[03:01] <snap-l> Evening.
[03:02] <snap-l> I'm Craig Maloney from the Ubuntu US MI group. Was wondering if you folks were planning on setting up a booth at OLF, and if the Michigan Team could help pool some resources together.
[03:59] <paultag> snap-l: :)
[03:59] <paultag> snap-l: How's it going?
[03:59] <snap-l> Good, yourselves?
[03:59] <paultag> me and the voices in my head are doing well, thanks!
[04:00] <paultag> snap-l: As for the OLF booth, I'm not sure. I've not heard much from the folks in Ohio :)
[04:00] <paultag> I'm making the trip out, and we'll at least have a Debian hackathon somewhere one of the days
[04:00] <snap-l>  paultag Very cool
[04:00] <paultag> but I think no one steped up to do the booth thing :'(
[04:00] <snap-l> Hmm. Anyone who I can contact?
[04:01] <paultag> snap-l: Sure, Cheri703, gilbert, jacob, should know what's going on, at the least
[04:01] <paultag> snap-l: I can send you their contact, but they all have public addresses on lp
[04:01] <snap-l> OK, cool
[04:02] <paultag> it'd be cool seeing you again!
[04:02] <snap-l> Yeah, saw you were coming out on the mailing list
[04:02] <snap-l> Always a highlight to see you, dude.
[04:02] <paultag> aww, thanks :)
[04:02] <paultag> Yeah, it should be a blast. I love OLF
[04:03] <paultag> such a great event, and I love getting back to Ohio, I miss it so much
[04:03]  * Cheri703 actually has no idea >_>
[04:03] <paultag> that must mean it's not going on :)
[04:04] <snap-l> Yeah, that sounds like it
[04:04] <Cheri703> well, I'm not in cbus, so it's possible gilbert and itsafork have something figured out (I took jacob's seat)
[04:04] <Cheri703> I don't know if I'm going to make it to OLF :/
[04:04] <paultag> Oh duh, itsafork
[04:04] <paultag> where the heck is he
[04:05] <paultag> crap! I need to follow up about the debian BSP. One moment, need to nag
[04:05] <snap-l> nag away.
[04:05] <Cheri703> no idea :s I was basically radio silent for several months, gilbert hasn't been around much, haven't seen itsafork either. Also, if things have been coming through the u-ohio list, I haven't been getting any/many? not sure if not getting or none coming
[04:05] <paultag> snap-l: ah, it's all over email, I was trying to get a room :)
[04:05] <paultag> I didn't see anything, Cheri703
[04:06] <paultag> I don't think it was planned for
[04:06] <Cheri703> ok
[04:06] <Cheri703> :/
[04:07]  * Cheri703 apologizes for falling down on the job for a while
[04:07] <snap-l> no apologies necessary
[04:07] <paultag> yeah, totally, it's on all of us, teamwork makes the dream work.
[04:07] <snap-l> I think a few groups are going through burn0out, honestly.
[04:08] <paultag> yeah, Ubuntu's seen a pretty big brain-drain after this whole Unity thing and related stuff, sadly
[04:08] <paultag> which puts more load on others, which burns out, which puts load on others, and burns them out too :)
[04:08] <snap-l> heh
[04:09] <Cheri703> I was just working in a soul-killing job that drained my will to do basically anything :s
[04:09] <paultag> :(
[04:09] <Cheri703> BUT NOT ANYMORE! \O/
[04:09] <paultag> :D
[04:10] <snap-l> less soul killing?
[04:10] <snap-l> Ora are you working for Soul Train now? :)
[04:10] <Cheri703> awesome job now
[04:10] <Cheri703> support engineer for www.thehackeracademy.com
[04:10] <snap-l> Oh, nice!
[04:11] <Cheri703> yeah, it is a great group of people
[04:12] <paultag> alright, I'm going to clean up this kruft I've got sitting on my drive and head to bed. Night, Cheri703, snap-l - see you soon, and great to hear from you (slash -us-mi!)
[04:12] <Cheri703> night paultag
[04:12] <paultag> o/
[04:13] <snap-l> laterness.
[06:36] <Cheri703> random note for those still in here or who might read the scrollback: I applied for UDS Sponsorship earlier this week, and one of the things I mentioned in my application is my goal to talk to folks from other LoCos and get ideas for engaging a small group that is widely spread. So hopefully if that all happens, we can get some life back in things.
[06:48] <toddc> Cheri703: let us know how that goes or other ideas
[06:49] <Cheri703> definitely! it is hard because a. ohio isn't exactly a hotbed of tech enthusiasm, b. we are spread really far apart, c. life happens a lot. So I hope to talk to folks both from the "hey, we have like 30 people show up to our single city events" and the "our loco is for our entire country, we have 20 members total" groups
[06:50] <toddc> all the loco's I talk to are weaker than we want. I have been in talks with CA to work on some events together
[06:52] <toddc> AZ survives only due to support and working with other local linux groups
[07:01] <Cheri703> yeah, I want to get a variety of methods. some areas are just easier than others.
[07:01] <Cheri703> well, I am off to bed. have a good night
[07:02] <toddc> night