[01:55] <nhaines> Meeting in 5!
[02:00] <nchambers> !
[02:00] <nchambers> nhaines, I saw your comment on reddit about the guy opening gedit. rofled all over the place
[02:01] <nhaines> nhaines: I only remember mentioning that the Wikipedia scope can be disabled!
[02:01] <nhaines> #startmeeting
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[02:01] <nchambers> haha mistab :D
[02:01] <nchambers> nhaines, yeah. I meant rofling about the thread in general
[02:01] <nchambers> go unity!
[02:01] <nhaines> Welcome to the 20 March 2016 Ubuntu California meeting!
[02:02] <nhaines> This meeting is agendaless, and will therefore be very short.
[02:02] <nhaines> #topic Upcoming events
[02:02] <nhaines> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is scheduled for release on Thursday, 21 April 2016.
[02:02] <nhaines> I hope we'll have a couple of release parties for that.  Does anyone have any announcements?
[02:03]  * ianorlin unfortanetly does not
[02:03] <nhaines> nchambers: anything going on in the Bay Area?
[02:04] <DonkeyHotei> i'd think the release would itself be an agenda
[02:04] <nhaines> DonkeyHotei: why?
[02:05] <DonkeyHotei> releases are integral to loco activity in general, especially lts
[02:06] <nchambers> nhaines, I've been thinking about trying to start a LUG, but other than that nothing majro
[02:06] <nchambers> Is ubuntu phone available for general release yet?
[02:07] <nhaines> nchambers: yes, for about 12 months now!
[02:07] <nhaines> Okay, so no release party announcements.
[02:07] <nhaines> Let's discuss this on the mailing list.  There's still time to organize gettogethers.
[02:07] <nhaines> Does someone want to mail the list?
[02:07] <nhaines> Get the conversation started.  :)
[02:08] <nchambers> I would, but I'm not on it yet
[02:08] <nhaines> nchambers: it's very easy!  You can subscribe at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
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[02:08] <nhaines> It's pretty low traffic.
[02:08] <nchambers> thanks!
[02:09] <nhaines> #topic Announcements
[02:09] <nhaines> Well, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is coming out soon...  :)
[02:10] <nhaines> In phone news, Ubuntu OTA-10 should be out in the next one or two weeks, and there have been some pretty major convergence groundwork laid.
[02:10] <nchambers> I'm excited for both. I might buy a cheap android to play around with the new os, and I'm interested to see Elementary with the new Ubuntu
[02:11] <nhaines> I suspect OTA-11 or OTA-12 will have desktop app support included.  There's still some work to do but it's definitely working so far; just not landed in the main images.
[02:11] <nchambers> desktop app support?
[02:11] <nhaines> But desktop mode is quite usable.  Not perfect by any means, but more functional than annoying.
[02:12] <nhaines> Right now, an Ubuntu phone or tablet can only run Ubuntu SDK apps.  But they've been working (for over a year) on building support in for any Ubuntu app.
[02:12] <nhaines> So for example, you can flash a dev image, put the system into read/write mode, install a couple PPAs and packages, and install LibreOffice or Firefox.
[02:13] <nchambers> !
[02:13] <nchambers> thats really nice
[02:13] <nhaines> Or GIMP or... well, any ARM-compatible app.
[02:13] <nchambers> that would certainly make app development, different
[02:13] <nhaines> Meanwhile, the Ubuntu "core apps" are really nice in desktop mode.  The music app and the email app are very nice in particular.
[02:14] <nchambers> whats performance like?
[02:14] <nhaines> So that work continues apace.  After Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (probably a couple of months later), we'll start to see Ubuntu Personal images that are built on snappy Ubuntu Core that can run any Ubuntu app, mobile or desktop.  And the phone will be rebased to Snappy too.
[02:15] <nhaines> Performance is device-dependent.  The phones and tablets aren't exactly powerhouses, but they get things done.
[02:15] <nhaines> There's a 2% performance hit for running an X app under Mir.
[02:15] <pleia2> I spoke to nhandler about doing a release party at yelp, so we'll likely do that in SF if I can find the time to put things together
[02:16] <nhaines> So a Nexus 7 2013 model is probably a good investment in a month or two.  Or buy now and beat the rush!
[02:16] <nhaines> pleia2: that's good news!
[02:16] <pleia2> nhaines: yeah :)
[02:17] <nhaines> That's all I have for announcements.... Ubuntu on devices is on the brink of something awesome, and Snappy Ubnutu Core is going to be really amazing for 16.04.
[02:18] <pleia2> oh, also canceling the ubuntu hour in SF in April in lieu of the release party (no overlap, but I can't do both)
[02:18] <ianorlin> Also updated packages like every release :)
[02:19] <nhaines> LibreOffice 5.1 is nice.  :)
[02:19] <nhaines> #topic Other business
[02:19] <nhaines> Okay, that wraps it up for this meeting.  Any parting comments before we go?
[02:22]  * ianorlin does not have anything
[02:22] <nhaines> Alright, the next meeting is April 3rd.  Hope everyone has a nice Sunday and I'll see everyone in two weeks!
[02:22] <nhaines> #endmeeting
[02:22] <darthrobot> Meeting ended Mon Mar 21 02:22:47 2016 UTC.
[02:22] <darthrobot> Minutes:        http://ihas.5cat.com/~darthrobot/ubuntu-us-ca/2016/ubuntu-us-ca.2016-03-21-02.01.moin.txt
[02:23] <pleia2> thanks nhaines
[02:23] <pleia2> it's Monday here \o/
[02:25] <nhaines> pleia2: well there's no accounting for taste!
[02:26] <pleia2> haha
[02:27] <nhaines> Having fun out there?
[02:27] <pleia2> yeah, it's crazy hot and humid though
[02:27] <pleia2> I leave for the airport in about 90 minutes, looking forward to my fog <3
[02:28] <nhaines> Yay!
[02:28] <nhaines> I picked up American Truck Simulator, so I've seen San Francisco and actually driven down the coast recently!
[02:30] <pleia2> lol
[02:31] <blitz> route 1?
[02:31] <nhaines> Yup.
[02:31] <blitz> I drove that irl yesteday
[02:31] <blitz> it was raining sideways
[02:31] <blitz> huge rainbows
[02:31] <nhaines> I drove up from San Diego to LA in the demo, which was exciting because I do that all the time.  But I was driving around, not particularly near the coast, and suddenly I was going through a tunnel and it was LA.  So that was less realistic.  :)
[02:32] <nhaines> But I'm babysitting for a week in a week, so I'll have a chance to double-check.
[02:32] <nchambers> I need to get backup to LA at some point
[03:40] <ianorlin> nhaines can you go to bishop california in that ?
[03:41] <ianorlin> not that we have many members on that side of the sierra nevada
[17:04] <nhandler> pleia2: The estimated head count you gave, how likely do you think it is that we'll have that many people? I haven't seen more than a half dozen or so people at any of our other meetups, so I want to try and manage the expectations of our event people a bit
[22:16] <nhaines> ianorlin: Bishop isn't on the list.