[01:02] <Unit193> For people looking at global jam:  Idea starters!  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Sprints/2013-03-03-globaljam
[04:17] <skellat> Well, this has got to be the most active the listserv has been in some time
[04:17]  * skellat is not amused doing a restore on a Windows 7 Home Premium laptop that he is *NOT* allowed to make a dual-boot machine
[04:18] <Cheri703> skellat: I wasn't trying to be harsh :)
[04:18] <Cheri703> I just figure this is a good chance to get people out of the house :)
[04:18] <skellat> cheri703: It is okay.  You're right and upon re-reading, I had my head stuck somewhere it shouldn't be.
[04:19] <skellat> My movements remain limited due to the lack of job and money so getting outside Ashtabula County is not looking all that bloody likely
[04:19] <Cheri703> understandable :s
[04:19] <Cheri703> I'm lucky that I've got some folks here locally :D
[04:20] <skellat> Yep
[04:20] <skellat> I say the thread is at a good point.  Do you want to do a recap of what everybody has said, summarizing key points, and merge my list of activity ideas with those put forward by Unit193?
[04:21] <Unit193> Cheri703: You may have a couple close, but you also got a crazy one.
[04:21] <Cheri703> do *I* want to? no. I am getting ready to go across the country this weekend, do I want *someone* to? sure
[04:21]  * Cheri703 can qualify as crazy in a lot of ways, so...eh
[04:22] <skellat> Unit193: Do you want to chime in on the mailing list and make your presence known in that forum?
[04:23] <Unit193> skellat: Meh, was just passing along a little info in here.
[04:23] <skellat> Alrighty
[04:23] <skellat> I'll probably do a recapitulation of things in the morning which may yet allow a few more people to show up out of the woodwork
[04:23] <skellat> We're not just pure Unity/mainline Ubuntu
[04:24] <skellat> Xubuntu works great for me while my parents run Lubuntu
[04:24] <Cheri703> I'm really liking xubuntu
[04:24] <Cheri703> vanilla ubuntu was fine overall, but I wanted to step up the customization and with the bigger monitors the far left launcher wasn't going to cut it
[04:25] <Unit193> I had Ubuntu 6.10, after that, nope. :D
[04:27] <skellat> I started out with Mandriva, then went to Ubuntu, then went to openSUSE for quite a while, then hit Xubuntu and found what I was looking for
[04:27] <skellat> That being GNOME 2, GNOME 2, GNOME 2, Xfce
[04:32] <skellat> Eventually I'll have to explain why I now have a Raspberry Pi yoked to the BeagleBoard-xM partially
[20:22] <jrgifford> Hey folks, the 2013 ask ubuntu moderator elections have begun, if you're active-ish on it, by all means, please vote! http://askubuntu.com/election/3
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[20:23] <paultag> I don't know any of these people
[20:23] <jrgifford> well then, just read their nominations. that's why they are there. ;)
[20:23] <paultag> that's not how elections work  :)
[20:23] <paultag> people lie to get things they want, I'd rather trust someone :)
[20:23] <paultag> so, I'll pass
[20:24] <jrgifford> well, right
[20:24]  * paultag gets ready for Debian DPL election season
[20:24] <jrgifford> but they all end up following the rules anyway, otherwise bad things happen. :P
[20:24] <paultag> meh :)
[20:27]  * paultag ponders a hack
[20:44] <dzho> "On Stack Exchange, we believe the core moderators should  . . . "
[20:44] <dzho> . . . acknowledge when they've cribbed something from Stack Exchange.
[20:45] <dzho> jrgifford: ^^^
[21:04] <jrgifford> dzho: ask ubuntu *is* a SE site
[21:17] <dzho> oh, haha
[21:17] <dzho> so much for trademarks avoiding confusion
[21:18] <jrgifford> it's an officially licensed ubuntu site, but it is still both a member of the se network and a official ubuntu resource.
[21:29] <dzho> and yet, I was still confused.
[21:29]  * dzho shrugs
[21:29] <dzho> just an idiot, I suppose.
[21:30] <dzho> that's the hilarious thing about this--it's ok for it to be confusing, as long as it's *licensed*
[21:30] <dzho> oh well
[21:33] <dzho> ah, here's the other thing--ubuntu's penchant for placing the ubuntu trefoil logo thingy as a superscript . . . in much the same manner one might expect to find a ® or a ™
[23:10] <jrgifford> yeah, that thing is just weird
[23:10] <jrgifford> why they do it so often and in such a place is just... why?