| Takyoji | Who would win in a pro-wrestling match against each other? RMS or Torvalds? :o | 00:16 |
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| kermit | RMS | 00:16 |
| Takyoji | I don't think there's anything on the wiki or the website that implies that we have monthly meetings. :P | 00:18 |
| kermit | tclug doesnt even hamev monthly meetings | 00:18 |
| Takyoji | I love how Empathy also lacks a handful of IRC functionality | 00:19 |
| Takyoji | such as whois/whowas | 00:19 |
| tonyyarusso | Takyoji: this is true | 00:21 |
| Takyoji | By the way, it isn't RJ45 | 00:21 |
| Takyoji | It's something like 8P8C or something.. | 00:21 |
| Takyoji | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8P8C | 00:22 |
| Takyoji | RJ45 is the common misconception | 00:22 |
| Takyoji | Can't easily find the Google calendar for the group either on the website | 00:23 |
| * tonyyarusso hides in shame | 00:24 | |
| tonyyarusso | Actually, the Google calendar was one of my talking points | 00:24 |
| kermit | that thing is useful! facebook should copy or integrate with it | 00:24 |
| Takyoji | Should also get a relatively technologically-inept individual and have them browse or try to find information | 00:25 |
| Takyoji | I think there's actually a way to sync events from Facebook | 00:25 |
| tonyyarusso | there is. There are apps to convert your FB events to ical and such | 00:27 |
| tonyyarusso | Add your points to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MinnesotaTeam/MeetingAgenda if you have any | 00:28 |
| Takyoji | also, is the underline in the navigation intentional? | 00:28 |
| Takyoji | Because otherwise I can fix that | 00:28 |
| Takyoji | and I'm still too stupid to find the Google calendar on the website.. | 00:29 |
| Takyoji | and as of using free fonts, the "Upcoming Events" navigation element seems to break to a new line on my system.. | 00:30 |
| tonyyarusso | I'm not sure which underline you mean | 00:30 |
| Takyoji | About Us needs an icon | 00:30 |
| Takyoji | tonyyarusso: http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/takyoji/Screenshot.png?t=1267489942 | 00:32 |
| tonyyarusso | Takyoji: you mean the line between divs? | 00:33 |
| Takyoji | the underlining of each navigation element | 00:33 |
| tonyyarusso | yeah, that's a border, not an underline. | 00:35 |
| Takyoji | Erm | 00:35 |
| Takyoji | Border, yes | 00:35 |
| Takyoji | I'm not thinking straight today | 00:35 |
| kermit | you're in luck, mondays is one of the saloon's biggest nights. | 00:36 |
| tonyyarusso | our web site has had visitors from the Philippines, Morocco, Indonesia, and Argentina | 00:39 |
| Takyoji | Heh, if only the Ubuntu Wiki had Etherpad-like functionality | 00:39 |
| Takyoji | It would be very interesting | 00:39 |
| tonyyarusso | along with Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, and DC :) | 00:39 |
| * Takyoji edits the wiki, saves, edits, saves, edits, saves. | 00:43 | |
| * Takyoji twitches with OCD | 00:43 | |
| tonyyarusso | okay, dinner's ready - I'll get back as soon as I can | 00:45 |
| * tonyyarusso is back | 01:07 | |
| tonyyarusso | Adremelech, exigraff, h00k, jenkinbr, kermit, mr_steve, sparklehistory, Takyoji, zomGreg: Meeting! | 01:08 |
| Takyoji | Then start already. :P | 01:10 |
| tonyyarusso | ha, ok | 01:10 |
| sparklehistory | yeah, that's what I was waiting for! | 01:10 |
| tonyyarusso | Ubuntu Hours: What have you done / where / how did it go / what do you want to try differently? | 01:10 |
| tonyyarusso | sparklehistory and I have been meeting at Barnes & Nobles on Thursday afternoons. | 01:11 |
| tonyyarusso | The wifi works, and it's quiet, so we can get homework done, but not a lot of traffic and nobody's talked to us so far. | 01:11 |
