/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/01/26/#ubuntu-learning.txt

Pendulumhiya00:45
cjohnstonhowdy03:08
Pendulumcjohnston: how was your ubuntu hour?03:09
pleia2cjohnston: how do you like writing meeting minutes? :)03:10
cjohnston with a keyboard03:10
Pendulumpleia2: you're good03:11
pleia2oh, right03:11
pleia2you should get a keyboard again03:11
pleia2hehe03:11
cjohnstonummm03:11
cjohnstondont get started with me about keyboards03:11
pleia2:)03:11
* cjohnston is not hapy03:11
cjohnstonhappy03:11
* Pendulum hugs cjohnston 03:11
pleia2ok, well, in general when you have a working keyboard, is writing meeting minutes something you might be willing to do?03:11
cjohnstoni guess03:12
pleia2I am terrible at getting them done and they're important03:12
cjohnstonis this for meetings im at or not at?03:12
cjohnstonim guessing not at03:12
pleia2well I was mostly thinking of for Ubuntu Learning03:12
pleia2so hopefully one you are at :)03:12
cjohnstonoh03:12
cjohnstonsure03:12
cjohnstoni guess03:12
cjohnstonwe ahve a meeting?03:13
pleia2I am just sitting down to write them for a recent (almost 2 weeks ago, gah!) meeting in #ubuntu-us03:13
pleia2we don't have one scheduled at the moment, but we do have them03:13
pleia2https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning/Agenda03:13
cjohnstoni cant believe logitech brokered my keyboard even worse, and they wont send me a new one till they get mine03:14
pleia2yeah :(03:14
cjohnstonnothin on the agenda03:15
pleia2yeah, we don't have another planned yet03:16
cjohnstonk03:16
pleia2and still loads of todo things from the last meeting03:16
pleia2I was just thinking for reference in the future ;)03:16
cjohnstoni see03:16
cjohnstondouble my pay?03:16
cjohnston;-)03:17
pleia2sure!03:18
cjohnstonstupid free dell keyboard03:27
cjohnstonwhat else pleia203:29
pleia2cjohnston: how interested are you in getting involved in course development with the learning team?03:37
pleia2we have about a hundred million tasks here03:37
cjohnstoni dont know that im completely ready for that.. i have looked at it a couple times tho03:37
pleia2I'm thinking we want to try and convert some of our User Days classes03:38
pleia2see how that goes, if it actually works :)03:38
cjohnstonpleia2: on learning... what topics are done/being worked on?03:49
cjohnstonim a little confused03:49
pleia2I should really write this all down somewhere, but here goes03:50
pleia2https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning is our main page03:50
cjohnstonlol03:50
pleia2scroll down to the bottom you'll see 5 big buttons03:50
pleia2those are our 5 focus areas03:50
pleia2so click on, say, "how to maintain ubuntu" and it takes you to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning/SystemAdminTopics03:51
cjohnstonnow i see some that say done03:51
pleia2you will see some things that say "Done" next to them, if you click on the links it'll take you tosome completed courses (posted on doctormo's blog for now)03:51
pleia2sorry, got distracted03:53
cjohnstonlol03:53
pleia2anyway, when you want to work on a subject, you put your name next to it with a date and say "blah blah I am working on this" maybe link to where you are working on it (on a wiki page? in bzr?)03:54
pleia2so say you want to work on "Monitoring" you just edit the wiki and put your name next to it03:54
pleia2you will notice some links on the page, this is another job we need folks to do - find existing documentation for each subject so it makes it easier for the course writer03:55
cjohnstonk03:56
pleia2the "proper" procedure for writing these is using bzr and checking in revisions with asciidoc03:57
pleia2s/with/in03:57
cjohnstonwhich i of course know nothing about03:57
pleia2but nigel and doctormo haven't finished to documentation and tools for that03:57
pleia2so we can't really do it yet03:57
cjohnstonas this project been brought to the BT? they could help out with quite a bit of it04:00
pleia2the education focus group is pretty dead there :\04:01
cjohnston:-(04:01
pleia2but yeah, most of the team came from BT04:01
cjohnstonic04:02
pleia2ergh, I wish I was sleepy04:08
cjohnstonme tyoo04:08
cjohnstontoo04:08
cjohnstonlol04:08
paultagAye04:15
paultagwhat about the BT?04:15
cjohnstonhey paultag04:15
cjohnstonhelping out with UCLP04:15
paultagpleia2, I started that group too :(04:15
