[00:03] <nUboon2age3> Over 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. :-)
[00:04] <nUboon2age3> James 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(!)
[00:06] <nUboon2age3> :-)
[18:53] <Chocks> greetings
[19:58] <grantbow> Chocks: greetings
[19:58] <Chocks> hello from Oakland/Lafayette
[19:59] <grantbow> I was in Lamorinda for 30 years :-)
[19:59] <grantbow> hello
[19:59] <Chocks> it's full of "well preserved" women
[20:00] <grantbow> lol
[20:06] <Chocks> where are you now?
[20:11]  * MarkDude went to school in Lafayette
[20:12] <Chocks> I merely work here. It's not somewhere I'd care to live
[20:26] <MarkDude> Understood
[20:27] <MarkDude> We called it Lala land
[20:27] <Chocks> I bet
[20:27]  * MarkDude spent much of his other growing up time - in Santa Cruz. Helped keep me from being too much of a golf course D Bag
[20:27] <MarkDude> It was nice- dont get me wrong
[20:27] <Chocks> sure
[20:27] <MarkDude> Just hella sheltered
[20:28] <Chocks> yeah, you need to live in hardcore Oakland
[20:28] <MarkDude> So I went to SC for danger excitement , and basic rules breaking
[20:28]  * MarkDude worked in East Oakland as  mechanic for a while
[20:28] <Chocks> right
[20:28] <MarkDude> It was eye-opening at the time
[20:28] <MarkDude> Makes on less naive
[20:29]  * grantbow nods
[20:29] <Chocks> I live in JLS
[20:32] <MarkDude> JLS?
[20:32] <Chocks> Jack London Square
[20:32] <Chocks> I have a fancy view of the train station
[20:32] <MarkDude> Oh, nice area
[20:32] <Chocks> some of it :o
[20:33] <MarkDude> good music, food and scene
[20:33] <Chocks> lots of empty warehouses too
[20:33] <MarkDude> Well - yes, the other part is what I just call *excitement*
[20:33] <Chocks> I lived on 17th St during Occupy
[20:34] <Chocks> media copters would sit over my appt.
[20:58] <MarkDude> Are you new to the group?
[20:58]  * MarkDude is off and on- so not too up to date
[20:59] <Chocks> I 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 now
[20:59]  * MarkDude is Ubuntu FOSS supporter- as well as being known as the Fedora guy (dont judge me for being evill )
[20:59] <Chocks> I've been using Debian for ~15 years (I think)
[20:59] <MarkDude> Easy to do with meetups
[20:59] <MarkDude> so many choices here
[20:59] <Chocks> Ubuntu 7 I guess
[20:59] <Chocks> I went to the Ubuntu conf 2 years ago in Orlando
[21:00] <MarkDude> grantbow, we need to meet up to do some OLPC stuff
[21:00] <MarkDude> I gots a braintrust lined up
[21:00]  * MarkDude went to UDS when it was in Oaksterdam
[21:00] <Chocks> I saw a story today about OLPC/Ethoipian kids hacking android
[21:00] <MarkDude> Good times
[21:01]  * MarkDude wants to get some FOSS folsk to help a bit more with OLPC
[21:01] <MarkDude> grantbow, has been doing it for a while
[21:01] <Chocks> TBH, I burnt myself out on FOSS.  These days, it's enough to keep up with what I need for work.  OpenWrt, mainly.
[21:05] <MarkDude> Foss can do that
[21:05] <Chocks> Firefox source is a big steaming pile
[21:05]  * MarkDude had to scale back the amount of projects I am involved with
[21:06] <MarkDude> All browsers sorta suck
[21:06] <MarkDude> has to do with flash
[21:06] <MarkDude> Shittiness across platforms....
[21:06] <MarkDude> Sry crapiness
[21:06] <Chocks> yes, however Mozilla source is templates top to bottom
[21:06] <Chocks> layers and layers of code