[10:00] <katkin> Morning all
[10:05] <katkin> So is everyone good to kick off the marketing meeting?
[10:15] <mrevell> Morning all, have I missed anything in the meeting?
[10:16] <Madpilot> meeting?
[10:16] <mrevell> hey Madpilot
[10:16] <Madpilot> hi mrevell 
[10:17] <katkin> yep, a marketing meeting has been planned for 9 - 10
[10:17] <katkin> here's teh agenda
[10:17] <katkin> 1. Getting people interesting in doing the Tribe pages without me
[10:17] <katkin> 2. Introduction of Katharine Kinnie, Canonical's new marketing manager
[10:17] <katkin> 3. Questions the community has of her
[10:17] <katkin> 4. Questions she has of us
[10:17] <katkin> 5. Anything else
[10:18] <katkin> Burgundavia: are you there?
[10:20] <Madpilot> Burgundavia suggested that date, I see, but there didnt' seem to be any confirmation
[10:20] <Madpilot> 0900UTC = 0200 local - 45min from now
[10:22] <katkin> aha
[10:22] <katkin> oh well, looks like we might need to re-schedule
[10:22] <katkin> Madpilot: when would you suggest to be a good time in the day to go for?
[10:24] <Madpilot> katkin, no idea. Fire off a note to the mailing list again, I guess.
[10:24] <Madpilot> the fun of a worldwide group - it's going to be "Oh God hundred" for someone...
[10:24] <katkin> Madpilot: would it be best for me to make a few suggestions for people to pick from?
[10:25] <katkin> Madpilot: I guess so!
[10:26] <Madpilot> at one point on the Doc Team's wiki pages, we had a grid people could fill in - indicating what times were least-worst for them, so we could pick the most likely compromise time. Making a couple of suggestions is a good idea.
[10:29] <katkin> I see
[10:29] <katkin> thanks for the advice
[10:29] <katkin> Madpilot: so where are you based?
[10:29] <Madpilot> western Canada - same city as Burgundavia (even better, he's my younger brother...)
[10:30] <katkin> aha
[10:30] <katkin> so it must be early in the morning in Canada right now?
[10:31] <Madpilot> 0130
[10:31] <Madpilot> I'm up late waiting for it to cool off, because I can sleep in later today
[10:39] <katkin> i see
[10:39] <katkin> you're lucky that it is hot where you are
[10:39] <katkin> we have had awful weather so far this summer
[10:39] <katkin> lots and lots and lots and lots of rain
[10:39] <katkin> and not a lot of sunshine or warmth
[10:40] <Madpilot> it was 36C here today
[10:40] <Madpilot> I've had the day off, spent it drinking litres of water, getting a bit of a sunburn on the back deck, and mucking around
[10:40] <katkin> you are lucky
[10:40] <katkin> today London is grey
[10:40] <katkin> again
[10:41] <Madpilot> London is generally grey, in my experience. :)
[10:42] <Madpilot> although it was hot last time I was there - end of June and 30+ every day. (June 2000, not that recent)
[10:42] <katkin> yep, that's true to an extent
[10:42] <katkin> although we had an amazing summer last yr
[10:42] <Madpilot> 36C is hot for here - low 30s is more common for summer temps
[10:42] <katkin> it was so hot the grid went down because so many people were using air con and fans
[10:43] <katkin> April was really hot for us - bizarrely
[10:43] <katkin> it has just been raining relentlessly lately
[10:43] <Madpilot> fun. we had a shite June - way too much rain, and chilly. Then this heatwave broke on us right at the beginning of July.
[10:44] <katkin> Record-breaking June rainfall figures
[10:44] <katkin> Provisional statistics from the Met Office have today shown that June has been the wettest since records began in 1914.  
[10:44] <katkin> http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2007/pr20070705.html
[10:46] <Madpilot> fun
[10:47] <katkin> kind of, not for all the poor people in the north of england who's homes have been flooded tho
[10:48] <katkin> it's going to cost 2bn - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2036908.ece
[10:48] <Madpilot> I saw the flooding on the Beeb's website - couple of cities trashed
[10:49] <Madpilot> crazy - I just checked the weather map for N. America, and even the "Lows" are higher pressure than usual for the western half of the continent...
[10:49] <Madpilot> I think that means our nice weather is going to last a bit longer :)
[10:50] <katkin> thats good news then
[10:50] <katkin> we were told that we were only going to have one nice day for the whole of July
[10:51] <katkin> Summer officially arrives and leaves on 15th july
[10:51] <katkin> that's a lot of pressure for a Sunday!
[10:51] <Madpilot> ya, there's a big low out south of Iceland, right on the edge of the wx map I'm looking at
[10:52] <Madpilot> <-- weather geek (my excuse is the flying, pilots are expected to know this mass of weather bumpf...)
[10:56] <katkin> you're a pilot?
[10:56] <Madpilot> ya
[10:57] <Madpilot> the IRC nick is not entirely random :)
[10:58] <Madpilot> which means I can look at something like http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/data/analysis/jac06_50.gif and actually make some sense of it
[11:02] <Madpilot> anyway, need sleep. Later, all.
[07:23] <beuno> hey jono, got a few minutes?