[02:29] <paulproteus> JonathanD: I have a freenode question!
[02:30] <paulproteus> I thought I'd ask you here rather than in an official channel, if that is okay (-:
[02:30] <paulproteus> In particular -- some friends and I have an open source quasi-hackerspace community called Beowulf Cluster. We want to use #beowulf, and while it is currently reg'd, no one is using it. Can we have it?
[02:30] <paulproteus> See http://rose.makesad.us/pipermail/beowulf-cluster/2013-March/thread.html for our community mailing list and info about our free software-oriented hackathon events.
[02:36] <paulproteus> JonathanD: For now, I will actually try talking to the channel owner (-:
[02:42] <ChinnoDog> Anyone here consider themselves knowledgable about open source e-learning software?
[02:47] <ChinnoDog> I decided to poke around a Moodle demo site since it is a mainstream e-learning package but it is so ugly and confusing. I expected something different.
[05:47] <JonathanD> hi paulproteus
[05:47] <JonathanD> Do that first, but you can also submit a request for it.
[05:47] <pleia2> JonathanD: it is very strange that you are awake
[05:48] <JonathanD> I just woke up.
[05:48] <JonathanD> That probably isn't any better, is it.
[05:48] <pleia2> this is early even for you :)
[05:48] <JonathanD> Ok, well, the sled was propped up against the door, because it snowed yesterday, and I was going to take the kids up to the park (but it was mostly de-snowed there before I got home)
[05:49] <JonathanD> And it fell down, and the dog decided it did not belong down (he's slightly ocd) so he started yelling at it.
[05:49] <pleia2> aha :)
[05:49] <JonathanD> So I had to come address that.
[05:49] <JonathanD> and I let him outside, and picked up my laptop while I'm waiting for him.
[05:49] <JonathanD> Is that better? :P
[05:50] <pleia2> yes, thank you
[05:50] <pleia2> :{
[05:50] <pleia2> :P
[05:50] <JonathanD> Good morning.
[05:50] <JonathanD> (I beat rmg)
[05:50] <pleia2> it's still yesterday here
[05:50] <JonathanD> hah
[09:32] <rmg51> Morning
[09:32] <rmg51> the real morning
[10:11] <JonathanD> Hi rmg51
[10:34] <rmg51> o/
[10:48] <JonathanD> Whats up?
[11:08] <rmg51> nothing new
[11:08] <rmg51> just the usual morning stuff
[11:18] <JonathanD> Sounds great.
[11:18] <JonathanD> HI adom
[11:24] <JonathanD> paulproteus_: morning!
[11:25] <rmg51> bye
[11:25] <JonathanD> later rmg51
[12:07] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, dogs, turkeys and everything else
[12:08] <ChinnoDog> I would prefer to still be sleeping
[12:10] <teddy-dbear> me too
[12:11] <rmg51> bed is always better then work
[12:49] <ChinnoDog> I could use an egg souffle from Panera
[13:35] <waltman> I didn't know they did egg souffles
[13:48] <ChinnoDog> waltman: You are mising out
[13:48] <ChinnoDog> missing
[14:42] <ChinnoDog> The spinach & bacon egg souffle is my favorite.
[14:43] <waltman> I'll have to try it sometime!
[14:50] <JonathanD> it seems like bear rock is just gone
[14:50] <JonathanD> I don't think they moved.
[14:58] <waltman> Yeah, seems like it to me, too.
[14:58] <JonathanD> I'm kinda sad.
[14:59] <waltman> I've been getting these odd craving for their farmers omelet :(
[14:59] <JonathanD> The omelets were excellent.
[15:01] <JonathanD> The burgers and sandwiches, too
[17:10] <ChinnoDog> No one answered my e-learning software question. Surely there are opionions. MutantTurkey? waltman?
[17:12] <pleia2> moodle is pretty much the default for open source options, but you might also check out canvas: instructure.com
[17:13] <pleia2> but there are lots of moodle guides out there if you need help figuring out the workflow
[17:20] <ChinnoDog> Of all of them the moodle demo was the ugliest. Surely that counts for a lot with an elearing software. Checking out Canvas now
[17:24] <MutantTurkey> alright, I need to name my python package... and it's a python implementation of something called FEAST
[17:24] <MutantTurkey> or FS for short
[17:24] <MutantTurkey> PyFeast is boring
[17:24] <MutantTurkey> any ideas?
[17:26] <waltman> ChinnoDog: All I know about e-learning is that the commercial system Drexel uses sucks.
[17:27] <ChinnoDog> Canvas is beautiful. Thanks pleia2
[17:27] <pleia2> sure
[17:28] <ChinnoDog> Canvas ftw
[17:28] <ChinnoDog> waltman: The one that DeVry uses is pretty ugly too.
[17:29] <MutantTurkey> when is the new drexel One coming out?
[17:30] <waltman> Among my gripes with the old system is that if you tried to paste code into a text box in their discussion forums, it wouldn't display any of your formatting.
[17:31] <waltman> Makes it rather challenging to read lisp code that way :)
[17:39] <ChinnoDog> "If you're a technologist, most software is bad. Think of the worst software you use and you probably have a business idea."
[17:39] <ChinnoDog> so true
[17:45] <paulproteus_> JonathanD: Likewise!
[17:52] <JonathanD> paulproteus_: is there a website or just the ML?
[17:53] <paulproteus_> For now, there is just the mailing list. There is an events page here: http://pointlesstopology.com/events
[17:53] <paulproteus_> But not a full website just about the event.
[17:53] <paulproteus_> Although nm, I guess the above really is about the event!
[17:54] <paulproteus> JonathanD: ^ Yes, there is a website
[17:54] <JonathanD> Ok. I'll see what I can find out.
[17:55] <pleia2> I should go sometime, sunday nights are just lousy for me (half the time there is an ubuntu california night, the other half I'm spending QT with my fiance :))
[17:55] <pleia2> s/night/meeting
[17:57] <pleia2> who am I kidding, every night is bad
[18:12] <paulproteus> pleia2: Qt!! I thought you were an XFCE user!!
[18:12] <paulproteus> (just kidding)
[18:12] <paulproteus> (also I nearly typed XKCD user)
[18:13] <pleia2> :P
[19:09] <ChinnoDog> pleia2: Are you committed to using Tiny Tiny RSS as your Google Reader replacement? There is this: http://www.digg.com/reader
[19:10] <pleia2> right, moving to another 3rd party hosted reader (that's not even finished) makes a ton of sense :P
[19:10] <pleia2> tt-rss works great, I don't even like digg
[19:16] <ChinnoDog> But they have 96 days 4 hours and 44 mins to finish it
[19:16] <ChinnoDog> Even if it is just a google reader clone I might be happy with it
[19:57] <paulproteus> pleia2: I use hosted newsblur periodically, which I know I can self-host, as a random factoid.
[19:57] <paulproteus> I haven't actually read RSSs in ~1y though.