[00:45] <althara> the official stance from cannonical is one group per state, blah blah. It's highly impractical but it's what we have to work with.
[00:46] <althara> One thing I would love to see is people in all parts of the state putting on events
[00:46] <althara> But it's unfair to expect those of us who are interested and are located close to Seattle to not have events close to Seattle.
[00:52] <Uber_Geek> I hear you there
[00:52] <Uber_Geek> and visa versa
[00:52] <kdub> geography is always a problem
[00:53] <althara> I welcome anyone who is interested in spearheading events in their region to do so. No one will stop you. And to the extent that I am personally able to help I will.
[00:53] <althara> It's one of my long term visions for the LoCo to have distribution to the other population centers of the state.
[00:54] <althara> But we have to start somewhere to get traction. Which to be honest the group doesn't have at this point.
[00:54]  * kdub is spying from san diego
[00:54] <kdub> but sympathizes with althara 
[00:55] <althara> We only do one regular event which is mostly a hold over from when the loco was the PNW LoCo. And that is linuxfest in bellingham.
[00:55] <Uber_Geek> when is that?
[00:55] <althara> It was the last weekend of April this year.
[00:55] <althara> Last year we also did release parties for Lucid and Maverick in south seattle.
[00:56] <Uber_Geek> wish I had know about these before :)
[00:56] <althara> Speaking of evens there is a bug hug day on the 26th
[00:56] <althara> It would be cool to have some virtual attendance from the loco peeps
[00:57] <althara> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20110526
[01:01] <althara> Sorry to get on my soap box about the even stuff. But I hear that a lot from people, and I haven't seen anyone stand up and take the initiative in creating events in other parts of the state.
[01:01] <tenach> Well, let's get people coordinated and eventualy have an east/west regional thing?
[01:03] <Uber_Geek> well now that I know about these groups, and  I have added them to my daily activities to monitor  I hope to get more active and so what I can.
[01:05] <althara> Good idea, tenach. Can you create a wiki page for people to sign up for volunteer duties? Maybe columns with their name, contact info such as they are willing to provide publicly, region and what they are willing to volunteer to do. Examples for volunteer duty could be event coordination/car pool provider/people recruiter/lug presenter.
[01:05] <althara> Uber_Geek: awesome :)
[01:08] <tenach> Aye
[01:08] <tenach> I can do that althara 
[01:08] <althara> Super, thanks. :D
[01:10] <althara> Anything created under the wiki.ubuntu.com/WashingtonTeam page gets auto linked at the bottom of that page. I.e /WashingtonTeam/VolunteerHere or something.
[01:10] <tenach> Okay
[01:11] <Uber_Geek> I am heading home from the office.  will log in later.
[01:11] <althara> ditto
[01:11] <tenach> Alrighty.
[01:11] <tenach> See you then!
[01:11] <althara> have a good evening :)
[02:52] <tenach> althara: would /Volunteer be fine or do you want it as /VolunteerHere ?
[02:53] <althara> Volunteer should be fine
[02:53] <althara> we can always move it if it's too ambiguous
[02:53] <tenach> Aye, true.
[02:54] <tenach> Oh, we could do like others do, and have /GetInvolved
[02:54] <tenach> sounds more appealing, I think.
[02:54] <althara> sounds good :)
[02:59] <tenach> What avenues for social media have been created for this LoCo?
[02:59] <althara> facebook page, twitter and identica account
[02:59] <tenach> Oki.
[02:59] <althara> and a posterous account to feed out to all of those
[03:00] <tenach> Okay
[03:04] <tenach> While I'm making the getting involved page, do you mind if I rearrange some information?
[03:04] <althara> not at all
[03:04] <tenach> Alrighty. :)
[03:07] <valorie> yay, a volunteer!!!!!!!!!
[03:07] <althara> Hi valorie :)
[03:07]  * valorie sucks at wiki-pages
[03:07] <valorie> hi althara
[03:08] <valorie> I am also recovering from a killer cold
[03:08] <tenach> Hello valorie 
[03:08] <valorie> have been a big mucus blob
[03:08] <valorie> lately
[03:08] <tenach> Decided that I should stop lurking and actually *do* something for the LoCo LP says I'm part of. ;D
[03:09] <valorie> excellent!
[03:09] <valorie> if all our members did that, we'd be "accepted" in no time!
[03:09] <tenach> Well, let's get us to that 'accepted' status then. :D
[03:10] <valorie> we would love that
[03:11] <tenach> Indeed!
[03:16] <valorie> sec
[17:37] <Uber_Geek> Sorry bout the disconnects, Had an issue with my connection, think it is fixed now
[22:35] <cj> I wish my irc client would stop falling off the internets
[22:36] <Uber_Geek> use pidgin
[22:36] <Uber_Geek> :)
[22:36] <cj> you mean finch?
[22:36] <cj> I'm going to have to move irssi over to one of the colos.  I don't really want it on any of the production systems...
[22:38] <seattlegaucho> Uber_Geek: pidgin stopped working properly for me ... I now use PSI+ and never looked back
[22:40] <Salt> seattlegaucho, russian?
