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ScottLnigelb, thanks for your help earlier with the SRU, crimsum ended up uploading it for me already :)00:20
nigelbScottL: no prblem :)00:59
paultagthanks there nigelb01:29
nigelbpaultag: may be we should modify it01:32
nigelbIts tooo old01:32
paultagnigelb: yeah :)01:32
nigelbI think I loved BASIC a lot ;)01:33
macoakgraner: how do you mix fast and southern? half of a southern accent is simply in the slowness06:19
akgranermaco that is the half I lost somewhere :-)07:35
nigelbheh07:36
pleia2akgraner: so, are you awake because you are still packing, or because you've made it to the left coast? :)07:38
akgranerjust finished packing and my dad is picking me up in 10 minutes to head to the airport07:39
akgranergot UWN out about midmight07:39
pleia2woohoo07:39
pleia2have a safe trip :)07:39
akgranermidnight here - then packed :-) and of course the one outfit I really wanted to wear had to be washed so I did all the laundry :-)07:40
akgranerthanks!07:40
jussiAlanBell: ping08:23
jussiwhere is sense!!! Im an Aussie! and my native language is English!!!!08:29
AlanBellmorning jussi08:29
jussimorning AlanBell - see pm08:29
jussioh dear, I read wrong lol08:31
nigelbjussi: I was suggesting that you shouldn't be listed as aussi now that you've been branded traitor :p08:36
* nigelb runs08:36
nigelb(he did correctly put you under aussie though)08:36
jussinigelb: Im a world citizen...08:36
jussinigelb: yeah, and Im dyslexic obviously :P08:37
nigelbjussi: haha, I was just kidding :)08:37
jussiso, I came up with an idea, was just talking to AlanBell about it. Was thinking about if we coould put a planet up for Businesses involved in ubuntu in some way or another, to blog about what they are doing with ubuntu.08:41
jussiit would need to have some spam rules, like no pricelists and so on, but still. It would be a portal for finding out info about how ubuntu is being used and furthered in the business world08:42
jussithoughts?08:42
* AlanBell approves of this fine idea08:45
dholbachjcastro: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BzrMaintainedPackages08:45
jussiso what? nobody has any thoughts?08:50
* jussi zaps the channel into life...08:51
dholbachjcastro: https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/SourceBuilds/KnownLimitations08:51
* nigelb gets a zap from jussi 09:46
nigelbjussi: its a good idea09:46
nigelbAlanBell: you did have an ubuntu @ work idea right?09:46
nigelbmaybe this could be merged?09:46
duanedesignnigelb: i seem to remember something from uds like that09:50
jussinigelb: exatly the point ;)09:50
AlanBellsame kind of thing yes09:52
AlanBellI was setting up a launchpad group and getting lost in a maze of twisty passages when trying to create a mailing list09:52
AlanBellhttps://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-partner-community09:53
AlanBelljono was going to talk to the partner people about the correct terminology or something09:53
* duanedesign is impressed his memory actually served him well09:53
jcastrohi everyone!09:58
AlanBellhi jcastro10:01
jussijcastro: up late? early? in a different part of the world?10:04
nigelbjcastro: hows the heat there?10:05
nigelblifeless was talking about it earlier today10:06
vishi believe jcastro is at the sprint...10:12
jcastronigelb: it seems ok to me10:13
nigelbyeah, Prague10:13
nigelbjcastro: gah, aussies are coming from winter :D10:13
jcastronigelb: we'll have to toughen him up10:20
nigelbjcastro: hehe10:21
jcastroJFo: 19a82f26fb43f418daf0f559a65d320f936693fd10:31
doctormonigelb: who?10:34
* popey farts on identi.ca10:38
sensegood morning!10:50
vishsense: you just missed something interesting!10:53
vishsense: * popey farts on identi.ca10:53
vish:D10:53
senseDo I want to know that? :P10:54
popeyheh10:57
popeyhttp://identi.ca/conversation/41931999#notice-4221599410:57
