[00:58] <dudanogueira> good night all :)
[01:00] <pleia2> #startmeeting
[01:00] <MootBot> Meeting started at 19:00. The chair is pleia2.
[01:00] <MootBot> Commands Available: [TOPIC], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE]
[01:00] <pleia2> Hello and welcome to the Ubuntu Membership Review Board for the Americas meeting for July 22nd. The wiki page for the Review Board is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/Americas
[01:00] <pleia2> this is a make-up meeting for one we had to reschedule from last week :)
[01:00] <pleia2> The format for the meeting is as follows: We will go through the list of applicants one by one, by date of application (FIFO).
[01:00]  * beuno apologizes
[01:01] <pleia2> Each applicant should introduce themselves (1-5 sentences) and provide links to their Ubuntu Wiki page. After the introduction the members of the Membership Review Board will review the pages and, if needed, ask the applicant further questions.
[01:01] <pleia2> During this time it is encouraged for other members of the community to show their support for the applicant. Do not be alarmed if the members of the Membership Review Board are quiet during this time; they are most likely reading wiki/launchpad/forum/other pages and deciding how they are going to vote.
[01:01] <pleia2> When the board is ready to vote, they will publicly vote in the channel with either +1, 0, or -1 (for membership, abstain, and against membership, respectively). If the sum of those numbers is positive, then the applicant is now an official Ubuntu member! (feel free congratulate them!)
[01:01] <pleia2> Now, with any further ado, lets get started with the first applicant...
[01:02] <pleia2> dyfet was approved by email since he started his app during the last meeting, we'll announce his approval along with the rest of the applicants, so congrats dyfet!
[01:02] <nhandler> Congratulations
[01:03] <greg-g> yes, congrats again, dyfet!
[01:03] <pleia2> is jturek here?
[01:03] <pleia2> ok, we'll come back to him if he makes it
[01:03] <pleia2> stlsaint: are you here?
[01:03] <stlsaint> here
[01:03] <pleia2> [TOPIC] stlsaint membership
[01:03] <beuno> hi stlsaint
[01:03] <MootBot> New Topic:  stlsaint membership
[01:03] <stlsaint> beuno: hello
[01:05] <pleia2> stlsaint: please go ahead and introduce yourself and link to your wiki :)
[01:05] <stlsaint> names matthew, nickname is stlsaint. I am employed with the US govt as a information tech. I have used ubuntu a little over a year 1/2. Here is link to wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/stlsaint
[01:06] <nhandler> [LINK] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/stlsaint
[01:06] <MootBot> LINK received:  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/stlsaint
[01:06] <stlsaint> Sorry for small introduction but i hope that my wiki explains more
[01:07] <pleia2> stlsaint: if you were to pick a strong point of yours within the community, what would you highlight as something you are most proud of/spend the most time on?
[01:07] <stlsaint> support
[01:07] <nhandler> stlsaint: I notice that you mention you are part of the Screencast team. What have you been doing as a member of that team?
[01:08]  * maco waits for wiki to loa
[01:08] <maco> *load
[01:08] <maco> stlsaint: us gov? so are you local to me then? dc area?
[01:08] <stlsaint> nhandler: yes, the team has just been recently been reorganized so there has not been a cast yet but my first plan is to do a screencast of a manual partition of maverick
[01:08] <stlsaint> maco: i am a soldier in the US Army
[01:08] <maco> ah
[01:09] <pleia2> stlsaint: any tx team plans on the horizon?
[01:09] <dudanogueira> stlsaint: and events, with pictures of happy users?
[01:09] <dudanogueira> hehehe
[01:10] <greg-g> I was just getting ready to ask why it is call the "centex" team, but I just woke up from a nap, so it just took my brain a second to realize the obviousness :)
[01:10] <stlsaint> pleia2: yes, i have proposed a get together of the various seperate locos in a "geeknic" and i have future plans for the killeen team becoming more formal
[01:10] <nhandler> stlsaint: You mention a goal of becoming a bugcontrol member. Are you part of the bugsquad mentoring program right now?
[01:10] <stlsaint> nhandler: yes i am, my mentor is ddecator
[01:10] <greg-g> oh good
[01:11] <nhandler> :)
[01:11] <stlsaint> :D
[01:11] <pleia2> [VOTE] stlsaint membership
[01:11] <MootBot> Please vote on:  stlsaint membership.
[01:11] <MootBot> Public votes can be registered by saying +1/-1/+0 in the channel, private votes by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0  to MootBot
[01:11] <MootBot> E.g. /msg MootBot +1 #ubuntu-meeting
[01:11] <pleia2> +1
[01:11] <MootBot> +1 received from pleia2. 1 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 1
[01:11] <beuno> +1
[01:11] <MootBot> +1 received from beuno. 2 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 2
[01:12] <nhandler> +1
[01:12] <MootBot> +1 received from nhandler. 3 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 3
[01:12] <dudanogueira> +1
[01:12] <greg-g> +1
[01:12] <MootBot> +1 received from dudanogueira. 4 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 4
[01:12] <MootBot> +1 received from greg-g. 5 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 5
[01:12] <maco> +1
[01:12] <MootBot> +1 received from maco. 6 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 6
[01:12] <pleia2> [endvote]
[01:12] <MootBot> Final result is 6 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 6
[01:12] <nhandler> Congratulations stlsaint !
