| h00k | Which will be approx. March 18th | 00:08 |
|---|---|---|
| tonyyarusso | uh, what will? | 00:09 |
| * tonyyarusso seems to lack an important bit of scrollback atm | 00:10 | |
| h00k | ah, the beta of Lucid, when M* M* | 00:10 |
| Takyoji | YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP | 00:10 |
| h00k | Takyoji: no, silly, that's already happening! | 00:10 |
| h00k | will be announced | 00:10 |
| tonyyarusso | ah | 00:11 |
| Takyoji | It's quite surprising; it appears my brother finally has interest in OpenOffice because his new laptop was only pre-installed with Microsoft Works... | 00:12 |
| tonyyarusso | hehe :) | 00:12 |
| Takyoji | Typically he acts as if price determines value of anything. | 00:13 |
| Takyoji | I know it sounds stupid, but it would be nice if Pidgin for example allowed you to set it to have a certain program scan a transferred file first before letting the user access it (such as ClamAV bindings or something) | 00:15 |
| Takyoji | For those of us that proudly wear our tinfoil hats as we sandbox/virtualize every application used on our desktops. | 00:16 |
| Takyoji | (hence why I'm curious of OpenBSD still yet) | 00:16 |
| Takyoji | Anyone know of a decent FLOSS video transcoder? | 01:05 |
| Takyoji | I would also like it mint flavor, please. | 01:05 |
| h00k | er, like ffmpeg? | 01:07 |
| Takyoji | Yes, but with a GUI for those whom aren't apt enough to use a CL | 01:08 |
| h00k | it's not too bad! | 01:09 |
| h00k | http://linux.die.net/man/1/ffmpeg | 01:09 |
| h00k | how are you converting things? from what to what? | 01:09 |
| h00k | it can be as easy as ffmpeg -i infile.format outfile.format | 01:10 |
| Takyoji | CLI* | 01:11 |
| Takyoji | I mean for a person that barely even knows what a file format is. | 01:11 |
| Takyoji | I believe they need it from DVD video (.vob) to a more widely implemented format. | 01:12 |
| Takyoji | (or even just a container for that matter) | 01:12 |
| Takyoji | I wish Mastroska was more widely supported... | 01:12 |
| Takyoji | I wuv that container format.. | 01:13 |
| h00k | oh,oh, like extracting from a DVD | 01:17 |
| h00k | dvd::rip perhaps | 01:17 |
| Takyoji | The only problem is that they'll very likely be a Windows user | 01:18 |
| h00k | in that case, consider DVD Decrypter | 01:19 |
| h00k | and/or DVD shrink | 01:19 |
| h00k | Handbrake, perhaps | 01:19 |
| h00k | yeah, Handbrake | 01:19 |
| Takyoji | I was looking at Handbrake earlier curiously. | 01:19 |
| Takyoji | Otherwise the person it's for is apparently someone of a video production company called "Fox Video Productions" whom also wants a website as well | 01:20 |
| h00k | handbrake! | 01:20 |
| Takyoji | And there's apparently already several other companies with the exact same name... | 01:20 |
| Takyoji | Anyone have thoughts on the idea of GPU-accelerated graphics in a web browser, operated by Javascript? :P | 01:54 |
| Takyoji | Just to think, like just 8 years ago Javascript used to give people the impression of annoying animated images hovering near the cursor, or flashing text, or a snow effect of asterisks down a page... xP | 01:55 |
| === sparkle_history is now known as sparklehistory | ||
| mr_steve | mine eyes glazeth over | 02:42 |
| h00k | heh | 02:43 |
| * mr_steve is happily failing a match practice test | 02:44 | |
| mr_steve | grr, *math | 02:44 |
| Takyoji | http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=92 Click "Compile and Run" | 03:06 |
| Takyoji | That just scares me. A person wrote his own implementation of a QBasic compiler and considerably even a bytecode interpreter, and has the output draw to an HTML5 canvas | 03:07 |
| Takyoji | in Javascript | 03:07 |
| Takyoji | And wrote a functioning game within it as well | 03:08 |
