/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/01/03/#ubuntu-community-team.txt

jono_hey01:33
jonohey all05:00
jonosorry the constant rejoins05:00
jonobeen setting up my machine05:00
mhall119jono: welcome back05:02
jonothanks mhall11905:03
jonodo you start on the team tomorrow or next week?05:03
mhall119tomorrow05:03
mhall119should probably get some sleep ahead of then05:04
jonomhall119, awesome, I thought it was tomorrow05:07
jonolets get on a call when I am online05:07
mhall119ok05:07
mhall119jono: I'm off to sleep, excited about starting tomorrow05:10
mhall119talk to you then05:10
jonomhall119, sounds great, let the fun begin! :-)05:10
czajkowskialoha06:58
dpmgood mornind everyone08:06
czajkowskidpm: welcome back08:06
dpmhey czajkowski, happy new year :)08:07
czajkowskidpm: the same to you, hope you had a great christmas08:07
dpmyeah, had a good one except for the first 3 days when I was ill. But the rest was great :)08:08
dpmhow was yours?08:08
czajkowskiit was good thanks, just recovering from a cold now08:13
dpmouch08:14
dpmfeliz año ara :)08:15
arahey! feliz año dpm, all :)08:15
duanedesign'lo all12:13
mhall119morning12:42
mhall119ok, google+'s "view ripples" is kind of cool13:42
cjohnstonmornin13:50
mhall119balloons: dpm: good morning14:15
mhall119cjohnston: good morning14:15
dpmhey morning mhall11914:15
dpmand everyone else for whom it's morning :)14:16
jcastrohey mhall11914:38
jcastrodo you start today?14:38
mhall119yes i do14:38
jcastroman dude14:38
jcastrosinglet14:39
jcastrothat is exactly what we needed14:39
mhall119no Manual entry for dude14:39
jcastroI knew you were the man for the job!14:39
mhall119jcastro: yeah, davidcalle has started testing it for me14:39
jcastroeverything about this is awesome14:39
cjohnstonjcastro: do you have fixes to any of: https://bugs.launchpad.net/uds-project14:41
jcastroI didn't even know that was a page14:42
cjohnstonits kinda new14:42
jcastrook so two things here14:43
jcastro1) mhall is the new UDS guy, I'm not, (woo!)14:43
jcastroand 2) We have a community web team added to uds.ubuntu.com14:43
jcastroyou should be able to see an edit link on each page?14:43
cjohnston1) mhall119 doesn't know the date sponsorship closes14:43
cjohnston2) same with sponsorship prospectus14:44
jcastroah14:44
cjohnstonpretty much all of them14:44
jcastrowe need to ask bacon14:44
cjohnstonso you *may* know that stuff.. so i asked you ;-)14:44
jcastroit's fine to ask!14:44
cjohnstonmhall119:  has made it 1.75 hours into his new job "don't ask me ask mhall119!" lol14:45
mhall119lol14:45
jcastroheh14:45
* mhall119 defaults to "consult the bacon!"14:45
cjohnstonwe werent sure if any of this stuff was communicated around without his involvement14:45
jcastrowell, he basically picks those 2 dates himself14:46
jcastroI like the idea of putting it in bug reports though instead14:46
cjohnstongotcha14:46
jcastrojust CC him on the bugs14:46
jcastroand ask him for the dates14:46
jcastrothat way we have a nice workflow14:46
jcastroI mean, you're going to have to mail him anyway14:47
cjohnstonya14:47
cjohnstonthats fine14:47
jcastromight as well do it via a bug like the rest of the distro works14:47
mhall119jcastro: uds-project is for content on uds.ubuntu.com or summit.ubuntu.com, so that summit project is strictly for the code14:47
jcastrothat works for me!14:47
* cjohnston reads between the lines.. "that works for me because UDS isn't mine!"14:48
cjohnston;-)14:48
mhall119in that case, it works for me!14:48
cjohnstonlol14:48
jcastrowell, one of the nice things about moving a project around is setting the next person up correctly14:48
jcastroinstead of "well at some point jono picks 2 dates and then lets us know."14:49
* mhall119 feels setup14:49
jcastrohow it should be is "Oh it's T minus 15 weeks, these 4 things needs to happen."14:49
jcastro(this is why I put everything in trello)14:49
mhall119jcastro: speaking of trello, am I added to your boards?14:51
jcastroI can check now14:51
