[16:34] <BobJonkman> IRC Meeting tonight, Darcy and I will be IRCing In Real Life at the Almadina Egyptian Cuisine restaurant in Waterloo, seque-ing into Ubuntu Hour Waterloo
[16:35] <BobJonkman> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2012-08-15 followed by http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ca/1860/detail/
[22:47] <BobJonkman> I haz arrived at Almadina's, waiting for the meeting to start...
[23:01] <BobJonkman> We're on!  Just waiting for Darcy's shawarma to arrive...
[23:03] <BobJonkman> Hey everyone, meeting time! khoover ryanakca zul sipherdee dscassel_ jlamothe willwh_ FiReSTaRT bregma KombuchaKip jstacey mars DarwinSurvivor bilal IdleOne egerlach Jaguar azend txwikinger lubotu1 cyphermox
[23:04] <KombuchaKip> Hey folks. My name's Kip. I'm the Avaneya project lead (www.avaneya.com), a cerebral / libre sci-fi game for Ubuntu. I'm based out of White Rock, British Columbia (near Vancouver).
[23:05] <dscassel_> Hi I'm Darcy, II'm in Waterloo and I'm LoCo Contact for Ubuntu Canada.
[23:05] <BobJonkman> I'm Bob Jonkman, Ubuntu enthusiast from Elmira, currently hanging out at Almadina's Egyptian Cuisine restaurant for Ubuntu Hour
[23:07] <dscassel> And oh yeah, I'm with Bob, for our Ubuntu hour. :)
[23:07] <BobJonkman> There's a meeting agenda at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2012-08-15
[23:08] <dscassel> Looks like a slow night. :)
[23:10] <BobJonkman> It's the middle of summer, and a nice night.
[23:10] <BobJonkman> Everybody's camping
[23:10] <BobJonkman> Everybody *else* is camping
[23:12] <FiReSTaRT> hello ladies and gents, just a quick hello from Ilija, casual Ubuntu user on the work desktop, unless you count my main desktop which uses a Ubuntu-based derivative :P
[23:12] <dscassel> Hi Ilija. :)
[23:13] <FiReSTaRT> hey Darcy, what's shakin? :)
[23:13] <dscassel> Anyone else who comes in is welcome to introduce themselves as well.  Should probably get started.
[23:13] <dscassel> FiReSTaRT: Tired. Otherwise good. :)
[23:14] <dscassel> I hear from singpolyma that his Ubuntu install workshop went well.  Not a huge turnout, but things were learned and insights were passed.
[23:14] <BobJonkman> Sadly, I missed it...
[23:14] <FiReSTaRT> any focus on secure boot-enabled devices?
[23:14] <dscassel> Lack of turnout was largely due to lack of advertising, I believe.
[23:15] <dscassel> FiReSTaRT: Are there any yet? This was pretty theoretical, so he might have touched on it.
[23:15] <dscassel> I couldn't be tehre, so I can't say for sure.
[23:15] <FiReSTaRT> i'm not sure either but it's definitely a concern
[23:15] <FiReSTaRT> ubuntu installs are stupid-easy as they are now
[23:16] <FiReSTaRT> but secure boot could complicate things for Joe "My Cupholder's Broken" Schmoe
[23:16] <dscassel> His idea was to step through an install, but also talk about what was happening under the covers.
[23:17] <dscassel> His pitch was "people don't even know that you *can* install an operating system."
[23:18] <dscassel> FiReSTaRT: Yup, we're going to hav eto see how tha tpans out.  You've read the Ubuntu statement abuot what the plans are, I assume?
[23:18] <FiReSTaRT> good pitch considering the category of upcoming new users that will be coming in droves and mostly flocking to the ubuntu brand
[23:18] <FiReSTaRT> darcy: nope but i'll give it a whirl now :)
[23:19] <FiReSTaRT> ahh ok there will be a key.. not too surprising
[23:20] <FiReSTaRT> but no grub2 :(
[23:21] <dscassel> Yeah, I'm fairly confident Mr Cupholder Schmoe will be accommodated, but there are concerns from the Free Software community about how Ubuntu is going to handle it.
[23:21] <BobJonkman> Something better than Grub2, I hope
[23:22] <BobJonkman> And System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner was a success: http://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/2012/08/14/sysadminday-dinner-pictures/
[23:25] <dscassel> Yay!
[23:25] <FiReSTaRT> good stuff
[23:25] <BobJonkman> Mostly WIndows admins, but at least one other Linux admin!
[23:28] <FiReSTaRT> cent?
[23:29] <BobJonkman> Maybe. Don't recall.  Tim's a KWLUG member,so I can ask him at the next meeting
[23:29] <FiReSTaRT> sorry gents unexpected visitor gotta split
[23:30] <dscassel> The KW Ubuntu Hours are still going strong, although bot are switching venues.
[23:30] <dscassel> No problem, FiReSTaRT
[23:30]  * dscassel had to switch Internet connections.
[23:32] <dscassel> The Global Jam is coming up Sept. 7-9.
[23:33] <dscassel> I haven't confirmed our plans yet, but I'm guessing Sept. 8 at 4pm in Kwartzlab.
[23:34] <BobJonkman> Yay!  I'll work on LoCo event entries.
[23:35] <dscassel> t may be a somewhat laid back affair, as I have several other things to plan for...
[23:38] <BobJonkman> Software Freedom Day in KW will be on 22 September, run by The Working Centre. It's a week later than the official SFD to avoid conflict with other KW events
[23:39]  * BobJonkman just received official Ubuntu CDs for distribution at SFD
[23:41] <dscassel> Release party is coming up, but we'll talk about that next month....
[23:41] <dscassel> (or  Iwill... i fyou want, you can...)
[23:42] <BobJonkman> Release party in October; FSOSS in October.  They can wait for a month when we may have some more activity in the meeting
[23:43] <dscassel> I have a feeling I won't be going to FSOSS.  They've gone back to a weekday schedule.
[23:46] <BobJonkman> I confess I've been slack on Team Reports and even the last meeting's minutes.
[23:46] <BobJonkman> I see meetingology is in the room; wish I'd learned to use it before the meeting
[23:46] <BobJonkman> Thanx for that by way, IdleOne
[23:47] <dscassel> Just pinged ubuntu-locoteams to see if we need to do reports.
[23:48] <dscassel> Re: website, I haven't heard anything from txwikinger at all.
[23:48] <dscassel> If we have volunteers, of course, he's willing to hand them the keys.
[23:51] <dscassel> In other news, I found out recently that Charles McColm (chaslinux), the guy who runs the Kitchener ubuntu hour, is a regular contributor to Full Circle magazine.
[23:52] <BobJonkman> How enamoured are we of using Drupal on the http://ubuntu-ca.org site?
[23:55] <dscassel> Unless anyone has anything (anyone?) that pretty much does it.
[23:56] <BobJonkman> I think that does it, then...
[23:56] <BobJonkman> Next meeting?
[23:58] <dscassel> Next Ubuntu hour!  19th Sept.