| tonyyarusso | Might need to consider a coffee shop type thing to get more attention perhaps... I know the Mpls guys have been trying that - any success? | 01:12 |
| tonyyarusso | if they were here that is... | 01:13 |
| tonyyarusso | Takyoji: have you done any? | 01:13 |
| Takyoji | I don't have really money at hand, and no accomplice. | 01:15 |
| tonyyarusso | We tried B&N since it was free. An accomplice does help - surely you have at least one friend IRL, right? ;) | 01:16 |
| Takyoji | I don't have anyone that's technologically-orientated, nor anyone that would seem interested. | 01:17 |
| tonyyarusso | hmm | 01:19 |
| tonyyarusso | Well, work on that. | 01:19 |
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| tonyyarusso | I guess without the other people here that's about it for that. | 01:19 |
| tonyyarusso | Takyoji: update us on the status of that 5-a-dayish time idea? | 01:20 |
| Takyoji | Haven't really done much in regards of writing a Drupal module for such yet.. | 01:21 |
| tonyyarusso | okay, want to tell us about the two things you added the agenda then ? | 01:22 |
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| === psycholometrics is now known as kermit | ||
| === kermit is now known as psychometric | ||
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| h00k | greetings, sorry I'm late. | 01:25 |
| Takyoji | Was just a few ideas for what people could do, otherwise we could perhaps use another method for keeping record of the whole "5-a-day"-ish thing | 01:25 |
| Takyoji | Such as the wiki perhaps, or just a really basic script, or something. | 01:25 |
| Takyoji | (Sidenote, there's also the Laptop Testing project; which anyone could participate in) | 01:25 |
| h00k | I had an Ubuntu Hour over in Wisconsin, It wasn't the best night for it, nobody came, but we had three people. At least we had the comradery. | 01:26 |
| tonyyarusso | h00k: where'd you go? | 01:26 |
| h00k | tonyyarusso: We went to a coffee shop in Superior - Red Mug | 01:27 |
| tonyyarusso | Takyoji: perhaps our web site should have a page of "stuff that's really easy to get started with"? | 01:27 |
| h00k | http://www.redmugcoffee.com/ | 01:27 |
| h00k | They were very nice, except they happened to have the port xmpp uses blocked on their wireless, I wasn't too happy. | 01:27 |
| * Takyoji pokes at the quietness with a stick | 01:30 | |
| tonyyarusso | all right | 01:31 |
| tonyyarusso | web site stuff | 01:31 |
| tonyyarusso | I think it would make sense to move the Google Calendar stuff over to Drupal, so things will integrate better. | 01:32 |
| tonyyarusso | One of the things I could do with that is send out meeting reminders, so these would be less dead. | 01:32 |
| tonyyarusso | thoughts? | 01:32 |
| tonyyarusso | (Yes, it would still output an ICS, so you could add it to your google calendar view or other PIM tool) | 01:32 |
| Takyoji | I have no objections | 01:32 |
| h00k | That'd be a good idea, I think it worked well for Wisconsin to have a reminder | 01:33 |
| h00k | and good call to keep an ICS | 01:33 |
| tonyyarusso | Would it be weird for a non-human (the site) to send messages to the mailing list occasionally? | 01:33 |
| h00k | for what purposes? meeting reminders? | 01:34 |
| tonyyarusso | at first at least - open to suggestions if you know of other use cases | 01:34 |
| h00k | I think would save some legwork for meeting reminders | 01:34 |
| * exigraff is here, late | 01:35 | |
| h00k | or any other date reminders of things | 01:35 |
| * h00k shrugs | 01:35 | |
| h00k | I can't think of anything else that it could be used for | 01:35 |
| tonyyarusso | k | 01:36 |
| tonyyarusso | I could use more help poking around and adding stuff - remember that you can do that. | 01:36 |
