=== zul_ is now known as zul [13:36] Hiyas [14:26] Morning, BluesKaj :) [14:27] * genii-around makes a fresh, large pot of coffee and thinks about cupcake decorations [14:31] * staticsafe prefers tea [14:31] and hey dca [14:31] and hey dscassel [14:39] 'Morning, dscassel , genii-around, staticsafe [14:39] Tea. Good idea. [14:39] Morning, staticsafe :) [14:40] morning [14:41] BluesKaj: Mornin' :) I'm happier today now that the weather is decent. [14:41] hey, any of you guys in Toronto? [14:41] I am [14:42] it would be cool if we had a Ubuntu event in Toronto, genii-around [14:43] staticsafe: I'm holding a release party for Natty [14:43] http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/781/detail/ [14:44] I held one for Lucid in same place but got ill and missed Maverick. But hoping to do each next release from here [14:44] genii-around: nice nice, i can defintitely come [14:44] registering now [14:44] Cool [14:46] * staticsafe adds event to Gcal [15:12] genii-around: i'll send a message to the TLUG mailing list about the event as well [15:17] staticsafe: I was going to tell Colin McGregor, we are both FreeNet guys. But I won't see him until our board meeting tomorrow. [15:29] staticsafe: There are lots of Toronto Ubuntu people around, but not too many people (genii-around being a welcome exception) doing much organizing. [15:29] We'd appreciate your help if you wanted to start something. :) [15:29] dscassel: heh, i've never organized an event before, so i have no experience [15:30] No experience necessary. :D [15:30] dscassel: what sort of event are we talking about? [15:30] The easiest thing people can do is start an Ubuntu Hour: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour [15:30] hmm [15:31] Just hang out in a cafe and chat with fellow Ubuntu users. It doesn't even have to be about Ubuntu. [15:31] The only tricky part is publicizing it, but we can help with that. :) [15:32] dscassel: i can also ask on the TLUG mailing list, also need some possible venues [15:32] I'd like to attend as well, altho it's a 5 hr drive for me , and no laptop , so it would be like playing hockey without a stick :) [15:32] Linuxcaffe is the obvious one, but for an Hour, it can be anywhere that is happy to have small groups congregating. [15:33] BluesKaj: You could always start a Sudbury Ubuntu Hour. Who knows, somebody might show up. :) [15:36] dscassel, well, i contacted a couple of Linux Club guys in Sudbury , but it's a pretty loose arrangement and poorly organized . Also I live in a small town 75km west of Sudbury. [15:37] BluesKaj: Yeah that makes it trickier. [15:38] dscassel: im writing an e-mail to TLUG as we speak. :) [15:38] OTOH, loose arrangements are what things like the Ubuntu Hour are all about. It's good to meet up face to face once in a while. [15:38] staticsafe: Cool. :) [15:39] Oh yeah, IRC meeting tonight. [15:39] :O [15:39] http://loco.ubuntu.com/meetings/team/35/detail/ [15:40] I'd kinda forgot about it. [15:40] Good thing I leave myself notes. [15:40] dscassel, so the Toronto meeting would fine for me if I had a laptop , I think it would be interesting , but I don't plan on buying one til June or July [15:40] heh the only laptop i have is my Macbook Pro. :P [15:40] BluesKaj: You don't need a laptop to socialize. (I hear some Ubuntu Hours ban laptops. I wouldn't dare do that myself... :) [15:41] dscassel, :) [15:51] dscassel: how does this e-mail look to you - http://puu.sh/1dQR [15:53] staticsafe: Looks great to me. :) [15:53] dscassel: alright, will send it now [15:58] also got something cool for you guys - http://sprki.com/computer-hardware-chart.html [16:00] staticsafe, on what street/block is the linuxcaffe located ? [16:02] BluesKaj: it's on 326 Harbord Street, closest intersection seems to be Bloor St W and Bathurst St [16:03] ok, thanks staticsafe [16:08] np [20:14] Get your gas masks folks. All three reactors melt down imminent. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365781/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-All-3-Fukushima-nuclear-plant-reactors-meltdown.html [20:33] I'd rather a radiation suit ;) [20:45] KombuchaKip, yeah dailymail , areal trusted source :) [20:46] http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110312D12JFF03.htm [21:44] those reactors are designed for meltdown, it's not a bad thing [21:44] containment breach, now that's a bad thing [21:45] a meltdown would prevent containment breach [22:50] meeting! [22:50] almost forgot :) [23:02] Meeting! [23:02] :D [23:02] do we have an agenda? [23:02] I'm still getting set up. Feel free to introduce yourselves. :) [23:02] Yeah. [23:02] Well, sort of. Same as the old agenda, really. [23:02] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2011-03-15 <-- agenda [23:03] Unless people want to argue about what Mark said to some Gnome developer in 2008. [23:03] hahaha please no [23:04] It seems to be a popular passtime these days. Not my thing, tho. [23:04] Agenda link #2: http://loco.ubuntu.com/meetings/team/35/detail/ [23:05] hey guys [23:06] Hi, staticsafe. Welcome to the meeting. :) [23:06] Hello Everybody! [23:06] :) [23:07] Mass call! [thor] Amgine bhrams BobJonkman bregma capmtripps cyphermox DavidLevin FiReSTaRT gchisholm IdleOne jaguar james_w KombuchaKip kenjy komputes Kulag ryanakca sipherdee SmartSsa starcraftman txwikinger willwh zul ! [23:07] Meeting time, if you're interested. [23:07] :) [23:07] * komputes does the meeting dance [23:07] dscassel: we should have a meeting bot in here. :D [23:07] Please introduce yourself. Where are you, what do you do with/for/on/to Ubuntu? [23:08] * txwikinger is Ralph Janke [23:08] staticsafe: One of the locobots is recording the session, but it would be nice to have it cycle through agenda items. [23:08] I'm komputes - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/komputes [23:08] sup folks! i am hypatia, aka Leigh Honeywell. loco agitator, Ubuntu Women co-leader, recent keynote speaker at SCALE, and toronto hackerspace person. [23:08] dscassel: hi there [23:08] I'm Darcy. I'm in Kitchener-Waterloo and I'm chairing this meeting. [23:08] I'm staticsafe aka Sadiq Saif - https://launchpad.net/~staticsafe [23:09] I'm Bob Jonkman, from Elmira, just north of Waterloo ON. Enthusiast, Hanger-On, Tech Supporter [23:09] Oh, and I live in Toronto. :) [23:09] * starcraftman is some random guy who may or may not play Starcraft :P He also might be in beginners team, don't let it get out :) [23:10] ^ pretty awesome dude [23:10] Awesome. :D [23:10] I'm Alex, I live in México and I work for a newspaper, I have been trying to move to Canada, I use ubuntu at the work [23:11] hehe, ty komputes :) [23:11] I'm new here, hanging around a bit [23:11] Welcome, everybody! :) [23:11] Meeting agenda is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2011-03-15 [23:12] It'll look familiar if you've done this before. [23:12] If anyone has anything else they'd like to talk about, let me know and I'll add it to the agenda. [23:13] UDS and sponsorship! [23:13] i will talk about that [23:13] put it on the agenda hypatia [23:14] Ooh, good idea. [23:14] * txwikinger can give some comments having been sponsered for UDS before [23:14] txwikinger: wiki access is still broken [23:14] if someone else doesn't mind [23:14] ok [23:14] whats UDS? [23:14] * hypatia actually files a freaking RT ticket for that RIGHT NOW [23:15] Ubuntu Data Servers? [23:15] Ubuntu Developer Summit. [23:15] :O okay [23:16] All right. So Item #1: Events. [23:16] Two big ones coming up: [23:16] Ubuntu Global Jam (Apr 1-3) [23:17] dscassel: just a quick hello, working atm can't attend meeting [23:17] And Natty Narwhal release (Apr 28) [23:17] FiReSTaRT: Any quick update about a Toroto jam? [23:17] We're holding a Jam here at Kwartzlab on April 2. [23:18] There was some talk about Jams in Toronto or Peterborough. [23:18] cyphermox: any steps taken in planning the Montreal release party? [23:20] I think our friends from Ubuntu-qc will have something for the Jam in Montreal [23:20] komputes: Since we've got you guys here, can we (as Ubuntu Canada) help (publicize, anything else) ubuntu-qc events? [23:21] Also, would you be interested in joining us for LAN gaming? Our party is going to be Apr 30. :) [23:22] So, Toronto stuff. [23:22] dscassel: whats the game? [23:22] staticsafe: have