/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/06/20/#ubuntu-us-ca.txt

* pleia2 waves02:59
SkullzAllo :)02:59
pleia2almost meeting time :)02:59
SkullzYep :D03:00
DarkwingDuckAye it is03:00
* Skullz looks around03:00
philipballew7:0003:00
* pleia2 IRCs from new desk!03:01
pleia2ok, let's get this rolling03:01
* Shakata|Home waves03:02
pleia2agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/11June1903:02
pleia2looks like grantbow isn't here for the first item, we'll come back to it if he arrives03:02
pleia2[TOPIC] Discuss changing the launchpad team from moderated to open.03:02
pleia2DarkwingDuck: all yours!03:02
rwwo/03:02
DarkwingDuckOkay, as it stands at the moment we have a policy for jioning the LP team.03:03
DarkwingDuckhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/LaunchpadMembership03:03
DarkwingDuckI'm trying to understand why we have closed membership for our team03:04
DarkwingDuckI would propose that we open our LP team03:04
DarkwingDuckIMO Having a closed team sends the wrong message.03:04
rwwDarkwingDuck: Did you read the log from the meeting at which that was implemented? iirc, we went through the reasons for it there.03:05
pleia2currently we ask that people applying get in touch with the team somehow, while this was a nice idea when it was proposed, in reality no one does it03:05
pleia2so even if we had great reasons for it, the process as it stands now doesn't work03:05
DarkwingDuckrww: You have a link to those logs by any chance?03:06
philipballewi never got in touch. i was just accepted a hour later. so pleia2 is correct that it isn't implemented03:06
rwwDarkwingDuck: I'm looking. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/10June27 seems to be one of them, and I imagine the meetings around it probably have some discussion.03:07
pleia2philipballew: I knew you :)03:07
rwwData point: there are 37 pending memberships in the LP team right now.03:07
pleia2philipballew: if I didn't know you I wouldn't have approved you, our approval queue is huge03:07
pleia2yeah, 37 :(03:07
akkWe definitely don't want people applying and sitting in the queue. That's bad.03:08
pleia2akk: *nod*03:08
DarkwingDuckI'm just pointing out that it sends the wrong signals and messages. Not ones that I would assume that a friendly open group woudl like to send.03:08
philipballewi never got in touch just to get accepted. 37... because were so popular!03:08
DarkwingDuckDoes anyone have objections to an Open team?03:09
pleia2so I think we need to either: 1: open the team; 2: empower our admins to add people based on believing they are a human (this is what we did for pennsylvania) or 3: come up with a solution to make our process we have now work somehow03:09
rwwIn my opinion, this is tied to what the LP team is actually used for. aiui, that's 1) determining who can vote in leadership elections, 2) determining who has access to write to the team bzr repository. I don't think that having both of these be unrestricted is a particularly good idea.03:09
akkI remember those discussions of why people should have to renew (in the log rww referenced) -- but that doesn't answer why they should have to wait in a queue to join in the first place.03:10
pleia23) adding things to the loco directory03:10
philipballewi have wanted to be able to sign people up to the group at Ubuntu hours before. but didn't want the people to have to wait. it was just a though to implement if sd hour gets big.03:10
philipballewit would help us grow possibly03:10
pleia2rww: I've never really seen it abused in other teams03:10
pleia2(and bzr has reverts! and a bunch of us keep an eye on loco directory)03:10
rwwpleia2: Neither have I, though the only other team I have experience with that's open is UW.03:11
akkI can't imagine people joining our LP team in order to game our voting".03:11
pleia2rww: honestly I think UW is the one where it would be most likely to be abused - of all the community teams in ubuntu03:11
rwwand all in all, people who don't put in enough effort to satisfy the membership criteria are unlikely to vote anyway03:12
akkyeah, UW is much more of a target.03:12
pleia2rww: there are active members who didn't follow the procedure, I like and respect these people now that I know them but even they didn't read the directions03:12
DarkwingDuckSo, does anyone have any issues with opening the team at all?03:12
aadityao/03:12
DarkwingDuckyes aaditya?03:13
pleia2so I don't really see it as "not putting in enough effort"03:13
rwwI think it's a little odd to propose and implement opening it without looking into why it was closed in the first place. Other than that, I'm pretty much apathetic either way.03:13
pleia2people just don't expect it, so they don't look for joining rules on loco teams03:13
aadityaI don't have any issues. Also, Hi!03:13
jbermudesIs there a way to set permissions on LP so that people can join but aren't automatically granted those certain rights?03:13
DarkwingDuckAhhh, Hi :)03:13
pleia2jbermudes: no03:13
pleia2launchpad is not particularly flexible (you'll see this reflected in some teams having a half dozen launchpad teams to handle permissions, it's awful)03:14
akkrww: Do we know why it was closed? That log you pasted is about requiring renewals, not about joining (unless I've missed something).03:14
rwwakk: I don't know, I only read the agenda right before the meeting started.03:14
akkSeems like if nobody can come up with a good reason for it, that's a good argument for opening it.03:15