jcastrosince I am doing my "getting crushed by email" dance and making todo's out of them14:52
jcastroI'll just add you to all the ubuntu org ones14:52
mhall119speaking of todo's, did you see Allison's Tody project?14:52
cjohnstonim still trying to find a todo that fits into the way i work14:54
jcastroI've tried them all14:54
mhall119cjohnston: did you see tody?  It's nice and simple14:55
mhall119I think it has good potential14:55
czajkowskiI use tomboy notes14:55
czajkowskimake a list cross em off14:55
popeyme too14:55
cjohnstonI did.. but i need something on my phone too14:55
czajkowskido them month by month14:55
mhall119czajkowski: me too, which are okay but not really meant for todos14:55
jcastromhall119: the one that's called "community team" is the one I use for my day to day stuff14:55
czajkowskimhall119: they;'re a note :) to do lists should be notes14:55
mhall119cjohnston: supposedly it's data files can sync with a phone app14:55
jcastromhall119: basically if you want to assign me something shove a card in there and assign it to me14:55
czajkowski<--------- off to get lost in london14:55
cjohnstoncause i add more than just stuff around here, so it makes sense that i have access on the phone14:56
jcastroSo far out of all the note things I've used I hate trello the least14:56
jcastromostly because it's easy to team share14:56
cjohnstonI do like that jcastro, I want an android app for it tho14:56
jcastroyeah14:57
jcastroI just use the browser on the tablet as my "status screen" off to the side.14:57
* cjohnston goes to make a card for jcastro to buy cjohnston a tablet14:57
jcastroin hindsight it wasn't a good purchase14:57
jcastroeven at 299 or whatever I got it for14:57
cjohnstonthe one yo got or a tablem?14:58
cjohnstontablet14:58
jcastrothe tablet14:58
jcastroI got an asus transformer14:58
jcastro(not the new prime)14:58
mhall119czajkowski: have fun15:00
jcastrocjohnston: since I happen to be looking at the trello15:00
jcastrowhat's the TLDR on the summit sprint?15:00
cjohnstonthere isnt one15:00
mhall119jcastro: with jono's approval, I'm going to get together with cjohnston one or two days next week for a mini-sprint15:01
jcastrook15:01
jcastroso I can consider my todo on that one to be finished then?15:01
cjohnstonwe still need a full sprint tho to make the changes that are outlined in that bp15:01
cjohnstonthe minisprint will be strictly what linaro wants for lcq1.1215:02
mhall119yeah, the mini-sprint is just to get it ready for linaro15:02
mhall119^^ what he said15:02
jcastrocjohnston: I went seatrekking15:02
jcastroover break15:02
jcastroit's like that helmet and you walk on the bottom of the ocean15:03
mhall119fun15:03
cjohnstoni saw15:03
cjohnstonhow was it15:03
jcastroI wish I was closer to you guys, I would so learn to dive15:03
jcastroit was ok, just makes you want to learn to dive for real15:03
* mhall119 doesn't know how to dive15:03
jcastrosnuba was full, that's originally what I wanted to do15:03
cjohnstonif you get certified, ill drive down there15:03
cjohnstonthats where all the good diving is15:03
mhall119jcastro: who's running UDW?15:05
jcastrousually daniel15:08
mhall119ok15:09
cprofittI got stung by a Jelly Fish on the second day of my dive lessons15:17
cprofittthat ended the dive lessons... my Uncle did not want anything bad to happen while I was in his care15:17
AlanBellmhall119: jcastro: see my mad idea about leaving etherpad chat turned on for summit integration? http://alanbell.libertus.co.uk:9001/p/udspad15:18
jcastroooh, I like that login integration15:21
jcastroI can't find the chat15:21
mhall119jcastro: bottomr right?15:22
dakerhey guys, what will you choose btw Xubuntu & Lubuntu ?15:26
popeyNeither. Unity ☺15:27
popey</official_company_line>15:27
mhall119daker: what's the use case?15:28
dakerpersonal use15:29
mhall119daker: Lubuntu uses less resources, Xubuntu has better integration and polish15:31
mhall119so depending on which attribute is more important to you15:31
