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nUboon2age3Over at the Ubuntu Hour: San Jose that James McClain is running today. Panera Bread at Coleman and Taylor (started at 2pm) till 6pm. A couple of folks just first getting exposed to Ubuntu came by earlier and talked to James. James helped one fellow fix his GRUB2 setup. :-)00:03
nUboon2age3James is now working on a Google presentation on steps to fix wifi.  He helped me and another new fellow, Bill the other day at the Ubuntu Hour: De Anza .  James has got some skillz going(!)00:04
nUboon2age3:-)00:06
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Chocksgreetings18:53
grantbowChocks: greetings19:58
Chockshello from Oakland/Lafayette19:58
grantbowI was in Lamorinda for 30 years :-)19:59
grantbowhello19:59
Chocksit's full of "well preserved" women19:59
grantbowlol20:00
Chockswhere are you now?20:06
* MarkDude went to school in Lafayette20:11
ChocksI merely work here. It's not somewhere I'd care to live20:12
MarkDudeUnderstood20:26
MarkDudeWe called it Lala land20:27
ChocksI bet20:27
* MarkDude spent much of his other growing up time - in Santa Cruz. Helped keep me from being too much of a golf course D Bag20:27
MarkDudeIt was nice- dont get me wrong20:27
Chockssure20:27
MarkDudeJust hella sheltered20:27
Chocksyeah, you need to live in hardcore Oakland20:28
MarkDudeSo I went to SC for danger excitement , and basic rules breaking20:28
* MarkDude worked in East Oakland as mechanic for a while20:28
Chocksright20:28
MarkDudeIt was eye-opening at the time20:28
MarkDudeMakes on less naive20:28
* grantbow nods20:29
ChocksI live in JLS20:29
MarkDudeJLS?20:32
ChocksJack London Square20:32
ChocksI have a fancy view of the train station20:32
MarkDudeOh, nice area20:32
Chockssome of it :o20:32
MarkDudegood music, food and scene20:33
Chockslots of empty warehouses too20:33
MarkDudeWell - yes, the other part is what I just call *excitement*20:33
ChocksI lived on 17th St during Occupy20:33
Chocksmedia copters would sit over my appt.20:34
MarkDudeAre you new to the group?20:58
* MarkDude is off and on- so not too up to date20:58
ChocksI joined the UbuntuSV group on meetup recently, but it's a bit too far for me to go, and I belong to too many meetups now20:59
* MarkDude is Ubuntu FOSS supporter- as well as being known as the Fedora guy (dont judge me for being evill )20:59
ChocksI've been using Debian for ~15 years (I think)20:59
MarkDudeEasy to do with meetups20:59
MarkDudeso many choices here20:59
ChocksUbuntu 7 I guess20:59
ChocksI went to the Ubuntu conf 2 years ago in Orlando20:59
MarkDudegrantbow, we need to meet up to do some OLPC stuff21:00
MarkDudeI gots a braintrust lined up21:00
* MarkDude went to UDS when it was in Oaksterdam21:00
ChocksI saw a story today about OLPC/Ethoipian kids hacking android21:00
MarkDudeGood times21:00
* MarkDude wants to get some FOSS folsk to help a bit more with OLPC21:01
MarkDudegrantbow, has been doing it for a while21:01
ChocksTBH, I burnt myself out on FOSS.  These days, it's enough to keep up with what I need for work.  OpenWrt, mainly.21:01
MarkDudeFoss can do that21:05
ChocksFirefox source is a big steaming pile21:05
* MarkDude had to scale back the amount of projects I am involved with21:05
MarkDudeAll browsers sorta suck21:06
MarkDudehas to do with flash21:06
MarkDudeShittiness across platforms....21:06
MarkDudeSry crapiness21:06
Chocksyes, however Mozilla source is templates top to bottom21:06
Chockslayers and layers of code21:06

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