pleia2if I recall correctly part of it was not having a launchpad team full of unactive people, and getting some kind of introduction so that new members could be contacted when there were events in their area03:15
pleia2and weeding out spam bots03:16
pleia2the wiki page DarkwingDuck linked says "To give us a chance to get to know you (and to weed out spam bots), we ask that you get in touch before we approve your join request."03:16
akkDo we have introductions now, or any record of who lives where?03:16
jbermudesRight, that was also the reasoning behind the renewal was to have some sort of way to keep a somewhat active roster03:16
akkI know it's taken me a long time to figure out which IRC nicks are northern vs. souther.03:16
akkn03:16
aadityaDo we reach more people through the mailing list by allowing unactive and lazy people on the LP team?03:17
pleia2all that's actually required is that they make some kind of contact somehow, even if it's just "hi"03:17
pleia2we don't track where people are formally, and don't require them telling us03:17
pleia2aaditya: the mailing list is completely unrelated to LP03:17
rwwDo you need to be in ~ubuntu-california to RSVP to LoCo Directory events? Something philipballew said earlier seems to imply you do, and I think that's relevant.03:18
rww(as a reason to make it open, that is)03:18
pleia2rww: nope03:18
rwwhrm03:18
pleia2since people often go to other people's loco events when they're in town03:19
rwwbecause the other side of the coin is "what are we losing by keeping it restricted?"03:19
pleia2in general trying to join a team and being stuck in a queue for months is demotivating03:19
akkWe're probably losing members who try to join, and get frustrated at waiting.03:19
rwwbeing in the LP team isn't a requirement for doing LoCo stuff, though :|03:19
DarkwingDuckAnd just the appearence of having a restricted LP team.03:20
akkEven if they eventually get approved, that probably makes them figure the team is pretty dead and not worth caring about.03:20
aadityaCan we improve this process by not making them wait for that long?03:20
pleia2and when people see so many people waiting they get the impression that it's closed, some people have told me in person they didn't apply because they assumed the admins were dead and not approving anyone03:20
jbermudesSo isn't that an issue with the people approving as opposed to a problem with the idea of approval?03:20
philipballewdoes it have to be pleia2 who approves or can we off load to others?03:20
akkMaking them not wait that long sounds like it requires volunteers.03:20
rwwOne thing I think we used to do is reject applications after some amount of times with an explanation of how the team works. I assume that doesn't happen now?03:20
eps(1) Whatever we decide should be documented (and dated?) (2) This issue seems bigger than us ... is there a "best practices" we should be referring to?03:21
akkIt's easy to say "those dang people not doing their job! why don't <<they>> approve people faster?"03:21
rww(which would prod people into actually doing it properly, and get rid of that "oh noes, 37 people are waiting, the team must be dead" thing)03:21
pleia2philipballew: everyone in the leadership team does, we can add more, but that's not the bottleneck03:21
jbermudespleia2: then what's the bottleneck?03:21
pleia2our policy03:21
rwwthe bottleneck is that people who hit the join button aren't reading the "*** IMPORTANT NOTE:" and contacting an admin, aiui03:21
pleia2we require people to introduce themselves somehow, if they don't we can't add them03:22
akkThey have to apply, then also send an email somewhere?03:22
aadityaIf they fail to provide enough info or otherwise prove that they're human, we could reject the membership and tell them to retry with relevant info.03:22
jbermudescouldn't we do it via IRC? they have to come into the channel, say hi, and then Eureka can add them?03:22
rww"Some ways of doing this are using our mailing list or IRC channel, coming to an event or meeting, or contacting one of our group administrators privately."03:22
rwwso yes, IRC works fine.03:22
pleia2things I count as introducing: joining IRC with a name that's obviously tied to LP, emailing the list, coming to an event03:22
aadityaHowever, the question boils down to: Should we require introductions?03:22
pleia2but I have to know they are the same person joining, and sometimes I don't know03:22
pleia2every time someone joins I search my IRC logs and mail for them03:22
philipballewnot all new people do irc03:22
pleia2if I find them I add them, if not they stay in the queue03:23
rwwphilipballew: which is why we wrote several options when making the policy03:23
philipballewi did forms and still do mostly03:23
jbermudesif it's an issue of not knowing that the queue is getting long, we could make Eureka alert us just like it does that the wiki has changed03:24
akkIt feels like setting up hoops to jump through, like the SRU or patch submittal processes.03:24
pleia2so even with me searching email and trying to track down activity from these people... we have 37 in the queue03:24
akk"Mwa ha ha, you may have done this step, but you missed that you also need THIS step! Denied!"03:24
pleia2the process doesn't work03:24
rwwakk: right, and the question is whether the hoops are necessary given the benefits you get from joining the LP team (which boils down to voting rights)03:24
pleia2I approve maybe 10% of people joining, and that's usually due to my effort in trying to see if they've been active03:25
