| KombuchaKip | For those who missed it, but would like to catch it: http://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2011 | 03:46 |
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| BluesKaj | hey folks | 13:13 |
| joeoshawa | hello anyone here | 20:18 |
| dscassel | Hi joeoshawa. | 20:19 |
| dscassel | What's up? | 20:19 |
| joeoshawa | hello sorry to just drop in but i got an ignorant comment in the ubuntu channel and i saw canada so i figuredi would check you out | 20:20 |
| joeoshawa | ignorant from an op | 20:20 |
| joeoshawa | anyway | 20:20 |
| joeoshawa | so what is this team about what do you do | 20:21 |
| dscassel | No worries. :) | 20:21 |
| dscassel | We're the Ubuntu Canada LoCo team. Mostly we coordinate activities and events across Canada (in a decentralized sort of way) | 20:22 |
| joeoshawa | well i try to help some people out with what i know (isn't much really) while i get help with what i need you know | 20:22 |
| joeoshawa | cool | 20:22 |
| joeoshawa | i didnt' know ubuntu had events | 20:22 |
| joeoshawa | great idea | 20:22 |
| joeoshawa | although not new i am sure | 20:22 |
| dscassel | Yeah. Release parties, "jams" where people get together to contribute and regular meetups called Ubuntu Hours. | 20:24 |
| dscassel | And anything else people want to do. | 20:24 |
| joeoshawa | awsome | 20:24 |
| dscassel | Right now there are groups running events regularly in Waterloo, Toronto and Ottawa. | 20:24 |
| joeoshawa | excellent thats good to know i have actually been asked if ubuntu does that and i didnt know | 20:25 |
| joeoshawa | i kinda try to convert people who have problems to ubuntu | 20:25 |
| joeoshawa | problems with windows | 20:25 |
| dscassel | Awesome. :) | 20:25 |
| joeoshawa | i got a lot of people to switch | 20:26 |
| joeoshawa | over 200 at this point | 20:26 |
| dscassel | That's... impressive. :) | 20:26 |
| joeoshawa | it really is a perfect distro for people who don't want to play games or do it on xbox or ps3 | 20:26 |
| joeoshawa | well all i do really is get them to use it once they boot it up and try it thats all they want to use | 20:27 |
| joeoshawa | actually my ex never had a computer and never really used one so when she wanted to i showed her ubuntu and windows 7 she hates windows and only uses ubuntu | 20:28 |
| joeoshawa | she says windows is to hard to use | 20:29 |
| joeoshawa | its the software center mostly | 20:29 |
| joeoshawa | she wants something point click install | 20:30 |
| dscassel | I love software centre. :D | 20:31 |
| joeoshawa | same | 20:31 |
| joeoshawa | so you have a lot of public events? | 20:32 |
| dscassel | For a country the size of Canada, there should probably be more.. | 20:33 |
| joeoshawa | hard to do i would imagine and not free | 20:34 |
| joeoshawa | i have been thinking of putting together and selling machines with ubuntu pre-installed with my brother | 20:35 |
| joeoshawa | he is more of an it person | 20:35 |
| dscassel | (sorry, day job... biab...) | 20:35 |
| joeoshawa | cool | 20:35 |
| dscassel | Back! | 20:37 |
| dscassel | Not free, but not really that much trouble, either. I do it because I like it. | 20:37 |
| dscassel | I run things in Kitchener-Waterloo. | 20:37 |
| joeoshawa | nice i like the area | 20:38 |
| dscassel | The release party is pretty much all me. And I organize the monthly Hour meetup too. I get some help with the global jam, though. | 20:38 |
| joeoshawa | its not bad here but i am in an area with alot of older people | 20:38 |
| joeoshawa | nice | 20:38 |
| dscassel | There's on guy in Oshawa on our mailing list (Tek Ang) who was interested in doing stuff. | 20:38 |
| dscassel | assuming you're in Oshawa... :) | 20:39 |
| joeoshawa | you know anything about 11.04 | 20:39 |
| joeoshawa | yeah i am lol | 20:39 |
| dscassel | Event-wise, you mean? | 20:39 |
| joeoshawa | wonder if it will be alot different | 20:39 |
| dscassel | Yeah. Unity. | 20:39 |
| dscassel | Completely new desktop interface. | 20:39 |