| === __diablo is now known as _diablo | ||
| akgraner | tonyyarusso, ping | 16:04 |
| _diablo | I haven't seen him in a while | 16:05 |
| akgraner | _diablo, ok.. I just sent him an email and wanted to see what his schedule was like this afternoon.. it's about a program in Scott Co. who needs some help - with Ubuntu related stuff | 16:06 |
| _diablo | yeah, fair enough. sorry for the lack of help. | 16:07 |
| akgraner | I have to step away for a few hours but should be back after 4pm your time | 16:07 |
| akgraner | _diablo, no worries :-) | 16:07 |
| akgraner | I'll check back a little later.. thx :-) | 16:08 |
| tonyyarusso | akgraner: I'm around atm btw | 22:17 |
| akgraner | tonyyarusso, hey | 22:17 |
| akgraner | did you get my email? | 22:17 |
| tonyyarusso | I did | 22:18 |
| akgraner | just wanted to know if it makes sense to you | 22:18 |
| tonyyarusso | I don't quite understand how it relates to Ubuntu yet though | 22:18 |
| akgraner | he installs ubuntu on the refurbished computers | 22:19 |
| tonyyarusso | or, frankly, exactly what BTYR does. Is that a primary service of theirs? | 22:19 |
| akgraner | and gives the to the families of deployed soldiers | 22:19 |
| akgraner | that is one of the organizations he is working with | 22:20 |
| tonyyarusso | Do you know which other ones? | 22:20 |
| akgraner | nope, but I know it has to do with single moms | 22:21 |
| akgraner | his big issue is support, classes for people he gives the computers too, QA sessions etc | 22:21 |
| tonyyarusso | I see. hrm | 22:22 |
| tonyyarusso | I wonder whether he's had any contact with http://freegeektwincities.org/ also. | 22:22 |
| _diablo | tonyyarusso: any news on the shirts? | 22:22 |
| _diablo | I shared the spreadsheet with you I believe | 22:23 |
| tonyyarusso | _diablo: not that I know of? | 22:23 |
| tonyyarusso | yeah, you did | 22:23 |
| akgraner | I don't think so, he just now started contacting people who he thought might be able to 1) offer help in some fashion 2) help grow the project | 22:24 |
| tonyyarusso | Do you happen to know whether the broader Ubuntu community has any sort of "beginner training" curriculum that we could use if we did do something? | 22:24 |
| akgraner | and since he is installing Ubuntu on them all - I thought it might be something you would want to talk to him about and see if the LoCo team would want to help | 22:25 |
| _diablo | hmmm, how do we define critical mass? | 22:25 |
| akgraner | tonyyarusso, I think the learning team might have some stuff, and with User Days coming up I can ask them | 22:25 |
| tonyyarusso | _diablo: for shirts, by what people are willing to pay versus where the quantity price breaks are. | 22:26 |
| tonyyarusso | akgraner: That would be good to know - we don't really have a good support infrastructure in place yet, so it'd be a bit of a hurdle to get started, so anything that lowers the cost of entry would be helpful. | 22:26 |
| tonyyarusso | akgraner: I added a note to our spec on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MinnesotaTeam/Specs/AreaGroups for reference, although I'm not sure what/when we could commit to offhand. (Ideally someone else would step up to run with it) | 22:32 |
| akgraner | tonyyarusso, sorry had deal with an issue here.. | 23:25 |
| akgraner | tony no worries I'll get you all the info I have and you can talk to the fellow in charge of this. I am going to write up something for the US Teams about this as well to see if it's something they would like to see about starting in their areas.. | 23:26 |
| akgraner | I'll get you all the stuff I can that's floating around out there in regards to the classes and stuff | 23:28 |
| akgraner | tonyyarusso, thanks! :-) | 23:29 |
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