akkAnd if they're on IRC but their nick is different from LP, you probably wouldn't see them.03:25
aadityaakk: imho, it works if we also make it clear that they can apply again immediately and need to provide XYZ.03:25
pleia2akk: *nod*03:25
akk(unless you're going to extraordinary effort)03:25
DarkwingDuckBut shouldn't anyone be able to vote?03:25
rwwpleia2: If we switch the team from Restricted to Open, does the renewal preference go away, or is that still applied?03:25
DarkwingDuckit's not like this is Ubuntu Membership03:26
pleia2rww: I'd say it's still applied03:26
pleia2we have expiration for a different reason which I think is fine03:26
sn9akk: irc nicks are listed on one's lp page, even if the lp name is different03:26
rwwpleia2: I meant technically, but yeah :)03:26
pleia2rww: oh no, you can still set expirations on open teams :)03:26
rwwpleia2: yay03:26
akkaaditya: Sort of, but it's demoralizing to keep having to reapply. That's why i've had patches sit in bugs for years ... I get tired of "no, submit it this way." "Okay, now we have that, but we also need this other format."03:26
akkaaditya: After a while you decide it's not worth it.03:27
aadityaDarkwingDuck: that'll be an issue if someone brings their 20 inactive friends, e.g., to vote in their favor.03:27
pleia2even the ubuntu-women team hasn't had trouble with ballot stuffing03:27
akksn9: Assuming they listed their irc nick there, and the person on our end doesn't mind the extra step of looking for it.03:27
DarkwingDuckI just didn't like the image a closed loco team sends.03:28
aadityaakk: introduction isn't a big requirement. If they can't go through that much, maybe it's not worth it to them, which raises the question of whether or not we should let them in.03:28
sn9akk: correct03:28
pleia2aaditya: mostly it's just that people don't read the directions, there are active people in the team who didn't notice them until I pointed them out03:28
rwwI think opening the team and saying "Anyone who's been a member of the LP team for more than x days is eligible to vote in this election." may be a reasonable solution. x could equal 30.03:28
pleia2I wouldn't put that against their character, humans are just lousy03:29
pleia2rww: yeah, UW does that03:29
aadityapleia2: oh, fair enough.03:29
akkaaditya: I don't mind groups where the Join page also has a section "tell us something about yourself." But if it's an extra step you have to notice, that's not so good.03:29
DarkwingDuckThat would assume that everyone has an LP account.03:29
aadityaakk: agreed.03:29
DarkwingDuckWhat about those who are on the ML but have no LP Account?03:29
philipballewdepends on what type of group we want to me.03:29
rwwDarkwingDuck: as I understand it, you currently need to have an LP account to vote in our elections currently. If you want to change that, that's a whole separate issue.03:29
aadityaCan we limit voting to those who have been a member for, say, 6 months?03:29
rwws/currently //03:29
rwwaaditya: yes03:29
pleia2rww: yes, that's how it works now03:30
rwwwell, yes it's technically possible. I think 6 months is too long.03:30
pleia2I think 6 months is too long as well03:30
sn9i find "humans are just lousy" to be more typing than "people suck"03:30
akkI agree, 6 months is a long time.03:30
DarkwingDuck1-3 months is a better solution03:30
rwwyup ^03:30
aadityaI would be inclined towards setting it to 3 months.03:30
akk3 months ++03:30
aaditya(6 was just an example.)03:30
akk(that's not "3 or more months", it's support for ==3 :)03:31
sn96 months is one release cycle, to put it in perspective03:31
rwwHow often are elections? I can't find the page I vaguely remember existing with these details :|03:31
DarkwingDuckYes.03:31
aadityaAre 3 months enough for a new person to understand the team03:31
DarkwingDuck1 year?03:32
aaditya...team's general direction?03:32
DarkwingDuckI believe?03:32
pleia21 year03:32
DarkwingDuckLast election was mid/end october 201003:32
pleia2should just be /Leadership03:32
pleia2but the wiki is being horrible03:32
akkI thought it was "whenever the team gets sufficiently annoyed with current leadership" :)03:32
* DarkwingDuck hates the wiki03:32
rwwoh, there it is. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Leadership03:32
DarkwingDuckLOL03:32
DarkwingDuckassuming no one steps down.03:33
rwwakk: If the last election is anything to go by, the next one might be as controversial as the recent DPL election ;P03:33
aadityaI got an HTTP 50x error on the leadership page a moment ago, and it worked after rww posted it.03:33
aadityaWiki sucks.03:33
rwwaaditya: yeah, the wiki has issues03:33
pleia2they upgraded it last week, it hasn't been a particularly graceful upgrade03:33
pleia2hoping they'll fix it when they get back into work tomorrow ;)03:33
aaditya(I easily mistook it for a 404 done incorrectly.)03:33
rwwAnyways. Any objections to opening the team up, keeping renewal policy as it is, and requiring that voters in elections have been in the LP team for 90 days* prior to the election announcement?03:34
DarkwingDuckI have no issues with that rww03:34
rww* I personally like 30 better, but everyone else likes 90 so whatever.03:34
pleia2rww: sounds perfect03:35
aadityarww++03:35
sn960 :P03:35
pleia2(I like 30 better too)03:35
aaditya(pleia2: before I forget, we didn't do newbie introductions at the beginning of this meeting.)03:35
* DarkwingDuck is in favor of 3003:35
