| rohitneginahan | i want to install canon lbp printer | 04:35 |
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| rohitneginahan | lbp 2900 | 04:35 |
| rohitneginahan | plz tell me | 04:36 |
| nhaines | !support | rohitneginahan | 04:47 |
| ubot5 | rohitneginahan: The official ubuntu support channel is #ubuntu. Also see http://ubuntu.com/support and http://ubuntuforums.org and http://askubuntu.com | 04:47 |
| Kilos | good morning from south africa | 07:52 |
| nhaines | Good morning again! | 07:52 |
| Kilos | yeah hi, can you please forward the info here for me nhaines ? | 07:54 |
| nhaines | So you're working on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AfricanTeams which is a project to foster collaboration between all of the LoCo teams on the African continent. | 07:55 |
| Kilos | yessir and to pull in the lugs as well | 07:55 |
| Kilos | they have ubuntu users in them that have nowhere else to go | 07:56 |
| nhaines | And it sounds like you've already reached out to several of the LoCos and 7 of them plus South Africa are interested in participating. | 07:56 |
| Kilos | so the end result as i see it will be all linux users working under our banner | 07:57 |
| Kilos | yes the 8th (ethiopia mailed me this morning and they are keen too so its 8 now | 07:57 |
| Kilos | this is a south african initiative | 07:58 |
| nhaines | I think it's fantastic that you're reaching out to help encourage other LoCos. | 07:59 |
| nhaines | Do you have a sense of project leadership? | 07:59 |
| Kilos | i hope so, most seem to have almost faded away and are excited when they hear the is something like this happening | 08:00 |
| Kilos | nhaines im still learning but look at my wiki page for an idea of who i am | 08:01 |
| Kilos | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kilos | 08:01 |
| Kilos | had to make that for my membership application so lots of new stuff happening here | 08:01 |
| nhaines | Oh, I see the Membership Board accepted your application! Well please let me welcome you to the club. :) | 08:02 |
| Kilos | ty nhaines | 08:02 |
| nhaines | As you know, Ubuntu membership is granted to community members who have already been contributing positively, so I'm glad your contributions were recognized. | 08:03 |
| nhaines | Do you see this project as basically being IRC-only? | 08:03 |
| Kilos | yeah me too, i have found great friends here on ubuntu-za | 08:03 |
| nhaines | Or would you want to expand to forums or a mailing list as well? | 08:03 |
| Kilos | i think the end result will include everything | 08:04 |
| Kilos | being so scattered i was hoping to have an african loco to encompass all of africa | 08:05 |
| Kilos | the irc channel is just the starting point | 08:05 |
| Kilos | because im comfortable on irc | 08:05 |
| nhaines | LoCos work best on a country-by-country basis, but from there if everyone is working together that's only a good thing. | 08:06 |
| Kilos | as things grow i will get others to run whatever else is needed | 08:06 |
| nhaines | For instance, each country can plan events and handle Ubuntu DVD distribution internally. But sharing advice on spreading Ubuntu can happen continent-wide. | 08:06 |
| Kilos | even tunisia who are verified still were fading and now they have got new interest again | 08:07 |
| nhaines | 10 teams are marked as missing. Have you contacted them yet and simply not heard from them? | 08:07 |
| Kilos | zim seems to be totally dead, the rest are a work in motion | 08:08 |
| nhaines | Okay. The LoCo Council are checking in on each team bit by bit. I'll make a note that we need to reach out to the Zimbabwe team. Thank you for bringing that to our attention. | 08:08 |
| Kilos | because they have kinda died out it takes a while to get replies and now i was told my mail went to spam so i have to investigate more | 08:09 |
| Kilos | but i wont rest till i at least have one person from each country | 08:09 |
| Kilos | once they are all on the irc channel then we can have a meeting and sort things out i think | 08:11 |
| nhaines | Oh, by the way, the Ubuntu-ZA website is really stunning. | 08:11 |
| Kilos | ty that was superflys hard work | 08:11 |
