[06:50] <akgraner> Awesome day 2 at Grace Hopper - gave out lots of information about ubuntu women! :-)  Many women who stopped by the booth were already using Ubuntu and wanted to know how to get involved with contribution - I sent them here :-)  Happy dance!!!
[06:50] <hypatia> akgraner: awesome!
[06:52] <akgraner> There were also a lot of students who had heard of Open Source - but not sure what it was - and it was just as exciting to talk to them and demo Ubuntu for them
[06:52] <hypatia> wow, that's fantastic :D
[06:53] <hypatia> might be worth taking emails and signing them up to the mailing list?
[06:53] <hypatia> the former (how do i get involved) types that is
[06:53] <maco> yeah set out a signup sheet
[06:55] <akgraner> I gave them my cards with the website information on it and had a link to the sign up page available if they wanted to sign up on the spot
[06:55] <akgraner> but they wanted to read about the group first
[06:58] <hypatia> nice
[06:58] <hypatia> (and understandable)
[07:02] <akgraner> Then I left the Grace Hopper event to go to a meeting/expo for the National Association of Women Business Owners no one there knew anything about ubuntu  - so of course I had to tell them about it along with the business I was there with :-)
[07:02] <akgraner> so it was a great day!
[07:02] <hypatia> :D
[07:07] <akgraner> Oh and I finally joined the systers mailing list - I kept meaning to do that  - but somehow forgot to...
[07:07] <hypatia> oh, i should really do that
[07:14] <akgraner> There were a lot of students there as well as teachers and school representatives it was cool to talk to them about what they use and why and what they would prefer to use and why
[07:14] <akgraner> This is a great conference - it's very different than a Linux Fest and the women there are freakin' AWESOME!!!
[07:17] <hypatia> ^_^
[07:17] <hypatia> thanks for the systers reminder, akgraner
[07:17]  * hypatia subscribed
[07:18] <akgraner> :-)
[07:18] <hypatia> oh wait, we were supposed to write an essay?  i just answered point-form
[07:18] <hypatia> :p
[07:19] <maco> essay? O_o
[07:22] <nigelb> essay? for what?
[07:23] <hypatia> the systers application thingy
[07:25] <nigelb> oh. OH.
[07:40] <akgraner> hypatia, I just wrote 5 4 or 5 sentences in the box  - nothing fancy or anything
[07:40] <hypatia> ah, cool
[08:07] <czajkowski> good morning
[08:16] <svaksha> hypatia: its just a few lines about /self
[08:17] <hypatia> svaksha: yeah, that's what i put
[09:11] <optimum> Does Ubuntu-Women make public reports on its financial activities?
[09:11] <hypatia> optimum: we don't have any financial activities
[09:11] <elky> optimum, we have 0 monies.
[09:12] <optimum> shouldn't canonical provide funding?
[09:12] <elky> there, this channel is logged and that report is now public. enjoy.
[09:12] <hypatia> elky: lol
[09:12] <hypatia> this just in: UW has 0 monies.
[09:14] <hypatia> optimum: canonical does fund some things such as the webhosting we use, and funding for some UW members to participate in UDS
[09:14] <AlanBell> optimum: canonical provides support, some of which costs canonicl money
[09:14] <hypatia> but it does this for all ubuntu projects
[09:15] <elky> UW isn't a legal entity in any part of the universe. We have no reporting obligations.
[09:15] <AlanBell> why do you ask?
[09:15] <optimum> I would suggest that Canonical has a duty and responsibility to provide funding to Ubuntu-Women.
[09:15] <rww> I maded you a cookie, but I eated it so we wouldn't have to put it on the tax forms.
[09:16] <elky> optimum, canonical does support us when we ask.
[09:16] <hypatia> rww: sadface
[09:17] <svaksha> optimum: feel free to suggest that on our mailing-list for wider audience response
[09:17] <optimum> svaksha: I will consider it.
[09:18] <hypatia> i'm not sure what we'd do with money
[09:18] <hypatia> aside from send more folks to UDS
[09:18] <rww> hazard pay for the channel ops
[09:18] <MarkDude> rww lol
[09:18] <hypatia> haha
[09:19] <hypatia> on nights like tonight, that seems reasonable
[09:19]  * hypatia sends thank-you cards
[09:22] <elky> optimum, was there some reason you wanted financial history for UW?
[09:25] <optimum> elky: I was wondering about who funds UW, how much funding they provide, and how the money is spent.  I am also a bit curious as to how the meetings are run, whether UW uses Robert's Rules, and so forth.
[09:25] <valorie> our past meetings are all online
[09:25] <elky> optimum, i've donated money and material objects to UW, and I really don't care for my financial activity to be public.
[09:25] <hypatia> ugh rob's rules
[09:25] <hypatia> do not want.
[09:26] <hypatia> optimum: you're welcome to attend our meetings, the schedule is public
[09:26] <hypatia> in the topic, actually
[09:26] <valorie> I've never seen a case where we needed something so hidebound and heavy
[09:29] <AlanBell> optimum: I can tell you all about meeting processes if you like, how much time do you have?
[09:29] <AlanBell> out of interest does gentoo fund it's women's group?
[09:31] <AlanBell> optimum: on the subject of meetings I would be interested in a discusion of the concept of quorum in an amorphous community group
[09:34] <optimum> I have a project I need to do, unfortunately. but I would be interested in having those discussions some other time.  I am not aware of a Gentoo women's group.  Gentoo is primarily a nonprofit production.
[09:34] <AlanBell> bit of a shame it doesn't have one, seeing as they cost zero moneies :)
[09:35] <AlanBell> the "Ubuntu community" is basically not financially driven, Canonical is a very separate entity
[09:39]  * valorie has seen the box where Gentoo is hosted
[09:40] <valorie> same row as Linuxchix
[09:40] <valorie> :-)
[09:40] <maco> ah osuosl?
[09:40] <valorie> yep
[09:40] <valorie> and kernel.org
[09:40] <valorie> and a bunch of other cool projects
[09:40] <rww> i love osuosl
[09:40] <maco> i met the osuosl guys. they had sharrow in their phone!
[09:40] <rww> only mirror that maxes out my download bandwidth <3
[09:40] <maco> (for linuxchix.org reboots)
[09:41]  * hypatia met the osuosl folks at osbridge
[09:41] <hypatia> i think?
[09:41] <valorie> yes, they were all great people
[09:41] <hypatia> they were nice, wherever i met them
[10:17] <AlanBell> aww, optimum didn't want to talk about processes :(
[10:18] <nigelb> lol
[10:21] <svaksha> he didnt mail the list asking for accounts either
[10:36] <elky> yet
[10:36] <rww> hehe
[10:36] <svaksha> lol
[10:36] <elky> optimum, so how long have you been using gentoo?
[10:47] <darkrose> someone say gentoo?
[10:57] <elky> hah
[10:58] <elky> pick the ricer nick from the backscroll? :P
[13:53] <AlanBell> issyl0 in the news http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/topstorynews/2010/09/pm-challenges-departments-to-slash-energy-use-55332
[13:56] <Pendulum> issyl0: awesome :)
[15:34] <popey>  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/09/isabells_idea_proving_green_gi.html
[15:34] <popey> :)
[17:33] <vish> wow! that is sooooooooo awesome! its like a new level of awesomeness!
[17:37] <vish> on http://www.govspark.org.uk/  "Isabell Long Age 16" nice touch! :)
[17:57] <IdleOne> very cool