| bkerensa | pleia2: Is there much in the realm of artwork that can be contributed? I have four students at OSU interested in contributing but they said the info on ubuntu.c is outdated | 00:06 |
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| pleia2 | bkerensa: cprofitt wrote about artwork at jams today: http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/jam-jam-ubuntu-global-jam-art-jam/ | 00:08 |
| pleia2 | there's also the wallpaper contest going on now: http://design.canonical.com/2012/01/precisely-how-were-going-to-make-the-wallpapers-in-12-04-the-best-ever/ | 00:08 |
| pleia2 | there's also an ubuntu artists group on deviantart: http://ubuntu-artists.deviantart.com/ | 00:11 |
| bkerensa | pleia2: This is whats been keeping me busy lately -> https://launchpad.net/~cs399/+members | 00:14 |
| bkerensa | thats and settling in | 00:14 |
| bkerensa | :( | 00:14 |
| bkerensa | 32 college students were mentoring | 00:15 |
| pleia2 | cool | 00:15 |
| bkerensa | yeah.... perhaps some new contributors for the long term | 00:15 |
| bkerensa | There are four women in the group but I was unable to find any Ubuntu Women to mentor :s I'm not sure who is mentoring them but the mentor team I put togther there are five of us | 00:16 |
| pleia2 | yeah, we're all pretty overwhelmed already | 00:17 |
| bkerensa | Indeed | 00:17 |
| pleia2 | "we need more women for $foo" ...same women get asked for everything all the time | 00:17 |
| bkerensa | :D | 00:17 |
| bkerensa | I'm going to go on a brief hiatus this summer | 00:18 |
| bkerensa | have not figure out which month but I think I'm taking a entire month of from Ubuntu :) | 00:18 |
| bkerensa | Even gonna use Windows during the month :P jk | 00:18 |
| nhaines | Curious what the Ubuntu Community Manager does? Courtesy of Michael Hall, here's a breakdown: http://blog_uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/communitymanager.jpg | 00:20 |
| pleia2 | bkerensa: you could distro hop for a month to remind you why you love Ubuntu ;) | 02:37 |
| pleia2 | (I sometimes think that's why I keep a Debian desktop around, I do love Debian, but sometimes I just want non-free stuff to work) | 02:38 |
| akk | I'm having good luck with stuff working in Debian. | 02:40 |
| akk | As long as it doesn't have to be *current* stuff and can be a couple years old. :) | 02:40 |
| pleia2 | I finally got my nvidia drivers AND vlc+DVDs working (had to kick out xen since the xen kernel disagrees with nvidia, but I do kvm on my bigger computer now) | 02:41 |
| akk | Ubuntu does a good job keeping stuff working considering how often it updates. | 02:41 |
| pleia2 | still can't get the totem plugin to work on Debian, it just works with magic on Ubuntu | 02:42 |
| MarkDude | Maddog Hall is hella funny | 02:43 |
| pleia2 | not sure if it's the plugin itself (it fails to load in chrome, just sort of dies and takes my CPU with it in firefox) or missing codecs | 02:43 |
| pleia2 | so no otter cam on debian! (important things here) | 02:43 |
| akk | I never got the SJ peregrine falcon cam working reasonably on any linux. | 02:44 |
| akk | Boo webcams that use weirdo formats. | 02:44 |
| pleia2 | yeah, in the case of these I don't mind flash so much, it mostly just works (and was the first cross-platform thing that did for video through web) | 02:45 |
| pleia2 | realplayer had a client for linux back in 2002 when no one else did, but it mostly sucked | 02:45 |
| pleia2 | (not to mention not many sites actually used it) | 02:46 |
| akk | Yeah, I had really mixed feelings on realplayer -- it really did suck, but was (a little) better than nothing. | 02:46 |
| akk | When most places were using WMV or quicktime and the only solution for that was codeweavers crossover/wine. | 02:47 |
| pleia2 | yeah | 02:47 |
| akk | And flash ... I hate it, but for any sort of video it sadly still is the best cross-platform solution. | 02:47 |
| akk | I do wish people would quit using it for things other than video, though. | 02:47 |
| pleia2 | there was an mplayer plugin that unreliably played them, I was the biggest mplayer geek back in the day (my first linux famous thing was an mplayer on debian compiling guide) | 02:47 |
| akk | I tried opting in to youtube's html5 video trial, and found my dual-atom laptop isn't fast enough for it. | 02:48 |
| pleia2 | hah, still one of the top hits for google search on debian mplayer | 02:48 |
| * pleia2 did put an "out dated" sign on it | 02:48 | |
| akk | I remember trying to build mplayer, then reading that "mplayer, the project from hell" article and feeling so much better. :) | 02:49 |
| pleia2 | hehe | 02:49 |
| akk | mplayer really is a great app, now that ordinary mortals can apt-get it. | 02:49 |
| pleia2 | yeah | 02:49 |
| pleia2 | I still use it for everything except dvds | 02:50 |
| pleia2 | even music | 02:50 |
| akk | It was a great app even back then, except that its build system was highly un-great. | 02:50 |
| akk | I use it for movies and sometimes music on my laptop, but on the desktop I usually use vlc. | 02:50 |
| pleia2 | yeah, my build instructions turned it into a .deb and shipped a user config that was nice | 02:51 |
| akk | vlc has a nice UI if you don't mind pulling in qt and half of kde and needing more cpu to run. | 02:51 |
| akk | I remember when I first learned there was a deb of mplayer -- maybe it was yours -- such excitement! | 02:51 |
| akk | And yeah, that it came already configured and with reasonable libraries and everything. | 02:52 |
| pleia2 | there was a guy who made unofficial debs a year or so after I wrote my how-to, it was nice to be able to point to them (and then when it actually got into debian, yay!) | 02:52 |
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