dakeri want less resources15:31
mhall119then use Lubuntu15:33
mhall119cjohnston: http://alanbell.libertus.co.uk:9001/p/udspad15:39
mhall119AlanBell: you rock15:48
MrChrisDruifAloha everyone15:49
jonomhall119, welcome! :-)16:06
cjohnstonjono: http://alanbell.libertus.co.uk:9001/p/udspad16:07
cjohnstonplease join16:08
mhall119thanks jono16:09
jonocjohnston, I am in16:09
jonocjohnston, what is this?16:10
cjohnstonjono: AlanBell's proposal to use for uds instead of using irc16:11
AlanBelljono: so the background to this is I was doing a bit of work to etherpad lite as part of a planned upgrade to pad.ubuntu.com16:11
AlanBellI was about to rip out the chat facility because we use IRC, but had the crazy thought that maybe we could actually use it16:11
AlanBellwe are evaluating the crazyness of that idea16:11
jonoAlanBell, wow, that is cool16:13
jonothanks for working on this16:13
* mhall119 thinks it's just crazy enough to work16:13
AlanBellthere are pros and cons, it does have some advantages, and it does seem improveable16:16
popeyI do like the idea of people having their eyes pointing in the direction of both the subject of the UDS session _and_ the chat window.16:18
cjohnstonpopey: the chat window isnt going to be displayed on the projector16:26
mhall119might not be, nothing is decided yet16:27
mhall119but the notification at the very least should be displayed on the projector16:27
mhall119jcastro: you broke trello!16:35
jcastromhall119: looks like someone has a case of the mondays16:37
jcastropopey: yeah I agree, I like the chat always visible16:37
jcastrochat column on the right, bottom pane with the next set of sessions, all in one window16:37
jcastrothat frees up an entire projector for other things, instead of chat on one, notes on the other.16:38
popeywell initially I was suggesting the irc projector should just point next to the other one16:38
popeybecause people have a tendancy to look at the non-irc projector16:39
mhall119personally I never used the projector to read IRC, it wasn't comfortable16:40
mhall119it was more to tell me that someone *was* talking, so I know to check my laptop16:40
mhall119so for me, just having the popup notifications will serve the same purpose16:41
popeyquite a number of people don't bring laptops into sessions16:42
jcastrojono: I can go anytime today btw.16:43
jonothanks jcastro16:43
jonowill do it in a bit16:43
mhall119popey: how many of them were keeping up with IRC on the projector?16:45
popeyi have no data for that16:46
popeymhall119: welcome btw16:46
mhall119popey: welcome?16:46
popeymhall119: didnt you start today?16:46
mhall119on jono's team, yeah16:46
popey\o/16:47
doctormonpopey: I agree with you, I didn't tend to like reading the projector.16:47
doctormon*for irc16:47
czajkowskiwho knew if you wanted to start a fire it is impossible. No ligher or matches in the apt and I wanted to light candles to get rod of the smelly cheese16:50
popey\o/ smelly cheese16:55
czajkowskiyuck and we have a ton of it from NYE16:56
czajkowskialso manual tin openers are a pain , have had to stab 2 tins open16:56
czajkowskimade yummy brown stew :)16:56
czajkowskirubbing eyes after chopping onions is not wise17:05
mhall119rubbing eyes after chopping chili pepers is even less wise17:06
czajkowskiindeed17:06
jcastro<--- lunching be back in 45!17:12
popeyhttp://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/o19jg/canonical_to_have_showing_at_ces_announcing/17:16
popeyhaha17:16
mhall119but nothing from OMG yet?17:17
* mhall119 is disappointed17:17
AlanBellwith exclusive concept designs17:29
AlanBellwonder if it will be this? http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/unitytelly/pages/launcher.png17:30
jcastroheh17:33
popeyhehe17:34
popeyif it doesn't then a crime has occured17:34
popeymhall119: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/canonical-to-reveal-ubuntu-concept-design-at-ces-2012/17:44
mhall119ah, there it is, thanks popey17:44
