[00:00] <dscassel> :D
[00:00] <mimcpher> dscassel: We're out :P
[00:00] <dscassel> I got a few left.  I suppose that's a good way to get rid of them.
[00:00] <dscassel> There'll be more in about 6 weeks. :)
[00:01] <mimcpher> dscassel: I mean, we can just burn a stack, but the branded ones are so very shiny
[00:01] <mimcpher> If you've got some you want to be rid of, I'd take 'em
[00:02] <BobJonkman1> I have a few left.  Will be handing out at Ubuntu Hour in Waterloo next week, if there's folks to take 'em
[00:02] <dscassel> Okay.  I'll drop off the last of what I have this week or next.
[00:02] <mimcpher> Where is Ubuntu Hour happening?
[00:02] <BobJonkman1> Say, is this official meeting talk>
[00:02] <mimcpher> dscassel: if it's easier, I can grab 'em at Kwartzlab too.
[00:02] <dscassel> Uh, right.
[00:03] <BobJonkman1> mimcpher: At the Duke of Wellington: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ca/1555/detail/
[00:04] <dscassel> Mass call! cyphermox jlamothe kurtul KombuchaKip pangolin wylde bilal DarwinSurvivor Jeruvy Kulag sipherdee jlamothe kurtul StepNjump egerlach johanbr txwikinger FiReSTaRT kenjy bregma jaguar-
[00:04] <bregma> woo hoo!
[00:04] <KombuchaKip> dscassel: Yo
[00:04] <dscassel> Meeting time!
[00:04] <khoover> PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARTY
[00:05] <dscassel> Please introduce yourself! Who are you? Where are you from? what do you do with/for/on Ubuntu?
[00:05] <dscassel> Yeah, pretty much. :D
[00:05] <dscassel> mimcpher: You're involved in CSC?
[00:05]  * BobJonkman1 is Bob Jonkman from Elmira, who occasionally hangs out at the Duke of Wellington and hands out Ubuntu CDs
[00:06] <dscassel> mimcpher: How can I get you guys to do Ubuntu stuff? :D
[00:06] <mimcpher> dscassel: Uh, fairly trivially.  We used to do Linux (which means ubuntu) install parties.
[00:07] <KombuchaKip> My name's Kip. I am the project lead behind Avaneya. Avaneya's a free, commercial, sci-fi game for Ubuntu still in the works (www.avaneya.com). I live just outside of Vancouver. Also check out our Viking Lander Remastered archive at the aforementioned.
[00:07] <wylde> 'llo, James PLate from Welland, recently getting involved with bug triage and harassing family and friends to get on Ubuntu ;)
[00:07] <Jeruvy> Someone page?  Oh meeting night :)
[00:07]  * khoover is Ken Hoover from Markham, who...well, he'll add in the what he does later.
[00:07]  * mimcpher is Matthew McPherrin in Waterloo. Exec of CSC, who is a Ubuntu Mirror. And we hand out ubuntu CDs to students.
[00:07]  * bregma lives in the back woods of Lanark County, Ontario, and woks on Ubuntu and Debian
[00:07] <johanbr> I'm Johan, pretty recent transplant to Montreal, use Ubuntu for most of my computing needs. I also help people on IRC, report bugs and occasionally patch them
[00:07] <kurtul> i'm from halifax, ns. i use ubuntu in all my computers as first os. and install ubuntu on friends computers
[00:08] <dscassel> mimcpher: Woo! I should drop by for one of those.
[00:08] <dscassel> I subscribe to the CSC calendar, but I haven't seen one in a while.
[00:08] <mimcpher> dscassel: Yeah, they haven't really happened in a while.
[00:10]  * Jeruvy hails from Calgary and is a big Ubuntu server admin, and a desktop enthusiast.
[00:11] <BobJonkman1> If we're wondering what to chat about, there's an agenda at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2012-03-13
[00:11] <dscassel> Hi, I'm Darcy, I'm in Waterloo and I'm co-contact for Ubuntu Canada.
[00:11] <dscassel> Thanks, BobJonkman1 :)
[00:12] <BobJonkman1> Thought you might be distracted by shiny lasers and bots and things
[00:13] <dscassel> Faroud's not around. Shame, I'm intested in how the Global Jam in St Johns's went down.
[00:13] <dscassel> Anybody go?