DarkwingDuckBugger03:35
pleia2aaditya: we're been trying to do announcements and intros at the end, but I suppose introductions at the beginning do make sense03:36
pleia2so maybe we should just do announcements at the end ;)03:36
aadityaThat works too. I thought we skipped it.03:36
sn9jdeslip: 30 or 90? what say you?03:36
DarkwingDuckI don't think jack is here is he?03:37
pleia2no, he's not03:37
sn9just in case03:37
DarkwingDuckI'm not going to die if people vote 90 instead of 3003:37
pleia2ok, well we have a couple months until voting, do we want to table that portion and add it to a meeting item next meeting so people who care can vote then?03:37
* aaditya murmurs 90 from a corner.03:37
pleia2just go with "open team and keep renewal policy"03:37
DarkwingDuckWhy not vote via ML?03:37
pleia2DarkwingDuck: I've never really seen that work well, but we can try03:38
DarkwingDuck:D03:38
epsI oppose using the ML for this03:38
rwwyou could do a CIVS poll of everyone eligible to vote currently... *runs off giggling*03:38
sn9why not vote with that voting thing used for the first geeknic(s)?03:38
sn9i mean, what rww said03:39
pleia2rww: don't make me cry :'(03:39
DarkwingDuckrww: We could make an LP poll....03:39
* DarkwingDuck hides03:39
aadityaI personally easily overlook emails on the ML, so I'd say ML--. Also, how hard would it be to make a tool that uses launchpad API to validate voters and allows them to vote?03:39
sn9lp poll would make sense03:39
pleia2LP has polls, and would work for something this simple03:39
* aaditya starts to scribble something on a piece of paper.03:39
aadityaLP polls +103:39
pleia2so let's set up a poll, have it expire after our next meeting so we can remind people at the next meeting to vote real quick before it ends03:40
pleia2and we'll email it to the list03:40
rwwwould be useful as a demonstration of whether LP polls do in fact work, at least ;P03:40
pleia2rww: indeed!03:40
sn9and civs for the actual votes03:40
pleia2yeah, CIVS for elections is tricky (we need to get jono to pull some strings), but we should use it03:41
DarkwingDuckCIVS isn't so bad... We used it for our Kubuntu Council elections.03:41
pleia2ok, so I think we're agreed: opening the team up, keeping renewal policy as it is, setting up LP poll to see how long you have to be a member before you're eligable to vote in an election03:41
rwwDarkwingDuck: the major hurdle is getting email addresses of people with email addresses hidden on LP. but yeah, it's doable.03:42
rwwpleia2: +103:42
sn9pulling the strings should not be difficult, considering the need for civs is ultimately due to a decision from up above03:42
DarkwingDuckrww: That's what Scott Kitterman was going on about.03:42
DarkwingDuckpleia2: +103:42
akk+103:43
pleia2DarkwingDuck: you need everyone's email address, not everyone makes their email address public, so you need to get a list from LP admins (which is Wrong but possible if you're jono) or use up all your daily allowance of "emailing people on LP" to contact them and get their email addresses03:43
pleia2this usually takes several days and the result of all this effort is a couple people replying with their email address to be added to the poll, some people yelling at you, and mostly people ignoring you03:43
rwwthis is probably obvious, but I'll note it for posterity: I assume that while opening the LP team, everyone currently pending will be added?03:43
pleia2rww: yes, thanks for mentioning it03:44
DarkwingDuckIIRC yes03:44
epsNot everyone has an @ubuntu.com address, and not everyone wants non-@ubuntu.com addresses made public03:44
pleia2eps: yep03:45
pleia2ok, shall we move on?03:45
DarkwingDuckYes.03:45
pleia2[TOPIC] Review Approval Application and discuss goals03:45
pleia2I have a lot of non-ubuntu things to say about the wiki today03:45
* DarkwingDuck snickers03:45
pleia2I had intended to finish the events portion of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/ApprovalApplication201103:45
pleia2but with the wiki practically unusable, I couldn't03:45
pleia2so we'll have to finish reviewing those later, but for now I wanted to bring up that we need to write up some goals03:46
pleia2for reference, our goals last time around are on our Approval App from 2009: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/ApprovalApplication03:46
DarkwingDuckInternal Server Error03:47
* DarkwingDuck snickers again.03:47
pleia2indeed03:47
DarkwingDuckSo we are looking at our goals for the next year?03:48
pleia2I'd call "short term" in the next 6 months, and "long term" the next two years (when we go through reapproval again)03:49
DarkwingDuckI would like to see what "Bigger Programs" our LoCo woudl like to get involved with.03:49
pleia2we don't need to decide upon goals right now, but I at least wanted to get the discussion rolling03:49
pleia2DarkwingDuck: such as?03:50
DarkwingDuckItaly does Laptop Testing Team03:50
DarkwingDuckThere are programs that we, as a LoCo can get involved with.03:51
pleia2ah, that's a good one03:51
rwwI'd like us to look into whether there are more conferences/conventions/whatever than SCaLE we could be going to. OSCON moving northwards made a gap in the calendar :|03:51
pleia2I did some xubuntu testing at the last global jam, that went really well03:51
DarkwingDuckAre there any confereces in NorCal?03:51
rwwand yeah, what DarkwingDuck said. QA stuff always needs people.03:51
rwwDarkwingDuck: I don't know ;P03:51
philipballewnone really DarkwingDuck03:51
