[09:33] <cong06> yo!
[09:33] <ebel> yo!
[09:33] <ebel> what's up?
[09:33] <cong06> not much.
[09:33] <cong06> you?
[09:34] <ebel> Ah not much
[11:33] <cong06> dude. I was just chilling in a channel for work, and some guy pops in... invites me to his channel
[11:33] <cong06> and makes me an op there.
[11:33] <cong06> it was bizare
[11:33] <ebel> hehehee
[11:33] <ebel> well people can make channels all the time :)
[11:33] <cong06> now I'm an op in irc://lightirc.com/#jackerz
[11:34] <cong06> *irc.lightirc.com
[11:34] <cong06> that's true...
[11:58] <cong06> so, ebel, tell me about yourself. How long ago did you start using ubuntu?
[11:58] <ebel> I've been using ubuntu for about 5 years now
[11:58] <ebel> How about yourself?
[11:58] <cong06> I think the first installation was 6.10...
[11:59] <cong06> but the first installation on a serious computer, for an extended period of time would have been 7.04
[11:59] <cong06> so maybe 3-4 years
[11:59] <cong06> no, actually, I think i got the versions wrong
[11:59] <cong06> it was 7.10 and 8.04
[11:59] <cong06> so 2-3
[12:00] <cong06> 5 years ago... that's pretty early on in Ubuntu's history
[12:00] <cong06> I mean it's not that old, is it?
[12:00] <cong06> LTS wasn't released until 6.06 iirc
[12:01] <ebel> First release was 4.10, so 2004
[12:02] <ebel> I started around 5.10 or 6.06-ish
[12:02] <ebel> I've also been involved with the LoCo stuff since about 2007 or so
[12:03] <ebel> I'm the Point of Contact for the Ireland LoCo
[12:03] <cong06> I can't remember what LoCo stands for...
[12:06] <ebel> Local Communitye
[12:06] <ebel> *Community
[12:07] <cong06> ah. ok.
[12:07] <cong06> I just figured out that if I search "ubuntu loco" it might give good results :P
[12:08] <cong06> so you live in Ireland?
[12:09] <ebel> heheh
[12:09] <ebel> Yeah I live in Ireland.
[12:09] <ebel> I've been to Kenay twice, in 2006 & 2008
[12:10] <ebel> Hence why I'm on this channel :)
[12:10] <cong06> ;)
[12:11] <cong06> well, then I guess we're both a bunch of foreigners.
[12:11] <cong06> I'm from the US
[12:12] <cong06> but I'm working in Kenya right now
[12:12] <ebel> Ah OK :)
[12:12] <ebel> Where abouts?
[12:12] <cong06> in the US? Pennsylvania. in Kenya? Kimende
[12:12] <ebel> I was usually in Mombasa (& other coast places shortly, Malindi/Lamu)
[12:12] <cong06> do you know Kimende? it's right before Kijabe
[12:12] <cong06> on the way to Naivasha
[12:12] <cong06> (from Nairobi)
[12:14] <cong06> I've been to Mombasa, but not really for too long... I hope to travel back there sometime this year
[12:14] <ebel> Ah Gotcha :)
[12:15] <ebel> I was with Camara, an Irish NGO that sets up Ubuntu Computers in schools
[12:17] <cong06> oh, that's kinda what I'm doing!
[12:17] <cong06> though we're just using ubuntu cause it's free. we're trying to use computers to allow communication between schools
[12:18] <cong06> so that students can learn from each other
[12:18] <cong06> our primary objective is fighting against the conflict in 2007
[12:19] <ebel> thought that was in 2008?
[12:19] <cong06> yeah, you're right. I always think of the election in 2007
[12:19] <cong06> but the conflict was really 08
[12:20] <ebel> Camara uses ubuntu and FLOSS to prevent lock in.
[12:20] <ebel> No point helping people get started on computers if they have to keep buying new MS software every few years! :)
[12:20] <ebel> (and it's free :) )
[12:21] <cong06> yeah, that is an issue.
[12:22] <ebel> also we could customise the installer
[12:22] <cong06> I messed around with that some
[12:22] <ebel> To make it easy to install ubuntu on a few hunderd machines in parallel :)
[12:22] <cong06> but I'm trying to keep everything simple
[12:23] <ebel> yeah.
[12:23] <ebel> Simple is good.
[12:23] <ebel> Cause you're not going to be there forever!
[12:23] <ebel> And when it breaks....
[12:23] <cong06> exactly.