you met hypatia? [23:22] release party! [23:23] Toronto will have a Relese party http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/781/detail/ [23:23] Not sure if there are additional events planned in Toronto? [23:23] dscassel: I have no problem with Ubuntu-CA publishing Ubuntu-QC events in English. I find most of the discussion in QC is in French. [23:23] komputes: Bunch of stuff. http://kwartzlab.ca/mediawiki/index.php/LAN_Party_Event_Planning#The_Games [23:25] hypatia: Yeah! genii-around is giving it another go. [23:25] dscassel: I'm in for OpenArena; at least it's the one I have most experience with. [23:25] Teeworlds is fun and easy. :) [23:25] dscassel: Apr 30th, what time? [23:26] sorry dscassel stepped outside for a bit [23:26] Probably afternoon-ish. It'll likely go for a bit. [23:27] komputes: We can work out details later. :) [23:27] another toronto event coming up is maker faire: http://makerfairetoronto.ca/ [23:28] dscassel: sounds good, I marked the 30th afternoonish for the LAN part [23:28] hypatia: I'll definitely be there. Should we put together a booth or something? [23:28] oops, april, done [23:29] Or just wander around handing out CDs and stickers? [23:30] Hoping I could get to play from Montreal. [23:30] komputes: A pan-Canadian LAN party would be awesome. :D [23:30] indeed [23:30] indeed [23:31] dscassel: we'd be happy to have ubuntu stickers and cd's at the hacklab booth [23:31] may I suggest a FPS? Urban Terror is the name. :) [23:31] it becomes a WAN party then ;) [23:31] ...true... [23:32] There'll be another meeting before the release party. [23:32] Pan-Canadian LAN party == PanCanLan [23:32] oh good [23:32] BobJonkman: i love it [23:33] This is your last chance to talk about Jams, though. Except, you know, for pinging me on IRC any time... [23:34] We're thinking of doing our own Jam earlier in the Oneiric cycle. This is kind of late for dev contributions. [23:34] They really want people to test, however. [23:34] dscassel: can I add Ubuntu Hours to the agenda? [23:34] staticsafe: Definitely. I wanted to at least mention the Jam first. :) [23:35] So, staticsafe, any news on Ubuntu Hours? :) [23:35] dscassel: I asked around on TLUG, got some questions, some nitpicking, no real interest yet [23:35] nitpicking? tlug? never. :p [23:36] heh. [23:36] staticsafe is planning on starting up a Toronto Hour. Which I think is a fantastic idea. :) [23:36] yay! [23:36] that's fantastic [23:36] Well. Ubuntu hours are often something more external not necessarily part of LUGs [23:36] I've started an Ubuntu Hour in Kitchener. actually, I was just hanging around in the Little Bean Cafe anyway, and just called it an Ubuntu Hour. [23:37] And then some other people showed up! [23:37] BobJonkman: i think that's the general idea, no? [23:37] Magicfab started them by just being in a coffee shop or something like that [23:37] BobJonkman: Awesome! That's exactly the idea. [23:37] I was thinking Linux Caffe. :) [23:37] but any other suitable place would do [23:37] i'm sure djp would be happy to host it [23:37] Take some Ubuntu place cards on the table and let people ask questions [23:37] HackLAb is less good for UH because we don't have food :/ [23:38] txwikinger: where can I get some of those? :O [23:38] staticsafe: Well Linuxcaffee is nice, but most people there probaly already know about FLOSS.. Other places probably have more advertisement value [23:38] Just getting started with a regular meetup goes a long way to building up the community. [23:38] staticsafe: make some yourself? [23:38] txwikinger: not really true [23:38] hmm [23:38] Have a placecard on me: http://sobac.com/temp/ubuntu/ ODF Draw file, or JPG image [23:38] thanks BobJonkman [23:38] lots of just randome coffee people at LC [23:39] hypatia: well.. educate me.. I never made it to the Linuxcaffee yet :D [23:39] and UH isn't just about outreaching to random people [23:39] it's about building community for people who are already involved [23:39] txwikinger: it's a regular coffee shop for most patrons [23:39] hypatia: cool.. well then it is certainly a good place too [23:39] How to run an Ubuntu