AlanBellmy comment to that effect is waiting moderation11:00
AlanBellMy understanding was that this was cockup rather than conspiracy. The RSS feed was supposed to be picking up posts tagged with Linux or Ubuntu or something and it wasn’t right and picked up a load of stuff relating to some legacy operating system.11:01
senseI haven't seen anything from Dell on the Planet lately, though.11:03
AlanBellthere was a batch of posts that are now gone11:04
nigelbdoctormo: lifeless11:05
nigelb(its his nickname.  Real name:  Robert Collins)11:05
nigelbjcastro: what the...11:06
nigelbpopey: Much better to talk to folks than just go blog about it :/11:07
popeyhey ho11:07
nigelbpopey: anyway, was that something going wrong with planet?11:08
nigelbI don't think they would randomly use the planet tag11:08
popeywe're looking into it11:08
nigelb:)11:08
popeyin the meantime I disabled their feed at their request11:08
* nigelb hugs popey :)11:08
popey*hugs*11:08
nigelbperhaps we should say that11:08
popeyonce we know what the problem is, we can certainly make it known11:09
czajkowskialoha11:20
doctormosense: I saw things on the planet from Dell, they were from the Microsoft event, fawning all over it.11:25
doctormoello czajkowski11:26
sensedoctormo: Aw, painful.11:26
senseczajkowski: hello!11:26
doctormosense: Interesting actually, because the blog is for their linux engineers. Did Dell send their linux people to a Microsoft event, or did dell just post interesting news through their Lin blog?11:27
sensedoctormo: You should ask Alan Pope about that or read the backlog, I wouldn't know, really.11:28
czajkowskithink it was just a rss cock up11:30
czajkowskihappens at times11:30
czajkowskisense: blog post on uds has appeared at least 3 times since it was first published11:30
senseYeah, that was because I stickied and unstickied it in WordPress.11:30
senseNo idea why that would be enough for PlanetPlanet to repost it.11:30
czajkowskisense: happens happened to mdz last year on a few posts11:31
czajkowskiand no blog posts or long conversations happened about it :)11:31
doctormosense: Works on the modification date.11:31
senseIt could use the modification date to look if the post was updated, but why not order it using the date published? :S11:32
senseThat would make much more sense to me.11:32
czajkowskisense: that would make sense11:36
senseYes it would!11:37
doctormosense: That has been an outstanding bug from what I can gather.11:37
sensedoctormo: I thought it was a 'Won't Fix' or an 'Opinion', is that right?11:37
doctormoczajkowski: What should I sketch today?11:37
doctormosense: I didn't track it, I thought planet code was orphaned.11:38
czajkowskidoctormo: eh?11:38
sensefun11:38
doctormoczajkowski: I do a simple 5 min sketch every day, I need an idea.11:39
czajkowskiloco geeknics11:39
czajkowskiglobal jam11:39
AlanBellProfile Roulette11:39
czajkowskiprofil;e of the day11:41
senseThe Irish were first, remember! :)11:42
doctormoI think I'll do global jam, sounds fun, and fruity.11:42
czajkowskisense: i know11:42
czajkowski:)11:42
senseYes, you do.11:43
nigelbdebian and ubuntu cooperating ;) http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/ubuntu/2010/07/1911:45
nigelbI thought it would be interesting for us to have such a class.  Rhonda of course is using the opportunity to teach the the entire downstream11:45
sensenigelb: yay for that!11:46
doctormoczajkowski: http://doctormo.deviantart.com/art/Sketch-2010-07-19-17188116311:50
czajkowskihttp://evand.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/the-home-stretch/  24% left folks help push it over11:51
doctormoczajkowski: I've no heard much reason on why stack overflow is a good site to have?11:52
czajkowskidoctormo: very briefly as i've to leg it11:52
czajkowskibut11:52
czajkowskiit'd be good to have a presence on there as other groups do11:52
