| gbellinoz | 23 people not only using Ubuntu in Australia, but in IRC. I'm amazed! Any on the mid-north coast of NSW? | 11:15 |
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| jea | that is a good question | 11:21 |
| jea | i haven't kept track of where everyone was from | 11:21 |
| gbellinoz | Between the facebook page, facebook group, etc., it looks like there are plenty of us, but perhaps not a lot of meetups. | 11:22 |
| chu | There used to be a listing, possibly on the mentioned home page, which said roughly (i.e. which state) members were from. | 11:23 |
| gbellinoz | Seems people are leaving desktops to the dustbin of history, so maybe Ubuntu fever dying down too. I certainly am surprised when I find someone in person using Linux as a desktop OS :) | 11:24 |
| jea | there is still a list on the wiki | 11:25 |
| jea | but not everyone has added themselves to the list | 11:25 |
| gbellinoz | didn't see the wiki... | 11:26 |
| jea | if you want to see a lot of people using linux, you could go to Linux.Conf.Au, which was on last week | 11:26 |
| chu | Yeah, I never added myself to the list, either. | 11:26 |
| gbellinoz | LAST WEEK. Dang. I went to that one year. Interesting. | 11:27 |
| jea | All the talks are up online now if you want to watch them | 11:27 |
| gbellinoz | Probably smart to catch it next year in Vic. I enjoyed the talks, but didn't really get much actionable out of it. Would like to be more in the industry. | 11:28 |
| jea | Yep. Geelong next year. The website for it is up, but registration doesn't open for a few months | 11:29 |
| gbellinoz | Where are the videos? | 11:30 |
| jea | http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2015 | 11:31 |
| jea | or on youtube | 11:31 |
| jea | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnIMb-fa7vesn2m95gHio_w | 11:32 |
| gbellinoz | Beaut, thanks. | 11:32 |
| gbellinoz | I'd bet you guys would have more members if PGP keys, launchpad accounts, etc. weren't required :) | 11:39 |
| gbellinoz | Goodness. | 11:39 |
| gbellinoz | Links to Ubuntu One, bladdy-diddy blah blah. So many steps! | 11:40 |
| jea | you don't have to have the PGP key added to your launchpad account. signing the CoC is recommended, but not required | 11:40 |
| gbellinoz | Ah, OK. Just trying to do the right thing. | 11:41 |
| jea | we were quite a large community a few years ago, but people started dropping off as they got busier | 11:41 |
| jea | now that i have finished my uni studies i am going to try to get some more stuff going | 11:41 |
| gbellinoz | What'd you finish with? | 11:42 |
| jea | Bachelor of Engineering (Software Systems and Aerospace) | 11:42 |
| gbellinoz | Wow, great. Job prospects? | 11:42 |
| gbellinoz | Unrelated - I used to use a GUI-based GPG wrangler. Would juggle keys, encrypt/decrypt messages... can't remember what it was called. | 11:43 |
| gbellinoz | Thought it might be part of KDE? | 11:43 |
| gbellinoz | kgpg or something?? | 11:43 |
| jea | I will be starting a job on Jan 27 as a programmer | 11:44 |
| jea | hopefully will be alright | 11:44 |
| gbellinoz | I hope so too. Can be hit and miss. Gov't? | 11:44 |
| gbellinoz | Ah, duh, it was just kgpg. Just not installed. | 11:44 |
| jea | I think I have heard of kgpg. I haven't used KDE much though, so I am probably not the best to ask | 11:45 |
| gbellinoz | You can run it under Gnome, or whatever window manager. Same with all KDE apps. | 11:45 |
| jea | The job is not government. It is a larger software company in Brisbane. They do a lot of enterprise stuff though | 11:46 |
| jea | Yep. I just haven't used that one at all. I am fairly boring and mainly stick to the defaults | 11:46 |
| gbellinoz | Great. What did you leave uni knowing how to write in? What are the languages and frameworks of choice these days? | 11:46 |
| jea | At uni I did Python, Java and C | 11:47 |
| gbellinoz | Sounds good. Good luck. Off to bed now. Thanks for the chat. | 11:47 |
| jea | I did work at a small software company during uni using Python and HTML/CSS/JS | 11:47 |
| jea | Thanks for coming :) Might see you another time | 11:47 |
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