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JoseeAntonioRjono: ping00:25
jonohey JoseeAntonioR00:25
JoseeAntonioRjono: hey, tomorrow I'll be starting the hangout 10-15 mins before to set everything up, to confirm the stream starts at 10:30 your time00:27
jonothanks so much JoseeAntonioR00:28
jonoman, you rock!00:28
JoseeAntonioR:)00:28
dakerAfter France now Qatar is coming to the USA http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/al-jazeera-said-to-be-acquiring-current-tv/00:51
mhall119I've seen articles about the ubuntu phone on at least two "What's hot" promoted articles on G+, which means we're reaching people who don't even follow Ubuntu stuff02:04
bkerensamhall119: CNN bashed the platform pretty hard02:22
philipballewhttp://money.cnn.com/2013/01/02/technology/mobile/ubuntu-smartphone-linux/02:34
jcastromeh02:45
jcastrothat's like "why is apple even trying, everyone is using blackberries and symbian."02:45
jcastro"why is google trying everyone is using iphones."02:45
bkerensajcastro: everyone is not using iphones :) Android outsells iPhone 5 to 203:02
bkerensajcastro: and it doesn't matter what a finance writer for CNN says imho03:02
bkerensa:)03:02
jcastrobkerensa: at the time when android launched iphone was already entrenched03:06
jcastroand it passed it03:06
jcastrothat's my entire point03:06
jcastroit's like people saying "why bother, we have iphone and android" totally forget that not that long ago it was blackberry and symbian; and that changed relatively quickly.03:06
mhall119jcastro: bkerensa: Remember the early reactions to the iPod?03:11
bkerensamhall119: yes03:11
bkerensamhall119: Im not suggesting Ubuntu Phone is disadvantaged03:11
bkerensaI just think the situation is unique in those cases03:11
bkerensaGoogle had billions it made of search03:11
bkerensathats how it defeated Apple and Blackberry and continues to smack down Windows Phone03:12
jcastroI don't think it's a zero sum game03:12
jcastroI wouldn't call any of those things "defeated"03:12
bkerensaNexus 7 is a success... It sold for $199 and they give you $50 back in credit towards apps... its loss leading03:12
bkerensaSo in reality03:12
bkerensagoogle loses on every Nexus 7 that sells03:12
mhall119bkerensa: the article wasn't that bad,really03:12
bkerensamhall119: the headline was03:13
mhall119bkerensa: Apple makes their own Hardware, so OEMs are locked out of that.  Google now owns a phone manufacturer, so they're competing with other OEMs.  Microsoft has only had Nokia so far, and is also entering the hardware business with Surface.  If you're an OEM without your own OS right now, you're probably looking for other options03:14
bkerensaNokia is dying03:14
mhall119probably03:14
bkerensaSamsung and HTC are locked in to Google03:14
bkerensaApple owns Foxconn and China03:14
bkerensaso what does that leave?03:15
mhall119locked in?  I don't think so03:15
bkerensapff03:15
bkerensaSamsung and HTC are making a fortune on Android03:15
mhall119Right now Google needs Samsung as much as Samsung needs google03:15
mhall119Android is only at the top of the market because of Samsung03:15
mhall119looks at handset sales03:15
mhall119Samsung has been given a lot of preference by Google so far03:16
mhall119but now Google has their own hardware division that they paid a fair bit of money for03:16
mhall119I'm betting they're going to use it03:16
jcastroany idea how the lock screen works?03:16
jcastrohe mentioned it doesn't lock03:16
mhall119jcastro: according to the video, it's not a lock screen03:16
jcastrobut like, that can't be right03:16
mhall119why?03:16
jcastrowell, how do you lock your phone then?03:17
mhall119you don't03:17
jcastrothat's the first thing my wife said when she saw that part.03:17
jcastro"so anyone can see my facebook?"03:17
mhall119my DroidX's "lock" screen just takes a swipe to unlock03:17
jcastromine has a pin03:17
mhall119not mine03:18
mhall119I don't think iPhones do either03:18