| nhaines | I happened to be testing Ubuntu on my phone when I saw his email, and the site looks beautiful on the Ubuntu phone browser too. :) | 08:11 |
| nhaines | Okay. So I want to make sure to talk with the rest of the LoCo Council and make sure that we're thinking ahead on this project and that you have the best chance to succeed. | 08:12 |
| Kilos | great lol we in za would actually like to ask for a ubuntu phone to be sent to him as well | 08:12 |
| Kilos | ty for all your help nhaines | 08:13 |
| nhaines | That might take a while to get back to you. Hopefully within a week or so we'll have a response. | 08:13 |
| Kilos | great | 08:14 |
| nhaines | But I have to say that so far it sounds like you've put a lot of thought into this and it seems very popular. | 08:14 |
| nhaines | So thank you for starting that process. | 08:14 |
| Kilos | yes the lost sheep are happy to find they still hhave somewhere to go | 08:15 |
| Kilos | yw , ill do whatever i can | 08:15 |
| nhaines | By the way, if you would like to have an Ubuntu phone sent to your LoCo, you can have maiatoday submit a request using these instructions: http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/funding/ | 08:15 |
| Kilos | wonderful ty for that, we think the fly is the man to get one | 08:16 |
| nhaines | There are no guarantees, but I'm sure that the obvious hard work put into the site is a strong argument. :) | 08:16 |
| Kilos | hehe | 08:16 |
| nhaines | Canonical oversees those requests independently, but there is currently a lot of money available. So it's a good time to apply. | 08:17 |
| Kilos | yay | 08:17 |
| nhaines | Okay, I'll go write the email before I go to sleep. Thanks again and good luck! :) | 08:18 |
| Kilos | ty very much | 08:19 |
| Kilos | :D | 08:19 |
| nhaines | You're an inspiration to many! We'll email you when we know more. :) | 08:21 |
| * Kilos bows | 08:22 | |
| Kilos | oh sorry nhaines maybe we could have an africa superloco to cover the whole continent | 09:01 |
| nhaines | Definitely no superlocos. :) | 09:06 |
| nhaines | The problem is, if you need DVDs for an event, only the LoCo contact can request them. | 09:07 |
| nhaines | So now that person has to keep track for every country in Africa. | 09:07 |
| nhaines | (Just as an example.) | 09:07 |
| Kilos | aha | 09:08 |
| nhaines | So we want one LoCo per country, and if it makes sense for you all to work together then we want to make it easy for you to do that. | 09:08 |
| Kilos | i didnt think of the dvd part, Maia always sorts that end for us | 09:08 |
| nhaines | Right, and usually it's only one set of DVDs per cycle, so they'd get 125 DVDs and have to mail them out to everywhere in Africa and pay shipping and customs taxes. | 09:09 |
| Kilos | i was mainly thinking of countries with too few members to actually form a loco | 09:09 |
| nhaines | Well, you only need two or three people to form a LoCo! But yes, working together is going to help countries that do not yet have an active LoCo. | 09:10 |
| Kilos | and actually with iso download so easy today most peeps dont even ask for dvds anymore | 09:10 |
| nhaines | That's true, and that's why Canonical only creates official DVDs for LTS releases now. But they can still be valuable. | 09:12 |
| nhaines | Especially to lend credibility to an event. | 09:12 |
| nhaines | So my advice is to welcome new Ubuntu enthusiasts and encourage them to form together and work with other enthusiasts to form LoCos in their country. | 09:14 |
| Kilos | cool | 09:15 |
| Kilos | ty | 09:15 |
| nhaines | You're welcome, and thank you again. | 09:16 |
| Kilos | my pleasure | 09:16 |
| Kilos | eish what did i do wrong now | 11:14 |
| Kilos | This message has been automatically generated in response to the | 11:14 |
| Kilos | creation of a trouble ticket regarding: | 11:14 |
| Kilos | "irc channel logs", | 11:14 |
| Kilos | a summary of which appears below. | 11:14 |
| Kilos | There is no need to reply to this message right now. Your ticket has been | 11:15 |
| Kilos | assigned an ID of [rt.ubuntu.com #26012]. | 11:15 |
| soundlessubuntuu | hi | 18:02 |
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