akkDarkwingDuck: Not really. :(03:51
philipballewunless i'm wrong03:51
DarkwingDuckSo, SCaLE is our yearly conference.03:52
akkWell, lots of confs but no specifically linux-related or ubuntu-related ones.03:52
philipballewoscon is in august03:52
philipballewportland03:52
rwwIt's just weird to me that there isn't one so I assumed there is. Maybe there isn't :|03:52
pleia2yeah, the washington and oregon teams are doing oscon03:52
DarkwingDuckOh, I'm designing a booth for us at SCaLE. I'll upload and post the finished blueprint when it's done.03:52
DarkwingDuckAnyway, that's for a SCaLE discuss.03:52
DarkwingDuckIf you would like I'll go through and find some good places and assemble a list.03:53
pleia2ok, so these are both good goals - get involved in more QA stuff and put more effort into conferencey venues other than SCaLE03:53
DarkwingDuckI know that soon there will be a QA Community person and maybe that person will have more stuff for Locos to do.03:54
pleia2I've also been talking to the folks in Italy about their best practices for testing, so their ISO and Laptop stuff is pretty much ready to go03:54
DarkwingDuckBut, having something outside our state would be a good idea IMO03:55
rwwthis is a little apropos, but Oneiric ISOs are now dd'able to USB sticks instead of needing that USB Creator thing, which might make ISO QA a little easier.03:55
akkThat'll be great.03:55
pleia2nice03:55
pleia2usb sticks really are the way to go about testing, and it's silly that ISO Creator required 2G sticks (I didn't actually own any that big until I bought some)03:56
akkYou can't buy anything smaller than 2G now.03:56
akkBut of course lots of people have old stuff.03:56
pleia2yeah, most of mine are free-from-conferences kinds, which are all 256-1G03:56
rwwa non-technical end user brought an 8GB stick into work to backup about 100MB of stuff the other day, so I take it USB sticks are cheap ;P03:57
akkISO Creator also required a lot of stuff software-wise -- I've tried it on many different machines and never gotten it to work.03:57
akkdd works from any linux machine.03:57
pleia2I think I paid $10 for my 4G sticks03:57
rwwakk: or OS X, or Windows even03:57
rwwwhich is wonderful03:57
pleia2nice03:57
akkah, didn't know windows had dd03:57
pleia2ok, well I think this is good goal-wise for now03:57
rwwakk: well, there are programs that do it. they're a /lot/ less annoying than the previous way of doing it.03:57
akkusually I see instructions like "if you're on linux, type this dd command. If you're on windows, follow the next two pages of instructions."03:58
pleia2I'll add them to the wiki once that's possible, and hopefully by next meeting we'll have a more complete app to review :)03:58
pleia2[TOPIC] Announcements, intros, other misc03:58
pleia2so, anyone new here tonight who cares to introduce themselves? or anyone with announcements about upcoming events or anything?03:59
SkullzI'm new here :303:59
pleia2welcome Skullz :)03:59
SkullzThank you. :)03:59
SkullzAnything I should add? Aha.03:59
pleia2only if you care to share, but whereabouts are you in the state? have you been to any events? any questions or expectations of the team?04:00
DarkwingDuckSkullz, where are you from?04:01
DarkwingDuckNM, Lyz beat me to it.04:01
pleia2(this goes for anyone who is new :))04:01
DarkwingDuckOh, I'm David Wonderly and I'm in San Diego.04:01
SkullzAh. I am from San Francisco, and I've so far been to yesterday's geeknic. :)04:01
DarkwingDuckAwesome. :)04:01
SkullzAh, yes, and my name is Dash.04:01
BrightAmbitionOh04:01
pleia2Skullz: me too! but I don't we formally met?04:01
BrightAmbitionok04:01
BrightAmbitionI think i did meet him but i forgot what he looks like04:02
BrightAmbitionlol04:02
SkullzI don't believe so, no.04:02
pleia2ah, well next time then04:02
SkullzHopefully, if I can before I move :)04:02
DarkwingDuckI need to make it up there for events.04:02
DarkwingDuckMaybe if I get this job...04:02
SkullzMeet who, BrightAmbition?04:02
BrightAmbitionSkullz: I was the person in the Linux Chicks shirt04:03
pleia2looks like we're pretty sparse event-wise on the loco directory right now, but I'm sure that'll pick up once people add their monthly ubuntu hours04:03
pleia2for july04:03
BrightAmbitionSkullz: I think i talked to you for a bit but i don't remember what you look like for some reason04:03
SkullzAhh.04:03
SkullzI was the tall one, in the grey shirt with the rolled up sleeves.04:03
pleia2we'll have at able at the linux picnic here in norcal in august, but that's a bit far out for an announcement :)04:03
pleia2s/able/table04:03
BrightAmbitionSkullz: Short or long hair?04:03
SkullzEar length, brown.04:03
BrightAmbitionSkullz: Glasses or no glasses?04:04
SkullzNo glasses.04:04
pleia2Skullz: oh, are you the one moving to an island?04:04
SkullzYes, yes I am.04:04
pleia2we didn't formally meet, but I heard part of that conversation04:04
BrightAmbitionSkullz: What were you wearing for some reason i could now remember people by which color they were wearing but usually i remember by face04:04
SkullzAhh, oka :)04:04
aadityaSkullz: Welcome to Ubuntu California!04:05
pleia2anyway, we should wrap up this meeting so I can finish putting my office back together! ;)04:05
pleia2anyone else have anything to add?04:05
BrightAmbitionsounds fun pleia204:05
SkullzBrightAmbition, I was wearing a grey, long-sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up. I had on tan cargo shorts as well, and white sneakers.04:05
BrightAmbitionSkullz: oh04:05
