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* MarkDude thinks the word *master* is misplaced for right now. I mean it is still down?00:41
seidosgo to zareason to practice zazen on a zafu with zsa zsa gabor17:37
grantbowping MarkDude and/or anyone present at berkeleylug.com19:11
pleia2added leadership elections to the agenda, just so it's out there, our process is pretty much documented19:27
bkerensapleia2: Do all LoCo's hold elections or is it kind of up to the LoCo to determine if there is some sort of need?19:45
greg-gas with much in the loco world, it is loco-specific19:45
grantbowpleia2: hey! Thanks for keeping things moving forward.19:46
greg-gbkerensa: the Michigan loco just had an "election" when I left. I was the leader/contact but since I moved to SF they needed a replacement. I basically proposed who I thought would be good, and the rest of the team voted during an IRC meeting.19:46
greg-git was kind of obvious who would be the next leader, though :)19:46
* grantbow nods at loco specific19:46
bkerensagreg-g: Ahh :) Well imho I dont think anyone at this point wants the role but I hope (fingers crossed) I can get people more interested in helping with various things and hopefully the LoCo will be active enough at some point that I can if I choose rotate out :)19:47
bkerensa26 People on IRC and 150 members on ML but I can only get 16+ to show up to a event19:48
bkerensaso idk19:48
bkerensa:P19:48
bkerensaI'm told Portland has more Canonical employees then any other region in the U.S. and yet I have only ever seen one attend a event :P19:50
greg-gbkerensa: 16 at an event is not bad. People just tend to join mailing list and LP teams fo rthe hell of it19:57
bkerensawe moderate the LP and ML19:58
bkerensaidk :) With OSU OSL/PSU Engineering/Canonical/Yahoo/Google/Intel there are a lot of Linux users and with FreeGeek being in Portland kind of makes Oregon a Ubuntu Hotbed19:59
bkerensa:D19:59
bkerensaThey giveout untold amounts of Ubuntu boxes a month19:59
philipballewmakes me wonder if some Canonical dont really care about Ubuntu us much as you'd think20:08
rwwwhat does?20:10
bkerensaphilipballew: idk... a handful of people were bashing on Canonical at PuppetConf... I guess they forgot the Ubuntu Booth was just feet away or they didnt care...20:11
bkerensaphilipballew: In fact Jef Spaleta posted on Mark Shuttleworth's blog asking whether Ubuntu Oregon would address somethings at PuppetConf so one of the Canonical guys came over and asked if we knew about the blog post and such20:13
pleia2Ubuntu is why Canonical exists, you could argue that they don't care about LoCo teams as much as you think they should, but even that feels pretty weak20:18
pleia2but saying they don't care about Ubuntu doesn't make sense20:18
pleia2I do sometimes wish they integrated us into their marketing strategy, but I kind of like the autonomy that teams have as being community-driven and supported20:20
pleia2if canonical went away tomorrow, the california loco would be fine :)20:20
bkerensa:P20:30
bkerensaIf Canonical went away they would likely be acquired and the trademark would change hands ;)20:30
pleia2the ubuntu foundation is around to handle that20:31
pleia2(that's specifically why it exists)20:31
bkerensaWas the Ubuntu Foundation not supposedly supposed to have a staff already and be non-defunct? I never did know what the situation was with that20:31
bkerensa:D20:31
bkerensaoh20:31
pleia2it's not really going to be activated unless canonical fails and an organization is needed to handle legal stuff to protect the project20:32
bkerensahttp://www.ubuntu.com/news/UbuntuFoundation20:32
bkerensawell their press release is inaccurate :) because it says it should have employees20:33
bkerensa:P20:33
pleia2that's an old press release, their vision has changed over time20:33
pleia2canonical ended up taking on more roles than initially thought20:33
bkerensayeah20:34
pleia2but if you read it the core of it is that it's a guarentee that even if a company goes away, the foundation has some money to fulfill obligations20:35
bkerensaI guess it would have been cool if they followed through with initial idea because Automattic/Wordpress did the same20:35
bkerensaAutomattic transfered trademark of WP to .org and seperated business from community20:35
bkerensato allow for continuity20:36
pleia2yeah, I don't know why they went the way they did, there were probably lots of lawyers and accountants involved :)20:36
bkerensaYeah20:36
bkerensa:D20:36
rwwautomattic <320:36
rwwoh, that reminds me20:36
rwwpleia2: you mentioned at some point that you do periodic database backups of wordpress. do you just dump the mysql db, or is there a WP plugin for it or something?20:37
pleia2rww: daily script using mysqldump20:37
bkerensarww: dump for the win!20:37
rwwk20:37
pleia2but I'm sure there is a wordpress plugin for it20:37
pleia2I just have other mysql stuff, so it makes sense to back it all up at once20:37
bkerensaphpmyadmin - export20:38
pleia2phpmyadmin, swiss cheesy security, fun!20:38
pleia2phpmyadmin--20:38
bkerensa:) indeed20:38
pleia2my script also rotates backups, so I keep a weeks worth20:39
bkerensaPretty easy to secure though.... I have yet to get exploited and have used it for years (not currently but from time to time)20:40
* bkerensa just does full server backups twice weekly20:40
bkerensa:)20:40
pleia2tossing it behind an .htaccess file and https is probably enough security20:40
bkerensaall user data and config20:41
pleia2but most people don't bother, it's scary :)20:41
bkerensapleia2: And disable root login20:41
bkerensa:P20:41
rwwnod, the big problem with pma is all the botnets scanning for publicly-accessible insecure versions of it20:41
bkerensaindeed20:41
bkerensachange paths up and secure it20:41
rwwand keep it up to date20:41
bkerensaCloudflare prevents a majority if not all exploit scans too20:43
philipballewDarkwingDuck, is it to early to add libertopia to the meeting aganda?21:45

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