czajkowskisome folks dont irc11:52
czajkowskiforurms get long and messy adn hard to find the answer at least i do, that could be me of course11:52
czajkowskimailing list ramble rave and rant11:53
czajkowskiand irc is good bt again not everyone uses it11:53
czajkowskilaunchpad q& a is useful and is used11:53
* doctormo considers that perhaps that's because Ubuntu doesn't support irc on the desktop.11:53
czajkowskibut some folks use SE so i think we shou;d be there to answer some of the questionns11:53
nigelbsense: if you could give a bit of advertisement (a blog post perhaps?)11:53
nigelbwould be great :)11:53
czajkowskidoctormo: thats my 2 cents and why i'm helping to promote it11:54
sensenigelb: I'll see what I can do for you!11:54
czajkowskii think it's a great idea11:54
doctormoczajkowski: Sounds like the right reasons, I hang around on vark to steer people much the same way.11:54
czajkowskibut now i've to dash to a meeting to solve funding for an event11:54
doctormobye!11:54
czajkowskidoctormo: so you're a voval kinda guy ciyuld you please help11:54
* nigelb hugs sense11:54
nigelbThank you :)11:54
senseyw11:54
czajkowskiwe're 24% away and we've jumped from 40 to 70 % in a week11:54
czajkowskiwe just need a little more to go beta11:54
czajkowskiplease11:54
doctormoAlright11:55
czajkowskiall of you in here are vocal and blog11:55
doctormoIf it will make you happy11:55
czajkowskiit will11:55
czajkowskibut more so it'd make evan happy11:55
czajkowskitis his wee project11:55
czajkowski<---------------------poof gone11:55
doctormoI see Evan is second only to jcastro for referals.11:57
doctormoczajkowski: http://doctormo.org/2010/07/19/communities/ for when you get back.12:12
nigelbjcastro: is dholbach there too? or is he on leave today?12:30
nigelbjcastro: also its your turn for cleansweep stats this week!12:30
sensenigelb: ^^13:04
nigelbsense: thanks13:05
nigelbdholbach: poke13:05
dholbachhey nigelb13:05
nigelbdholbach: Rhonda wanted to know if we could arrange translations for the session thursday13:05
nigelbapparently people have asked for german :)13:06
nigelbhow do we normally do it for open weeks/13:06
dholbachnigelb: what do you want translated?13:06
nigelbdholbach: the session13:06
nigelb"How to work with debian BTS"13:06
dholbachlike live-translate?13:06
dholbachyou can try it by blogging about it13:07
dholbachmaybe you'll find someone to do it13:07
nigelbyeah, live translate13:07
dholbachI'm too busy right now, I'm afraid13:07
nigelbno, I wanted to know we usually did it13:07
dholbachI don't think there's a "usual" there13:08
dholbachwe had people translate questions and answers13:08
dholbachbut not whole sessions13:08
dholbachafaik13:08
nigelbahh, ok, call for help then!13:10
nigelbdholbach: btw, you're in prague?13:10
jcastroooh, my turn for cleansweep stats?13:10
dholbachnigelb: yes13:10
dholbachjcastro: http://daniel.holba.ch/review/report13:11
nigelbjcastro: yes, I was about ask dholbach to physically poke you if he were in prague :D13:11
senseEven if he isn't there driving to Prague should be doable for him! :P13:13
senseI mean, Germany lies next to Czech, so any German should be able to be in Prague within a few hours!13:13
nigelbsense: oooh.  I didn't think of that :D13:14
nigelbsense: they're probably sitting next to each other anyway13:14
paultagOhhh, Germany13:23
paultagsense: I have always wanted to go to Prague :)13:24
senseIt's a beautiful city. I've been there once.13:24
senseCertainly worth a sight-seeing tour.13:24
paultagsense: it was very closly tied with East Germany during post WWII communism13:25
paultagsteeped in history :)13:25
* nigelb hugs jcastro spontaneously ;)13:25
senseIt was a very rich country until the WWII and the Cold War when the Germans and the Russians destroyed a lot, stole a lot of valuable items and wrecked the economy.13:25
