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dholbachgood morning08:18
grantbowdholbach: good morning :-)14:43
dholbachhey grantbow14:46
grantbowhey - how was your day?  I'm just getting up in California.14:46
dholbachgood, got a bit of stuff done already, but I'm not at the end of the list for today yet :)14:47
grantbowuh oh :)  I know the feeling.14:48
dholbachhow are you?14:49
grantbowPretty good.  Are you aware of any NGO activity in Afghanistan?14:49
czajkowskigrantbow: not that I'm aware of14:54
czajkowskino14:54
grantbowhi czajkowski :-)14:55
grantbowhmm, looks like my email didn't make it to the ubuntu-ngo mail list yesterday.  Aha! I sent to the wrong address.14:59
* grantbow resends15:04
dholbachgrantbow: do you know where in Afghanistan they send the laptops?15:07
dholbachgrantbow: NGO activity having to do with Ubuntu?15:07
dholbachgrantbow: I know the http://hubuntu-af.org/ team is doing good work in the west of the country (Herat) and building a custom distribution15:08
dholbachhttp://event.stockholmchallenge.se/project/2008/Public-Administration/FrontlineSMS-Text-Messaging-Hub-Grassroots-NGO-Community looks interesting too (mentions ubuntu)15:10
dholbachif you're looking for NGOs in general that do great work in Afghanistan, I'd mention http://www.aid-for-afghan-children.de/  http://www.ikat.org/ and http://skateistan.org/15:11
grantbowcustom distribution?  wow - great resources!  Good people to talk with to strengthen the stance of open source in the country.15:13
grantbowI know Carol Ruth Silver is now in Afghanistan and has been in Kandahar and traveling but I know how where yet.  They want to scale up operations to use XOs in remote areas where teachers aren't even available yet.15:14
dholbachyeah, there's lots of those areas in .af15:15
grantbowCarol is a former SF Supervisor who I am working with a bit, perhaps more soon.15:15
dholbachnice15:15
dholbachlet us know how things go there!15:15
dholbachthat's amazing15:15
dholbachgive her a big hug from me :-)15:15
grantbowwill do :-)15:15
grantbowwe had a conference call with her and Mike Dawson a couple weeks ago at a Saturday OLP15:16
grantbowOLPC-SF meeting15:16
grantbowI think she returns in a couple weeks15:17
dholbachit'd be sweet if Ubuntu could do any good there15:19
grantbowthe OLPC project has had Fedora sponsorship in the past and needed custom spins but that relationship has changed after sugarlabs emerged out of the OLPC organization and is now on their own.15:20
grantbowFedora and Red Hat sponsorship15:20
grantbowNow that the new hardware supports any distro that changes things quite a bit.15:20
dholbachI'm happy to see that the sugar team is active in Ubuntu15:21
grantbowRecent activity sponsored by sugarlabs15:21
* grantbow is happy too15:21
grantbowthere's still a nasty X.org bug that gets triggered by xephyr that's a big pain - modifier keys get stuck down when trying sugar!15:22
grantbowemulation is the work around right now15:22
grantbowvirtualbox15:22
dholbachurgh15:23
dholbachdid you talk to the guys in #ubuntu-x?15:23
dholbachis there a bug for it?15:23
dholbachdid somebody forward it upstream?15:23
grantbowit's a nasty deep bug in x.org triggered by the nested X that xephyr does - I think there are several bugs for it15:24
dholbachok15:24
grantbowI haven't talked to them yet15:24
grantbowgood idea, thanks15:24
xdataphi everybody16:50
czajkowskixdatap: aloha there16:54
xdatapczajkowski: hey Laura, how are you16:55
czajkowskigreat you?16:55
xdatapczajkowski: i'm fine16:55
xdatapczajkowski: are you coming next uds?16:55
czajkowskiI am indeed16:58
czajkowski:)16:58
czajkowskixdatap: as is Pendulum16:58
czajkowskigonna working on ngo stuff tonight16:58
czajkowskiand cross items off the blueprint16:58
czajkowskiand create an agenda for a meeting16:58
czajkowskiso we can work on a blue print for uds-m16:58
xdatapyay!16:59
czajkowskiso if you've any ideas drop us an email16:59
xdatapi will17:00
czajkowski<--- gone17:00

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