[08:06] <philipballew> Hello, I have an indivuidal who I ran into from miami wanting to get involved in the Ubuntu community. Is there anyone here that can talk to him about helping in the great state of Florida?
[08:08] <philipballew> ill send him to the channel in a few as well
[08:09] <philipballew> anyone who wants top get to know TiMiDo go for it
[08:09] <TiMiDo> thank you philipballew 
[08:09] <TiMiDo> ;)
[08:09] <TiMiDo> i appreciate it
[12:50] <maxolasersquad> TiMiDo: Welcome to our channel.
[12:50] <TiMiDo> hello there
[12:50] <TiMiDo> thank you
[12:52] <maxolasersquad> Not too many of us actively on at 3:00am. :)
[12:52] <TiMiDo> oh LoL
[12:52] <TiMiDo> here is 7 52
[12:52] <maxolasersquad> I, was referring to your original introduction at 3:09.
[12:53] <maxolasersquad> We have a number of members from the Miami area here.
[12:54] <TiMiDo> oh LoL
[12:54] <maxolasersquad> They do mettups at the Linux bar in Miami.
[12:54] <maxolasersquad> s/mettups/meetups
[12:54] <TiMiDo> man i can't believe i got denied 3 years ago for my ubuntu membership cause of my damn wiki
[12:57] <TiMiDo> that sucks
[13:27] <maxolasersquad> TiMiDo: What was wrong with your wiki?
[13:27] <TiMiDo> they told me it was not enough
[13:28] <TiMiDo> and I'm active in Launchpad
[13:29] <maxolasersquad> There's plenty of people here who can help you get everything in order for membership approval.  I'm just now getting involved with stuff to be eligible.  I'm working on packaging software.
[13:29] <TiMiDo> oh motu team?
[13:30] <TiMiDo> well like i said, i been wanting to become a member since 3 years ago,
[13:30] <TiMiDo> and a lot of the same people that once we're #ubuntu-ni got approved
[13:31] <TiMiDo> and i did not because my wiki was too poor,
[13:31] <mhall119> your wiki is like you community resume
[13:31]  * mhall119 hasn't kept his up to date :(
[13:32] <TiMiDo> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/aaronfarias
[13:32] <TiMiDo> that is my page 
[13:33] <mhall119> might I offer a couple suggestions?
[13:34] <TiMiDo> sure
[13:34] <mhall119> 1) Be specific about your contributions, list the projects you've done translations for, list all the meetups you've attended, etc
[13:34] <mhall119> there's a big difference between "I'm active on translations" and "I did the translations for that specific program you use or heard of"
[13:35] <TiMiDo> oh ok
[13:35] <mhall119> 2) Get recommendations from other people in the community who have seen your work
[13:35] <TiMiDo> mhall119, ljl is from the community
[13:36] <TiMiDo> and he is an active ubuntu member
[13:36] <mhall119> since the community is all about working together, recommendations show to the membership board that you're more than just a solo actor
[13:36] <mhall119> TiMiDo: that's good, but get as many as you can
[13:36] <TiMiDo> Right.
[13:37] <mhall119> a good list of recommendations is one of the strongest things supporting your membership, and having those people attend the membership meeting if possible will make it doubly so
[13:37] <TiMiDo> oh ok
[16:05] <maxolasersquad> Looking for a little bash help
[16:05] <mhall119> maxolasersquad: whatcha need?
[16:05] <maxolasersquad> I'm doing this just fine: sendmail -v foo@bar.com < error.mail
[16:06] <maxolasersquad> However I'd like to append $MESSAGE to the end of the email that gets sent.
[16:06] <mhall119> hmmmm
[16:07] <mhall119> maxolasersquad: maybe something like `cat error.mail && echo $MESSAGE` | sendmail -v foo@bar.com
[16:09] <maxolasersquad> Not quite, that gave me a body-less message that was from 'user@host' with user and host being the unix box.
[16:10] <mhall119> huh...
[16:11] <maxolasersquad> I'm not quite sure why though.
[16:11] <mhall119> did you use backticks, not single quotes
[16:11] <maxolasersquad> Yes
[16:11] <mhall119> try just cat error.mail | sendmail -v foo@bar
[16:11] <mhall119> see if that gives you what you were getting the other way
[16:12] <maxolasersquad> Yes, it works if I just do one or the other
[16:14] <mhall119> well, you can always build up a file in /tmp
[16:14] <mhall119> cp error.mail /tmp/randomfile; echo $MESSAGE >> /tmp/randomfile; sendmail -v foo@bar < /tmp/randomfile; rm /tmp/randomfile
[16:15] <maxolasersquad> I got it.
[16:15] <maxolasersquad> echo "`cat error.mail && echo $MESSAGE`" | sendmail -v foo@bar.com
[16:15] <maxolasersquad> I appreciate the help.
[16:17] <mhall119> np, glad that worked