popeywouldn't want you to miss out ☺17:45
jcastromhall119: hey17:47
jcastroat some point this week17:47
mhall119jcastro: 'sup?17:47
jcastrowe should talk about how to collect all this lens work17:47
jcastrotoo many spread over too many PPAs17:47
mhall119jcastro: yes, get davidcalle in too17:47
jcastrowe should work as a whole to deliver as many to these in 12.04 as popular17:47
jcastrowow, nice sentence castro17:48
mhall119we definitely need some kind of focus or target17:48
mhall119heh17:48
mhall119drinking with lunch were you?17:48
jcastroah I see17:48
jcastrohe has a scopes PPA17:48
jcastrobasically we need to figure out how to ppa->repo17:48
mhall119the onehundredscopes, yes17:48
jcastroheh, luckily all the cool ones are in one place.17:49
mhall119jcastro: that'll depend on whether we want to target Universe or Main17:49
jcastroI would put all the non default ones in universe17:49
jcastroit doesn't really matter to the end user where they live actually, USC shows them all17:50
mhall119true, and people writing lenses shouldn't mind apt-get installing singlet from universe17:50
doctormonDid anyone want a launchpad lens?17:54
popeythat would be neat17:55
doctormonProjects and bugs, searching, not sure what else is needed.17:55
jonodoctormon, hey17:57
jonoI approved https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-p-ux-participation so it appears on my team's burndown, so I will be pestering you for work items to be completed :-)17:57
jcastromhall119: keep this handy: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#lenses17:57
jcastromhall119: mpt is working on how to present the lenses in USC17:58
doctormonjono: that's great.17:58
doctormonNow mpt will be happy too.17:58
jonodoctormon, could you please ensure that items for [ubuntu-design] and [communitycouncil] are assigned to specific people?17:58
jonodoctormon, I have just removed it from approval until those items are finalized, then I will approve it18:00
jonojust ping me when they are assigned18:00
mhall119doctormon: a launchpad lens would be great18:00
mhall119jcastro: cool18:00
doctormonjono: Everything's assigned, the blueprint wasn't updated; now it is.18:03
jonothanks doctormon18:05
jonodoctormon, approved now18:05
jonothanks :-)18:05
doctormonThanks jono.18:05
doctormonmhall119: The lens is basically written, but it's _slow_. Snail in swamp slow.18:06
mhall119doctormon: because oh lp?18:07
doctormon;-)18:07
mhall119some of my LTP stuff was slow too18:08
jcastrothe askubuntu lens had the same problem18:08
jcastroso they took the offline data dump18:08
jcastroand made it a package18:08
jcastroso that most of the queries stay local18:08
mhall119it helped a little when I limited what it would check until the user entered more than 3 characters in the search18:09
jcastroit's quite clever18:09
doctormonThat's clever indeed.18:09
jcastroI suspect we'd need a caching best-practice thing for lenses18:09
doctormonDo you know if they used xapian for that?18:09
jcastronot just for performance, but if I'm on a plane18:09
jcastroand paying, I don't want my lens to be network busy18:09
doctormonActually I don';t know, do lenses have a active state switch?18:10
jcastrolp:askubuntu-lens18:10
jcastronot sure if they used xapian18:10
jcastrothe bummer we ran into18:13
jcastrois that google used to have an API for this18:13
jcastrothat was _fast_18:13
jcastrothe first version of the AU lens did this18:13
jcastrobut then google switched to a pay model for app authors to use their API like that18:13
jcastroso Aq and I looked at some options18:13
doctormonHow much money was it?18:13
jcastroall the major search engines charge18:13
jcastroit was like, free per key until 20k requests18:14
mhall11920k requests per ....?18:14
doctormonAnd then bulk amounts? Hmm, if the experience was worth it, it would be something to tie into UbuntuOne.18:14
jcastroper API key18:14
jcastroalready looked into that18:15
jcastroit got expensive REAL quick18:15