aadityaYes, Geeknic was a blast yesterday. Looking forward to the next one.04:05
BrightAmbitionI feel that same way aaditya04:05
SkullzI was probably seen moving around my backpack a bit.04:05
pleia2btw, we're planning the next one for July 16th down in los gatos04:06
BrightAmbitionHopefully we could crash a wedding next time04:06
BrightAmbitionlol04:06
aadityayes!04:06
SkullzYeah, I'm disappointed I had to leave early.04:06
rwwI'm looking forward to there ever being a geeknic that doesn't conflict with my work schedule. Mainly so I can look at how time was bended to make that happen since I work constantly ;P04:06
aadityaWe'll be more prepared for crashing weddings next time.04:06
BrightAmbitionAwesome!04:06
rwwbended? bent. pah.04:06
BrightAmbitionlol04:06
pleia2rww: I think you should have fewer jobs04:06
pleia2:)04:06
DarkwingDuckAny other buisness?04:07
pleia2ok, let's wrap this thing up, thanks for coming everyone!04:07
* DarkwingDuck waves.04:07
BrightAmbitionMark should wear the penguin suit and dancing at a wedding reception so people could take pictures04:07
BrightAmbitionlol04:07
* DarkwingDuck snickers04:07
pleia2chasing geese: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/5159643579/in/set-7215762534454622604:08
BrightAmbitionk, are we done talking yet?04:08
* BrightAmbition continues to talk04:08
BrightAmbitionhehe04:08
BrightAmbitionI got a picture of that on my phone, lol04:08
DarkwingDuckLOL04:08
pleia2meeting is over, but everyone is welcome to stay and chat forever04:08
BrightAmbitionyay!04:08
DarkwingDuckMark is great.04:08
BrightAmbitionMore chatting!04:09
DarkwingDuckOh I forgot something!04:09
rwwmy Facebook photo is of that time I wore that penguin suit... |:04:09
pleia2oh, the photos from the geeknick yesterday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157626874010053/04:09
DarkwingDuckHappy Fathers Day to all the dads in teh channel.04:09
pleia2geeknic!04:09
* pleia2 didn't take enough photos04:09
BrightAmbitionI had my birthday last week, that was fun04:09
BrightAmbitionWell not really04:09
BrightAmbitionI wanted to do karaoke04:10
pleia2DarkwingDuck: happy father's day :)04:10
BrightAmbitionEven better Mark doing karaoke in a penguin suit04:10
BrightAmbitionlol04:10
DarkwingDuckThanks Lyz :)04:10
BrightAmbitionGeez that was today?04:10
* BrightAmbition is in panic mode04:10
DarkwingDuckGirls are in the bath and my son has taken over my playstation04:10
pleia2DarkwingDuck: haha04:10
BrightAmbitionThat sucks04:10
BrightAmbitionI would want the playstation back04:10
BrightAmbition:)04:10
* pleia2 wanders back to cleaning up her office04:11
crashsystemsI hope you never gave sony your credit card number04:11
DarkwingDuckAbout to take it back over... Time for some Call Of Duty: Black OPS04:11
BrightAmbitionIt's funny i forgot mother's and father's day04:11
BrightAmbitionNot good04:11
BrightAmbitionMy parents are probably mad at me04:11
BrightAmbitionlol04:11
rwwpleia2: I did that the other week. As a reward, I now have three extra power strips and some spare ethernet cable :)04:11
BrightAmbitionBlack OPS is fun04:12
BrightAmbitionBut i keep dying on that game04:12
DarkwingDuckYou play?04:12
SkullzHahahaha04:12
BrightAmbitionI have the demo of it04:12
DarkwingDuckahhhh04:12
BrightAmbitionWhen i did play it04:12
DarkwingDuckI was going to say add me LOL04:12
SkullzWhat platform?04:12
DarkwingDuckPS304:12
BrightAmbitionI'm too broke now to buy video games so i just get demos04:12
SkullzWoot, what's your PSN?04:12
BrightAmbitionI have no clue04:12
BrightAmbitionlol04:12
BrightAmbitionI don't even remember04:12
BrightAmbitionNot good04:12
DarkwingDuckHakazakarekamaka04:13
BrightAmbitionBecause i'll have to log in somehow04:13
SkullzMine's naeahuau04:13
BrightAmbitionMy friend list is full on there04:13
BrightAmbitionlol04:13
SkullzHahahahaha04:13
BrightAmbitionI don't even remember what my username was04:13
BrightAmbitionThat's sad04:13
SkullzI can't play anytime soon, my family got hooked on net streaming Netflix04:14
SkullzT~T04:14
BrightAmbitionYea i have an account there04:14
BrightAmbitionBut i never use it04:14
BrightAmbitionIt costs after that i think04:14
BrightAmbitionThe free trial04:14
epsHow 'bout those Sony films (oops!)04:14
SkullzThey don't realize that it literally slows EVERYTHING down on the Internet04:14
BrightAmbitionWhy don't they just go on Hulu?04:14
BrightAmbitionHulu has movies too04:14
BrightAmbitionEspecially with Hulu plus04:15
crashsystemsI need to get a non-comcast issued modem so that netflix stops killing my network.04:15
BrightAmbitionEven more movies04:15
SkullzThey don't want to pay for anything else04:15
BrightAmbitionComcast sucks04:15
BrightAmbitionThey are like the windows of cable companies04:15
BrightAmbitionlol04:15
rwwI'm seeding everything legal I can find until I hit 90% of my Comcast monthly allocation, because Comcast annoys me.04:15
SkullzComcast is like the only thing here04:15
SkullzWhenever they turn it on, I find a band I like and torrent an album04:16
SkullzJust to mess with them >__>04:16
BrightAmbitionSkullz: Where do you live?04:16
rwwThis project started a little over a day ago. 26.5GB total up and down today :)04:16
SkullzSan Francisco, BrightAmbition.04:16
rww(250GB is the Comcast monthly cap, for anyone who doesn't know)04:16
epsEww.04:16
SkullzAhhhh.04:16
BrightAmbitionSkullz: There's other stuff i think04:16
BrightAmbitionsn9 what other stuff do they have in SF?04:16