paultagsense: they did that to east Germany as well, they took the infastructure that was standing and took it back to Russia13:26
senseyes13:26
paultagcreative :)13:26
sensenigelb: Is the Debian BTS session already in the schedule at <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom>?13:30
senseor isn't there any?13:30
nigelbsense: its on the schedule in classroom topic13:32
senseok!13:32
dholbachdpm: http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+publishinghistory13:46
akgranerWell I made it to Dallas - next stop will be Portland :-)  Woo Hoo!14:11
nigelbakgraner: w00t w00t14:13
Pendulumakgraner: yay! I hope the rest of the travel goes smoothly!14:13
nigelbakgraner: compared to UDS, it seems much calmer I think ;)14:14
randa_akgraner hi14:14
akgranernigelb, yeppers14:14
akgranerranda_, HEY!! :-)  how are ya?14:14
randa_akgraner: are you going to OSCON?14:14
akgranerranda_, yeppers14:14
akgranerI'll be there all week14:15
randa_wow that's great my husband is there as well14:15
akgranerreally?  tell him to come by the Linux Pro/Ubuntu user Booth14:15
randa_akgraner: i will. :)14:15
akgranerI'll be there most of the time on Wednesday and Thursday :-)14:16
akgranerI saw that Nick Levine and John Pugh will be there as well  - I talked to John but have yet to meet Nick14:16
akgranerranda_, John said he owes Pete beer and since Pete won't be there I told john I will accept them by proxy.... muahaha14:17
randa_akgraner: Nick Barcet yes14:17
randa_akgraner: haha14:18
akgranerranda_, I didn't see him on the list but it will be great to see him again as well  - that's cool..   are you in prague this week?14:18
randa_no akgraner Im in Millbank, michelle is now the ubuntu platform admin14:20
akgranerahh that's right  - sorry :-/  wasn't thinking14:22
akgranerranda_, I meant Neil not Nick I am so terrible with names of people I haven't meet yet :-(14:52
randa_well nick barcet is def going, not sure about neil though14:53
randa_akgraner: ^^14:53
akgranerawesome!14:53
* akgraner <3's OSCON14:53
randa_:)14:53
akgranerit seems like the Olympic Pool of Open Source developers, vendors, and users in the US  (well at least to me) :-/14:54
* popey tries not to picture jfo in speedos14:54
akgranerpopey, NOOOOO!   mental image I did not need! :-P14:55
popey:D14:55
popeyok, you can easily remove it by replacing with an image of RMS in speedos instead.14:55
akgranersigh you are not helping I think I just threw up a little14:55
popeyhah14:55
randa_hahah but JFo is in Prague akgraner14:55
akgranerranda_, I know  - but that mental image is still not a good one14:56
* popey hugs the ubuntu community, speedos or not14:56
akgranerhowever I asked him to make sure he wears his overalls to UDS next time14:56
akgranerwell gotta run  - next flight shortly  - laters14:57
popeyo/14:57
popeyakgraner: great UWN this week btw14:57
randa_hahaha14:57
doctormopopey: Your blog entry, isn't it basically saying what the MA LoCos official position has been for 2 years?15:12
popeyis it?15:13
doctormoAnime Boston, PiCon3, PiCon4, NE Intel Gaming Party etc, etc, events of semi or non technical users who may or may not have heard of Ubuntu before.15:13
popeyMany LoCos don't do that though15:14
popeyit was copy/pasted from an Ubuntu-UK list mail, and the -uk loco certainly doesn't do any where near as much non-tech advocacy as you guys do15:14
doctormoIn fact MA doesn't really consider internal geek events as advocacy, I think of them more as social events much like the Ubuntu Hour.15:14
popeywe need to do more15:14
doctormoSurely thought the UK is split up into parts? A country with 60 million people should be doing more than a state of 6 million even if the area is 5th the size.15:16
doctormoErm, 5 times the size*15:17
doctormoI say just squat the NEC until an event happens.15:18
