[14:30] <ubuntourist> Shhhhhowtime!
[14:31]  * ubuntourist appears to be on twice...
[14:33] <ubuntourist> Last week's thrilling story can be found at http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/09/23/%23ubuntu-us-dc.html
[14:35] <jelkner> ubuntourist, i'm installing the sweets distribution on a xubuntu 12.04 virtualbox
[14:36] <jelkner> We are sending 30 laptops to a school in Senegal
[14:36] <jelkner> http://www.openinternational.org/
[14:37] <jelkner> these laptops are meant for children
[14:37] <jelkner> so i need to get sugar on them
[14:37] <ubuntourist> I 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] <jelkner> i'm hoping to do that on an ubuntu lts release
[14:38] <jelkner> alsroot (who always seems ready to help)
[14:38] <jelkner> suggested using sweets
[14:38] <ubuntourist> This week, I attended a talk by one of the six core Raspberry Pi developers who was visiting from England.
[14:38] <jelkner> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution
[14:40] <ubuntourist> He spoke about needing to educate students about technology via Scratch, Python, and -- my personal favorite recommendation -- assembler.
[14:41] <ubuntourist> This 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...
[14:45] <ubuntourist> John Knight never got back to me about an InstallFest at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC).
[14:48] <ubuntourist> Since 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.
[14:51] <ubuntourist> Release 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] <ubuntourist> BRB
[15:03] <ubuntourist> It 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.
[15:04] <ubuntourist> To 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.
[15:06] <ubuntourist> Although I get the whole "unconference" connection, the choice of "unfaire" doesn't really conjure a positive image for me...
[15:13] <ubuntourist> BTW, 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.
[15:15] <ubuntourist> The 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.
[15:26] <ubuntourist> Hullo eridu
[15:56] <jelkner> Awesome!  Sugar on Xubuntu 12.04 works.
[15:56] <jelkner> http://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2012/09/sugarlabs-dc-is-back.html
[16:00] <ubuntourist> Shebang!
[16:00]  * ubuntourist drops the gavel
[16:00] <ubuntourist> Adjourned.
[16:00]  * ubuntourist has ajourned the meeting.