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txwikingerhowdy y'all akgraner00:30
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akgranertxwikinger, :-)14:02
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FFEMTcJ_marx_: we are trying to set a day for a meeting17:19
_marx_ok, good17:19
FFEMTcJpleia2: you want weekday or weekend?17:19
* _marx_ loco team is 1 and 3 tuesdays17:20
FFEMTcJmonday wednesday are good for me...17:20
Pendulumhiya17:20
FFEMTcJPendulum: trying to setup a meeting time..17:20
FFEMTcJfor our initial meet17:20
pleia2welcome FFEMTcJ17:20
FFEMTcJ;-)17:20
* pleia2 waves to Pendulum 17:20
FFEMTcJheh17:20
FFEMTcJall four of us are here now17:20
_marx_xclnt17:20
FFEMTcJif yall have time, im good now...17:20
pleia2sure17:21
FFEMTcJ_marx_ Pendulum ?17:21
Pendulumyeah, sure17:21
_marx_not for me, gotta eat some lunch17:21
FFEMTcJoh whatever17:21
FFEMTcJ:-P17:21
pleia2for the peanut gallery: at UDS it was proposed to have a "Beginners Day" of sorts in #ubuntu-classroom similar to other open days17:21
FFEMTcJnow if you said beer run, id be good with it _marx_ ;-)17:21
pleia2hehe17:22
_marx_tutorial day17:22
FFEMTcJhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnerDay17:22
pleia2_marx_: eat at the keyboard ;)17:22
_marx_yes dear i'll go get food...17:22
_marx_biab17:22
Pendulumjust don't drop your drink :P17:22
FFEMTcJholy crap!17:22
FFEMTcJa man that listens17:22
FFEMTcJhehe17:22
_marx_well trained and she has a job will i don't17:23
_marx_while17:23
FFEMTcJso.....17:27
FFEMTcJanyone have anything to add to what i already have?17:29
* pleia2 looks17:30
pleia2maybe add some examples of things we'd like to see17:34
pleia2and I like User Day as a name, I realized that "Beginner" might be too narrow a scope, and worse if we do have slightly more advanced topics people who *are* beginners will feel out of place17:35
FFEMTcJmy thought exactally17:35
FFEMTcJwiki is ssllooww17:36
PendulumI agree about User Day17:37
FFEMTcJName it Day or Days? I think Days since I think we could have many of them..17:37
FFEMTcJnot that it matters horribly17:37
pleia2maybe Days17:37
pleia2even if the first one is only one :)17:37
FFEMTcJyup17:38
FFEMTcJif it fails, then it fails.. but I think it could be something, if marketed right that could really take off17:38
PendulumI don't think it'll fail17:38
FFEMTcJI Added a couple of course suggestions17:38
PendulumI think the biggest thing will be making sure not to get it too confused with the sorts of things done during Open Week17:38
PendulumMaybe a "setting up your Ubuntu machine" course? (I know plenty of people who are MacOS users so wouldn't think to do a Switching from Windows class, but might be interested in switching)17:40
pleia2great idea17:40
FFEMTcJi know from windows there is enough for an entire class, maybe do two seperate ones?17:40
Pendulumyeah, that might work17:41
FFEMTcJcause with the windows one could maybe cover like wubi17:41
Pendulumdefinitely agree with the command line basics being in there17:41
pleia2doctormo wrote some coursework for command line basics which we can use for a course17:42
pleia2I'll add some links a bit later17:42
Pendulumbecause even if you don't have to use the command line, so many solutions if you google for help involve it that it's good to get some of that fear out of the way17:42
* pleia2 nods17:42
FFEMTcJpleia2: i think i was in the session that talked about that coursework17:42
pleia2FFEMTcJ: yeah :) the learning project17:42
FFEMTcJoh ya17:43
FFEMTcJhehe17:43
Pendulummaybe something on how to ask for help/search for help?17:43
FFEMTcJpleia2: i felt just about as tired as yall did17:43
FFEMTcJsomething like the asking smarter questions?17:43
Pendulum(just covering all the various ways you can get help and documentation)17:43
pleia2Pendulum: good idea!17:43
FFEMTcJor whatever they came up with17:43
pleia2ok, I need to go spend some time with my bf, sounds like y'all are off to a great start17:44
Pendulumpleia2: have fun :)17:44
