[00:59] <MarkDude> Eclipse right now
[00:59] <MarkDude> Take a pair of binoculars, point the big part at the sun
[00:59] <MarkDude> focus the eye part at a wall or paper
[00:59] <MarkDude> you get a safe reflection to look at
[01:19] <grantbow> I remember there was a big one in 1985/1986. lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_20th_century
[01:19] <grantbow> err, a couple
[01:21] <grantbow> so this is an annular. interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_21st_century
[01:50] <pleia2> meeting in 10 minutes :)
[01:51]  * jtatum flails his arms
[01:56] <DonkeyHotei> my eyes are still not 100% after watching the eclipse out the window
[01:58] <pleia2> my eyeballs are ok
[01:59] <DonkeyHotei> i've been staring straight at it wearing shades
[01:59] <pleia2> I think that's #1 on ways not to watch the eclipse ;)
[01:59] <pleia2> #2 is wearing 2 pairs
[01:59] <pleia2> hehe
[02:00] <pleia2> ok, meeting time!
[02:00] <pleia2> #startmeeting
[02:00] <pleia2> who all is here for the meeting? :)
[02:01] <pleia2> not everyone at once :P
[02:02] <jtatum> o/
[02:02] <pleia2> woohoo
[02:02] <jtatum> one guy! hehe
[02:02] <pleia2> ok, so agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/12May20
[02:03] <pleia2> #topic UDS Wrap up
[02:03] <pleia2> so, UDS in Oakland was awesome :)
[02:04] <pleia2> I didn't get nearly enough "I'm a local" buttons, I ran out early on Monday
[02:04] <jtatum> agree. quite busy but very nice.
[02:04] <pleia2> we had lots of local folks, many of them I hadn't met :)
[02:04] <scientes> dat solar eclipse is pretty cool and almost over
[02:04]  * jledbetter is here too
[02:05] <scientes> anyone that hasn't looked at it
[02:05] <pleia2> scientes: we're having a meeting ;)
[02:05] <scientes> DonkeyHotei, you need the cool-ass solar glasses
[02:05] <scientes> oh well i guess im in
[02:05] <pleia2> there were lots of great events that the team and other locals put on
[02:06] <pleia2> Michael Paoli did a Debian Dinner on Wednesday, I took some folks out touristing in SF (the cable cars were a huge hit),
[02:06] <pleia2> then on Thursday MarkDude took a bunch of people to an A's game (and I did an Ubuntu Women dinner at my home)
[02:06] <scientes> I was at the debian dinner !
[02:06] <pleia2> cool
[02:06] <scientes> cool discussions
[02:07] <pleia2> we usually have them in SF after an Ubuntu Hour, so Oakland during UDS was a nice change of pace
[02:07] <pleia2> I wish I could have gone
[02:07] <scientes> best topic was the Packet in Packet
[02:07] <jtatum> sounds fun. all the evenings seemed quite overbooked :)
[02:07] <pleia2> jtatum helped me with touristing in SF, so he couldn't go either
[02:08] <pleia2> yeah, there were official events every night too, first time I've seen that at a UDS actually
[02:08] <scientes> packet in packet: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4766.en.html
[02:08] <pleia2> usually there are a couple nights that are free
[02:08] <DonkeyHotei> gah, black on the screen still looks purplish blue to me
[02:09] <pleia2> jono really liked the idea of local buttons (or stickers) so I'm hoping it'll continue to the next loco team when UDS is elsewhere
[02:09] <scientes> except you needed more buttons
[02:09] <jledbetter> Good idea
[02:09] <pleia2> and I encouraged him to engage the loco teams more, we didn't get any real communication or feedback from canonical until after we'd done stuff (the transportation page that eps and chris helped with was very popular)
[02:09] <pleia2> scientes: yeah :)
[02:10] <pleia2> I was paying for them out of pocket at $2 each, so getting more than 15 would have been hard for me
[02:10] <pleia2> but stickers are cheaper!