mhall119oh, so not even per key per month?18:15
jcastroaq even looked at if it was possible to do like ubuntu does with the firefox search18:15
jcastrowhere we can refer, maybe make some microcents18:15
jcastrobut no go there18:15
jcastroBing was also expensive18:16
mhall119I can see it not, Google Search Lens18:16
jcastroDDG didn't provide an API like that18:16
doctormonHmm, set up our own indexer?18:16
mhall119one category for results, another category for ads18:16
AlanBellhow should lenses ask for login credentials?18:17
doctormonI admit indexing the entire internet might not seem like a lot of sense. But if we want things like ubuntone, we have a limited scope.18:17
mhall119AlanBell: there isn't anything special about a lens in that regard, it'd be like any other app18:17
doctormonAlanBell: I consider my services off-line until their authenticated.18:17
mhall119AlanBell: but I did hear that the ayatana team was talking about a way to commonly handle authentication and credentials for lenses, so you might ask what them what the plan is18:17
doctormonthey're18:17
AlanBellmhall119: yeah, I kind of want something common and integrated18:18
doctormonmhall119: I hope they're thinking more widely than that, there is a real need for a global desktop authentication system.18:18
jcastrodoctormon: that's what they did: http://askubuntu.quickmediasolutions.com/18:19
AlanBellso the lens would in it's own window ask for username and password and have a way to hold that for the session18:19
mhall119doctormon: I agree, unfortunately after talking to Gnome devs about gnome-online-accounts, that doesn't seem like an option for it18:19
jcastrowrote their own indexer since the built in site API was kind of slow and not as good as google18:19
jcastroso the lens actually pings this and then they search the site, then apply some search algo's on the results, then return it to the lens18:19
mhall119AlanBell: it would be nicer if the lens could store credentials in ~/.config/ somewhere instead18:19
jcastrostefano's PHD is in search so he was like doing this for his research18:20
doctormonmhall119: The last thing you do is talk to gnome devs, first try wishing on a star. Global (and non-gnome) services are alien to them.18:20
AlanBellmhall119: sure, but first they have to be obtained from the user somehow18:20
mhall119doctormon: maybe, but it's "gnome-online-accounts", it sounds like it was made exactly for this18:20
AlanBelldoing a popup box in front of a lens seems bad (and would probably go behind the lens)18:20
doctormonAlanBell: What kind of authentication do you need?18:21
mhall119AlanBell: yeah, you might have your lens only return a single result item that, when clicked, pulls up the auth dialog18:21
jcastroyeah so long story short, forget about taking slow web APIs and piping them through google instead.18:21
AlanBelldoctormon: username and password to log into vtiger or openERP18:21
doctormonAlanBell: basic http credentials?18:21
AlanBellbasic http, yes18:21
mhall119AlanBell: like, return a "Log In" result item if you don't have credentials, regardless of their search18:22
doctormonThanks jcastro, must have been a lot of leg work to find out it was impossible.18:22
jcastroit's not impossible, just expensive18:22
jcastroit's a real reflection of the lack of competition in search I'm afraid18:22
doctormonjcastro: Same thing surely?18:22
AlanBellmhall119: that is a good ugly hack of a workaround!18:22
mhall119doctormon: depends on how rick you are ;)18:23
mhall119rich18:23
jcastrothe thing is, search engines don't want applications to integrate them, they want you to use their site so you can see ads.18:23
doctormonmhall119: Things aren't expensive if you can afford them ;-)18:23
mhall119I own expensive things18:24
doctormonHow very humble of you.18:24
mhall119:)18:24
jcastroit's one API per app, that means you'd have to pay for everyone18:24
jcastroif it was like "oh you get 20k requests per user and then we'll bill the user" then that would be easy18:24