mhall119at least, not by default03:18
jcastrooh ok03:18
mhall119maybe someone will make a 3rd party lock screen03:18
jcastrowell as long as we can lock it then fine03:18
mhall119it's "locked" in the sense that you can't do anything with a tap03:18
mhall119but unlike my current phone, where a swipe unlocks it and only then can I get to something03:19
mhall119on this, a swipe "unlocks" it *and* gets me what I wanted, with one gesture03:19
mhall119it's not secure, no03:19
mhall119but it's no less secure that what most phones have03:20
jcastrowell I'm sure there will be some locking functionality in there03:20
mhall119most likely03:20
jcastrothat's one nice thing I saw on the surface03:21
mhall119I'm sure someone will invent multi-factor auth using the camera, gps and accelerometers03:21
jcastrothe lock screen is any picture you choose03:21
jcastroand the "code" is your own gesture on top of that pic03:21
mhall119face north, jump twice, then cross your eyes03:21
jcastroso like, you can circle certain people's heads or do whatever03:21
mhall119jcastro: like on Windows 8?03:22
mhall119oh, "saw on the surface", duh03:22
mhall119yeah, that was a neat idea03:22
mhall119man, we are all over the media on this one03:22
* mhall119 tips his hat to the marketing team03:23
jcastrothe indicators are the best part03:24
jcastrothat's really unique03:24
jcastroand makes total sense in hindsight03:24
popeythe welcome screen is gorgeous03:29
popeyand very personal03:29
popeyso shows maybe number of tweets per day you sent, or number of emails per day, or some other thing unique to you03:29
popeyI'm sure someone will make a lock app, maybe we will, but initially the welcome screen is the design we're showing at CES03:29
jcastro"number of mailing lists you closed this month"03:29
popey:D03:29
popeyif it can be programmatically discovered, it can be a source for the welcome screen03:30
jcastrooh nice03:30
popeyhttp://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone/design03:30
jcastroand the round circle thing03:30
popeysee the bit "a phone you can see yourself in"03:30
popeyyes03:30
jcastrowhat does that represent03:30
popeydays of the month03:30
popeyhours of the day03:30
popeywhatever03:30
popeyits somewhat abstract03:31
jcastroah03:31
popeypretty03:31
jcastroand the blobby colored circle things03:31
jcastroprobably generated from my data?03:31
popeyyes, excactly03:31
popeythe blobs are relative based on the results03:31
jcastronod03:31
popeyso 3 tweets = small blob, 100 tweets, big one03:31
jcastrooh cool, "3 km walked"03:31
popeyone of the videos i saw, verge I think, didn't demo the pull down notifications well03:32
popeyhe kinda implied you had to be spot on target to pull them down03:32
popeybut you don't03:32
jcastroI love the made up names for otto and ivanka03:32
popeyyou pull down a little anywhere on the right, and then slide to the right or left to choose an indicator, then down to show it03:33
popeyits really nice03:33
popeyeven things like the design of the tiles, the curve in the corners is reflected in the font03:34
popeyor vice versa ☺03:34
jcastroyeah the font looks great03:34
mhall119popey: the indicators look awesome03:41
mhall119and I *love* how the Unity dash elements translated to the phone03:42
bkerensamhall119: Ubuntu on Desktop in American Store http://i.imgur.com/jZQd6.jpg03:42
bkerensa:D03:42
mhall119bkerensa: sweet, what store is that?03:43
bkerensamhall119: Frys03:43
bkerensabest computer store in the world03:43
bkerensa:)03:43
bkerensamhall119: Frys is like Walmart Supercenter for Geeks03:43
* popey went to frys in palo alto when he was there03:43
popeythe first one I think03:43
bkerensayeah03:44
popeyit was made to look like a chip03:44
bkerensayep03:44
bkerensathats a small one too03:44
bkerensa:)03:44
popeythe entrance had a giant Enter key on it, and the exit had an Escape key03:44
popeyyeah03:44
popeydo like frys03:44
bkerensathe one up here in outside of Portland is probably larger than a Walmart Supercenter03:44