[00:13] <dscassel> BobJonkman1: Sorta, yeah. ^^;
[00:14] <dscassel> Our global jam was pretty awesome! Happy to finally meet bilal and mars :D
[00:14] <dscassel> Not great attendance, mind you.  A lot of people were busy that weekend.
[00:15]  * mimcpher is always busy for #ubuntu-ca events
[00:15] <mimcpher> :/
[00:15] <dscassel> mimcpher: Are you going to be around the CSC office around lunch time any day this week?
[00:16] <dscassel> (I'd stop by for pi day tomorrow, but sadly I can't partake. Doctor's orders' :/ )
[00:17] <mimcpher> dscassel: With probability > 0.5 I'll be in CSC after 12:30 tomorrow
[00:17] <BobJonkman1> Pi day!  Forgot about that.
[00:17] <dscassel> Pie! :D
[00:19] <dscassel> Anyway, next big event is the release party.
[00:20] <dscassel> Unless I can convince anyone to host an Ubuntu Hour. :D
[00:20] <dscassel> We're hosting one at Kwartzlab on the Saturday
[00:21] <BobJonkman1> (Ubuntu Release Party at Kwartzlab, not an Ubuntu Hour)
[00:21] <BobJonkman1> Although, why not?
[00:21] <dscassel> http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ca/1527/detail/
[00:21] <dscassel> yes!
[00:21] <dscassel> well, we don't serve food, which is kind of a downer.
[00:22] <dscassel> (Normally, I mean, the release party will have pizza, cake, devilled eggs, etc. :D)
[00:22] <khoover> :( no food? and jez, i gotta upgrade my ubuntu at some point...
[00:22] <BobJonkman1> Kwartzlab may not serve food, but the URP participants usually bring some
[00:23] <bregma> is everybody running the 12.04 beta by now??
[00:23] <dscassel> bregma: Me! :D
[00:23] <Jeruvy> yes
[00:23] <BobJonkman1> No, not yet.  Corrupted my USB drive image...  :(
[00:23] <wylde> I am
[00:23] <khoover> i'm still on natty, can't bear to go to ocelot and it's gnome 3
[00:25] <bregma> 11.10 runs Unity
[00:26] <khoover> ...shoot, got em backwards
[00:26] <khoover> meant unity
[00:27] <bregma> as of yesterday's upgrade most of my problems with the beta have been worked out, it seems very stable and fully functional
[00:27] <bregma> I would recommend upgrading now to give things a good testing before final release
[00:28] <dscassel> Yeah. There's a (slim) chance you can get your problem fixed if you run into something.
[00:30] <khoover> exactly what's the likelihood of something breaking/getting wiped in the natty => ocelot upgrade?
[00:30] <BobJonkman1> Kernel freeze on 5 April: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseSchedule
[00:30] <khoover> cause then I might just do it and try a different windowing system than gnome
[00:30] <BobJonkman1> I've always had good results in upgrading, even to a beta release
[00:30] <bregma> I upgraded from natty to oneiric without trouble
[00:31] <bregma> and then to precise, with minor video driver trouble (nVidia, fixed upstream by nVidia)
[00:32] <khoover> alrigh. suppose kde would be the closest thing to gnome that isn't gnome, right?
[00:32] <dscassel> khoover: There's cinnamon, but not sure how well it's supported.
[00:32] <bregma> KDE is the closest thing to Win XP that isn't Gnome2
[00:32] <khoover> bregma, oh thank god
[00:32] <dscassel> khoover: There's also XFCE. xubuntu is decent.
[00:33] <khoover> dscassel, had a bad experience with it on my first ubuntu install
[00:33] <khoover> so, how would i update to ocelot, anywho?
[00:34] <dscassel> khoover: update-manager -d
[00:34] <khoover> can't use apt(itude)?
[00:34] <dscassel> khoover: If you want to hand-edit your sources.list, sure! :D
[00:34] <bregma> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OneiricUpgrades
[00:35] <dscassel> Anybody running a release party?
[00:36] <BobJonkman1> I would really love to hear about a Toronto release party (hint hint)
[00:39] <khoover> supposing the upgrade will require a reboot
[00:39] <bregma> it will probably install a new kernel, you will want to reboot to pick it up
[00:39] <BobJonkman1> That was a (hint hint) to encourage some Torontonian to set up a URP...
[00:40] <khoover> ...
[00:40]  * khoover quits
[00:40] <khoover> sorry, hang on, got that wrong.
