| MagicFab | hi all | 01:11 |
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| MagicFab | txwikinger, ping | 01:12 |
| MagicFab | I was wondering if anyone from Ubuntu Canada will be doing anything on SFD 2011 -> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Canada | 01:12 |
| MagicFab | if so, consider having a team and adding it to the wiki :) | 01:12 |
| dscassel | Bah, didn't stick around. | 03:29 |
| dscassel | IRC meeting tomorrow night! | 03:29 |
| dscassel | We'll talk about SFD and other stuff.... | 03:29 |
| dscassel | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2011-08-09 | 03:38 |
| cvillaco | Hi, | 04:19 |
| khoover | http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/08/17/bc-marijuana-grow-op-bears.html | 11:39 |
| khoover | i'm sorry, but this was just too good to pass on, even if it has nothing to do with the channel | 11:39 |
| BluesKaj | hello folks | 13:35 |
| khoover | mornin | 13:38 |
| bregma | hey | 13:57 |
| dscassel | Morning, all. :) | 14:30 |
| dscassel | MagicFab: I've been talking to other KWLUG people about doing another SFD this year. | 14:32 |
| dscassel | I don't have time to organize it myself, but I'll definitely be there. | 14:32 |
| genii-around | dscassel: Morning | 14:34 |
| MagicFab | dscassel, I put an English template online to use in invitation emails. Feel free to use that if you have even 1-2 minutes to shoot for more teams. | 14:37 |
| MagicFab | http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CanadaInvitations | 14:37 |
| dscassel | Thanks, MagicFab | 15:32 |
| dscassel | MagicFab: There's an ubuntu-ca IRC meeting tonight (7pm EDT) if you want to pitch SFD participation... :) | 16:31 |
| MagicFab | dscassel, will be on the bus - :( I trust you'll rep me OK :) | 17:12 |
| genii-around | dscassel: Meeting is in here, or #ubuntu-meeting ? | 17:25 |
| dscassel | genii-around: In here, as usual. | 17:28 |
| dscassel | MagicFab: No problem. I added a few more LUGs to the wiki from a list I've been gathering... | 17:28 |
| genii-around | dscassel: Got it, I'll make sure to be around | 17:29 |
| dscassel | Meeting time! | 23:00 |
| BobJonkman | Hallooo! | 23:00 |
| razorgoto | hi everyone! | 23:00 |
| dscassel | Mass call! Jeruvy Kulag ossguy starcraftman BluesKaj FiReSTaRT kavurt psema4mobile txwikinger IdleOne kenjy bregma jaguar khoover MylesBraithwaite ryanakca willwh cyphermox james_w KombuchaKip oracology sipherdee zeroedout | 23:02 |
| psema4mobile | hi all. noob here to learn about happy hour :-) | 23:02 |
| dscassel | psema4mobile: Welcome! | 23:02 |
| dscassel | Agenda here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2011-08-09 | 23:02 |
| dscassel | Please feel free to introduce yourself. Where are you? What do you do with/for/on Ubuntu? | 23:02 |
| dscassel | I'm Darcy in Waterloo, and I'm the LoCo Contact for Ubuntu Canada. | 23:03 |
| * BobJonkman is Bob Jonkman, out of Elmira, just north of Waterloo, N | 23:03 | |
| dscassel | (feel free to ask what that means. :) | 23:03 |
| BobJonkman | What does that mean? | 23:03 |
| bregma | wow, it's that time already? I haven't left work yet! | 23:03 |
| razorgoto | I am Sammy Lao in Toronto. I am a volunteer at Free Geek Toronto. | 23:04 |
| zeroedout | I'm Alishams in Vancouver. Director at Free Geek Vancouver, linux geek and Ubuntu lover | 23:04 |
| dscassel | Cool. A meeting of the Free Geeks. :D | 23:04 |
| * psema4mobile is from Hamilton, uses ubuntu for general home computing | 23:04 | |
| oracology | zeroedout: hey, i see you on the #avaneya board as well. :) cool! | 23:04 |
| Jeruvy | I am Jeruvy, a power user from Calgary. Actually around for a meeting for a change :) | 23:04 |
| zeroedout | oracology: yea, it's an awesome project | 23:04 |
| dscassel | BobJonkman: Well, you should probably know already, but the LoCo contact acts as a point of contact between the Canadian Ubuntu community (ie., us) and the LoCo council (and, in turn, the community council). | 23:05 |
| oracology | zeroedout: agreed. but it is my bedtime, so I should head off to bed...talk to you again soon! | 23:05 |
| zeroedout | bye! | 23:06 |
| dscassel | Good night, oracology :) | 23:06 |
| dscassel | Isn't it 4pm in Vancouver right now? | 23:06 |
| oracology | good night everyone! | 23:06 |
| razorgoto | good night zeroedout | 23:06 |
| oracology | dscassel: i live in the UK, but i'm from vancouver originally. | 23:06 |