| joeoshawa | i only started with 9.04 | 20:40 |
| joeoshawa | oww | 20:40 |
| joeoshawa | wow | 20:40 |
| dscassel | Yeah, I know. | 20:40 |
| joeoshawa | never checked it out | 20:40 |
| dscassel | But! it's not hard to go back to the old gnome2 session. | 20:40 |
| joeoshawa | might be better have to see | 20:40 |
| dscassel | Considering that gnome is moving to gnome shell, we were going to end up with a completely new desktop at some point anyway. | 20:40 |
| joeoshawa | i liked enlightenment but it makes my destop go nuts thanks to gnome | 20:41 |
| dscassel | I think Unity will probably be more "regular" user friendly. | 20:41 |
| dscassel | ...eventually... | 20:41 |
| joeoshawa | my ex better stick with 10.10 she will lose it lol | 20:41 |
| dscassel | I'd upgrade (because 10.10 isn't an LTS), but switch her back to using the old gnome2-session. | 20:42 |
| joeoshawa | may have to her computer won't do 10.04 | 20:43 |
| joeoshawa | hardware problem | 20:43 |
| joeoshawa | it was fixed in 10.10 | 20:43 |
| joeoshawa | i am going to stick with 10.10 for a bit i just managed to get my login changed | 20:44 |
| dscassel | Yeah. | 20:44 |
| joeoshawa | i got a big blue dragon | 20:45 |
| joeoshawa | black on red for the login part | 20:45 |
| joeoshawa | brb need water | 20:46 |
| joeoshawa | back gonna check out info on unity | 20:47 |
| dscassel | Cool. :) | 20:49 |
| dscassel | Yeah, my gf isn't going to be impressed by Unity, I know already. I've been trying to tell her it'll be trivial to switch back. | 20:49 |
| dscassel | I'm looking at it as a positive long-term change with associated short-term horribleness. | 20:50 |
| dscassel | But there's a good chance I'll switch to gnome-shell. At least on my desktop. | 20:51 |
| joeoshawa | actually i am not big on the whole gnome thing i didn't like that they took the ability to change your login out it seems like a microsoft thing to do | 21:00 |
| joeoshawa | my ex just wants the way she uses her computer to stay the same so she doesn't have to relearn all over again | 21:01 |
| joeoshawa | personally i probably will put both on and dual boot | 21:02 |
| joeoshawa | i set up a debian fluxbox rox combo for my daughter and talk about an easy desktop | 21:03 |
| joeoshawa | its a 500 mhz pentium with 640k ram and its great fast and the icons are huge lol | 21:04 |
| joeoshawa | disney princess background on the login and the desktop and the webbrowser is all cartoons | 21:04 |
| dscassel | My gf complained about gdm2 being less customizable too. | 21:18 |
| dscassel | I don't think it's a big effort to screw users and remove customizability... | 21:18 |
| dscassel | It's just customizability is a lower-priority feature. | 21:18 |
| dscassel | Someone has to do the work. | 21:18 |
| dscassel | That said, Ubuntu (with its Ayatana project) is moving to either remove or hide customization options. | 21:20 |
| dscassel | Because they're confusing to new users. | 21:21 |
| joeoshawa | well the thing i like about linux is there's always a way around lol | 21:32 |
| dscassel | Definitely. :) | 21:33 |
| joeoshawa | its funny alot of people try to push the existing kiddy distros for my daughters cpu but for me it was about i am not buying my 4 year old a computer so i needed something that works on really old hardware | 21:34 |
| joeoshawa | debian fluxrox was perfect | 21:34 |
| joeoshawa | in fact i have been using it myself lol | 21:34 |
| joeoshawa | but it has to be really really simple for a 2 year old and a 4 year old | 21:35 |
| joeoshawa | although the 4 year old figured out how to remove toolbars and change the theme to pink in ubuntu and the 2 year old can open amsn and chat with her uncle | 21:36 |
| joeoshawa | not sure if your still here but looks as tho ubuntu will still work the same unity is just on top of gnome | 23:00 |
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| gpc | Tomas: why are you changing the topic? | 23:52 |
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