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Takyojihttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-marketing/2010-February/003863.html00:24
TakyojiGah, if only SVG images could be used as backgrounds with the use of CSS00:56
Takyojionly Opera supports it currently supposed00:56
Takyojisupposedly*00:56
TakyojiI'm trying to create a FOSS-related website; but one of the things that's difficult is to think of what would be symbolic of FOSS to incorperate01:27
Takyojior just of what type of stock imagery I should take01:27
sparklehistorytonyyarusso: Is there a LoCo mtg in here tomorrow?02:08
tonyyarussoyes02:09
tonyyarussoAlthough I just noticed the Google Calendar is all screwed up :(02:09
sparklehistorytonyyarusso: yours or the team's?  And, the team has a Google Calendar?02:10
tonyyarussoteam's, and yes02:10
sparklehistoryWhere?02:12
tonyyarussohttp://www.google.com/calendar/ical/pdvcqb9e4iksplcuf19imna6us%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics02:14
sparklehistoryWhy does it want me to download it?02:15
tonyyarussobecause you clicked on it.02:17
sparklehistorywell, duh02:18
sparklehistoryI mean why can't I just look at it online?02:18
tonyyarussohttp://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=pdvcqb9e4iksplcuf19imna6us%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Chicago02:19
sparklehistorythank you02:19
sparklehistorySo it's not supposed to say there's a mtg on Sun. Feb. 7 @1:00?02:20
tonyyarussono02:21
tonyyarussoThat got messed up by my Nokia.02:21
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TakyojiSo there's a meeting today then?21:44
TakyojiFor those that are interested; I found this today: http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/167-amanda-mcpherson/280632-how-to-learn-linux-from-the-developers-of-linux-for-free21:46
* Takyoji reposts for _diablo22:01
Takyoji<Takyoji> So there's a meeting today then?22:01
Takyoji For those that are interested; I found this today: http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/167-amanda-mcpherson/280632-how-to-learn-linux-from-the-developers-of-linux-for-free22:01
_diabloTakyoji, what time?22:03
Takyojiadditionally I had a good idea for a topic of discussion for the meeting: anyone willing to participate would have to do like x hours of work through contributing to some form of a FOSS project. Such as writing content for the Spread Ubuntu "Make Materials", working on an IRC bot to fit all our needs on this channel, working on the Minnesota LoCo website, creating marketing material, contributing code to some project, etc22:04
TakyojiJust as a basic initiative for people to do something, and have people talking more.22:05
Takyojiotherwise I'm not entirely sure; I think it's some time after 7pm22:05
_diablokk22:07
_diabloyeah, that's a good thing to bring up. I'd post it.22:07
TakyojiWe can discuss it at the IRC meeting and work out the details, then throw it on the mailing list as well22:09
Takyojione thing that would be nice is that if we were a little more collaborative; it just seems everyone's quietly doing their own little things22:10
Takyojibecause I'd love to brainstorm/discuss/weigh ideas before executing them. I'm quite an indecisive individual22:12
_diabloagreed22:15
mr_steveI for one would love to commit to spending a certain amount of time working on FOSS, if my schedule can allow it22:28
mr_steveI like packaging software for Ubuntu, which probably means I'm masochistic, but someone's gotta do it :)22:30
_diabloI don't have any idea how to do that, but I'm interested22:31
mr_steveSome of it can be pretty easy, but it gets complicated in a hurry. Definitely a steep learning curve22:31
_diabloaight, fair enough22:31
TakyojiAnd that's the other thing, people could also learn how to contribute in some things, such as packaging22:32
_diabloyup22:32
mr_steveAnd documentation. I should be doing some of that myself. If I spend a few hours learning how to use some poorly-documented package, why shouldn't I share that knowledge?22:32
TakyojiBy the way, are there "todo lists" in terms of what should be worked on? Such as with the Ubuntu wiki, etc22:35
mr_steveI think some of the various teams keep todo lists on the wiki, but otherwise it'd just be the bugs/blueprints on launchpad22:36
Takyojiotherwise out of curiosity; what packages have you maintained?22:38
mr_steveI haven't gotten any new packages into the official repos yet, but I do maintain a patched version of f-spot that doesn't screw up timestamps22:39
mr_stevethat was the one that got me started. I also have a few version-bumped packages in my PPA, like the Gourmet recipe manager22:40
_diablois that what maintained means? I thought that meant like contributing code and stuff.22:40
mr_steveNah, package maintainers just keep the packages up-to-date within Ubuntu/Debian whatever. Although a fair number of maintainers are also the authors of the software22:41
_diabloah, fair enough22:44
mr_steveso Takyoji, you mentioned something about getting a more useful bot in this channel; has there ever been any talk about that before?22:54
TakyojiMinimal; I can't remember what was previously suggested as potential features22:57
TakyojiI think it may have been discussed last meeting22:59
mr_steveAh I don't recall if it was or not. Only reason I ask is because I've started using supybot in the channel for my BBS, and it's reasonably awesome.23:01
Takyojiahh23:01
TakyojiSupybot was the primary consideration23:01
mr_steveYeah, it's nice, and easy to write new plugins for. If we ever talk about it again in the meeting or something I can easily demo it, since it's already installed and running on my server23:03
mr_steveoh, heh, the meeting's supposed to be tonight, isn't it? Time flies23:05
Takyojiyea23:08
TakyojiHeh; World of Goo is quite interesting23:11
TakyojiI'll definitely have to buy the Linux version23:14
TakyojiOoo, I wonder if 10.04 will actually have a non-buggy PulseAudio implementation! :P23:17
mr_steveWouldn't that be nice23:21
mr_steveI've actually been reasonably happy with it, except that moving a playing stream between sinks gives me chipmunks-audio23:22
mr_steveThat and getting mpd to work without a user logged in requires a virgin sacrifice23:22
TakyojiAnd so I just bought World of Goo..23:24
TakyojiAll my time is going to be horridly stolen from me now. xP23:25
TakyojiInteresting; only 63MB23:30
TakyojiAlthough it is just 2D23:33
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Obsidian1723So..question..anyone have any thoughts on the purchasing of Sun Microsystems Inc by Oracle? I use both OpenOffice.org and MySQL, not sure about the fate of either one right now. Any thoughts?23:56

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