[11:15] <gbellinoz> 23 people not only using Ubuntu in Australia, but in IRC.  I'm amazed!  Any on the mid-north coast of NSW?
[11:21] <jea> that is a good question
[11:21] <jea> i haven't kept track of where everyone was from
[11:22] <gbellinoz> Between the facebook page, facebook group, etc., it looks like there are plenty of us, but perhaps not a lot of meetups.
[11:23] <chu> There used to be a listing, possibly on the mentioned home page, which said roughly (i.e. which state) members were from.
[11:24] <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 :)
[11:25] <jea> there is still a list on the wiki
[11:25] <jea> but not everyone has added themselves to the list
[11:26] <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.
[11:27] <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
[11:28] <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.
[11:29] <jea> Yep. Geelong next year. The website for it is up, but registration doesn't open for a few months
[11:30] <gbellinoz> Where are the videos?
[11:31] <jea> http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2015
[11:31] <jea> or on youtube
[11:32] <jea> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnIMb-fa7vesn2m95gHio_w
[11:32] <gbellinoz> Beaut, thanks.
[11:39] <gbellinoz> I'd bet you guys would have more members if PGP keys, launchpad accounts, etc. weren't required :)
[11:39] <gbellinoz> Goodness.
[11:40] <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
[11:41] <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 
[11:42] <gbellinoz> What'd you finish with?
[11:42] <jea> Bachelor of Engineering (Software Systems and Aerospace)
[11:42] <gbellinoz> Wow, great.  Job prospects?
[11:43] <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??
[11:44] <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.
[11:45] <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.
[11:46] <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?
[11:47] <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