| dscassel | I was actually thinking about moving the meeting out an hour... | 23:06 |
| zeroedout | oh I'm still around | 23:07 |
| dscassel | oracology: Ah, that's cool. :) | 23:07 |
| oracology | razorgoto: i'm the one who's leaving ;). good night! | 23:07 |
| razorgoto | oh. oops. my eyes skipped a line. | 23:08 |
| dscassel | I'm going to get some water and settle in for a minute. | 23:08 |
| dscassel | Is there anything anybody wanted to add to the agenda? | 23:08 |
| dscassel | Hi psema4mobile. BobJonkman was telling me about you. :) | 23:08 |
| BobJonkman | I have a little stack of Ubuntu CDs here, literally with your name on them. | 23:09 |
| BobJonkman | (Well, with your name on the stack, not the individual disks) | 23:09 |
| psema4mobile | Lol. :-) | 23:10 |
| psema4mobile | Sorry bit hard to type on this phone. | 23:10 |
| razorgoto | psema4mobile: You on a Desire Z? | 23:11 |
| BobJonkman | psema4mobile and I are trying to set up a date for an Ubuntu Hour in Hamilton | 23:11 |
| psema4mobile | razorgoto no, xperia play | 23:11 |
| BobJonkman | Maybe in September, if our calendars remain clear | 23:12 |
| psema4mobile | agree, need to clear off my plate a bit. | 23:12 |
| BobJonkman | psema4mobile becomes the latest member of the Ubuntu Hour CD Bribery Program | 23:12 |
| dscassel | Awesome. :D | 23:12 |
| psema4mobile | B-) | 23:13 |
| razorgoto | Great! :-) | 23:13 |
| dscassel | I guess that means we should move onto the only actual agenda item: | 23:13 |
| dscassel | Events! | 23:13 |
| dscassel | There's ubuntu hours, of course. | 23:14 |
| dscassel | I'm running mine next Wednesday in Waterloo. | 23:14 |
| dscassel | Charles McColm is running one in downtown Kitchener as well. | 23:14 |
| BobJonkman | @chaslinux is running one in Kitchener | 23:14 |
| BobJonkman | :)) | 23:14 |
| dscassel | So Ubuntu Canada currently has two ubuntu hours: both in K-W. ^^; | 23:15 |
| razorgoto | We are still trying for a consistent one in Toronto. | 23:15 |
| dscassel | If I could afford the time off, I'd do a cross-country tour to do thim all over the place and show people they're really not hard or anything. | 23:16 |
| razorgoto | Linuxcaffe on College is kind of like a semi-permanent Ubuntu Hour. ;-) | 23:16 |
| dscassel | razorgoto: True. :) | 23:16 |
| razorgoto | but agreed, dscassel. | 23:16 |
| psema4mobile | If no one objects, can I get a rundown? I've checked the eiki page but would prefer a first hand description. | 23:16 |
| dscassel | Of an Hour? | 23:17 |
| dscassel | It's just a meet-up. | 23:17 |
| dscassel | Laptops optional (depending on the group, they are sometimes frowned upon). | 23:17 |
| dscassel | Just meet local Ubuntu people. | 23:17 |
| dscassel | You can talk about Ubuntu, or whatever else comes up. | 23:18 |
| psema4mobile | an informal outreach, user get together then. ok | 23:18 |
| dscassel | Yeah, basically. | 23:18 |
| psema4mobile | cool. | 23:18 |
| dscassel | It gives people a reliable *thing* they can start building a community around. | 23:18 |
| BobJonkman | dscassel: There are Ubuntu Hours on the calendar for Longeuil and Montreal too | 23:18 |
| dscassel | BobJonkman: Yes, true, but I won't take credit for ubuntu-qc. :) | 23:19 |
| dscassel | I'm going to try to get to one when I'm in Montreal in a couple weeks. | 23:19 |
| dscassel | (I'll be close to the Outremont one, but I'm taking the train to Ottawa on Thursday...) | 23:20 |
| dscassel | Also, the Ubuntu global Jam is coming up. Sept 2-4. | 23:20 |
| dscassel | We'll be hosting a Jam event at Kwartzlab. | 23:21 |
| dscassel | (Ubuntu Jams, btw, are all about *contributing* to Ubuntu. Testing, bug triage, development, etc.) | 23:21 |
| dscassel | txwikinger has a plan to build an automated packaging tool to help with package updates especially. | 23:22 |
| dscassel | So we'll be doing something like a hackathon around that, i think. | 23:22 |
| BobJonkman | I've reported bugs, but haven't actually contributed code. | 23:23 |
| dscassel | Or whatever else the people who show up want to do. | 23:23 |
| dscassel | BobJonkman: Nothing wrong with that. :) | 23:23 |
| BobJonkman | And Ubuntu Community Boosterism is a contribution too | 23:24 |
| dscassel | BobJonkman: Absolutely. :) | 23:24 |
| bregma | Ubuntu likes non-coding contributions | 23:25 |