[22:40]  * seattlegaucho testing maverick ... still f!@#$%^ strugling with the broacom wifi drivers
[22:40] <seattlegaucho> ... and that is why I wasn't as kinds as I'd like in the survey
[22:40] <Salt> i really want to play with bitlbee
[22:41] <Salt> cj, just set znc up
[22:41] <seattlegaucho> psi+ aka psiplus in apt repos
[22:41] <Salt> remove yourself from im client lockin!
[22:41] <Salt> seattlegaucho, yes, the russian client
[22:41] <Salt> :P
[22:42] <seattlegaucho> my favorite public IM client is www.meebo.com ... to the cloud!
[22:43] <Uber_Geek> I cheated with Pidgin, I moved my .purple folder to the ubuntu one folder, and did symbolic links on all my machings to the ~ folder, so UbuntuOne syncs all my pidgin files across all my systems.
[22:45] <seattlegaucho> o.O
[22:45] <seattlegaucho> impressive
[22:46] <seattlegaucho> I would've used unison to sync between machines
[22:46] <cj> Salt: znc?
[22:46] <cj> heya seattlegaucho!
[22:46] <Uber_Geek> I have windows and linux machines ;)
[22:47] <cj> I'm going to be in Seattle next Thursday & Friday.  Will you?
[22:47] <Salt> cj, it's a bouncer
[22:47] <cj> Uber_Geek: putty on windows, gnome-terminal on X and getty on the console.  All quite capable of ssh'ing to a server and running screen :)
[22:48] <cj> Salt: proxy-like?
[22:48] <Salt> yeah, you just point your client at it, it stays all connected
[22:48] <Salt> i like the layout of xchat
[22:49] <Salt> but i use andchat on the phone
[22:49] <Salt> and irssi on servers
[22:49] <Salt> or weechat
[22:49] <Salt> either way, i just have to have one znc instance
[22:50] <Uber_Geek> I don't want to appear online when I am not :)
[22:51] <seattlegauchoII> stoopid kde netbook remix
[22:53] <seattlegaucho> does anyone know if there is a painless way to go from 10.11 gnome install to a kde 11.04 install as painless as possible?
[22:53] <seattlegaucho> maybe start with a dist_upgrade and go from there?
[22:53] <seattlegaucho> opinions? wild guesses?
[22:54] <seattlegaucho> hiya cj
[22:55] <Uber_Geek> clean install ,  but on a netbook you might like gnome 3 better.
[22:56] <seattlegauchoII> I want to keep what I already have ... clean install would wipe it out
[22:56] <seattlegauchoII> ie: spideroak cloud backup and a bunch of other stuff
[22:56] <seattlegauchoII> ... might try the alternate CD for the dist_upgrade
[22:57] <Uber_Geek> going from 10.10 to 11.04 really funked up my netbook, so I did a clean install to fix it.  alot of my packages, like xscreensaver the distro upgrade removed.
[22:57] <seattlegaucho> crap! the same bug from more than a year ago is still there reg the broadcomm driver!
[22:58] <Salt> Uber_Geek, that's configable
[22:58] <seattlegaucho> Uber_Geek: 10.04 to 10.10 funked my netbook ... did clean install and it was a pain in the butt to get everything back up
[22:59] <seattlegaucho> especially since I have to go through the pain of getting the broadcomm driver back into working shape after 3 distros!
[22:59] <Uber_Geek> I have 10.04 on an external drive, and tried going to 10.10 then 11.04.   wouldn't boot after that :(
[23:00] <seattlegaucho> I'm just going to stick to apt-get dist_upgrade and hope for the best :(
[23:01] <Uber_Geek> Salt: you in Seattle?
[23:13] <seattlegaucho> bit the bullet ... going the automatic route to take my netbook "to 11"
[23:15] <valorie> I updated mine the easy way -- had the son do it
[23:15] <valorie> I was rather busy at the time, so that's my excuse
[23:15] <valorie> :-)
[23:16] <seattlegaucho> I'm in between projects ... so I decided it was a good time to do it
[23:16] <seattlegaucho> right now staying clear of KDE ... the netbook remix sucks! 
[23:17] <valorie> I never tried that
[23:17] <valorie> now the netbook interface is just one of the choices
[23:18] <valorie> I like it, but everyone has different tastes
[23:18] <seattlegaucho> I like it better than Unity
[23:19] <seattlegaucho> ... and it has a few features that remotely mimick some that I use frequently on the desktop
[23:20] <seattlegaucho> what I'll (try to) do is to upgrade as-is staying with gnome and then just drop the kde virtual package on top of it
[23:20] <seattlegaucho> ... and go from there
[23:21] <Salt> Uber_Geek, yes
[23:22] <valorie> I've done it that way, but found I prefer a clean kub. install, and then add in the gnomie bits I like
[23:22] <valorie> Soundjuicer
[23:23] <valorie> not sure what else
[23:28] <seattlegaucho> synaptic is my favorite gnome stuff
[23:28] <seattlegaucho> xchat used to be until I started liking quassel
[23:29] <seattlegaucho> now I miss the quassel features when I have to use xchat
[23:48] <Uber_Geek> I'll have to try quassel