ideas about your project09:13
ghee22mdke: i'm listening09:13
mdkeghee22: don't forget however that it is _your_ project, and you and your mentor should lay out what you intend to do. Don't let individuals who randomly approach you and edit the wiki page take control09:13
mdkethat's my advice09:14
Burgundaviaindeed, I was thinking the same thing09:14
mdkeBurgundavia: so the cookbook authors aren't planning to work in our repository?09:15
Madpilotdoes the newer version of MoinMoin have ACL?09:15
ghee22mdke:  that is an excellent point.  unfortunately, my mentor is extremely busy.  hence i wander.  i want to work on the same vision i initially had but i encountered a lot of friction from this chat room, the very people that provide the core content i want to display.  it's very difficult, to find out, where to go from here09:15
Burgundaviamdke: unclear09:15
mdkeMadpilot: the current version has it too, but it's not enabled on the wiki09:15
mdkeghee22: I spoke to your mentor about it, he was keen to talk to you. Try and find him on irc (he's joined this channel)09:16
ghee22mdke: excellent, thank you..  i am on it right now09:16
Burgundaviasfllaw: welcome, didn't notice you09:16
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mdkeghee22: his timezone is UTC-4, or similar09:19
Burgundaviamdke: that is correct09:19
BurgundaviaAmerica/Montreal09:19
Burgundaviadamn, I am going to be within an hour or twos drive of sfllaw and I won't get to see him09:20
ghee22mdke:  thanks all, i'll be on here from now on.. 09:20
MadpilotBurgundavia, get him to come to Ottawa then - have an Ubuntu micro-conf. during CLA :)09:21
BurgundaviaMadpilot: right...09:21
Burgundaviaanyway, I have to sleep09:23
Burgundavianight all09:23
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robotgeekmdke: weird, i am not sure if he used the correct version of the program.03:25
mdkerobotgeek: potentially an earlier version03:30
jsgotangcohey!03:30
jsgotangcomdke: i have a q03:30
robotgeekmdke: nothing from easyubuntu.freecontrib.org will cause that problem03:30
mdkerobotgeek: anything linked on the forums?03:30
mdkejsgotangco: shoot03:31
jsgotangcomdke: how many languages there in italy03:31
jsgotangcoor is it just one "italian"03:31
jsgotangcoand the rest dialects (if they exist?)03:31
mdkebroadly, one official language. There are lots of dialects, which vary enormously, and a couple of them have recognition as separate languages, but the common language is italian03:32
robotgeekmdke: all links from forums point to easyubuntu.freecontrib.org, there was sticky which pointed to the older version, but i got that fixed last week03:32
mdkesardinian and friulian are the two which are considered separate languages in their own right, iirc03:32
robotgeekmdke: plus, easyubuntu will fail if your sources.list doesnt match your system. safety feature03:33
mdkejsgotangco: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friulian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinian_language03:33
mdkerobotgeek: hmm, something went badly wrong in this case03:34
jsgotangcomdke: but they have major elements that make up italian right?03:34
jsgotangcosay Sardinian is basically 80% italian or what03:35
mdkejsgotangco: not really. vaguely related but I can't understand them at all03:35
mdkenor can most italians03:35
jsgotangcoand does Sardinian/Friulian have their own ISO language codes?03:35
jsgotangcoahhh03:35
mdkeyes, see those wiki pages03:35
jsgotangcobut there are translation efforts there?03:35
mdkenot that I am aware of03:36
mdkemaybe03:36
mdkenone of the other italian dialects have iso codes, I don't think03:36
jsgotangcook i have this problem atm here in our language03:37
mdkeyeah, I read about it on #lp03:37
jsgotangcoFIL is the official lang but TL consists of majority of FIL03:38
jsgotangcobut there are no FIL efforts since its relatively new03:38
jsgotangcomy evil solution is not approve the team at all because its only one person for now03:38
mdkei think jordi will approve the team if the language has iso recognition03:39
mdkedid you contact the guy and invite him to contribute to tl? maybe its just a misunderstanding03:40
jsgotangcoim not so keen on that it'll just mix up future move to FIL when most of TL can be easily moved03:40