popeyin terms of loco there is two, "UK" and "Wales"15:19
popeytheres not a loco per county15:19
doctormoNo Scotland?15:19
popeyno15:19
popeyand Wales don't seem to be active15:19
doctormoHow can you tell ;-)15:20
popey:)15:20
popeywell, given they kicked the logging bot out of their channel..15:20
popeyseems like more of a youth club than a loco IMO15:20
doctormoThere is a better way to divide than by county of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_England15:22
doctormoI remember I was going to meet the folk up in Liverpool until it got canceled because of the snow. So there must be people out there.15:23
doctormoDoing things15:23
popeywe have lugs in pretty much every county15:24
popeyits certainly something we could consider15:24
doctormoczajkowski: Woop, 10 referals to that stack exchange.15:24
doctormopopey: Depends on the lug I think, US-PA according to pleia2 was active with advocy, but Boston LUG is just a social group for old unix nerds.15:25
popeyyeah, lugs in the UK are very diverse15:25
popeymy local two are quite active15:25
popeyothers are moribund15:26
doctormoThe home of LUG Radio and a bunch of other things.15:26
popeyyeah. lugradio from wolves lug which used to be a very social lug15:27
popeythey would go for curry each week15:27
Pendulumdoctormo: btw, I should have a vehicle by the time of PiCon so should be able to help transport stuff down here if needed15:34
czajkowskialoha16:00
doctormoPendulum: sounds great16:21
doctormoPendulum: I think Johnathon is confirmed so I should have transport from Boston... we'll organise it.16:23
czajkowskinigelb: tis not funny18:43
pleia2doctormo: btw, I was a bit unsure about the officialness of the mouse-in-circle for the xubuntu logo, I just spoke with charlie-tca and got him to confirm that it is (the team never *actually* came to a formal decision, but he's the leader right now and Made It So, will update xubuntu artwork pages to reflect)19:49
doctormopleia2: ah, apologise to him for me forcing his hand, it sounds like that is what I did.19:50
pleia2not at all, a formal decision needed to be nudged into place19:50
pleia2everyone is happy :)19:50
pleia2I got my mouse, they have a shiny SVG to distribute19:51
doctormopleia2: Nice, like my dragon?20:11
pleia2doctormo: yeah, that rocks :)20:12
AlanBelldoctormo: do you have a commissioning price list?20:15
doctormoAlanBell: Sure, depends on the work, the licensing, the use and the person. Artwork is very fluid so it's hard to pin an exact price. normally the amount you want to spend comes first and then the amount of work follows.20:19
jussitomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow!!!20:22
jussi:D20:22
AlanBellpicture of a walking bus, CC-BY-SA, http://polys.stroll2school.com (and for other schools we can sell it to), not sure how much we want to spend20:23
AlanBelldoing it as a freebie for my kids school, but it seems like a repeatable thing that could be done commercially20:24
doctormoAlanBell: ping20:45
doctormopleia2: Did the classroom planet icon pass inspection?21:15
pleia2doctormo: yeah, I think so, following-up with that is on my todo list (we're using it for identi.ca and twitter too)21:15
pleia2doctormo: thanks again for that inkscape demo at UDS, I probably didn't retain much from the actual demo itself, but it clued me in to the fact that it was great and usable and now, in spite of general artistic uselessness, I can *manipulate* SVGs with some skill these days :)23:52
pleia2and now we have https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Artwork/Maverick \o/23:52
doctormopleia2: Lovely, between you and paultag you seem to be running the lighter distros :-D23:53
pleia2yeah, coming from debian+xfce, xubuntu was always my thing23:53
pleia2I really tried to use gnome23:53

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