mhall119jcastro: and you can't get an OAuth token or something from the user's account to use?18:25
jcastronot afaict18:25
mhall119too bad18:25
jcastrothis information is 6 months old18:25
jcastromhall119: also18:28
jcastromhall119: might be a good idea to summarize all of david's work in one post for planet18:28
jcastroso much good stuff, but it's all on G+18:28
jcastroneeds to be pushed out to the greater ubuntu community18:28
jcastroit's just too awesome18:28
AlanBellI based my openERP lens on the porn lens18:29
mhall119jono: you need one of these: http://ubuntuone.com/6qo0YoSWxnZIKmj8LnpyQv18:29
AlanBellit helped me make sure that I read every single line to ensure I had no leftover bits from the source lens18:29
mhall119lol18:30
mhall119jcastro: agreed, is he on planet?18:30
AlanBellfor a while it was possible to filter customers and invoices by gender and preference18:30
jcastromhall119: not sure18:30
AlanBellmhall119: I have the fadein/pause/fadeout effect on for the notifications now19:08
mhall119AlanBell: I like that better, thanks19:10
jcastrojono: yo yo19:13
greg-gczajkowski: I hate to bother you again about this, but "14:35 [Freenode] >>> Cannot join #ubuntu-lococouncil without an Invite"19:36
mhall119greg-g: can you /msg chanserv invite #ubuntu-lococouncil ?19:37
greg-gmhall119: oh, weird, I didn't know about that19:38
greg-gI can invite myself? that seems odd ;)19:38
greg-gczajkowski: nevermind19:38
mhall119greg-g: not everybody can invite themselves19:39
mhall119but as part of the loco-council, you should be able to invite yourself19:39
greg-gweird that I have to invite myself, oh well, added that to my autosend commands in irssi19:40
czajkowskiodd also as you have the same flags as others19:59
huatsczajkowski: question regarding the twinning process20:44
huats:)20:44
huatsdo you want me to contact direcly the team we propose tohelp ?20:45
huatsoh and happy new year my dear, with lots of good things, health and munster win's (execpt vs Toulouse of course)20:45
mhall119of course20:49
jonomhall119, sorry, give me a few mins21:01
jonowrapping something21:01
mhall119jono: no problem21:01
jonomhall119, let's roll, G+ work for you?21:09
mhall119yup21:11
bkerensa:D21:11
jonomhall119, invite sent21:12
jonofirst team meeting with mhall119 :-)21:12
bkerensa:( How do you explain to a Librarian what FOSS and Ubuntu are? :) Somehow I can't convince this librarian I'm corresponding with that Ubuntu is free and not owned by a company21:46
bkerensa:D21:46
bkerensaWikipedia articles dont seem to be helping :P21:46
macobkerensa: recommend some Lawrence Lessig?21:47
bkerensaheh21:47
macoor make parallels to a coop?21:47
macoor fall back on the foss-as-hippie-commune thing :P21:48
* bkerensa is just trying to get a room at a library so people in rural part of our state can have a Ubuntu meet but this guy seems to think Ubuntu is a product produced by a corporation :P21:51
popeyit is21:51
maco"it's a computer club"21:51
bkerensaimho your not very good librarian if you cant do some research or click on the wikipedia articles I sent :D21:52
popeyUbuntu is lots of things, and 'a product made by a company' is certainly one of them21:52
popeyalong with many other definitions21:52
macois the librarian familiar with LUGs?21:52
bkerensamaco: I don't think he happens to be familiar with anything in the realm of technology21:52
bkerensa:(21:52
czajkowskibkerensa: I prefer the explaination of it being produced by a corporation rather than a hippie21:52
* maco puts a flower in czajkowski's hair21:53
czajkowskiit'll fall out, hair is too thick :)21:53
bkerensaczajkowski: If it is produced by a corporation then our LoCo is not going to be able to use a Library that or we have to pony up some nice cash21:53
bkerensasponsored by perhaps21:53
popeythe development is sponsored by canonical21:54
czajkowskibkerensa: but it is, and if you try adn hide the fact...21:54