[02:10] <pleia2> or if Canonical could have paid for them ;)
[02:10] <geofft> I would have gladly given you $2 for a button :(
[02:10] <scientes> I would have been OK with a sticker
[02:11] <scientes> you could put in on the name badges and that would have been fine and worked
[02:11] <pleia2> I didn't actually know how popular the buttons would be
[02:11] <pleia2> scientes: yeah
[02:12] <pleia2> so, thanks for everyone who was available to give directions and help out UDS folks, I think we were a pretty good host loco :)
[02:12] <jtatum> agree. got and answered lots of questions about our confusing transportation system :)
[02:12] <pleia2> but effective!
[02:13] <pleia2> eps got me 25 clipper cards, I was able to give them all out to people who used them
[02:13] <jtatum> yes, seems it worked out. must have been quite nice for visitors to be a quick trip from the city.
[02:13] <pleia2> and we gave the woman at AC Transit who hooked us up with the cards a UDS t-shirt :)
[02:13] <DonkeyHotei> eps got them? figures...
[02:14] <scientes> ooh, i really would loved to have one of those clipper cards
[02:14] <scientes> that would have helped me alot
[02:15] <pleia2> I emailed the uds-announce list about them so people could track me down
[02:15] <pleia2> gave out my last one Wednesday night when we went out touristing
[02:15] <pleia2> that's pretty much all I had, good work everyone!
[02:15] <pleia2> jdeslip ran a Linux table at Maker Faire this weekend and I know some of us went out, anyone here who made it out?
[02:16] <scientes> yeah i really could have used one of those
[02:16] <jledbetter> I saw the booth
[02:16]  * pleia2 was mostly stuck doing work and grown up things all weekend, no Maker Faire
[02:16]  * scientes thought of going
[02:16] <pleia2> I dropped off some CDs with jdeslip last weekend at BerkeleyLUG though
[02:16] <jtatum> worked there on saturday. it was really neat. a lot of ubuntu cds got handed out
[02:16] <pleia2> jtatum: yay!
[02:17] <jtatum> grantbow put in a lot of hours there and did a great job selling Ubuntu :)
[02:17] <pleia2> as he does :)
[02:17] <jtatum> jyo was there on Sunday in full Ubuntu garb
[02:17] <scientes> ooo, that would have been a great arrangement if i could have done that
[02:17] <pleia2> haha, awesome
[02:17] <scientes> the cost of the Maker Faire kinda put me off...
[02:17] <scientes> even though transportation would have cost about as much
[02:17] <jtatum> aw. it was excellent, scientes.
[02:18] <pleia2> scientes: are you on the ubuntu-us-ca mailing list? jdeslip had a couple of passes that he gave out to ubuntu california folks who could volunteer at the booth
[02:18] <scientes> but it was sure fun walking about downtown here with eclipse glasses and getting reactions ;)
[02:18] <scientes> pleia2, yeah ill sign up, u got a link?
[02:18] <pleia2> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[02:18] <pleia2> so, for next time :)
[02:19] <pleia2> I also announce the debian dinners there
[02:20] <pleia2> thanks for the details on Maker Fair jtatum :)
[02:20] <pleia2> #topic any other comments, questions, announcements?
[02:21] <pleia2> scientes: get the link? https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[02:21] <scientes> ugggh, i've really gotta track down what is causing these auto-reboots
[02:21] <scientes> i've meant to setup kexec-on-oops crash dumps for a while now.....
[02:22] <pleia2> I should actually get a meeting bot in here so these commands mean something
[02:23] <pleia2> ok, thanks everyone!
[02:23] <pleia2> have a good night
[02:23] <pleia2> #endmeeting
[02:23] <scientes> that was quick
[02:24] <pleia2> usually is
[02:24] <jtatum> thanks again pleia2 :)
[02:24] <pleia2> ok, off for sushi now!
[02:24] <pleia2> sure :)
[02:24] <jtatum> i can toss a meetingbot in here
[02:25] <scientes> i got my first patch into mozilla :)
[02:25] <nhaines> pleia2: oops, missed the meeting because I was staring at the sun!  Wanted to request precise CDs.  :)
[02:25] <nhaines> scientes: congrats!