paultagcjohnston, Aye, BT loves UCLP04:15
pleia2paultag: aw04:16
paultagpleia2, then I gave it to nhandler04:16
paultagpleia2, then nhandler to cprofitt04:16
pleia2and then it kinda faded away04:17
pleia2mostly we came here, I think04:17
paultagAye04:23
paultagIt's kinda sad.04:23
cjohnstonawfully quiet in here04:49
* pleia2 tries to ignore IRC and read to get sleepy, fails04:50
cjohnstonlol04:50
pleia2actually I have to go try harder, I have to work in 8 hours04:53
pleia2night!04:53
cjohnstong'nite04:53
=== doctormo_ is now known as doctormo
pleia2doctormo: interesting blog post13:31
doctormopleia2: The second support one?13:32
pleia2yeah13:32
doctormopleia2: Oh, what is interesting for you13:35
pleia2one of the most valueable things I think I bring to the beginners team is my more advanced sysadmin skills, I end up helping the team members themselves more often than not13:35
pleia2but #ubuntu is too much, I can't really do the super low level support anymore13:36
doctormoNor me13:36
pleia2so people come with advanced stuff, and we're not there to help13:36
doctormoI actually don't like redirecting people to #ubuntu13:37
pleia2I am not a huge fan either, but sometimes people can at least be redirected again to somewhere that *might* be helpful if people there can't help13:37
doctormoIt's too busy and it encourages throw away help, instead of this knowlege being recorded so as to help others.13:37
pleia2yeah, there is that13:37
pleia2it's tricky though, how do we educate on these advanced topics? which ones do we target?13:38
pleia2it's easy with the lower level stuff, but once you get advanced a whole *world* of possibilities opens up13:38
_marx_hum...13:39
* _marx_ has ignored #ubuntu since '06 or so13:39
pleia2hehe13:39
_marx_just too busy13:39
pleia2I've gone through phases where I'd rejoin for a couple months13:39
pleia2personally I'd *love* to see better openldap docs13:40
_marx_well folks looking for that level of help won't go to #ubuntu13:41
pleia2that's the topic, where do they go?13:41
_marx_i'd go to mr. google first13:41
cjohnstonmornin13:42
pleia2context: http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/community-second-line-support/13:42
pleia2morning cjohnston13:42
_marx_personally on that topic i've read print material13:42
cjohnstonholy crap.. i asked the library yesterday to purchase programming in python 3 and art of community and they are buying both13:45
pleia2:)13:45
_marx_cjohnston, awesome!13:46
cjohnstonnow im curious what else i may want13:47
cjohnstonlol13:47
_marx_your tax dollars at work...13:47
cjohnstoni pay my own salary too13:48
_marx_lucky you13:48
cjohnstonya13:48
* cjohnston has a poor pathetic two year old today13:51
_marx_doctormo, wow; the user you quote could well be me and now i have to think of some response...13:53
doctormo_marx_: heh, he's a guy who emailed Jono, me and several other high profile Ubuntu people... my first reaction was: Oh dear lord no!13:55
* cjohnston is confused13:57
pleia2cjohnston: see the link I posted above ;)13:57
cjohnstonok..13:57
cjohnston1 sec...13:58
doctormolol14:02
doctormopleia2: A good class on LDAP would be great, but I don't know anyone who is able to write a class and who is good at it.14:02
doctormoMy attempt was so feeble,14:02
_marx_well LDAP is a tough nut with many variables14:03
_marx_prolly set up a test environment to demonstrate "this works" then start throwing in the variables14:04
cjohnstonughh14:06
cjohnstonmornin Pendulum14:09
Pendulumhiya cjohnston14:09
cjohnstonpleia2: did you ever get a chance to look at the recruiting apge14:16
cjohnstonpage14:16
pleia2I knew I was forgetting something14:16
cjohnston;-)14:16
cjohnstoncalling logitech14:22
cjohnstongoing to see if i can demand they ship first14:22
_marx_moanin' Pendulum14:22
mhall119|workcjohnston: that much be a nice keyboard to go through all this trouble14:23
_marx_cjohnston, i love logitech keyboards...yours wireless?14:23
cjohnstonya14:23
cjohnstonIts under warrenty mike.. i dont wanna buy a new one14:23
_marx_ah never used one: wireless of any sort14:23
cjohnstonit atleast worked intermittently before i called them14:24
cjohnstonas he walked me through the troubleshooting steps it stopped workign period14:24
cjohnstonthey owe me a keyboard14:24
pleia2I used one for a while, but batteries die at the most inopportune times14:25