popeyman that was 10 years ago03:45
bkerensapopey: you should go again03:46
bkerensasatisfy the inner geek03:46
popeyheh03:49
popeyat the time I didn't have kids03:49
popeywanted to move out there03:49
czajkowskialoha08:58
cjohnston2212:03
nigelb2313:09
czajkowskipopey: brilliant having richard on talking to webmink!13:36
popeyyeah13:38
czajkowskivery articlate and clear and good13:38
czajkowski:)13:38
* AlanBell is listening to it too13:41
czajkowskithis would have been what I'd have prefered to have seen yesterday for a hangout13:42
czajkowskiinterview and technical13:42
popeyblimey, it's only one day later13:43
popeyless than a day later13:43
czajkowskitis just some feedback :)13:44
popeythat was fun13:49
* AlanBell goes back to watch the first half13:51
czajkowskipopey: cheers for answering gareth was just trying to find out13:57
popey13:57
jcastrook so this phone interview with webmink is good?14:25
czajkowskijcastro: yes14:25
czajkowskivery informative14:25
AlanBellit is OK, he is a very gentle interviewer and got some good information out14:25
czajkowskidon't know if I'd say gentle, more that he's clued in and knows how to be professional on an interview14:27
popeyI would imagine he'd get tougher questions from some others14:29
czajkowskinods14:29
jcastrolol14:30
jcastro"Your detractors, which are, inexpclicably, from the free software community instead of your competitors..."14:31
popeyheh14:31
popeyyeah14:31
jcastrothat is the funniest thing I've heard in a while14:31
mhall119jcastro: +114:34
mhall119we are our own worst critics14:34
imbrandonwe are our loudest, not sure about worst :)14:35
mhall119when the super meat boy thing exploded, someone posted it on the ubuntu and gaming subreddits.  The Ubuntu one was full of people accusing Canonical of all manner of stuff, the gaming one was far more critical of team meat's handling of it14:35
czajkowskiimbrandon: no worst14:35
mhall119imbrandon: I'd say both14:36
imbrandonheh, well ok i conceed14:37
imbrandon:)14:37
popeyWE ARE AWESOME!14:39
popeyIt's all those other fsckers!14:39
jcastromhall119: yeah14:39
imbrandonfrakkers > fsckers :P14:40
jcastrosomeone on /r/linux yesterday from RH was like "we're making a FOSS alternative to PPAs."14:40
jcastroit's like dang dude, it's only been AGPL for 4 years14:40
imbrandonumm isnt LP agpl14:40
imbrandonyea14:40
imbrandongiven the ability for PPA's to make RPM's ala SuSE build service would be nice but yea ...14:41
czajkowskiyou can now have community ARM built ppas also14:42
czajkowskifast builds14:42
czajkowski*faster14:42
jcastropopey: are you pals with webmink? Seems like a good chap to have onair too14:45
popeykinda, online "pals"14:46
popeywe've had him on UUPC before14:46
popeyhe is a good guy to have on, long history14:46
mhall119czajkowski: what do you need to do to build for arm in your ppa?14:47
czajkowskiask me nicely :)14:47
czajkowskihttps://twitter.com/launchpad_net/status/27816057847480320014:48
imbrandonoh nice :)14:48
imbrandonczajkowski: those Calxeda bajillion core boxen doing the builds ?14:51
popeythose calxeda boxes nobody can get hold of ☺14:51
imbrandonheh14:51
imbrandonmy next guess was a room full of Rasbery Pi's :)14:52
jcastroif you need an ARM build we have an AMI for ARM builds that simulates the calxeda box14:52
jcastronice14:52
jcastro"it will be the most open platform in the industry."14:52
nigelbcjohnston: congrats?14:52
imbrandonjcastro: isnt it VERY slow tho ?14:53
cjohnstonnigelb: ehh14:53
czajkowskiimbrandon: narp14:53
nigelbcjohnston: just late to do that? :P14:53
imbrandonlater might be intresting to start some actual arm PPA builds for phone/mobile testing, but for now even my Pi is still sitting in its container it was posted in :)14:56
AlanBellhttp://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/resolution-independence.html is the best feature of the whole announcement, and wasn't mentioned :)14:56