SkullzOH, well, at the moment I'm at my father's in Pacifica.04:17
crashsystemsmy connection can actually handle netflix just fine if only the QoS on the modem would stop screwing everything up.04:17
DarkwingDuckSkullz: Request sent.04:17
rwwThe only ISP on the couple of blocks around me is Comcast. The AT&T station is too far away for reasonbly-sized DSL :(04:17
rwws/sized/speed/04:17
Skullzcool! :D04:17
epsSome parts of SF are served by Astound04:17
SkullzSo, if I may, how long has everyone active been using Ubuntu?04:18
crashsystemswork gets level 5 fiber, but 1.87 miles away I can only get comcast.04:19
crashsystemsSkullz: since summer 0504:19
DarkwingDuckI started in 2006 and switched to Kubuntu in '0804:19
SkullzCool :)04:19
DarkwingDuckI'm pretty much the KDE whore of the Loco LOL04:19
BrightAmbitionubuntu is great04:19
rwwI've been switching between Ubuntu and Debian since feisty, I think. The last time I switched distros was 2011-05-30, to Kubuntu.04:19
SkullzI'm still a noob, as I started in November, I believe.04:19
BrightAmbitionNo "Do you want to update?" crap that windows gives me04:20
DarkwingDuckOh yeah... rww you are a Kubu-nut now :P04:20
akkI think I started with ... the H that was long before Hardy. Dunno when that was.04:20
BrightAmbitionI actually wanted Kubuntu but i think sn9 only had the disk thing for ubuntu04:20
akkHoary, that was it.04:20
SkullzI started off with Lucid when my friend gave me a live disk.04:20
BrightAmbitionHow many updates does windows need? Like seriously?04:20
BrightAmbitionThere's like a million updates04:20
rww11 in the past week!04:20
SkullzAnd then, during installation, I forgot to specify the partition and overwrote Windows.04:20
rwwUbuntu has a lot too, they're just not obnoxious.04:21
DarkwingDuckWindows? I have not used that since I left the military.04:21
rwwWindows Update is extremely annoying.04:21
BrightAmbitionWindows updates are annoying04:21
akkDo they still do multiple reboots?04:21
SkullzYep.04:21
rwwakk: yes04:21
DarkwingDuckI have yet to use Win704:21
rwwMy work machine is currently refusing to download Windows 7 SP1 for some reason I haven't figured out yet :(04:21
akkAdmittedly I do have to restart firefox after an ubuntu upgrade.04:21
BrightAmbitionI only use windows for itunes04:21
akk(pretty much every time -- there's ALWAYS a firefox upgrade.)04:22
BrightAmbitionBesides that i'm mostly on ubuntu04:22
rwwIt dies after an hour or so of trying with some error that doesn't tell me anything even with Google's help.04:22
SkullzI would only ever re-introduce Windows to my system for Photoshop.04:22
BrightAmbitionThey need to put itunes on linux04:22
SkullzI agree.04:22
akkI can't help but think Apple sees Linux as a competitor and so deliberately blocks it.04:22
BrightAmbitionI think they do that on purpose04:22
SkullzYeah.04:22
SkullzWhich is really stupid, because of the MacOS.04:23
BrightAmbitionYea04:23
akkWhy? It's a competitor to MacOS (and therefore a competitor to their hardware).04:23
epsWho maintains your printing architecture?04:23
SkullzBut what I really hate, is when the advent Mac users tout their "knowledge of computers" and lump anything that isn't a Mac into the "PC" categorization, referring to Windows.04:23
akkNot that I think many people would leave MacOS just because iTunes started working from Linux.04:24
rwwI don't think the competition from Linux is likely to be a significant problem compared to the competition from Windows (which has iTunes).04:24
SkullzYeah.04:24
akkooh, I hate that "PC" == Windows, Skullz04:24
SkullzYeah, akk, it irks me to no end.04:24
rwwIt's probably more just the usual reasons why companies don't port to Linux. Cost of maintenance vs. how many people care, incompatible distros, etc.04:24
akkrww: They have to support Windows, they'd lose too much business if they didn't.04:24
rwwakk: I know.04:24
BrightAmbitionDo you think itunes would work in wine?04:25
SkullzWell, did Aaditya tell y'all about one of the members of his room managing to switch his entire company to Ubuntu?04:25
akkrww: There used to be browser ways to get to iTunes, and they blocked them, IIRC.04:25
rwwBrightAmbition: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=134704:25
sn9BrightAmbition: i tried to get kubuntu on, but it just wasn't working04:25
sn9Skullz: what part of SF, again?04:25
rwwakk: It's been a while, but my understanding was that that was blocked during the time when iTunes had DRM that was being repeatedly cracked.04:26
SkullzWell, when I'm at my mother's (rare) I'm in the Haight-Ashbury04:26
Skullz@sn904:26
rwwakk: i.e. as part of their general hardening of iTMS security, not just to annoy Linux users ;)04:26
sn9Skullz: since when is it not possible to get DSL in that part of town?04:26
BrightAmbitionrww: How does it work?04:27
Skullzsn9: Well, I'm at my father's ATM, in Pacifica.04:27
SkullzEither way, our internet is Comcast and ATT&T I believe.04:27
rwwBrightAmbition: I haven't tried it, but given that WINE appdb ratings tend to be optimistic in my experience, and the most recent one is "Silver", I'd guess "badly".04:27
BrightAmbitionrww: Ok04:28
rwwoh, sorry, Bronze. so even more so.04:28
sn9neither comcast nor at&t deserve the internet business of the larger community04:28
BrightAmbitionrww: There was one that was silver though04:28
rwwyou could ask #winehq about it though, somebody probably knows.04:28
SkullzI agree, the service is terrible.04:28
BrightAmbitionis it in freenode, rww?04:28