| sparklehistory | sending messages seems ok to me, other sites do it | 01:36 |
| h00k | maybe if the mailing list is dead it could throw a /usr/bin/fortune in there once a week ;) | 01:36 |
| Takyoji | heh | 01:36 |
| tonyyarusso | haha | 01:37 |
| exigraff | a mailing list bot would be awesome. seeing imposterbot contribute to the threads would make my day. | 01:38 |
| tonyyarusso | all right, so event enabling of web site good | 01:39 |
| tonyyarusso | Takyoji: you added "other tweaks" - did you have something in mind? | 01:39 |
| * h00k gives thumbsup | 01:39 | |
| Takyoji | Just where anyone lists any changes that should be made in terms of content, layout, design--anything of the website | 01:40 |
| tonyyarusso | Well, I'd say two things to that: | 01:40 |
| tonyyarusso | 1) Just do it if it's simple. No need to write down "oh hey, 'somebody' should..." | 01:40 |
| tonyyarusso | 2) File bugs against the ubuntu-minnesota-projects LP project | 01:41 |
| Takyoji | otherwise what else does the website need to be in feature-parity with the wiki? | 01:42 |
| Takyoji | Just simply migrate other content as well? | 01:42 |
| tonyyarusso | Some cleanup to look nice, a way of recording minutes for events (there's a module), better linkage to launchpad for tracking progress on to-do items | 01:43 |
| tonyyarusso | after that it will have parity, and we can work on making it better. | 01:45 |
| Takyoji | also, I have a minor critique, in regards of the navigation on the right | 01:45 |
| * h00k can't find the plastic forks | 01:45 | |
| Takyoji | Considering we have pages that discuss the same information; and perhaps someone might follow one of the links, and become lost on the main Ubuntu website | 01:46 |
| Takyoji | (considering the same theme and everything as well) | 01:46 |
| tonyyarusso | a fair point | 01:46 |
| tonyyarusso | We should make sure that the pages we have link to the external pages in a clear fashion, and then we can remove those. | 01:47 |
| h00k | The left sidebar looks kinda silly, but that might just be my netbook | 01:48 |
| tonyyarusso | file a bug ;) | 01:48 |
| tonyyarusso | h00k: it is kind of silly. | 01:48 |
| Takyoji | in regards of the borders, correct? | 01:48 |
| tonyyarusso | One perk of the right sidebar is it has better styling - we may want to try to steal some of that | 01:48 |
| h00k | lemme screenshot | 01:48 |
| Takyoji | I'm just not sure | 01:48 |
| Takyoji | h00k: http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a368/takyoji/Screenshot.png?t=1267489942 Correct? | 01:49 |
| Takyoji | I was just figuring nothing in the background would make it a "clean" theme. Otherwise do you want descriptions per primary navigational element, or? | 01:49 |
| h00k | Takyoji: http://anthonyrhook.com/dump/Screenshot-2.png | 01:50 |
| h00k | Takyoji: yeah, basically. | 01:50 |
| tonyyarusso | perhaps we should just make the font size a little smaller in those links | 01:50 |
| Takyoji | Or shorten the name(s) | 01:52 |
| Takyoji | Either "Events" or "Calendar" | 01:52 |
| tonyyarusso | true | 01:52 |
| tonyyarusso | 'k, that's simple enough. | 01:52 |
| tonyyarusso | Let's talk release parties a little. | 01:52 |
| tonyyarusso | h00k: any contact about that up there yet? | 01:52 |
| h00k | tonyyarusso: Nothing planned specifically, I talked to a guy who is maybe interested in seeing if we can get a room at the chamber or something | 01:53 |
| tonyyarusso | Brian was talking to me about repository mirrors, and I suspect he's planning to do TIES again. | 01:53 |
| h00k | A projector, show off some apps to people | 01:53 |
| tonyyarusso | cool | 01:53 |
| Takyoji | I have a few people thinking of a potential location I could have one locally | 01:53 |
