| cairne | hello? | 03:46 |
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| thefinn93 | hello! | 03:48 |
| cairne | Oh wow the channel is live | 03:56 |
| cairne | I am looking for an active linux community in wa. | 03:59 |
| thefinn93 | lol | 04:13 |
| thefinn93 | this channel is not live | 04:14 |
| thefinn93 | and i gotta go | 04:14 |
| creftos | So what's the deal with this channel? | 23:20 |
| valorie | hi creftos | 23:24 |
| valorie | the deal? | 23:24 |
| valorie | this is the official channel for the Washington state ubuntu users | 23:24 |
| creftos | oh neato | 23:24 |
| creftos | I just sent a request to join the group | 23:25 |
| valorie | however, since we don't have anybody currently who has time to take up leadership | 23:25 |
| creftos | on launchpad | 23:25 |
| valorie | it's pretty much social only | 23:25 |
| creftos | right on | 23:25 |
| valorie | we're not official with Ubuntu | 23:25 |
| valorie | yet | 23:25 |
| valorie | since we don't have many real-life functions | 23:26 |
| creftos | I see | 23:26 |
| valorie | but that could change with some leadership and energy | 23:26 |
| * valorie used to have the time, right now does not | 23:26 | |
| creftos | Well I'm somewhat new-ish to linux | 23:26 |
| valorie | oh cool | 23:27 |
| creftos | I've been using it sporadically over the last few years, but only recently been trying to delve more deeply | 23:27 |
| valorie | I'm a long-time user, but rather new to being involved with the community | 23:27 |
| valorie | my current time, such as it is, goes to KDE | 23:27 |
| valorie | and visiting my dad in his nursing home | 23:28 |
| creftos | I see | 23:28 |
| creftos | I've also been trying to find an open source project to work on | 23:28 |
| creftos | I guess the two main things I've been using that are open source are ubuntu and eclipse | 23:28 |
| valorie | eclipse the IDE? | 23:29 |
| creftos | Yes | 23:29 |
| valorie | ah, I wasn't aware that was still widely used | 23:29 |
| valorie | or being developed | 23:29 |
| creftos | what do you develop in? | 23:29 |
| valorie | I'm a writer and community person | 23:29 |
| creftos | oh right on | 23:30 |
| valorie | when i was thinking about how to get involved, I became active here and in Amarok | 23:30 |
| valorie | and ended up writing the Amarok Handbook | 23:30 |
| creftos | very nice | 23:30 |
| valorie | it's been a lot of fun | 23:30 |
| valorie | where in Washington state are you, creftos? | 23:31 |
| * valorie lives south of Seattle | 23:31 | |
| creftos | Bremerton. Looking to move to the seattle area. | 23:31 |
| valorie | near Black Diamond, if you've heard of that | 23:31 |
| valorie | ah, Bremerton is nice | 23:31 |
| creftos | yes I have actually | 23:31 |
| creftos | off hwy 18, right? | 23:32 |
| valorie | I had a great-uncle who lived there for many years, working at the shipyards | 23:32 |
| valorie | yes | 23:32 |
| creftos | yeah, a lot of people here either work for the shipyard or the navy | 23:32 |
| valorie | on the way to the mountain | 23:32 |
| creftos | So what do groups generally do? | 23:33 |
| creftos | or what have you guys done in the past? | 23:33 |
| valorie | release parties, bug days, free software days | 23:33 |
| valorie | we have a booth at linuxfest northwest | 23:33 |
| valorie | and have had one/cooperated with ubuntu oregon at OSCON | 23:34 |
| valorie | etc. | 23:34 |
| creftos | What exactly are bugdays? | 23:34 |
| valorie | there is an official one, which we did last year | 23:35 |
| valorie | we got together at a local library and tested out the beta ISOs | 23:35 |
| valorie | that was cool, but a lot of work setting it up, then I had only one guy show up | 23:35 |
| creftos | so basically finding and filing bug reports? | 23:35 |
| creftos | aww | 23:35 |
| valorie | testing and yes, filing bug reports | 23:36 |
| creftos | right on | 23:36 |
| valorie | but sometimes people can do patches too | 23:36 |
| valorie | which is always awesome | 23:36 |
| valorie | this year I just don't have the time/energy | 23:36 |
| valorie | with my dad as he is | 23:36 |
| valorie | so we need someone/a few folks to step up | 23:37 |
| valorie | or continue as we are, which is sort of a holding pattern | 23:37 |
| valorie | anyway, nice talking to you but my husband wants to go out for dinner | 23:37 |
| creftos | alright | 23:38 |
| creftos | thanks for the info! | 23:38 |
| * valorie disconnects for now...... | 23:38 | |
| valorie | hang out with us! | 23:38 |
| valorie | we'll eventually make something happen | 23:38 |
| creftos | that would be great | 23:38 |
| valorie | :-) | 23:38 |
| valorie | yup | 23:39 |
| valorie | it's a great group, lots of fun | 23:39 |
| valorie | we just need more people | 23:39 |
| valorie | bye for now | 23:39 |
| creftos | see ya | 23:39 |
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