[01:12] <pleia2> congrats and welcome stlsaint!
[01:12] <maco> wow we got 6 board members to show up? O_O
[01:12] <stlsaint> very nice :D
[01:12] <greg-g> congrats stlsaint!
[01:12] <stlsaint> thank you all!!
[01:12] <pleia2> maco: yeah, for a meeting with only one applicant, doh!
[01:12] <maco> congrats!
[01:12] <greg-g> :)
[01:12] <dudanogueira> stlsaint: welcome!
[01:13] <maco> pleia2:  haha whoops
[01:13] <stlsaint> dudanogueira: thank you
[01:13] <stlsaint> greg-g: appreciate it :D
[01:13] <pleia2> doesn't look like jturek is going to make it
[01:13] <greg-g> sad
[01:13] <nhandler> Well, great meeting everyone
[01:13] <pleia2> thanks everyone
[01:13] <greg-g> paultag: you missed stlsaint being approved, I saw you wrote a testimonial
[01:13] <paultag> Ach! I was here to cheer stlsaint :)
[01:13] <pleia2> #endmeeting
[01:13] <MootBot> Meeting finished at 19:13.
[01:13] <stlsaint> paultag: ;)
[01:13] <paultag> greg-g: yeah, I was in community-team arguing with doctormo
[01:13] <pleia2> paultag: it's ok, he didn't need you ;)
[01:14] <greg-g> paultag: it happens
[01:14] <paultag> righto :)
[01:14] <paultag> great meeting, grats stlsaint :D
[01:14] <paultag> thanks approval board :)
[01:14] <stlsaint> paultag: thanks man
[01:14] <greg-g> I might have to put that quote in a blog post or something, paultag
[01:14] <paultag> greg-g: fire at will, that there is public domain ;)
[01:14] <greg-g> :)
[01:15] <maco> oh wait look
[01:15] <jturek> phew - sorry guys.. timezone was off on my iphone from flyin g:(
[01:15] <pleia2> oh!
[01:16] <stlsaint> uh oh
[01:16] <pleia2> going to check real quick to see if we have quorum
[01:16] <pleia2> jturek: we just wrapped up the meeting, but we can probably reopen :)
[01:16] <jturek> oh , i am sorry
[01:17] <jturek> We need a push notification ubuntu-meeting iphone app :)
[01:17] <pleia2> hehe
[01:17] <jturek> that is timezone agnostic
[01:17] <paultag> jturek: or get a droid ;)
[01:18] <pleia2> #startmeeting
[01:18] <MootBot> Meeting started at 19:18. The chair is pleia2.
[01:18] <MootBot> Commands Available: [TOPIC], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE]
[01:18] <pleia2> ok, here we go again :)
[01:18] <pleia2> [TOPIC] jturek membership
[01:18] <MootBot> New Topic:  jturek membership
[01:18] <nhandler> Can you introduce yourself jturek ?
[01:18] <jturek> Sure
[01:19] <jturek> Hi Guys, I am John Turek  - a long time ubuntu user
[01:19] <jturek> I have been involved with passing on the ubuntu flame for years, now.  and I run a local linux users group in rural PA
[01:19] <jturek> My main job runs a UEC with a large voip deployment
[01:20] <jturek> I'd like to be a ubuntu member to be able to continue my indoctrination of ubuntu to others
[01:20] <jturek> I have been working more with #ubuntu-community and getting to know everybody there
[01:21] <jturek> (even was a runner up with Jono's new UEC Laison position)
[01:21] <jturek> Thanks for considering me for membership
[01:22] <jturek> nhandler: ok
[01:22] <maco> where's your wiki link?
[01:22] <pleia2> jturek: can you discuss some of the work you've done in the community thus far? your wiki is kind of sparse
[01:22] <dudanogueira> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnTurek
[01:23] <jturek> Hi, the wiki is space since i have little web based community involvement,  it has mostly been in the local and rural setting.
[01:23] <jturek> I was on many of th emeetings of the last UDS in belgum (remotely) and contributed some feedback in the UEC meetings and Server
[01:23] <pleia2> jturek: have you tried working at all with the ubuntu pennsylvania team?
[01:24] <maco> couldnt get any of the in-person-people to write on it?
[01:24] <jturek> pleia2: I'd like to reach out to the other ubuntu locals and grow our rural team,  its difficult where i live
[01:24] <nhandler> jturek: I see you are a member of the 5-a-day team. How much bug triaging have you done?