Hour: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7/how-do-i-run-a-successful-ubuntu-hour [23:40] dscassel: nice [23:40] * hypatia bookmarks [23:40] * bhrams might be down for a Toronto UH [23:41] Make sure the Ubuntu hour is put on the loco schedule [23:41] Then I might also even blog about it [23:41] * staticsafe opens up loco page [23:41] We've got to put these up on the web page as well. [23:42] * dscassel makes a note to self [23:42] hmm, how do I add a scheduled even? [23:42] event* [23:42] staticsafe: First, log in. [23:42] dscassel: already am. :) [23:42] Then there should be an "add event" link. [23:43] You have to be a member of the Ubuntu-ca launchpad team. [23:44] dscassel: hmm, I logged in at ubuntu-ca.org [23:44] howdy all [23:44] no.. it is at loco.ubuntu.com [23:44] staticsafe: Yeah. http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-ca [23:44] ah [23:44] ty [23:45] We can set you up with a webpage login too, but that's a little more involved. Talk to txwikinger later. [23:45] alright, cool [23:45] Speaking of Web page... [23:45] BobJonkman: Let's do UDS first. [23:45] OK [23:46] UDS! (It's 7:45...) [23:46] hypatia: What's involved in sponsorship? I have no idea. [23:46] ok! so [23:46] you go to http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-o/ [23:46] you sign in [23:47] and you submit a form, which is a multi-stage process [23:47] i've documented the steps on the ubuntu women wiki [23:47] http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/UDS [23:47] which also has more info about the application process [23:47] basically you have to do a writeup of your contributions in the past cycle, and talk about what you want to do in the next cycle [23:49] And then you have to do some chores at the UDS event. Like be a runner and hanging up posters of the sessions etc [23:49] that is if you are sponsored [23:49] yup [23:49] UDS is awesome, by the way. Even if you can't spend a week in Budapest, you can follow along online. [23:49] There's audio streaming and IRC chats for every session. [23:49] yup, all the sessions are simulcast [23:50] You get a very good idea for how Ubuntu actually works. [23:50] Yes.. the only thing you are missing on the remote participation are the hallway talks and the socialising, but all the sessions you can participate [23:51] Anymore questions/points for UDS sponsorship? [23:51] Anybody is welcome to attend UDS. Sponsorship means Canonical will pay for you to be there. [23:52] that's all i've got, txwikinger [23:52] Okay. Almost 8. We should move onto the web page. [23:52] yup [23:52] BobJonkman1: ? [23:53] wmpetersen sent us an updated site logo, and tonyyarusso updated the theme. [23:53] Sorry. Flaky BIOS, laptop keeps locking up. Only BIOS upgrade available is for Windows... [23:53] I'm not entirely sure where that updated theme is, but we should get it on launchpad. [23:53] So, I still can't log into http://ubuntu-ca.org [23:53] BobJonkman1: we'll forgive you. [23:54] I get various errors, the latest (today) being that "User bjonkman already exists" [23:54] We're still having OpenID issues, apparently. [23:54] Yes, I log in with OpenID [23:55] txwikinger: the only thing you are missing on the remote participation is the drinking [23:55] heh komputes [23:55] * staticsafe is underage [23:55] Usually with http://sobac.com/bjonkman which contains a redirect to https://launchpad.net/~bjonkman [23:55] BobJonkman1: There is some mess with the launchpad openid plugin [23:55] staticsafe: I don't think that's an issue in Hungary. :) [23:55] staticsafe: probably not underage in hungary, haha [23:56] dscassel: jinx [23:56] :D [23:56] * dscassel doesn't drink. 9_9 [23:56] staticsafe: they have lemonade in Hungary ;) [23:56] omg they do? now i'm super excited :-D [23:56] komputes: You can drink at home too [23:57] * komputes cracks one open [23:57] * staticsafe sticks to milk [23:57] BobJonkman1: Maybe it is best we hook up one of those days and I help you through the process to fix your account to work with openid again [23:58] OK, offline. Show up for a Kitchener Ubuntu Hour one morning :-) [23:58] BobJonkman1: Some people work at those times :D [23:59] laters BobJonkman1