jcastroheh14:57
jcastroAlanBell: yeah, I think leading off with "we're shooting to be the most open" would have stopped some of the haters.14:57
jcastrobut whatever, haters gonna hate14:57
imbrandonAlanBell: thats likely because in reality its very hard, ever develop for iOS ( iPad and iPhone resolution indepdance ) sux and must be well thought out even with nice tools like QML helping14:57
imbrandonin reality just scaling the same UI isnt the best solution most of the time14:58
AlanBellno, it wouldn't help to say that it is the most open unless that was backed up with a bzr repo at the time of the announcement, I am glad they didn't go big on the "open" thing14:58
jcastronah, if it was in a bzr repo people would just complain it wasn't on github. :p14:59
imbrandonhah14:59
AlanBellwhat wasn't stressed enough was that this is for the next generation of phones with octocores and retina displays etc. It was demoed on a phone that google have discontinued sales of and was a bit laggy, but that doesn't matter a bit15:00
AlanBellpeople are thinking that it is supposed to go on the 2011 nexus and not the 2014 monster15:00
imbrandonin fairness it did talk about lower end emerging market devices15:01
AlanBellCanonical need a beast of an operating system to go to the OEMs because the OEMs need to convince the public that they need to buy new more powerful phones15:01
jcastroI have a GN15:02
jcastroand even the unfinished ubuntu thing looks faster than android on my phone15:02
popeyyeah, the goal is two tier, low end and "SUPERRRRR-PHOOOONES!"15:02
jcastrothough I haven't compared it side to side15:02
popeywith capes on or something15:02
* mhall119 wants a caped Ubuntu Phone15:03
JoseeAntonioRhey guys, want to know, who's 'the phone team' conformed by?15:06
czajkowskiconformed?15:07
JoseeAntonioRI mean, which teams are part of 'the phone team'?15:07
JoseeAntonioRor there isn't one yet?15:07
imbrandonmhall119: i just want mine in tights, no cape :)15:08
mhall119imbrandon: TMI15:09
mhall119JoseeAntonioR: it's product strategy15:10
imbrandonlol, in all seriousness /me goes to seek out the preview SDK , bbiab15:10
JoseeAntonioRmhall119: thanks15:10
jcastroThis ad needs upvotes everyone: http://meta.askubuntu.com/a/5685/23516:05
pleia2User Days is happening in early February, so if you know anyone.. :) http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/call-for-instructors-ubuntu-user-days-on-feb-9th-10th-2013/16:05
jcastropleia2: I posted your ad16:05
pleia2thank you!16:05
jcastroneeds like 4 more upvotes to hit the ad rotation though16:05
jcastropleia2: who did your ad? We need to have that person update them for all the events. :)16:06
pleia2it's on the wiki, let's see..16:06
pleia2this guy https://launchpad.net/~htorque16:06
jcastrooh, I know him already16:07
jcastro<316:07
mhall119jono: will be there in a moment16:07
technovikingjcastro: responded to the rt, a beta vB4 theme has been ready forever16:26
jcastroyeah16:29
jcastroalso16:29
jcastroI say we do it like the theme redo16:29
jcastroget it up asap16:29
jcastroand then tweak later16:29
jcastroif we spend back and forth time with IS on the theme prior to that it'll probably take us another 2 years.16:29
technovikingjcastro: no doubt16:31
technovikingjcastro: my free time is less, taking two classes, building a new digital archive for work and training for a marathon. But will be responsive as I can.16:33
* jcastro nods16:33
czajkowskiAlanBell: your day is complete Jan offically likes you now :) https://plus.google.com/112648813199640203443/posts/fyafy8uxYvi17:29
AlanBellgosh17:30
AlanBellcold beer too17:30
AlanBellI updated https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPhone quite a lot earlier17:31
jonojcastro, we should catch up today, maybe after my lunch?17:48
jcastroI have a call right now and a review for tomorrow's call with antonio17:49
jcastroyou want to join in on the juju charm review? I assume that's probably our main topic anyway17:50