| BobJonkman | The Ubuntu Jams happen close to the next version release date | 23:26 |
| bregma | end of October? | 23:26 |
| dscassel | After beta 1. | 23:26 |
| BobJonkman | I think Oneiric releases on Oct 13 | 23:26 |
| bregma | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricReleaseSchedule | 23:27 |
| dscassel | Stuff's pretty locked down by the time the Jam comes around. | 23:27 |
| dscassel | Which is why the emphasis tends to be on testing and triage. | 23:28 |
| bregma | actually the lock down starts Thursday | 23:28 |
| dscassel | txwikinger was getting kind of bored with triage, tho (He's kind of done a lot of it. :) | 23:28 |
| bregma | some of us start work on the P-series next week | 23:28 |
| bregma | I wish it had a name | 23:29 |
| BobJonkman | Still, we need someone to show the rest of us how triage is done. | 23:29 |
| BobJonkman | It's much more comfortable with an experienced triager at the helm | 23:29 |
| dscassel | BobJonkman: Yeah, and I don't think he'll mind helping out. | 23:29 |
| dscassel | bregma: What do you *do*, exactly. :) | 23:30 |
| dscassel | I ask out of genuine interest. | 23:31 |
| razorgoto | guys, for the jam, do you guys do it all in one physical location? | 23:33 |
| dscassel | razorgoto: Depends on the Jam. | 23:33 |
| dscassel | For ours, yeah. we hold it here at Kwartzlab. | 23:34 |
| BobJonkman | In Kitchener Waterloo we go to Kwartzlab. The camraderie is nice, even if we don't get much work done | 23:34 |
| dscassel | I know there are other Jams that are distributed, and people work together on things over IRC. | 23:34 |
| * psema4mobile wishes there were a GO route brtween Hamilton and KW | 23:35 | |
| dscassel | razorgoto: I know you guys were interested in running Jams at Free Geek, but I guess you're busy with Linux Fest...? | 23:35 |
| razorgoto | I've polled around here at Free Geek, we have the space, but we don't have someone interested in organizing one. | 23:35 |
| dscassel | psema4mobile: You're not the only one. :) | 23:36 |
| BobJonkman | psema4mobile Are you involved with the Hamilton Hackerspace? | 23:36 |
| psema4mobile | um, loosely. | 23:36 |
| psema4mobile | Ive spoken with a few if the communities members | 23:37 |
| dscassel | I just know Adina... | 23:37 |
| dscassel | (even then not very well) | 23:37 |
| dscassel | Speaking of hackerspaces, SoOnCon 2011 is October 1 at Bell Lightbox in Toronto. | 23:38 |
| cvillaco | dscassel, do I understand that one of the jam locations may be running irc? | 23:38 |
| cvillaco | sorry for my typing, my hand is in a brace right now and want to catch before the question is gone | 23:39 |
| dscassel | cvillaco: I know they've had virtual jams in the past, but I haven't heard about one this time. | 23:39 |
| dscassel | I can look into it for you. | 23:39 |
| dscassel | I'm sure BobJonkman and I will be online here during the proceedings. :) | 23:39 |
| kjwcode | Any Vancouver, BC events? | 23:39 |
| dscassel | We can set up the webcam too.. | 23:39 |
| * psema4mobile will be right back after these msgs | 23:39 | |
| BobJonkman | I'll be at Kwartzlab, and I can bring a dedicated laptop for IRC | 23:39 |
| dscassel | kjwcode: You'd have to check Ubuntu Vancouver. http://www.meetup.com/ubuntuvancouver/ | 23:40 |
| cvillaco | i wonder if there would be enough attendees via irc to mak eit worthwhile, it could be a porta if there is interest for the members who are not close to a session | 23:40 |
| dscassel | Randall Ross has posted cryptic blog posts about it. | 23:40 |
| kjwcode | dscassel: Thanks for the pointer -- checking! | 23:40 |
| dscassel | kjwcode: np :) | 23:41 |
| dscassel | cvillaco: Dunno. A lot of it can be done independantly, tho. | 23:41 |
| dscassel | Like bug triage. | 23:41 |
| razorgoto | do you guys keep this channel open during the jame party in Kwartzlab? | 23:41 |
| dscassel | It's more fun to do it in groups, but nothing stopping you otherwise. | 23:42 |
| BobJonkman | razorgoto: This channel is always open, but I'll pay special attention during the Jam | 23:42 |
| dscassel | razorgoto: Sure. Actually, I'm in here all the time. Often idle, but still online. | 23:42 |
| razorgoto | Sorry, you know what I mean by "open". | 23:42 |
| * psema4mobile is back | 23:43 | |
| dscassel | You can check the Kwartzlab webcam here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kwartzlab | 23:43 |
