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* Takyoji wonders how many have heard of grsecurity04:14
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h00kAre you guys wanting to participate in Software Freedom Day 2010?17:11
kermitis admin or dev work something you'd ever find through a temp service?18:47
Obsidian1723possibly.18:53
Obsidian1723there is e-lance, dice, other IT sites.18:53
Obsidian1723Problem with e-lance is Sahaim for Bombay willo do it for pennies.18:53
Obsidian1723for = from18:54
Obsidian1723Why not try doing some open source development?18:55
kermiti'll do dev or admin not on windows or OSX18:55
Obsidian1723Good way to network, meet people, etc. May lead to paid work, or at least make contacts.18:55
kermitlead to?  i have rent to pay18:56
kermitits long term thinking like that that is why i'm broke now18:56
Obsidian1723Well, the flip burgers18:56
Obsidian1723then18:56
kermityears of work that hasnt paid off18:56
Obsidian1723Do what pays, work on FOSS until you can move into it.18:56
kermiti'm not totally clear what you're suggesting... submit some patches and hope someone from minneapolis sees it and tries to hire me?18:57
kermiti guess i don't see how, with 1/2000 of the globe's population in minneapolis, networking online is going to be a very direct route to local employment.19:01
kermiter, online in a the global context of FOSS projects19:02
kermitas far as networking goes, wearing a 'got linux?' shirt at random bars has been surprisingly effective19:16
Obsidian1723:D19:47
Obsidian1723Well, there is a ton of LUGs around, FGTC, etc, may be good places to start?19:48
Obsidian1723I've heard about some job opportunites through FGTC...19:49
Obsidian1723Main thing is to get involved in the community you want to be part of, network, get known, do work and get out there in it, be in programming, IT, music, whatever.19:50
kermitthere is a ton of LUGs?  i've only seen TCLUG19:54
kermitgetting locally involved is the part i havent done19:55
kermiti'm all over freenode19:55
Obsidian1723yeah, gotta do face time. Why not volunteet for FGTC?19:56
kermiti've never been very locally oriented, i didnt even know about that annual sci-fi con of 5000+ people until this year, and i've been here almost 30 years19:56
Obsidian1723We even have a channel on here, #FGTC19:56
kermiti havent heard of it until right now19:57
Obsidian1723Free Geek Twin Cities, a branch off of the Portalnd Free Geek that started it all. It's a non-profit that breaks down PCs, refurbs them, installs Ubuntu, and gives them olut to low income people, organizations, etc.19:58
Obsidian1723www.twincitiesfree.geek.org19:58
kermita non profit?19:58
kermit501c something19:58
Obsidian1723yeah19:58
kermitthat hostname does not exist19:59
Obsidian1723www.twincitiesfreegeek.org20:02
Obsidian1723sorry20:02
kermitwww.twincitiesfreegeek.org does not exist (Authoritative answer)20:06
Obsidian1723hang on20:06
kermitmaybe freegeektwincities.org20:07
Obsidian1723http://freegeektwincities.org/20:07
netbookVery cool obsidian21:15
netbookthat was a smart kid in that video21:16
Obsidian1723:D21:21
TakyojiSeptember 18th for the Free Software Day (just checked)22:24
Takyojiand you're all terrible for not taking h00k's prompt into consideration. xP22:25
Takyojiotherwise any ideas by anyone? Here's a couple suggestions: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide#What_should__we_do.3F22:34
Takyojiin other words it's less than 2 months; which is sufficient time to plan something and even have something public22:36
h00kWait, huh?23:57
h00kooh, SFDay23:57
Obsidian1723hmm new Winders exploit out.23:58

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