[17:45] maco, are you here? [17:46] yes [17:46] i was wondering if you are active with pyladies? [17:46] i went to one of their coffee meetups... [17:47] but your not a core member or anything, then? [17:47] no [17:47] i'm asking because i'm working on pulling a weekend django workshop together in august [17:48] an intro to django we are calling "Djentle Django" [17:48] jelkner: i only just got back into python when i started contracting with popvox.com [17:48] so now i can know how to django [17:48] cool [17:48] seems like the rest of dc pyladies are all djangstas [17:48] yup [17:48] that's what i heere [17:48] hear [17:49] and djangocon is in arlington this september [17:49] so it's a good time to be one [17:49] i've been working with nova python [17:49] but i hear the pyladies are involved too [17:49] that's why i was asking [17:50] my other motivation was to start putting some recorded chatter on our channel logs [17:50] to use as data for reactivating our loco [17:50] haha [17:51] and of course its always good to talk to you! ;-) [17:52] but in all seriousness, the loco organization apparently wants to see more on our irc channel [17:52] kjcole told them we do things mostly through the mailing list [17:52] but that apparently doesn't give us as much cred [17:53] thats silly [17:53] every college student has heard of a listserv [17:53] few people under age 40 have heard of irc [17:53] just the "hax0rz" [17:53] i don't want to misstate things [17:53] (those under 40 who have heard of irc, know it as the place to get warez) [17:54] but i do know they were going to deactivate us [17:54] and kjcole has been working to keep that from happening [17:54] i wouldnt be surprised, and i wouldnt say we dont deserve it [17:55] so what would you say we need to do to deserve to keep active status? [17:55] tpff is a nice hting, but its one day a year [17:55] true [17:55] i know vancouver loco has a table weekly at a farmers market [17:56] ok, that's one thing a group could do [17:56] but we actually do a lot also [17:56] we just don't do it explicitly as the loco [17:57] 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] yeah, i think they'd want to see more group activities or at least attaching the loco to the individual activities [17:57] so the latter is what we discussed [17:57] like going to a thing *representing the loco* and maybe having cards or little handouts about the loco [17:57] i run an ubuntu lab in a public school here [17:58] and i constantly do "install fests" [17:58] in the sense i'm putting ubuntu on anyone's computer who will let me ;-) [17:58] i do it a lot [17:58] but it doesn't register on the loco [17:58] it should [17:58] i'm a member [17:58] and i'm doing ubuntu promotion in my community [17:58] in an ongoing basis [17:59] we need an easy way to capture activity like that [17:59] there is a lot of it among our members [17:59] we just are not "getting it down" [18:00] 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] now, what with good google and easier OSes today, i think the days of LUGs have pretty much passed us by [18:00] so there's that [18:01] which is where the tpff type stuff comes in as being where i think locos are focusing [18:01] tpff? [18:01] takoma park folk festival [18:01] ok, cool [18:01] btw, takoma park has a big street festival too apparently [18:02] i saw barry's band play there [18:02] when? [18:02] i think it was during that thing we sort of call winter [18:02] where it's rainy and cold [18:02] street in winter [18:02] but not april [18:02] interesting [18:03] i'm not sure i agree that the day of lugs is passed, though [18:03] i went to the takoma park friends meeting that day and i remember it was cold [18:03] only that there character should change [18:03] maybe november? [18:03] not so hard core geeky [18:03] more mass and about what to do with computers running ubuntu [18:03] rather than how to install it [18:03] since like you said [18:04] that is becoming pretty easy [18:05] 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] that *is* a loco event [18:05] why not? [18:05] except that i didn't put it on our webpage [18:05] that's the problem [18:05] we are doing things [18:05] i think in that case it should at least be emailed to the list [18:05] yes [18:05] so there's an open invitation for others to join in the helping [18:06] yes [18:06] then it can be called a loco event [18:06] agreed [18:06] so i told kjcole i would try to do that more [18:06] and i offered to try to get meeting going on this channel [18:06] and then i totally forgot about the first one [18:06] so i messed that up [18:07] what are your thoughts on that? [18:07] should we hold regular irc meetings? [18:07] maybe monthly? [18:08] sounds more likely to work than merge's place [18:08] it works for me [18:08] we are spread all over the dc area [18:08] getting to a physical location is tough [18:08] but irc is easy [18:09] since you're the first person i'm asking, do you have a preferred day / time? [18:09] weekends vs. weekdays [18:09] evenings vs. mornings [18:09] im probably not going to be very involved [18:09] ive mostly quit ubuntu [18:10] except for using kubuntu maverick [18:10] and being one of the few folks to log on to our irc channel ;-) [18:10] i have ops. someone's gotta kick trolls :P [18:11] ok, good talking to you... teaching duties call [18:11] later === Octane is now known as Guest4575