[04:50] <tenach> o/
[04:53] <valorie> hi tenach
[05:04] <MarkDude> hello
[05:19] <tenach> Allo valorie and MarkDude :)
[05:20] <valorie> are you here in Washington state?
[05:20] <valorie> sec, old dog
[05:21] <tenach> Aye, I am.
[05:22] <tenach> I've been more of a lurker than anything as far as LoCo's go.
[05:23] <androidbruce> valorie, you around?
[05:37] <androidbruce> join #kuuntu
[06:05] <meonkeys> anyone in here own any bitcoins?
[06:05] <meonkeys> just curious.
[06:09] <tenach> I own only a fraction of one.
[06:09] <tenach> haha.
[06:09] <tenach> I don't have machines that can generate them fast enough, nor do I really want to buy 'em from people.
[06:12] <meonkeys> looks like they're up to about USD 7-something per bitcoin
[06:25] <valorie> dollars, or cents?
[06:25] <meonkeys> dollars
[06:26] <valorie> oh wow
[06:28] <tenach> Yeah.
[06:28] <tenach> They're getting rather crazy.
[15:55] <SK_Enigma> This is the Ubu chan for WA state, not DC, correct
[16:22] <Uber_Geek> anyone near Spokane?
[16:59] <tenach> Hello Uber_Geek. I'm nowhere near Spokane.
[16:59] <Uber_Geek> so is this cahnnel for WA state, or DC?
[17:05] <tenach> WA State
[17:05] <tenach> I'm in Tacoma. Tacoma is quite a bit away from Spokane.
[17:06] <Uber_Geek> oh good.  I know where Tacoma is, got fam there.
[17:08] <Uber_Geek> So what are your thoughts on the Unity interface?
[18:34] <tenach> I dislike it greatly.
[18:34] <tenach> While I do acknowledge that it is possibly good for newcomers to Ubuntu, I do not like how restricted it seems.
[18:34] <tenach> Nor do I like that it ups the minimum requirements for a machine to run Ubuntu in the way it's currently designed.
[18:35] <Uber_Geek> I have been very un-impressed as well.  expecially on my netbook.
[18:54] <tenach> Yeah... Unity doesn't even run on my inspiron mini.
[18:54] <Uber_Geek> have you tried Gnome 3?
[18:54] <tenach> Nope.
[18:55] <tenach> I've not been to interested in it, since it just seems to hog resources...
[18:55] <tenach> In my opinion, that is.
[18:55] <Uber_Geek> it totally breaks unity on 11.04 and runs much faster than Unity did
[18:55] <tenach> Crazy.
[18:55] <Uber_Geek> that has been in my experiance on my Apsire One netbook
[18:56] <tenach> I should take a look into it.
[18:57] <tenach> Right now I'm running LXDE and it's treating me nice.
[19:22] <tenach> Hello althara 
[19:22] <althara> hello
[19:23] <Uber_Geek> hello as well althara
[19:23] <althara> hi
[19:34] <tenach> How're you?
[19:43] <althara> Getting over a cold
[19:43] <althara> Yourself?
[19:54] <tenach> I'm doing pretty grand. Getting over the pains of helping people move and pack, for nearly a month straight.
[19:57] <tenach> althara: anything special I need to do to become 'more active' in this LoCo?
[19:58] <althara> ewww moving is icky
[19:58] <althara> You can help with coordinating our summer geeknic :)
[19:58] <tenach> Yeah, it is... especially when the house is 1/10th the size.
[20:00] <tenach> althara: do we know about where in Washington the majority of LoCo members are?
[20:00] <althara> concentrated around the puget sound
[20:00] <tenach> Ah, okay.
[20:01] <tenach> Seattle and farther north? I'm down in Tacoma.
[20:01] <althara> last I checked there were 50 people singed up in the launchpad group which is where we are tracking "membership" but I can't say that I've ever seen that many people active on the forum, irc or mailing list
[20:01] <althara> there are some people southward
[20:01] <althara> Burien
[20:01] <althara> valorie: is near black diamond
[20:02] <althara> a few in oly
[20:02] <tenach> Yeah, I haven't seen much activity, that's why I'm asking... I've been on the LP group for a while now.
[20:02] <althara> I think it's the curse of washington. People like the idea of doing stuff more than actually doing stuff :P
[20:03] <tenach> So very true!
[20:04] <althara> And I don't have the time or energy to coordinate and execute everything. So here we are. A few busy people really interested in the loco but we only manage to get a couple of events going during the year.
[20:05] <althara> That's part of the reason why I started the facebook ad campaign. A low time-cost way of spreading the news that we are interested in doing more with the loco. And I was hoping we could recruit a few more people to help get activities off the ground.
[20:06] <tenach> Well, I'm here to help! :D
[20:06] <althara> Yay
[20:07] <tenach> I'd love to get some events going.
[20:07] <althara> If you are interested in helping with the geeknic. I put a list of items which people can volunteer to help with up on the mailing list earlier this month: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-wa/2011-May/000538.html
[20:07] <tenach> So, this geeknic should probably be held near-ish Seattle, then..
[20:07] <tenach> Yes, I have that open right now :D
[20:07] <althara> yeah, valorie has offered her back yard. But it is a ways out there. The benefit is it's free
[20:07] <althara> Seattle parks, not so much
[20:08] <althara> I need to get back to work now. I'll be pingable if you have a specific question though.
[20:15]  * tenach nods.
[20:15] <tenach> I'll see what I can come up with.
[21:13] <Uber_Geek> I am back
[21:14] <Uber_Geek> Only problem that I have with "WA" based groups are most of the are around the "Seattle Area"  I am near Spokane so getting to Seattle doesn't work :(
[21:22] <tenach> Yeah... That is another thing I was thinking about.
[21:36] <Uber_Geek> Wa might need to LoCo's Eastern and Western
[21:41] <tenach> Yeah, just might
[23:36] <seattlegaucho> problem w/ Eastern WA loco is it would still be geagraphically scattered ... most likely around the college campuses: WSU, CWU, Gonzaga ... etc
[23:39] <Uber_Geek> true, however from WSU, EWU, Gonzaga they are no more then 2 hours apart, vs a 6 hr trip to Seattle.
[23:40] <Uber_Geek> I just moved from Spokane, WA to Post Falls, ID and think it would be nice to merge Eastern WA and Northern ID to one group.
[23:49] <seattlegaucho> I drive from pulman to Seattle in 4.5 hs ... with regular traffic flow
[23:49] <seattlegaucho> :)
[23:49] <Uber_Geek> nice
[23:49] <seattlegaucho> the strech from vantage to pulman I call it: the never ending windows wallpaper
[23:50] <Uber_Geek> lol