cjohnstonlol14:25
cjohnstoni cant stand wires14:25
pleia2"I have spares! ...no I don't, I used those the last time this happened, and my rechargeables no longer hold a charge.."14:25
pleia2yeah, wires don't bother me14:26
cjohnstonlol14:26
_marx_wires work, bluetooth works but...14:28
_marx_for me a keyboard must have a large backspace button; because i use that one a lot :)14:29
pleia2hehe14:30
_marx_those wireless mac one's are horrible14:30
cjohnstoni hate it when i cant understand the person on the phone!14:33
pleia2just agree to everything14:33
cjohnstonno14:33
_marx_"please speak more slowly"14:35
cjohnstonlet me speak to your supervisor14:35
_marx_that can work unless the super is worse ;)14:35
cjohnstonlol14:36
_marx_last time i had to call isp support i did that until level 314:37
cjohnstoni try to just bypass level 1 cause i normally know more than they do14:37
_marx_yeah script readers14:37
_marx_never say the "L" word14:38
cjohnstonwe had an issue where certain websites were inaccesssable (google).. and it was all of central florida... i called brighthouse.. the guy told me to reboot my modem14:38
cjohnstoni explained to him that if the headline on the news is google.com is inaccessable for everyone REBOOTING ISNT GOING TO HELP14:38
cjohnstonhe didnt like that14:38
pleia2brighthouse modems bind to the mac address of the computer you connect with, they tell you to reboot it for *everything*14:38
cjohnstonya14:39
pleia2(this releases the mac)14:39
cjohnstonmy TV doesnt work.. reboot your modem14:39
cjohnstonlol14:39
pleia2I had fun with their tech support when I was in melborne a little over a year ago14:39
pleia2they really are quite awful14:39
cjohnstonlol14:39
_marx_rr is using toshiba modems here14:40
cjohnstonsupervisor speaks english!14:48
cjohnstonstill isnt doing what i want tho14:49
_marx_wires work14:49
cjohnstonlol14:50
* _marx_ biased because of kvm switch14:51
cjohnstonuggh15:00
cjohnstoni atleast got a quicker solution15:00
pleia2cjohnston: re: Classroom/Volunteer/Recruiting - 2 things15:05
cjohnstonokie15:05
pleia21. People don't read paragrahs, so maybe see if you can break it up in a way that's easier on the lazy human brain, maybe break some of it into bullet points15:06
cjohnstonlol15:06
cjohnstonok15:06
pleia2(ie - one bullet point for "get qualifications and experience" one bullet point for "get someone to vouch")15:06
cjohnstonok15:06
pleia22. point out that the reason we want this is because we want to maintain a high level of quality in the classroom :)15:07
cjohnstonokies15:07
pleia2the last paragraph can probably be a numbered list of steps to go through15:08
pleia2oh and one more thing15:09
pleia23. Thank you! :)15:09
pleia2I really appreciate your help15:09
cjohnstonnp15:09
cjohnstonexpecially since you said you were gonna double the pay your giving me15:09
pleia2hehe15:09
_marx_2x0=0 :-)15:10
pleia2_marx_: sshhh!15:10
pleia2:)15:10
cjohnstonthanks for pointing that out _marx_15:10
_marx_lol15:10
IdleOneGood morning15:34
Pendulumhiya IdleOne15:34
* cjohnston has to go to work @ 430 :-(15:54
* pleia2 is at work now16:04
* Pendulum is also at work16:04
cjohnstonyall will probably be done about the time i go in16:05
Pendulumalmost16:06
pleia2yep16:06
nigel_nbmorning17:05
Pendulumthere really ought to be a set channel when events are going on that's just helpers and presenters so that things like "when do you want questions" and "do you want to handle them yourself" can get sorted17:16
cjohnstonpleia2: can I recruit people for Classroom to do ^^17:34
pleia2ok17:36
pleia2what do we want to call it?17:36
pleia2-backstage? hehe17:36
cjohnstonlol17:36
akgranerPendulum, after open week we talked about making that part of the questions we ask presenters when are scheduling then sessions17:36
pleia2maybe -prep17:36
cjohnstonClassrom Helpers works17:37
cjohnstonimo17:37
pleia2I'm actually wondering if we should move all the discussion we've been having *here* to such a management channel17:37
Pendulum*nods*17:37
pleia2so #ubuntu-classroom-helpers ?17:37
Pendulummakes sense to me17:37
cjohnstonim confused not17:38
cjohnstonnwo17:38
cjohnstonif we want a "classroom backstage" to take classroom traffic out of here, thats fine.. but i was only thinking just specifically get a list of volunteers who could do "admin" stuff for the class (+m/+o/+v) and post questions17:38