mhall119AlanBell: I've added more article links to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPhone17:55
AlanBellsmashing17:56
AlanBelljust need to add a critisism section :)17:58
AlanBelland "in popular culture"17:58
popeyperfect timing18:07
czajkowskiAlanBell: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-phones-in-Ubuntu-for-phones-1776104.html18:08
popeyit is a wiki czajkowski ☺18:08
mhall119popey: is that supposed to be encouraging or discouraging?18:09
czajkowskipopey: am attempting to log off and poke jon to go for spin in the new vroooom vrooom :)18:09
czajkowskiplus still not sure why we're adding all the press stuff to a wiki in the first place :)18:09
mhall119czajkowski: for fun and profit18:09
czajkowskimakes no sense :) but to each their own, as you say tis  a wiki18:11
czajkowskinow vrooo  vrooom time18:11
popeymhall119: i have a t-shirt which has "It *is* a wiki!" on it because in our local LUG people would email the mailing list asking people to fix wiki pages18:11
Pici!itsawiki18:11
ubot2It's a wiki, *you* can edit it18:11
popey18:12
mhall119popey: +118:12
jonoJoseeAntonioR, hey18:14
jonowe are good to go in 15?18:14
JoseeAntonioRjono: hi!18:14
JoseeAntonioRyep, I'm setting up my environment, then the hangout18:15
jonothanks JoseeAntonioR18:15
JoseeAntonioR:)18:15
jonopopey, gonna post to the FB page about the Q+A, can you server take that kind of traffic?18:26
popeyhmmm18:26
popeyprobably not ☺18:26
mhall119jono: be sure to mention th ephone in the post to really hammer it good18:27
popeyhah18:27
jonopopey, ok18:27
jcastrojono: ok my call is over, we can go now if you want too18:29
jonojcastro, videocast now18:29
jcastrooh nm, I see you're busy with other stuff18:30
popeyjono: maybe link to the G+ thing and the webchat thing?18:30
popeyif you see me drop off irc then no, my server can't cope ☺18:31
jcastrohah18:32
popeytop - 18:33:00 up 14 days, 20:07,  3 users,  load average: 0.19, 0.18, 0.1418:33
popeycoping okay18:33
marcoceppicaching caching caching :)18:38
JoseeAntonioRpopey: and according to jetpack, we got 406 hits today19:31
popeyswet19:32
popey*sweet19:32
popeycould probably cope with way more, the VPS didn't really blip much19:32
JoseeAntonioRwe're still waiting for canonical hosting19:35
JoseeAntonioRpopey: it can, on dec 11th it had 4297 hits during a hangout19:42
popeyhaha, nice19:44
popeyi upgraded the vps from 10.04 to 12.04 recently too19:45
popey2 weeks ago19:45
AlanBellczajkowski: Jan officially likes everyone now20:45
mhall119he's such a sweety20:48
daker+1 his post :)20:58
jcastrohey nice21:42
jcastromhall119:21:42
jcastrohttp://ubuntuone.com/2FmwTk0gHwO9CWtPbwFHyt21:42
jcastrolooks like people are already playing around!21:42
mhall119nice21:43
mhall119very nice, actually21:43
mhall119jcastro: where was that posted?21:44
jcastrohttp://www.iloveubuntu.net/how-create-currency-converter-app-ubuntu-phones-step-step-official-guide21:45
bkerensajono: you think you can put me in touch with Canonical's Ubuntu Phone Product Manager?22:02
bkerensaA certain magazine is interested in a article and I would like to know as much as I can if I'm going to write it :)22:02
popeysee pm22:09
jonobkerensa, sure22:11
bkerensajono: popey sent me the details :)22:12
jonobkerensa, coo22:12
jonocool22:12
jonojcastro, all set?22:12
bkerensamy deadline is monday x.x22:12
bkerensa:D22:12
jcastrojono: oh yeah, sure22:13
jcastroG+ me up!22:14
jonojcastro, invite sent22:16
dakermhall119: one small thing here http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/app-developer-cookbook/mobile/currency-converter-phone-app/22:36
daker"Ubuntu 12.10 – get Ubuntu" get ubuntu link to 12.04 not 12.1022:36
mhall119daker: nice catch, fixed it22:40
mhall119thanks22:40
JoseeAntonioRjono: the written summary is now available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JonoBacon/QandA/2013010323:56

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