sn9rww: itunes does not work under wine04:28
BrightAmbitiongrr04:29
akkAll cable companies seem to have terrible service.04:29
SkullzMedia Monkey does, though.04:29
akkComes from having a monopoly.04:29
BrightAmbitionSo you mean i have to deal with windows?04:29
BrightAmbitionAHHH!04:29
BrightAmbitionlol04:29
BrightAmbitionSorry04:29
BrightAmbitionIt just annoys me04:29
SkullzHahahahahahahaha04:29
rwwor stop using Apple firmware (which involves not using Apple hardware, for recent versions)04:29
rwwwhich is what I did ;)04:29
sn9BrightAmbition: yes, but virtualbox makes it less bad04:29
BrightAmbitionsn9: I tried that it's not the same04:29
BrightAmbitionsn9: Well kinda04:29
SkullzI only have one Apple device in my life.04:29
BrightAmbitionsn9: I need a bigger screen04:30
akkIt should certainly run in windows under virtualbox.04:30
sn9rww: she doesn't wanna get rid of the 18GB or so of apps on the ipod touch04:30
rwwsn9: heh04:30
rwwakk: it does. I imagine you need the non-OSE version for syncing.04:30
BrightAmbitionsn9: The truth is i don't know how to04:30
akkrww: Yeah, anything that involves USB. Grr.04:31
sn9rww: there no longer is a non-OSE version04:31
BrightAmbitionsn9: I put them there and don't know how to delete them i've tried no luck04:31
akksn9: ?! So have they released the extras they were hoarding in the full edition?04:31
rwwsn9: fine, the "VirtualBox Extension Pack". Six of one, half dozen of the other.04:31
BrightAmbitionI tried GTK pod or something like that04:31
rwwakk: no04:31
BrightAmbitionToo04:31
BrightAmbitionBut like it doesn't sync that well04:31
BrightAmbitionNeither does rhythm box04:32
SkullzBrightAmbition, Rhythmbox works well if you're jailbroken04:32
sn9gtkpod works for what it does, which is different from itunes04:32
BrightAmbitionI'm not jailbroken04:32
SkullzAhh, okay.04:32
sn9rhythmbox needs to crawl into a hole and die04:32
BrightAmbitionlol04:32
BrightAmbitionYea rhythmbox screwed up my ipod04:32
BrightAmbitionSome songs won't play anytmore04:32
SkullzWhich reminds me- I need to do a fresh reinstall of Banshee04:32
akkReally? I'd always heard great things about it.04:33
BrightAmbitionoops anymore04:33
BrightAmbitionyikes04:33
BrightAmbitiontypos suck04:33
BrightAmbitionhello04:33
BrightAmbitionwelcome welcome04:33
SkullzHallo :)04:33
BrightAmbition^-^04:33
crashsystemshmm, FIOS04:33
sn9banshee is what you get when microsoft writes your gnu/linux media player engine for you04:33
SkullzHahahahaha04:33
BrightAmbitionbanshee?04:33
BrightAmbitionDoes that work for ipods?04:34
Skullzsn9 is that good or bad? XD04:34
SkullzAnd I dunno, I rather like Banshee >__>04:34
sn9Skullz: if you can avoid C#/.NET on the gnu, awesome04:34
SkullzHaha okay.04:34
SkullzAnd it works better than AmaroK on my system, anyways.04:35
BrightAmbitionk04:35
sn9amarok is fine for kubuntu, but anything kde is still too confusing for everyday use IMO04:36
SkullzOkay, I think I'm going to make some dinner. If anyone wants to talk at a later date, I know I have Darkwing on PSN and anyone is free to stop by supernova.speeqe.com as Jabber is more my deal, and I'm there most of the day. :)04:36
SkullzCheers, everyone!04:36
sn9Skullz: you can get here via jabber too04:37
Skullzjnsfjnsfbhsdf04:37
SkullzReally? Cool!04:37
SkullzHahahhahahahahaha.04:37
SkullzAnyways, I'm off. Have fun, all.04:37
rwwjyo: Looks like devin wants that phrase signed and sent to him, btw (he got back to me about it the other day)04:37
crashsystemssn9: irc via jabber?04:37
sn9crashsystems: yes04:38
SkullzOwait.04:38
crashsystemshow in the world have I never heard of this?!04:38
SkullzBefore I go, I don't believe Psi+ supports IRC.04:38
SkullzAnd that's my primary client.04:38
sn9jabber transports, duh04:38
SkullzSo, for real now, I'm off.04:39
SkullzXD04:39
sn9_hello from jabber04:40
crashsystemshello04:41
sn9_crashsystems: join ubuntu-us-ca%irc.freenode.net@irc.talkr.im04:42
crashsystemsI joined, but I just keep getting messages from ubuntu-us-ca%irc.freenode.net@irc.talkr.im saying that I've entered an invalid command.04:45
rwwso the amazonaws.com address sn9_ just joined from is the hostname that this irc.talkr.im thing is running off?04:48
sn9yes, rww04:50
sn9crashsystems: worked for me, as you just saw04:51
crashsystemsI wonder if the fact I was using a google talk account had something to do with it04:53
crashsystemsI really think xmpp has more potential than IRC, but everyone is already using irc/freenode04:53
rwwfor some values of "everyone" ;)04:54
sn9i was using a google apps acct logged into google talk via pidgin04:54
sn9so there04:54
crashsystemswell by everyone, I mean the average geeky person who tends to hang out in online chat rooms with other geeky people.04:55
sn9xmpp may have a lot of potential, but generally it's badly implemented04:55
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DarkwingDuckThis is beyond epic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko21:54
akk<3 Will It Blend21:56
DarkwingDuckIt's amazing.22:07
DarkwingDuckWho did no one show me this awesomness before today?22:07
akkBe sure to watch the whole series!22:09
pleia2the one with the phone that still rang after it was blended was pretty awesome22:10
akkIf you get tired of blending, this is good too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkOaQNiKgoo22:10
pleia2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt1fNKhQdKk22:10
akkhaha, I hadn't seen the sonim phone22:14
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