[02:25] <scientes> nhaines, 32-bit?
[02:26] <nhaines> scientes: I think that's all they come in, yup.
[02:26] <nhaines> Usually the Desktop CDs are 32-bit and the Server CDs are 64-bit.
[02:26] <scientes> yep
[02:26] <scientes> there were a ton at the UDS
[02:29] <nhaines> I'll ping her again after she has sushi.
[02:47] <MarkDude> Oreilly can hook people up with tickets with an advanced warning
[02:47] <MarkDude> They were half the door price if you got them ahead of time
[02:51] <scientes> MarkDude, i should have known
[02:51] <scientes> then i would have gone
[02:52] <MarkDude> They also will send books to groups
[02:52] <MarkDude> Like Ubuntu Cali for example
[02:52] <scientes> oOo
[02:52] <scientes> that would be nice
[02:52] <scientes> i need a good C book
[02:52] <scientes> and maybe C++ too
[02:52] <MarkDude> They should have sumthin :)
[02:53] <scientes> I should also get my parents to send me my nice Ruby book.....;)
[02:53]  * MarkDude cant ask for this group. But can for Partimus, or sumthin. 
[02:53] <MarkDude> Oreilly likes people to review and post books
[02:54]  * MarkDude has a volunteer that has got books from them,  read, reviewed and been happy. I should call him and see what else he was hoping to read
[02:56] <MarkDude> One of the triumvirate can ask for the books if I remember correctly. After that is done, a person or 2 can be made the *book person*.
[02:56] <MarkDude> It would make sense to have Nor and So Cal do it as regions
[05:02] <scientes> MarkDude, so what do i do to procede with a book ask?
[05:03] <scientes> *solicit
[05:03] <MarkDude> Well, this is my guess at how to do it and keep everyone happy.
[05:04] <MarkDude> put it on next meeting or ask the 3 leads of the Cali team
[05:04] <MarkDude> We had talked about it before, Im not sure what was worked out
[05:05]  * MarkDude was under the understanding they were cool with the idea, but did not have time to handle logistics
[05:05] <MarkDude> I wonder if there is a wiki page for the team. That would be what I would do 1st is create a page for it.
[05:06] <MarkDude> with 2 headings of Nor and So Cal
[05:06] <MarkDude> If So Cal wants to divide into inland Empire and San Diego or LA or whatever they can.
[05:08] <MarkDude> Come up with a wishlist of books to put on the page.
[05:08] <MarkDude> scientes, are you cool with wiki markup? If not I can help , Im ok with it :)
[05:09] <scientes> MarkDude, i'm VERY use to wikipedia markup
[05:09] <scientes> but its not very portable, even to other wikimedia sites
[05:09] <MarkDude> Fair enough.
[05:10] <scientes> otherwise there is the hockuspocus of other standards, like markdown, redcloth, etc
[05:10] <scientes> and <html> of course
[05:10]  * MarkDude tries to remind himself that some folks might be new to this. If I did not do that, I would not be sharing the spirit of Ubuntu ;)
[05:10] <scientes> however i think the new wikimedia rich text editor is promising
[05:10] <scientes> and look forward to using it
[05:10]  * MarkDude does moin and mediawiki
[05:11] <MarkDude> and thatas about it :D
[05:11] <scientes> although when i tried it out it was pretty buggy
[05:11] <scientes> nah its a good answer
[05:11] <scientes> it might be behind the reason that 90% of wikipedia contributes are male (!!!!)
[05:37] <pleia2> nhaines: same address as usual? I'll get them out in the next few days
[08:04] <nhaines> pleia2: yup, should work.  Thanks!
[08:04] <nhaines> pleia2: also happy sushi!
[19:59] <paulproteus> scientes: I wasn't, but now I am
[19:59] <paulproteus> Mostly took a weekend vacation from IRC.
[19:59] <scientes> cool cool
[19:59] <scientes> u see the solar eclipse?
[23:47] <paulproteus> scientes: Yes!