jsgotangcohe's not responding *yet*03:40
jsgotangcoand responded privately to jordi03:40
jsgotangcowith a *technical* reason rather than *practical*03:40
jsgotangcohence i asked if there is some sort of situation in italy or something03:41
jsgotangcoi could completely understand Catalan03:41
jsgotangcoand Spanish situation03:41
jsgotangcoit is rather interesting really03:41
mdkeyeah03:42
jsgotangcowhen Google was localised the same problem arose and there was no compromise because the arguments are academic instead of practical03:42
jsgotangcomy evil point of view is that the guy just became ecstatic seeing Kubuntu and the power to trnaslate and began translating a few days ago of short strings in dapper03:44
mdkewell, IMHO if everyone understands the same language, that should be the default fallback. If people want to translate dialects, they should be able to, but it should always fallback to the language everyone understands03:44
jsgotangcowell yes i was thinking of having FIL as fallback since it can be switched in the future03:44
jsgotangcobut i'll have to consult Debian-TL03:44
jsgotangcowell jordi didn't approve it yet that's why he send an email to me anyhow03:50
mgalvinsomeone suggested renaming UWN to the "Ubuntu Weekly Newt"03:50
jsgotangcobrb03:50
jsgotangcolol03:51
mgalvin:)03:51
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jsgotangcogood night04:59
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jjessewhat is the link for web svn?07:13
LaserJockBurgwork: boy, you might have opend a big can of Edubuntu worms :-)07:18
jjessemmmm worms07:18
jjessehwo so LaserJock?07:18
LaserJockhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-devel/2006-June/001555.html07:19
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LaserJockhehe07:20
mgalvin*sigh*07:20
mgalvin:)07:20
LaserJockI'm pretty sure they don't want to use the doc team repo07:21
jjessewow someone sure needed some coffee when he wrote the post :)07:22
LaserJockyeah, mr. grumpy07:23
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LaserJockhi Madpilot 07:26
Madpilothi LaserJock 07:26
Madpilotblasted weather - was supposed to go flying this morning :|07:26
LaserJockbummer07:27
MadpilotI was supposed to be flying some friends of the family over to the mainland - 30min flight, now they're in for a 4+hr bus & ferry ride...07:28
LaserJockughh07:29
Madpilotliving on an island has some drawbacks, sometimes :)07:29
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jjessewhat is the link for browsng the svn archive through the web?07:30
LaserJockhttps://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/trunk07:32
LaserJockyes! bugs.ubuntu.com goes to https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs/07:40
jjessenice07:41
LaserJockthat will be nice to change in the documentation07:41
jjesseinstead of lunahcpad.net/distros.ubuntu/+bugs?07:42
Madpilotlunchpad?07:42
LaserJockyeah07:43
LaserJockit has always bugged me (pun intended) that there was no simple URL to go to Ubuntu bugs07:43
LaserJockwe always say, "go to launchpad" but if you go to launchpad.net it takes you a while to get to the bugs07:44
Madpilotit's also too easy to go to the wrong bug section in LP from the frontpage07:44
LaserJockyou might get LP bugs, or something07:45
LaserJockand Debian has bugs.debian.org07:45
LaserJockso it seems logical to use bugs.ubuntu.com07:45
mdkeLaserJock: cbx33 (is that his nick?) was keen on using the docteam repo, no?08:10
LaserJockyeah, but he and I seem to be the only doc team people keen on it08:10
LaserJockor Edubuntu people rather08:10
LaserJockwe'll see08:10
mdkeLaserJock: who are the other people actually contributing words to it?08:11
LaserJockpygi and HedgeMage are sort of the leaders08:11
LaserJockspacey, bluekuja are also contributing I think08:11
LaserJockthey have an LP team08:12
mdkeyeah, they have a team, but I mean, are they actually working on the content?08:12
mdkeeveryone has a LP team nowadays :)08:12
LaserJockyeah, I think all of those people contributed to the Dapper version08:13
LaserJockI think there might be a couple others for Edgy based on the meeting yesterday08:13
mdkeok. I wasn't aware there was a dapper version08:13
LaserJockheh, yeah08:14
LaserJockhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowToCookEdubuntu/Chapters08:14
LaserJockbut there is an older Edubuntu cookbook on the wiki too08:15
LaserJockit gets confusing08:15
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mdkeyeah, it does a bit08:19
LaserJockif they did want to use the doc team repo it would be cool08:20
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crimsun_I'm pretty surprised LaTeX surfaced as an option08:20
LaserJockheh08:20
LaserJockwell, people had used it before08:21
LaserJockand nobody knew docbook08:21
mdkewell, that's the beauty of this moin -> docbook tool08:21
LaserJockand they were wanting to get a publisher and everything08:21
mdkemeh08:21
LaserJockthey totally don't want moin08:21
mdkeLaserJock: but, it's in Moin now08:22
LaserJockyeah08:22
LaserJockand they hated it :-)08:22
mdkemeh08:22
LaserJockfor trying to put together a doc08:22
LaserJockit wasn't anything against moin in general08:22
mdkethis project has too much philosophising about tools and processes before actually focusing on getting some results together08:22
mdkeit's been like 18 months of refocusing on different ways of doing the same thing08:23
LaserJockI tried ...08:23
mdkei mean, talking about publishers, without really any results...08:23
mdkeit's just so premature08:24
LaserJockwell, they decided to shoot for lulu.com instead ;-)08:24
LaserJockafter some discussion08:24
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LaserJockanyway, I hope they approach the doc team about it but I sort of doubt it08:25
mdkemeh08:26
mdkeand after all that effort making nice edubuntu stylings too08:26
LaserJockwell, I think cbx33, mhz, jerome, and I will used edubuntu/ :-)08:26
crimsun_ok, what was that supposed to say?08:27
LaserJocks/used/use/08:27
crimsun_ah08:27
LaserJocksorry08:27
LaserJockI'm still trying to wake up08:28
crimsun_np, my brain's slow this afternoon08:28
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ExdaixHey guys09:44
LaserJockhi Exdaix 09:44
jjesseafternoon Exdaix09:46
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Exdaixoops sorry about the delay...   co-workers nabbed me for a sec09:53
ExdaixIm interested in getting involved int he docs project...  I've read most of the stuff on wiki and browsed through help.ubuntu and doc.ubuntu...   what is your suggestions on getting my feet wet so to say?09:54
jjesseright now we are sort of in a holding pattern for edgy to get started, you could join our docteam meeting this friday09:54
Exdaixyeah I saw that, can do.  Would that be the best time to do an introduction and such?09:55
jjessesure would09:55
LaserJockExdaix: have you checked out a copy of the svn repo?09:56
ExdaixAnd is there any "wysiwyg" programs or editors you guys prefer to do the docbok editing...  or just hand-coding with like gedit?09:56
ExdaixLaserJock: not yet09:56
jjessei prefer handcoding with kate09:57
LaserJockExdaix: gedit seems to work well, wysiwyg editors so far don't seem to be very exciting09:57
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LaserJockI usually use vim though09:57
ExdaixI was tinkering with conglomerate, but it seems a bit buggy for me09:57
Exdaixwhere can I find the command to grab a copy of the repo09:57
ExdaixI have svn already09:58
LaserJockyeah, and our repo is complex enough that it just chokes09:58
jjesseinstall subversion first09:58
LaserJockExdaix: wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Repository09:58
jjessegrin we should have a bot to answer questions like that :)09:58
LaserJockyep09:58
LaserJockI need one in -motu too09:58
Exdaixare there that many people who ask?   I figured the poor doc people were starving for help :)09:58
jjesseno we are just lazy09:59
LaserJockhehe09:59
Exdaixlol09:59
LaserJockand we can't remember how to do it ourselves ;-)09:59
jjessethat's usually my problem09:59
Exdaixwhat a good confidence builder hah09:59
Exdaix ok grabbing now10:02
Exdaix*runs off into ubuntu-doc wonderland and gets lost*10:04
jjessegood luck, bring breadcrumbs10:04
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mgalvinjjesse: lol10:23
jjesseglad you enjoyed it10:26
jjesseok works over for the day :)10:26
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