bkerensaI think producing and sponsoring something is two different things... Not trying to hide facts...21:54
popeyI'd just go with the 'I'm one of a number of people who contribute in our spare time, for free'21:54
bkerensaMicrosoft produces Windows21:54
bkerensaCanonical sponsors Ubuntu21:54
popey'so we have no money to hire rooms'21:55
bkerensalol21:55
popeydo they charge for rooms then?21:55
czajkowskiJanC: ping21:55
balloonsfrom here: http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu "It remains a key tenet of the Ubuntu Project that Ubuntu is a shared work between Canonical, other companies, and the thousands of volunteers who bring their expertise to bear on making it a world-class platform for the whole world to use."21:56
jonomhall119, http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/2599048417/unity-bitesize-bug-report-for-4-january21:57
bkerensapopey: Yes they do..21:57
bkerensaballoons: A very good definition21:57
popeybkerensa: do they have categories of groups that can use the rooms for free?21:57
bkerensapopey: Community Groups and Non-Profits21:57
balloonsbkerensa: I would open with that and see what happens.. I know my old LUG met at the library21:57
bkerensapopey: However if we are promoting or advocating something that is commercial or "produced" by a corporation they have to treat us as a business21:58
popeyfine line that21:58
macobkerensa: would a group to provide free tech support and information to the community of people who use $foo   = a community group?21:58
bkerensaballoons: Correct that is how I explained it because that is the closer definition21:58
jonomhall119, http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/unity-bitesize-bug-status-for-22-march/21:59
bkerensamaco: surely21:59
balloonsbkerensa: even with the idea of sponsership, you yourself are not connected to canonical in anyway -- this would be no different than a group of moms who love their minivans getting together and talking about them22:00
balloonsin other words, you have nothing to sell.. you won't be making any money for a company22:00
cprofitthello all22:01
bkerensaballoons: Correct. Sponsorship is not a problem however the idea of Ubuntu being something that is sold by Canonical is a problem but clearly Ubuntu is free.22:01
balloonslol.. well canonical doesn't seell ubuntu -- it's free :-) they do offer support and other services however :-)22:01
bkerensacorrect :)22:02
balloonsi wish you luck however it turns out22:02
cprofittbkerensa: I ran in to a similar issue with my library22:03
cprofittThey had an Apple User Group already meeting there... and I just tole them the Ubuntu group was the same as that22:03
cprofitta group of people unaffiliated with the corporate overlords22:03
bkerensaheh22:04
cprofittthe librarian arrived at the conclusion because a dot com meant commercial22:04
bkerensa:D22:04
macoubuntulinux.org ;)22:04
cprofittexactly22:05
macotell them ubuntu has a .org too, but since many people aren't used to things other than .com, the .com is just to make it easier for those people22:05
bkerensaWell to be fair about it Ubuntu relies on people who contribute because they love the project and FOSS just as much as they rely on Canonical22:06
cprofittthis is a great page to send folks too -- http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/why-is-it-free22:06
cprofittat times it is very difficult to educate people who have preconceived notions22:08
bkerensa+122:08
cprofittteachers, librarians and politicians appear to have the highest density in that state of being22:08
cprofitthey, quick question...22:10
cprofittwhat would you folks think of using a Wiki to docment technical details of a server infrastructure (private wiki)?22:11
czajkowskiwe do that for our college server computer soc22:11
czajkowskiit did get a bit messed up with new admins wrecking it till they got a slap on the wrist and permissions were set for people22:12
