[00:06] <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 I have four students at OSU interested in contributing but they said the info on ubuntu.c is outdated
[00:08] <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/
[00:11] <pleia2> there's also an ubuntu artists group on deviantart: http://ubuntu-artists.deviantart.com/
[00:14] <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> :(
[00:15] <bkerensa> 32 college students were mentoring
[00:15] <pleia2> cool
[00:15] <bkerensa> yeah.... perhaps some new contributors for the long term
[00:16] <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
[00:17] <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
[00:18] <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
[00:20] <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
[02:37] <pleia2> bkerensa: you could distro hop for a month to remind you why you love Ubuntu ;)
[02:38] <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)
[02:40] <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. :)
[02:41] <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.
[02:42] <pleia2> still can't get the totem plugin to work on Debian, it just works with magic on Ubuntu
[02:43] <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)
[02:44] <akk> I never got the SJ peregrine falcon cam working reasonably on any linux.
[02:44] <akk> Boo webcams that use weirdo formats.
[02:45] <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
[02:46] <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.
[02:47] <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)
[02:48] <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
[02:49] <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
[02:50] <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.
[02:51] <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!
[02:52] <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!)