[06:39] <Kilos> helloooo africa
[07:39] <CraigZim> hello Kilos and all
[09:03] <Kilos> hi chamomile
[09:03] <Kilos> welcome to ubuntu-africa
[09:04] <chamomile> hi Kilos, dropping in from #nairobilug
[09:04] <Kilos> CraigZim send us some rain man
[09:05] <Kilos> you are welcome to hang out here chamomile and get to knows the rest of the guys all over africa
[09:05] <Kilos> have you joined us at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-africa
[09:06] <Kilos> hmm... zipper is also from kenya
[09:13] <CraigZim> had 38mm last night
[09:14] <Kilos> lucky
[09:38] <josuebrunel> hi guys
[09:38] <Kilos> hi josuebrunel welcome to ubuntu-africa
[09:39] <josuebrunel> thanks Kilos
[09:39] <Kilos> feel free to invite any lug people you might know in all of africa
[09:39] <josuebrunel> ok Kilos
[09:39] <Kilos> ty
[09:40] <josuebrunel> what are you guys up to ?
[09:40] <Kilos> so far we are connected from tunisia to capetown
[09:41] <josuebrunel> by the way, i'm from Congo
[09:41] <josuebrunel> nice to meet u guys
[09:41] <Kilos> cool
[09:41] <Kilos> drc?
[09:41] <josuebrunel> nope, the smaller one :|
[09:41] <josuebrunel> but it's same for me
[09:42] <Kilos> you can join us at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-africa
[09:42] <josuebrunel> done
[09:42] <Kilos> and once approved you can join the mailing list there as well
[09:42] <Kilos> cool
[09:43] <Kilos> have you looked at our site?
[09:43] <Kilos> some of the lug guys dont like the channel being under the ub untu banner but thats where i started from
[09:43] <josuebrunel> yep i did
[09:44] <Kilos> all linux users welcome
[09:45] <josuebrunel> ty Kilos. I've to admit that i'm way more of a debian guy :). As long as we all do good stuff it's alright ;)
[09:45] <josuebrunel> Kilos: what is your job about ?
[09:46] <Kilos> im kinda retired and spend most of my time on ubuntu and ubuntu channels
[09:47] <josuebrunel> oh i see.
[09:47] <Kilos> this initiative was started from an idea at one of ubuntu-za meetings and took nearly a year to get to here
[09:50] <Kilos> i enjoy making friends all over africa
[09:50] <Kilos> and all these guys help each other with snags
[09:52] <josuebrunel> that's cool. Hope to do my best as well
[09:53] <Kilos> ty
[09:54] <Kilos> i have contact with the drc as well but they scarce here
[09:58] <josuebrunel> i see
[09:59] <CraigZim> josuebrunel: so what do you do and where are you?
[10:00] <josuebrunel> I'm software engineer working for a company called Entr'ouvert (https://www.entrouvert.com/) and i'm based in France ( but from Congo)
[10:01] <josuebrunel> CraigZim: what about you ?
[10:01] <josuebrunel> i make free software and it's mainly in python
[10:01] <CraigZim> josuebrunel: engineering manager in textile company.
[10:02] <josuebrunel> oh cool
[10:02] <CraigZim> trying to learn both c++ and python
[10:03] <josuebrunel> ah that's great. Don't hesitate to poke when it comes to python ( not the best but i might be helpful )
[10:03] <Kilos> some of the countries only speak french but we have other french speakers here that translate for us
[10:03] <CraigZim> will do :)
[10:03] <josuebrunel> Kilos: one more with me :p
[10:03] <Kilos> cool
[10:04] <josuebrunel> CraigZim: i'm trying  to learn golang. I've couple of projects in mind to help me go through the language
[10:04] <CraigZim> i will have to google that one
[10:05] <Kilos> elacheche nother new face here
[10:05] <Kilos> we are winning
[10:06] <josuebrunel> CraigZim: it's language created at Google, which looks like a mix of C and Python
[10:07] <elacheche> o/
[10:07] <Kilos> egypt yesterday and congo today yay
[10:10] <elacheche> YaY :)
[10:10] <josuebrunel> hi elacheche
[10:10] <elacheche> Hi josuebrunel
[10:14] <josuebrunel> elacheche: nice to meet you
[10:14] <elacheche> Nice to meet you too josuebrunel welcome to #ubuntu-africa
[10:14] <josuebrunel> elacheche: ty
[10:15] <Kilos> elacheche is in tunisia josuebrunel
[10:18] <josuebrunel> i've work with some great guys/ladies from Tunisia in my former companies
[10:26] <elacheche> :)
[20:48] <philipballew> hey everyone