| BobJonkman | Yes, "paying attention to" :-) | 23:43 |
| razorgoto | Yep, Bob. :-) | 23:43 |
| dscassel | (I guess it's offline at the moment. I'll kick it when the meeting's over) | 23:43 |
| BobJonkman | I learned about Big Blue Button at KWLUG yesterday, maybe we can set up a conference | 23:44 |
| dscassel | cvillaco: If you really want to go to a jam, you can run one. :) | 23:44 |
| cvillaco | is thee ppl interested in participating remotely? | 23:44 |
| cvillaco | ohh, haha, | 23:45 |
| cvillaco | maybe such a thing is possible. | 23:45 |
| razorgoto | I think so. cvillaco. | 23:45 |
| dscassel | cvillaco: An Ubuntu hour would be an easier place to start, but hey, it's still not that bad running a Jam. | 23:46 |
| razorgoto | cvillaco: where are you in Canada? | 23:46 |
| dscassel | See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Jams | 23:46 |
| cvillaco | i think i would be int3erested in observing first before making concrete actions. | 23:46 |
| BobJonkman | About half-way between a Jam and an Hour is a Release Party | 23:46 |
| BobJonkman | in complexity, that is | 23:47 |
| cvillaco | maybe watch a jam first or something. | 23:47 |
| cvillaco | razorgoto i am in Thunder Bay On | 23:47 |
| razorgoto | cvillaco: I think the same as you. It's hard to know how to organize something properly if one has never been to one before... | 23:47 |
| dscassel | cvillaco: I've seen a couple Thunder Bay people come and go through the channel and IRC. | 23:48 |
| razorgoto | I think it's the logistics of it. Is the organizer reponsible to "find something for people to do?" | 23:48 |
| dscassel | And you might be able to tempt tonyyarusso to come up from Minnesota... | 23:49 |
| razorgoto | Or would the jam participants be mostly self-directed... I read the website before, and it wasn't to clear the social conventions of one. | 23:49 |
| dscassel | razorgoto: I haven't really figured that one out either. | 23:49 |
| dscassel | So mostly self-directed. | 23:49 |
| dscassel | We have an actual project we're going to work on this time. | 23:49 |
| dscassel | But there's nothing that comes down from the mothership. | 23:50 |
| dscassel | Last time there was stuff about testing Unity. | 23:50 |
| dscassel | Time before that tehy wanted install testing. | 23:50 |
| BobJonkman | For me, at the Jams, installing a Beta has always resulted in bugs to report. | 23:50 |
| dscassel | Yeah, that's not a bad place to start. | 23:50 |
| razorgoto | BobJonkman: :-) | 23:50 |
| BobJonkman | So I've kept myself busy that way. I may have triaged one bug in the last 3 Jams.. | 23:51 |
| dscassel | razorgoto: You guys doing anything for Software Freedom Day? | 23:51 |
| dscassel | That would seem to be up Free Geek's alley. :) | 23:52 |
| razorgoto | nope. | 23:52 |
| razorgoto | :-( | 23:52 |
| razorgoto | We've been internally focused the last few months. We have this whole "facilities management" side of the operations. | 23:53 |
| dscassel | razorgoto: No worries. | 23:53 |
| razorgoto | that's been taking up a lot of time. :-( | 23:53 |
| BobJonkman | SFD is always on a Saturday, so you could just put up some posters and talk about software freedom in the ordinary course of events | 23:54 |
| dscassel | According to the website (http://softwarefreedomday.org/) there are events in Victoria, Winnipeg, Kitchener (hosted by chaslinux again), Pickering, montreal and Quebec. | 23:55 |
| razorgoto | Pickering? | 23:56 |
| dscassel | Yeah, I know! | 23:56 |
| razorgoto | lol! | 23:56 |
| dscassel | http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Canada/Pickering/Ontario/Pickering%20Public%20Library%20Main | 23:57 |
| psema4mobile | cool, at the library even! | 23:57 |
| dscassel | There *should* be events everywhere. :) | 23:57 |
| razorgoto | I wonder which library branch is that? | 23:57 |
| dscassel | Main, apparently. | 23:58 |
| cvillaco | maybe bringing some ubuntu posters or informative pamplets to such events would introduce people who are using proprietary solutions to the idea of a free software operating system, | 23:58 |
| razorgoto | Oh, I know the person that runs that library... | 23:59 |
| BobJonkman | razorgoto: What can you tell us about FSOSS? | 23:59 |
| BobJonkman | Specifically, the LinuxFest that goes along with FSOSS this year? | 23:59 |
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