PendulumIt just seemed like that was one of the things that made Saturday work as smoothly as it did that we had people in this channel which had less going on than -classroom-chat did so we could make sure everyone was on the same page for the little organizational things17:39
cjohnstonI see two seperate ideas above tho17:39
pleia2currently the discussion is split between here, -community-team and the current classroom channels themselves17:39
PendulumI think there are 2 separate ideas17:39
pleia2yes, they are different ideas17:39
cjohnstonok17:40
cjohnstoni may not be as confused as i think17:40
cjohnstonlol17:40
pleia2I was just thinking broader - the irc stuff has really overwhelmed the main purpose of this channel the past couple weeks17:40
pleia2if we do create such a channel, what else can it be used for, etc17:40
* cjohnston likes -classroom-backstage - used for anything related to the classrom17:40
cjohnstonhelp/prep/thoughts17:40
mhall119|workI like -classroom-backstage, it could always be used by organizers17:40
cjohnstonmeeting are for classroom planning (like for what we were talking about meet with all UUD instructors the week before17:41
cjohnstonand then the second idea, add a new task to the volunteer page for "session helpers"17:42
cjohnstonwho help out the instructor17:42
PendulumI like both ideas17:42
cjohnstonim good with both17:44
pleia2we should let dholbach and jcastro know, whetever we decide17:58
pleia2since they are the lead organizers of UOW and UDW17:59
cjohnstontrue17:59
jcastrosounds good17:59
jcastrodone and done.17:59
cjohnstonIs there a formal proccess to decide?17:59
cjohnstonlol jcastro17:59
jcastrosee, who says we need councils!17:59
pleia2hehe17:59
pleia2so, we're doing #ubuntu-classroom-backstage for all classroom planning and orchustrating then?18:00
cjohnstonthe council for the council for the council18:00
cjohnstonthat works pleia218:00
pleia2except spelled not horribly18:00
pleia2:)18:00
cjohnstonOh no18:01
pleia2what?18:01
cjohnstonits for planning and orchustrating!18:01
pleia2orchestrating!18:01
pleia2hehe18:01
IdleOneorcastrating18:02
cjohnston13.02.31 -!- cjohnston changed the topic of #ubuntu-classroom-backstage to: planning and orchustrating for #ubuntu-classroom18:03
pleia2haha18:03
pleia2:P18:03
pleia2ok, #ubuntu-classroom-backstage is set up18:08
pleia2probably no need to use it for UDW at this point, but in the future..! :)18:08
cjohnstonTrue18:09
cjohnstonI'll update the Classroom page to reflect as well18:09
cjohnstonnhandler: ping18:09
pleia2thanks!18:09
pleia2cjohnston: I'd say s/learning/classroom-backstage in the banner at the top of the page18:11
pleia2for channel18:11
=== ChanServ changed the topic of #ubuntu-learning to: Ubuntu Community Learning Project | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning | Next Meeting: TBD | Support in #ubuntu
cjohnstonpleia2: like that?18:15
pleia2yes :)18:15
cjohnstonokie18:15
* pleia2 frowns at the wiki for not sending her emails18:28
cjohnstonI trivial'ed them18:31
cjohnstonthis is the last class i can do questions for.. anyone else want to finish the day?18:32
* pleia2 hates trivial option18:35
pleia2can't, work :(18:35
cjohnstonlol.. I dont wanna spam everyone for little things.. You can chose to be ntf on spam18:36
cjohnstonsorry.. on trivial18:36
pleia2yeah I know :)18:36
nigel_nbhey people18:49
nigel_nbhows everyone doing?18:49
cjohnstonnigel_nb: check your email18:51
nigel_nbpleia2's mail?18:51
nigel_nbI read that ;)18:51
cjohnstonyup18:51
nigel_nbwe need another channel but thats later on18:52
nigel_nband not necessarily registered18:52
nigel_nbjust off and on, when we're reviewing the feedback, I'd rather have that meeting "off the record"18:52
nigel_nbnice to see slides being used for UDW and great to see you guys helping out19:01
nigel_nbI wish I could :(19:01
cjohnstonyou at work?19:02
nigel_nbyep19:03
nigel_nbthe UDW conicides perfectly with my work timings meaning I can't attend it at all, just read logs :(19:03
cjohnston:-(19:03
pleia2yeah, it's all during my work day too19:03
nigel_nbpleia2: but you can be on irc at work, I can't :(19:04
nigel_nbjst occasional 20 mins on webchat19:04
* pleia2 nods19:04
pleia2I still can't keep up :) might as well be logs19:04

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