| jelkner | maco, are you here? | 17:45 |
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| maco | yes | 17:46 |
| jelkner | i was wondering if you are active with pyladies? | 17:46 |
| maco | i went to one of their coffee meetups... | 17:46 |
| jelkner | but your not a core member or anything, then? | 17:47 |
| maco | no | 17:47 |
| jelkner | i'm asking because i'm working on pulling a weekend django workshop together in august | 17:47 |
| jelkner | an intro to django we are calling "Djentle Django" | 17:48 |
| maco | jelkner: i only just got back into python when i started contracting with popvox.com | 17:48 |
| maco | so now i can know how to django | 17:48 |
| jelkner | cool | 17:48 |
| maco | seems like the rest of dc pyladies are all djangstas | 17:48 |
| jelkner | yup | 17:48 |
| jelkner | that's what i heere | 17:48 |
| jelkner | hear | 17:48 |
| jelkner | and djangocon is in arlington this september | 17:49 |
| jelkner | so it's a good time to be one | 17:49 |
| jelkner | i've been working with nova python | 17:49 |
| jelkner | but i hear the pyladies are involved too | 17:49 |
| jelkner | that's why i was asking | 17:49 |
| jelkner | my other motivation was to start putting some recorded chatter on our channel logs | 17:50 |
| jelkner | to use as data for reactivating our loco | 17:50 |
| maco | haha | 17:50 |
| jelkner | and of course its always good to talk to you! ;-) | 17:51 |
| jelkner | but in all seriousness, the loco organization apparently wants to see more on our irc channel | 17:52 |
| jelkner | kjcole told them we do things mostly through the mailing list | 17:52 |
| jelkner | but that apparently doesn't give us as much cred | 17:52 |
| maco | thats silly | 17:53 |
| maco | every college student has heard of a listserv | 17:53 |
| maco | few people under age 40 have heard of irc | 17:53 |
| maco | just the "hax0rz" | 17:53 |
| jelkner | i don't want to misstate things | 17:53 |
| maco | (those under 40 who have heard of irc, know it as the place to get warez) | 17:53 |
| jelkner | but i do know they were going to deactivate us | 17:54 |
| jelkner | and kjcole has been working to keep that from happening | 17:54 |
| maco | i wouldnt be surprised, and i wouldnt say we dont deserve it | 17:54 |
| jelkner | so what would you say we need to do to deserve to keep active status? | 17:55 |
| maco | tpff is a nice hting, but its one day a year | 17:55 |
| jelkner | true | 17:55 |
| maco | i know vancouver loco has a table weekly at a farmers market | 17:55 |
| jelkner | ok, that's one thing a group could do | 17:56 |
| jelkner | but we actually do a lot also | 17:56 |
| jelkner | we just don't do it explicitly as the loco | 17:56 |
| maco | having intallfests/tweakfests again would be good. gwu's not hosting anymore, and several releases have come and gone with little fanfare around here. i think last week was the first release party in 2 years | 17:57 |
| maco | yeah, i think they'd want to see more group activities or at least attaching the loco to the individual activities | 17:57 |
| jelkner | so the latter is what we discussed | 17:57 |
| maco | like going to a thing *representing the loco* and maybe having cards or little handouts about the loco | 17:57 |
| jelkner | i run an ubuntu lab in a public school here | 17:57 |
| jelkner | and i constantly do "install fests" | 17:58 |
| jelkner | in the sense i'm putting ubuntu on anyone's computer who will let me ;-) | 17:58 |
| jelkner | i do it a lot | 17:58 |
| jelkner | but it doesn't register on the loco | 17:58 |
| jelkner | it should | 17:58 |
| jelkner | i'm a member | 17:58 |
| jelkner | and i'm doing ubuntu promotion in my community | 17:58 |
| jelkner | in an ongoing basis | 17:58 |
| jelkner | we need an easy way to capture activity like that | 17:59 |
| jelkner | there is a lot of it among our members | 17:59 |
| jelkner | we just are not "getting it down" | 17:59 |
| maco | im not sure, even if you write it down, that it would count for the group, though. you as an individual, sure, but i have the impression locos are supposed to be a litlte more group-focused | 18:00 |
| maco | now, what with good google and easier OSes today, i think the days of LUGs have pretty much passed us by | 18:00 |
| maco | so there's that | 18:00 |
| maco | which is where the tpff type stuff comes in as being where i think locos are focusing | 18:01 |
| jelkner | tpff? | 18:01 |
| maco | takoma park folk festival | 18:01 |
| jelkner | ok, cool | 18:01 |
| maco | btw, takoma park has a big street festival too apparently | 18:01 |
| maco | i saw barry's band play there | 18:02 |
| jelkner | when? | 18:02 |
| maco | i think it was during that thing we sort of call winter | 18:02 |
| maco | where it's rainy and cold | 18:02 |
| jelkner | street in winter | 18:02 |
| maco | but not april | 18:02 |
| jelkner | interesting | 18:02 |
| jelkner | i'm not sure i agree that the day of lugs is passed, though | 18:03 |
| maco | i went to the takoma park friends meeting that day and i remember it was cold | 18:03 |
| jelkner | only that there character should change | 18:03 |
| maco | maybe november? | 18:03 |
| jelkner | not so hard core geeky | 18:03 |
| jelkner | more mass and about what to do with computers running ubuntu | 18:03 |
| jelkner | rather than how to install it | 18:03 |
| jelkner | since like you said | 18:03 |
| jelkner | that is becoming pretty easy | 18:04 |
| jelkner | i would also argue that if i invite some folks from my local community to come to my school so i can show them how to get ubuntu running on their laptop | 18:05 |
| jelkner | that *is* a loco event | 18:05 |
| jelkner | why not? | 18:05 |
| jelkner | except that i didn't put it on our webpage | 18:05 |
| jelkner | that's the problem | 18:05 |
| jelkner | we are doing things | 18:05 |
| maco | i think in that case it should at least be emailed to the list | 18:05 |
| jelkner | yes | 18:05 |
| maco | so there's an open invitation for others to join in the helping | 18:05 |
| jelkner | yes | 18:06 |
| maco | then it can be called a loco event | 18:06 |
| jelkner | agreed | 18:06 |
| jelkner | so i told kjcole i would try to do that more | 18:06 |
| jelkner | and i offered to try to get meeting going on this channel | 18:06 |
| jelkner | and then i totally forgot about the first one | 18:06 |
| jelkner | so i messed that up | 18:06 |
| jelkner | what are your thoughts on that? | 18:07 |
| jelkner | should we hold regular irc meetings? | 18:07 |
| jelkner | maybe monthly? | 18:07 |
| maco | sounds more likely to work than merge's place | 18:08 |
| jelkner | it works for me | 18:08 |
| jelkner | we are spread all over the dc area | 18:08 |
| jelkner | getting to a physical location is tough | 18:08 |
| jelkner | but irc is easy | 18:08 |
| jelkner | since you're the first person i'm asking, do you have a preferred day / time? | 18:09 |
| jelkner | weekends vs. weekdays | 18:09 |
| jelkner | evenings vs. mornings | 18:09 |
| maco | im probably not going to be very involved | 18:09 |
| maco | ive mostly quit ubuntu | 18:09 |
| maco | except for using kubuntu maverick | 18:10 |
| jelkner | and being one of the few folks to log on to our irc channel ;-) | 18:10 |
| maco | i have ops. someone's gotta kick trolls :P | 18:10 |
| jelkner | ok, good talking to you... teaching duties call | 18:11 |
| maco | later | 18:11 |
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