| h00k | That's in Superior, anyway. We're getting some activity around LaCrosse too, it seems. | 01:54 |
| tonyyarusso | nifty | 01:55 |
| tonyyarusso | mr_steve: It'd be cool if we could have something west of the river as well, btw | 01:55 |
| tonyyarusso | also, where the heck is Alpha_Cluster for the northwest? | 01:55 |
| tonyyarusso | semi-related note: I will be in Finland, MN the weekend after release (May 7-9) | 01:56 |
| tonyyarusso | Takyoji: Faribault locally or some other town in the area? | 01:57 |
| Takyoji | Emailled nnonix (month ago or so), but he hasn't really thought of any yet. I also have another person who's doing a job in Texas for a few weeks or so, but will be back, and whom is also thinking of a location | 01:57 |
| Takyoji | (someone whom knows a lot of people in the community and so forth) | 01:57 |
| Takyoji | Someone whom is also interested in having Ubuntu installed (although I may install 9.10 first; when she returns) | 01:58 |
| Takyoji | Most likely in Faribault by the way | 01:59 |
| tonyyarusso | okay, cool | 01:59 |
| Takyoji | Just would have to figure out how to promote it accordingly; once a location is decided (if ever) | 02:00 |
| tonyyarusso | We'll need to do a lot of legwork this month (MARCH! crazy) to really be ready in time for those, so start talking about that stuff a lot, both in person and on the ML. | 02:00 |
| tonyyarusso | As far as promotion, we have a list of Media contacts already put together, and if we have details ahead of time can get flyers from System76. | 02:00 |
| tonyyarusso | both of those require that we know what's going on more than two days in advance though, so timing is key. | 02:00 |
| Takyoji | yea | 02:01 |
| Takyoji | Still about 2 months until the release of Lucid | 02:01 |
| Takyoji | (considering it's released at the end of April if I remember correctly) | 02:01 |
| Takyoji | April 29th | 02:02 |
| Takyoji | Thus 59 days remaining | 02:02 |
| tonyyarusso | correct | 02:03 |
| Takyoji | Is there a counter yet for the Lucid release? | 02:03 |
| tonyyarusso | but it creeps up fast ;) | 02:03 |
| tonyyarusso | I haven't seen one yet - I'll ask | 02:03 |
| Takyoji | Because it should be the Drupal plugin, although I don't think they've decided on a theme and image yet | 02:04 |
| Takyoji | Yea, it's not updated yet: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown | 02:04 |
| Takyoji | Someone should annoy people on #ubuntu-artwork, or? | 02:05 |
| tonyyarusso | I'm already annoying someone | 02:05 |
| Takyoji | with a cattle prod and all.. | 02:05 |
| tonyyarusso | I think that's it for our business for now then. | 02:06 |
| Takyoji | otherwise we could even simply have a stupid text-based one that works via Javascript. :P | 02:06 |
| tonyyarusso | eww | 02:06 |
| Takyoji | I think we should also have the Ubuntu logo trail the cursor, and have animated navigational elements, and images for horizontal dividers.. | 02:07 |
| Takyoji | and random irrelevant GIFs | 02:07 |
| Takyoji | :P | 02:07 |
| Takyoji | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/LucidCountdownBanners | 02:09 |
| tonyyarusso | anyone want to edit a 4000-line KML file by hand for me? :P | 02:14 |
| Takyoji | Sure! :D | 02:14 |
| sparklehistory | I have no idea what that is, but I'm guessing no | 02:15 |
| Takyoji | or perhaps have it scripted. :P | 02:15 |
| Takyoji | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KML | 02:15 |
| tonyyarusso | this job needs a human | 02:16 |
| h00k | Bah, sorry, I'm working right now and I had a rush of people. Is why I haven't been saying much. | 02:20 |
| * Obsidian1723 later all | 23:45 | |
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