[04:50] o/ [04:53] hi tenach [05:04] hello [05:19] Allo valorie and MarkDude :) [05:20] are you here in Washington state? [05:20] sec, old dog [05:21] Aye, I am. [05:22] I've been more of a lurker than anything as far as LoCo's go. [05:23] valorie, you around? [05:37] join #kuuntu [06:05] anyone in here own any bitcoins? [06:05] just curious. [06:09] I own only a fraction of one. [06:09] haha. [06:09] I don't have machines that can generate them fast enough, nor do I really want to buy 'em from people. [06:12] looks like they're up to about USD 7-something per bitcoin [06:25] dollars, or cents? [06:25] dollars [06:26] oh wow [06:28] Yeah. [06:28] They're getting rather crazy. [15:55] This is the Ubu chan for WA state, not DC, correct [16:22] anyone near Spokane? [16:59] Hello Uber_Geek. I'm nowhere near Spokane. [16:59] so is this cahnnel for WA state, or DC? [17:05] WA State [17:05] I'm in Tacoma. Tacoma is quite a bit away from Spokane. [17:06] oh good. I know where Tacoma is, got fam there. [17:08] So what are your thoughts on the Unity interface? [18:34] I dislike it greatly. [18:34] While I do acknowledge that it is possibly good for newcomers to Ubuntu, I do not like how restricted it seems. [18:34] 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] I have been very un-impressed as well. expecially on my netbook. [18:54] Yeah... Unity doesn't even run on my inspiron mini. [18:54] have you tried Gnome 3? [18:54] Nope. [18:55] I've not been to interested in it, since it just seems to hog resources... [18:55] In my opinion, that is. [18:55] it totally breaks unity on 11.04 and runs much faster than Unity did [18:55] Crazy. [18:55] that has been in my experiance on my Apsire One netbook [18:56] I should take a look into it. [18:57] Right now I'm running LXDE and it's treating me nice. [19:22] Hello althara [19:22] hello [19:23] hello as well althara [19:23] hi [19:34] How're you? [19:43] Getting over a cold [19:43] Yourself? [19:54] I'm doing pretty grand. Getting over the pains of helping people move and pack, for nearly a month straight. [19:57] althara: anything special I need to do to become 'more active' in this LoCo? [19:58] ewww moving is icky [19:58] You can help with coordinating our summer geeknic :) [19:58] Yeah, it is... especially when the house is 1/10th the size. [20:00] althara: do we know about where in Washington the majority of LoCo members are? [20:00] concentrated around the puget sound [20:00] Ah, okay. [20:01] Seattle and farther north? I'm down in Tacoma. [20:01] 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] there are some people southward [20:01] Burien [20:01] valorie: is near black diamond [20:02] a few in oly [20:02] 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] I think it's the curse of washington. People like the idea of doing stuff more than actually doing stuff :P [20:03] So very true! [20:04] 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] 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] Well, I'm here to help! :D [20:06] Yay [20:07] I'd love to get some events going. [20:07] 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] So, this geeknic should probably be held near-ish Seattle, then.. [20:07] Yes, I have that open right now :D [20:07] yeah, valorie has offered her back yard. But it is a ways out there. The benefit is it's free [20:07] Seattle parks, not so much [20:08] 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] I'll see what I can come up with. [21:13] I am back [21:14] 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] Yeah... That is another thing I was thinking about. [21:36] Wa might need to LoCo's Eastern and Western [21:41] Yeah, just might [23:36] problem w/ Eastern WA loco is it would still be geagraphically scattered ... most likely around the college campuses: WSU, CWU, Gonzaga ... etc [23:39] true, however from WSU, EWU, Gonzaga they are no more then 2 hours apart, vs a 6 hr trip to Seattle. [23:40] 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] I drive from pulman to Seattle in 4.5 hs ... with regular traffic flow [23:49] :) [23:49] nice [23:49] the strech from vantage to pulman I call it: the never ending windows wallpaper [23:50] lol