[01:24] <pleia2> jturek: loco teams are great for that, pennsylvania is my old loco (I just moved a few months back) and they're a great bunch, a lot of folks who are rural and always looking to swap best practices and tips :)
[01:25] <jturek> excellent pleia2 i look forward to growing that
[01:25] <jturek> and nhandler  I made a committment to myself to work on triaging bugs more, I helped with python-snippets and other small jono projects.. and I did alot of bug reporting back in the old days if BitchX and gaim
[01:26] <jturek> I will continue to give more time as it has become available, esp with Maverick
[01:26] <dudanogueira> jturek: have you contributed with documentation or support on mailing lists?
[01:26] <maco> jturek: couldnt get any of the in-person-people to write on your wiki page?
[01:27] <jturek> Maco,  If its truly required, I will get a snippet from a few local team members and have them added.  Sorry it isn't on there
[01:28] <nhandler> jturek: It isn't really "required", but they are a very big help
[01:28] <pleia2> jturek: that'd be great, testimonials are really valueable to this process, particularly in your case where much of your work can not be reflected in statistics and "web work"
[01:28] <jturek> ok pleia2
[01:28] <pleia2> if you worked with jono you might also ask him for a testimonial, as well as the folks you've been working with remotely since UDS
[01:29]  * nhandler has to go to dinner
[01:29] <jturek> And dudanogueira the support has been in IRC chat alot of the times,  for the lernid and snippets projects, I am doing a proxy impelemntation for Lernid to work behind irc blocked networks
[01:29] <dudanogueira> that's very good!!
[01:30] <jturek> since I am blocked at work as well.. which breaks lernid :)
[01:31] <jturek> I have worked with Amazon EC2 engineers to help get AMI's deployed for customers as well in a consulting role
[01:31] <pleia2> jturek: if you have time to help with lernid more, you should pop around #ubuntu-classroom-backstage to chat with the classroom folks, I know there are a few bugs out there we'd like to see addressed :)
[01:31] <jturek> pleia2: i'd be glad to
[01:31] <pleia2> great :)
[01:31] <jturek> I usually keep my irc on while my day job is going on... just right now I was out chasing kids around
[01:31] <jturek> ;)
[01:31] <pleia2> jturek: so I'd suggest you collect some testimonials from folks who know your work in the community, and then return in a couple months so we can review your app again
[01:32] <pleia2> oh, and head over to #ubuntu-us-pa to chat with the pennsylvania folks, might even find some others in your area
[01:32] <nhandler> But you are definitely off to a great start. I look forward to seeing you come back
[01:32] <jturek> thanks nhandler
[01:32] <jturek> and pleia2
[01:32] <jturek> sorry to hold you guys off
[01:32] <pleia2> no need for apologies, thanks for coming :)
[01:32] <jturek> maybe an iphone app can be implemented by then so I don't miss this again
[01:33] <jturek> (yes, and android ) :)
[01:33] <maco3> android!
[01:33] <paultag> jturek: Thanks for comming!  P.S. -- If you're close to Ohio, please stop by #ubuntu-us-oh, you're more then welcome over :)
[01:33] <dudanogueira> or meego, on a near future...
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[01:33] <maco3> aaaaaaaand come to ohio linuxfest! im sure plenty of us will be there
[01:33] <paultag> wooo!! +1 maco3
[01:34] <maco3> yeah </plug>
[01:34] <maco3> paultag: see you there?
[01:34] <jturek> I am about 2 hours east of Erie, PA
[01:34] <paultag> jturek: ah! right around the corner
[01:34] <paultag> maco3: I'm here :)
[01:34] <pleia2> [endmeeting]
[01:34] <paultag> maco3: Oh, yes, duh! See you there!
[01:34] <pleia2> #endmeeting
[01:34] <MootBot> Meeting finished at 19:34.
[01:34] <pleia2> thanks everyone
[01:34] <maco3> jturek: are you near state college then?
[01:34] <jturek> alright guys,  i'll gather everything up for the next one
[01:35] <jturek> maco3: 4 hours north
[01:35] <dudanogueira> jturek: thank you!!
[01:35] <jturek> alright, ia m going to get back outside before the kids kill themselves
[01:35] <maco3> i didnt think there was 4 hours of space between state college and ny O_O
[01:35] <jturek> HAHA!!!
[01:36] <jturek> yeah,  google Coudersport, PA
[01:36] <jturek> I work for Level 3 communications which has an office there.. as a Tier 4 IP/Voice engineer
[01:36] <jturek> if you ever see level3.com/.net in a traceroute.. thats us
[01:36] <jturek> :)
[01:36] <maco3> O_O there's like.... 6 roads one way and 10 roads the other
[01:36] <jturek> yeap, one stop light
[01:37] <jturek> alright nice to meet all of you
[01:37] <maco3> (i'm from pittsburgh and spend holidays in ny, btw)
[01:37] <maco3> have a nice night
[01:37] <jturek> oh! cool
[01:38] <jturek> i'll catch you guys on here, and can I get criticizm about my wiki if I ask one of you to look it over for suggestions after i work on it?
[01:38] <jturek> don't want to waste y'all time again
[01:38] <maco3> jturek: im not in pittsburgh anymore though ;-) escaped to a bigger city
[01:48] <dudanogueira> gotta go, thank you all!
[09:33] <czajkowski> aloha