[00:40]  * khoover has quit (Remote host has run away like hell)
[00:40] <BobJonkman1> khoover: Thought I'd offended you...
[00:41] <khoover> huh?
[00:42] <dscassel> Okay, well...
[00:42] <dscassel> I'd love if someone was able to take over doing Team Reports
[00:42] <dscassel> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/TeamReports
[00:43] <bregma> but we're so satisfied with the work you're already doing
[00:43] <dscassel> All you have to do, really, is pull events from the loco portal.
[00:44] <dscassel> (Which can be scripted... I almost did it, but then got lazy and lost the code)
[00:44] <dscassel> Thanks, bregma 9_9
[00:49] <dscassel> 'Cuz we're likely up for renewal in a few months. And they're gonna ask about team reports.
[00:49] <dscassel> Otherwise, we're probably cool. Except for the whole province teams things.
[00:49] <dscassel> thing
[00:50] <BobJonkman1> How might the province teams thing affect LoCo renewal?
[00:51] <dscassel> Ubuntu Canada may not be renewed. Unless we decide to be Ubuntu Ontario.
[00:51] <dscassel> It's up to the LoCo Council, really.
[00:51] <dscassel> Not that anyone's ever talked to me about it...
[00:51] <dscassel> So I'm just speculating.
[00:52] <BobJonkman1> Would other provinces automatically get LoCo status then, too?
[00:53] <dscassel> Again, I'm speculating. Ubuntu ontario may not be automatic.
[00:54] <BobJonkman1> f'rinstance, Faroud in Newfoundland...   kurtul from Nova Scotia... There was someone from Saskatchewan a few meetings ago...
[00:55] <BobJonkman1> Oh, and Jeruvy (sorry 'bout that omission!)
[00:55] <dscassel> They'd probably need to organize and get separate approval.
[00:55] <dscassel> Hypothetically.
[00:55] <dscassel> Again, speculating.
[00:56] <Jeruvy> BobJonkman, no harm done. :)
[00:56] <BobJonkman1> Well, best we get ourselves geared up to do Team Reports then.
[00:58] <dscassel> Yup. I'll see if I can dig up that script to automate them.
[00:58] <dscassel> Anyway, it's 9. Anything else?
[00:59] <dscassel> mimcpher: I'll drop by tomorrow. :D
[01:00] <mimcpher> dscassel: awesome
[01:01] <dscassel> Thanks folks!
[01:02] <BobJonkman1> dscassel: I'll work on minutes and logs in a bit.
[01:03] <BobJonkman1> dscassel: Also, there seem to be two release parties in KW.  Conveniently, they're both at Kwartzlab so I don't have to miss either one :) http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-ca
[01:04] <bregma> thanks for running the meeting, guys
[01:06]  * Jeruvy is off to the game
[01:11] <dscassel> Thanks, BobJonkman1 :)
[01:12] <dscassel> Yeah, I didn't look for the existing one when the global event went up.
[01:17] <BobJonkman1> OK, I'll remove the one that's not registered to the global event
[01:21] <BobJonkman1> Hmm... Seems I can add events, but can't remove them: "You can not remove this team event. You are not an admin/owner of the Launchpad team or on the LoCo Council."
[16:35] <wmat> anyone know of an Ubuntu loco chapter in Edmonton?
[16:37] <bregma> I believe there is only the national loco, the Quebec loco, and the Vancouver loco
[16:46] <wmat> bregma: thx
[16:47] <wmat> there's one in Kitchener/Waterloo as well, but that may be the national one
[17:07] <mimcpher> KW people are nationals, yee.
[17:15] <wmat> heh
[19:04] <BobJonkman> wmat, bregma, mimcpher: :P  KW is just another local chapter.  Happens to have the two ubuntu-ca national contacts here, but otherwise just the same as the Edmonton Chapter (which wmat is setting up, right?)
[19:05] <mimcpher> BobJonkman: Ah, well then I wasn't clear on the seperation
[19:07] <bregma> is a "chapter" an official designation of a subgroup within a loco, or is it just a handy word being bandied about?
[20:30] <wmat> BobJonkman: I actually live in Waterloo ;)
[20:30] <wmat> BobJonkman: however, I was contacted today by someone inquiring about starting a chapter in Edmonton
[21:21] <mimcpher> Man, I really hate unity.  And xmonad has stopped working since I upgraded to oneric this morning :(