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ubuntouristShhhhhowtime!14:30
* ubuntourist appears to be on twice...14:31
ubuntouristLast week's thrilling story can be found at http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/09/23/%23ubuntu-us-dc.html14:33
jelknerubuntourist, i'm installing the sweets distribution on a xubuntu 12.04 virtualbox14:35
jelknerWe are sending 30 laptops to a school in Senegal14:36
jelknerhttp://www.openinternational.org/14:36
jelknerthese laptops are meant for children14:37
jelknerso i need to get sugar on them14:37
ubuntouristI got a few more of the TPFF photos up onto the Flickr account.  And promises from one other to move his photos there.  Still waiting to hear back on another set of photos.14:37
jelkneri'm hoping to do that on an ubuntu lts release14:37
jelkneralsroot (who always seems ready to help)14:38
jelknersuggested using sweets14:38
ubuntouristThis week, I attended a talk by one of the six core Raspberry Pi developers who was visiting from England.14:38
jelknerhttp://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution14:38
ubuntouristHe spoke about needing to educate students about technology via Scratch, Python, and -- my personal favorite recommendation -- assembler.14:40
ubuntouristThis week, Cotton Candy also went on sale, and as I recall, was rumored to handle Ubuntu.  A bit pricier than the Raspberry Pi weighing in at about the cost of an XO.  But the size of a USB memory stick...14:41
ubuntouristJohn Knight never got back to me about an InstallFest at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC).14:45
ubuntouristSince he's not teaching the Linux class and the class starts at 4:00 PM, I'd prefer to actually hear that the instructor knows this is being planned, before I commit to leaving early.14:48
ubuntouristRelease party?  Probably time to start thinking about the when and where.  I'd like to involve Leshell Hatley and Rik Goldman, two educators using Ubuntu as their teaching platform, one in SE DC, the other in Silver Spring.  Rik made it to the Raspberry Pi talk and demo at HacDC.14:51
ubuntouristBRB14:51
ubuntouristIt looks like Patrick Timony at MLK Library has a fixed date for the Mini Maker "unFaire" -- November 17 -- and I'll be bringing Ubuntu CDs to distribute.  The Broadband Bridge / wireless mesh crowd MIGHT be there to roll a DISCOvering TECHnology (Disco Tech) Faire into the event.15:03
ubuntouristTo use the name Mini Maker Faire, one must get permission from the folks behind Make magazine, and that apparently takes some lead time and a better plan than what Patrick et al have.  So, they're skirting the legal issue by calling it an unFaire.15:04
ubuntouristAlthough I get the whole "unconference" connection, the choice of "unfaire" doesn't really conjure a positive image for me...15:06
ubuntouristBTW, the Software Freedom Day (SFD) package arrived late -- two days after the official SFD and eight days after our be-earlied event at TPFF.  These being the days of "austerity" ;-) the packet is getting a bit thinner.  A few balloons, three T shirts, and inexplicably, another banner.15:13
ubuntouristThe banner, being of somewhat low quality, was folded in such a way that the paint glued itself together.  Minor damage during the unfolding. Shirts go to N.C. Weber, Sujit Joshi and Chuck Glenn the next time I see them, as they were this year's mainstays at the Franken-shelter.  They can fight over who gets which size.15:15
ubuntouristHullo eridu15:26
jelknerAwesome!  Sugar on Xubuntu 12.04 works.15:56
jelknerhttp://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2012/09/sugarlabs-dc-is-back.html15:56
=== ubuntourist changed the topic of #ubuntu-us-dc to: Next LoCo IRC meeting: 10:30 AM, Sunday, 2012-10-07. Be there! (Today's log at http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/09/30/%23ubuntu-us-dc.html)
ubuntouristShebang!16:00
* ubuntourist drops the gavel16:00
ubuntouristAdjourned.16:00
* ubuntourist has ajourned the meeting.16:00

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