balloonsdocumenting is a good first step :-) We use google docs22:12
bkerensacprofitt: Sounds like a good idea22:12
MrChrisDruifWhat idea?22:12
MrChrisDruifAloha btw22:12
cprofittI got told today that using a wiki was a bad way to document such things... and was asked to take all the stuff I put on the wiki and convert them to word documents... send them to two people... so they can print them out.22:12
* cprofitt faceplams22:12
czajkowskicprofitt: aye that's what we do as standard documents for the hospital set up22:13
* MrChrisDruif pads cprofitt on the back22:13
czajkowskiwiki is grand for college/students to learn22:13
cprofittczajkowski: do you print them out or store them in a document library?22:15
czajkowskicprofitt: both. one would be attached to a machine, and the other in a folder for inspection for audits and also to be signed off on22:16
cprofittyeah... that makes sense for that use.22:17
cprofittwe don't really audit any machines... a bit less stringent than a hospital22:17
cprofittwe do have copies in our DR manuals too.22:17
cprofittDR = disaster recovery22:18
czajkowskiwell even for the IT department they have to follow the same standard22:18
cprofitttrue... I can see it at a hospital for IT and others22:18
cprofittin a school district things are much more relaxed... we get audited every five years22:19
cprofittnot that it should minimize our efforts...22:19
czajkowskievery 6 months22:19
czajkowskiand each lab got audited so basically you had some audit going on every 4-6 weeks22:20
czajkowskikeeps you on your toes and documentaion up to date22:20
cprofittvery tight ship then -- that is good.22:21
cprofittI would like to see the wiki used as a living document and a hard copy made every 6 months or so (stored off-site)22:22
mhall119jono: https://bugs.launchpad.net/uds-project22:23
cprofittit was just rough to hear that the 'wiki' did not work after putting up documents and maintaining them for six months22:23
cprofittthe sad thing is that a person who doesn't use the wiki could not find information on it... the information was there, but they did not find it.22:25
cprofittbut... enough of that... talking about it does not really help22:25
cprofittczajkowski: how is your writing gig going?22:25
czajkowskioh I quit before xmas22:26
jonojcastro, can we punt our call to tomorrow, I have some things I need to wrap up here and it will go past your EOD22:26
jonoif it is urgent I can make time though22:26
czajkowskicprofitt: but if the person who doesnt use the wiki cant find the documentaion that's not a good sign22:27
cprofittture.23:02
cprofitttrue... I mean... it could be just a training issue though vs. failure of the wiki'23:03
cprofittsorry for the delayed response there... youngest one needed me23:06
jcastrojono: no worries I was tied up with clint on juju stuff until just now23:07
jcastrojono: unless you consider my opinion on the latest metallica EP to be an emergency I can wait.23:07
jcastro:)23:07
cprofittjcastro: any outside reading htat would be majoroly confused23:07
cprofitt"tied up with clint on juju stuff..."23:07
cprofitthow was your holiday jcastro ?23:12
jonojcastro, np23:14
jcastrocprofitt: good good23:14
jcastroI miss it23:14
jcastroyours, how's the elbow?23:14
cprofittjcastro: it is doing better -- still not back to full range of motion, but the lump is gone and I should get the range of motion back in a little bit23:15
cprofittthe holidays were great -- every kid was uber excited with no disappointment this year23:15
cprofittwhich was awesome23:15
cprofittbrb folks23:22
MrChrisDruifDoes anyone know what's the deal with this wiki-page? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Bots It's only like to a few bots wiki-pages (E.g. DragonEyes because of CapitalizedWords). Should the few links be removed or (preferably) add links to all the bots? If this is the wrong channel to ask, please redirect me to the proper channel23:48

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