[02:22] <philipballew> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/State-of-New-Hampshire-votes-for-open-source-1431454.html
[02:22] <philipballew> this puts a new meaning to their moto "live free or die"
[02:29] <akk> That's great! Wonder if CA will ever follow suit?
[02:32] <philipballew> maybe we as a LoCo should protest the capitol.
[02:33] <philipballew> but ms has so many lobbyists, thet'd say floss is more expensive probably
[02:34] <jbermudes> What does the Bay Area use? electronic touch screen voting?
[02:34] <jbermudes> LA County uses basically stamped ink bubbles that are sort of like SAT-style answer sheets
[02:35] <jbermudes> But I suppose the machines reading it could be hiding some tricks so FOSS would be cool to have for even those
[02:36] <jtatum> santa clara county uses optical reader types - connect these two boxes with a line to vote
[02:36] <jtatum> same as they had in florida. dunno about the rest of the bay.
[02:36] <philipballew> placer county uses punch cards...
[02:37] <jbermudes> So at least there's a paper trail in all of these instances, right?
[02:46] <akk> I thought the florida problem was all about the chads (punchcards), not optical scan.
[02:47] <akk> My district (in San Jose) is all mail-in, optical scan. We had touchscreen for a year or two.
[02:47] <jtatum> ah, good point akk. Let me revise my blanket statement to say orange county, florida :)
[03:02]  * jledbetter1 waves.
[03:02] <Darkwing> Oi!
[03:02] <jtatum> o/
[03:02] <Darkwing> How is everyone tonight?
[03:02] <Darkwing> Gimme a sec to bring up the agenda
[03:02] <MarkDude> There we go
[03:03] <eps> So, short meeting?
[03:03]  * MarkDude is in meeting with Oregon at moment also. Let me know if I need to ramble some crazy stuff about things....
[03:03] <MarkDude> :)
[03:03] <Darkwing> Okay, there seems to be one item on the agenda. The Ubuntu Global Jam is around the corner for 12.04 LTS
[03:03] <Darkwing> Anyone have any plans for a Global Jam?
[03:04] <Darkwing> North or south?
[03:04] <jledbetter1> I think there was some talk about one in SF
[03:05] <Darkwing> Anyone have any info on that?
[03:05] <MarkDude> Lets assign agenda item to Jono and move on...
[03:05] <MarkDude> :D
[03:05] <jledbetter1> +1
[03:05] <Darkwing> LOL
[03:06] <Darkwing> I don't have anything planned in house for San Diego.
[03:06] <Darkwing> I have not heard about LA or Bay...
[03:06] <Darkwing> Greetings
[03:06] <locodir-user> hi guys, i have aproblem
[03:06] <Darkwing> Yes?
[03:07]  * MarkDude has all sorts of problems....
[03:07]  * Darkwing kicks MarkDude
[03:07] <Darkwing> Hush you. :P:P
[03:07]  * MarkDude sits and up and bites his tongue
[03:07] <Darkwing> locodir-user: a problem?
[03:07] <locodir-user> i have a" The package system is broken" notice when i try to install anything
[03:08] <locodir-user> and i want to remove a game
[03:09] <locodir-user> how can i force ubuntu to remove it
[03:09] <Darkwing> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto#How_to_fix_broken_packages
[03:09] <Darkwing> locodir-user: ^^^
[03:09] <Darkwing> locodir-user: That will help you fix brokem packages.
[03:09] <Darkwing> *broken
[03:10] <Darkwing> Or, you can open a terminal and type: sudo dpkg --configure -a
[03:10] <Darkwing> either one should help you out locodir-user
[03:11] <Darkwing> Anyway, back to the meeting... anyone have anything to add about global jams?
[03:11] <MarkDude> They are fun.
[03:12] <Darkwing> Anyone have any announcements, comments, quips, gripes, complaints?
[03:12] <MarkDude> Rent is too damn high
[03:12] <jledbetter1> Mountain View UH this week :)
[03:12] <Darkwing> you have it in the loco.u.c?
[03:12] <MarkDude> Things are pretty good with the Cali Team
[03:12]  * philipballew just got the email
[03:13] <jledbetter1> Coolio
[03:13] <jtatum> Darkwing: just added it :)
[03:14] <Darkwing> Woot!
[03:14] <Darkwing> San Diego UH is coming up next week.
[03:15] <Darkwing> on the 21st
[03:15] <jledbetter1> Yay!
[03:15] <epikvision>  question: where is the global jam held at?
[03:15]  * philipballew has stickers to bring thanks to jtatum 
[03:16] <Darkwing> They are all over... Keep checking http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-california for information on it.
[03:16] <Darkwing> epikvision: ^^
[03:16] <eps> We don't even have it listed on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects
[03:16] <jtatum> or the mailing list hopefully
[03:16] <philipballew> would it be possible as a loco to do a online global jam?
[03:16] <epikvision> haha
[03:16] <epikvision> :D
[03:16] <Darkwing> As long as someone organizes it.
[03:16] <Darkwing> I normally do some Kubuntu Jams
[03:16] <Darkwing> online
[03:16] <jledbetter1> philipballew: Yes.
[03:17] <philipballew> since were such a big state, we just find a few bugs and all work on them.
[03:17] <jbermudes> So what would that look like besides just people talking in the IRC channel like usual?
[03:17] <jledbetter1> And be here for those that get stuck on how to fix.
[03:17] <jledbetter1> organized time we're at the keyboard?
[03:18] <philipballew> maybe, or we just find say 5 bugs as a loco is different levels of difficulty and maybe 2 or 3 work on one together.
[03:19] <Darkwing> Anyone have anything else to add? If you are doing a Jam, please add it to the wiki and to loco.u.c
[03:20] <Darkwing> If not I have to get ready for an interview tomorrow.
[03:20] <Darkwing> Cheers!
[03:21] <akk> Good luck, Darkwing!
[03:22] <jledbetter1> Hope it goes well, Darkwing :)
[03:44] <eps>  /leave #ubuntu-us-ca G'nite
[03:46] <izdubar> take 2....
[13:07] <Faqtotum> [Sun 2012-02-12 06:32:03 PM PST] <philipballew> maybe we as a LoCo should protest the capitol. <----- maybe you should have thought of that before you moved to SD
[20:07] <broder> since we were discussing flag files for identifying a chroot's distribution recently, http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release.html
[20:08] <broder> (or, under an alternative headline, "Lennart once again tells us what's best for the rest of us")
[23:37] <pleia2> boo, rain
[23:38] <nhaines> yay rain!
[23:38] <nhaines> It sprinkled this morning on and off but I think it's gone now.
[23:40] <akk> It's been raining quite a bit here, off and on all day.
[23:40] <pleia2> it sprinkled this morning, let up for me to get lunch, now it's quite rainy again
[23:47] <akk> That was nice of it!