pleia2thanks :)17:44
FFEMTcJtell him hi, and dont have too much fun.. dont get into trouble :-P17:44
FFEMTcJI think we could even do stuff such as using gimp or something..17:45
PendulumFFEMTcJ: do you want to add the additional ideas to the wiki, or shall I?17:45
FFEMTcJi know gimp is geting the ax17:45
FFEMTcJrefresh and then add whatever you like.. ;-)17:45
Pendulumcrap, just had another idea and then lost it17:46
Pendulumwhat about something about how to get involved in the community?17:46
FFEMTcJgreat idea17:47
Pendulum(among other things I think that needs to cover the "just get involved, don't feel the need to ask permission" thing17:48
FFEMTcJ_marx_: must be really hungry17:48
Pendulum)17:48
FFEMTcJya17:48
FFEMTcJholy crap.. pleia2 is in like 400 chans17:51
FFEMTcJI think it was decided that we would like to do courses on the weekends17:52
Pendulumyeah, I believe the suggestion was to have the first day on a Saturday17:52
Pendulumsince new users are unlikely to take a day off in the middle of the week (or stay up all night) for something ;)17:53
FFEMTcJadded some more stuff17:59
FFEMTcJanything else to add for now Pendulum ?18:03
FFEMTcJ_marx_: ?18:03
Pendulumnot right now18:04
FFEMTcJsounds good.. i think we have a good start now18:06
Pendulumyeah, definitely18:06
* _marx_ has happy tummy and is back reading18:14
FFEMTcJyou do exist!18:14
FFEMTcJChanged wiki page to:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDaysTeam18:16
_marx_ah that link doesn't work18:19
_marx_on nm18:19
_marx_well add me to drivers18:19
FFEMTcJyou have access to it now18:20
FFEMTcJ;-)18:20
_marx_righto18:20
FFEMTcJim tryin to read up on something on launchpad18:20
* _marx_ at a disadvantage on switching os because he's mostly used linux18:26
_marx_never really been a windows user18:26
FFEMTcJ_marx_: we are going to try to enlist help from the beginners team for actually teaching the courses18:26
_marx_i like command line basics especially do not fear the command line18:27
_marx_i started long enough ago to recall having to type "startx"18:28
FFEMTcJlol18:28
_marx_maybe something on IRC culture18:29
FFEMTcJwould that be best as its own section or as a part of getting help?18:30
_marx_gimp is getting dropped eh, i think that is bad18:30
_marx_yeah, part of getting help; new irc'ers need to know that it isn't necessarily going to be instant18:33
_marx_pleia2: i read your blog post on buying beer in PA, geez, I though NC had weird alcohol laws18:34
FFEMTcJfeel free to add anything more you like18:34
* _marx_ pondering18:35
_marx_strange, it's just in the last year of so that i've made any attempt to be involved in the community despite using linux and Ubuntu for many years18:36
* _marx_ added one course suggestion18:40
FFEMTcJubuntu one !fail18:41
FFEMTcJlol18:41
_marx_oh you no like ubuntu one?18:41
FFEMTcJjust going off of the number of bug reports submitted from it18:44
FFEMTcJi use and like dropbox18:44
FFEMTcJi need much more space than ubuntu one give18:44
FFEMTcJs18:44
_marx_i agree that 2 gigs ain't squat18:45
FFEMTcJi use 46% of 51g18:47
_marx_mine is around 50 g but i could probably delete 1/3 of that18:49
_marx_rsync first run takes a day to run to an offsite server18:50
FFEMTcJwho do u use18:50
_marx_i cheat, my "little" read youngest brother is a pro geek, he gives me server access18:52
_marx_private cloud :)18:53
FFEMTcJu suck18:53
_marx_lol, i used to torment him so bad i'm ashamed18:54
_marx_lil bro worked on the divx project for circuit city18:57
FFEMTcJic18:58
_marx_he's no slouch in the programming arena18:58
_marx_http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jack-cox/0/8b8/622 that's my lil bro19:09
FFEMTcJcool19:10
* _marx_ is away: taking a sunday nap19:14
* _marx_ is back (gone 01:57:17)21:11
pleia2_marx_: can you turn that off here?21:15
pleia2public away messages are kinda awful :)21:16
_marx_is it still up?21:16
_marx_sorry21:16
issyl0Hi everyone21:28
doctormohi21:58

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