| theShirbiny | elacheche, o/ | 02:00 |
|---|---|---|
| Kilos | helloooo africa | 08:26 |
| Kilos | congrats elacheche | 13:00 |
| Kilos | married man now | 13:00 |
| leumas | Hiya All, just discovered this channel | 14:25 |
| leumas | Was searching for LoCo team for my country, Nigeria | 14:25 |
| leumas | Am happy to have found one for Africa | 14:26 |
| Kilos | hi leumas | 14:26 |
| leumas | Hi Kilos | 14:27 |
| Kilos | glad you found us | 14:27 |
| Kilos | im trying to remember if we have other nigerians here | 14:27 |
| Kilos | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AfricanTeams | 14:28 |
| Kilos | you can go see our site https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AfricanTeams | 14:29 |
| leumas | Seen, i am an avid user of Kubuntu and wanted to know if there was any LoCo teams | 14:31 |
| leumas | I was directed to the Ubuntu LoCo groups | 14:31 |
| Kilos | great. i use kubuntu as well | 14:32 |
| Kilos | with luck you can help get the nigerians motivated again | 14:33 |
| Kilos | leumas did you join us on https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-africa | 14:35 |
| Kilos | join the mailing list as well | 14:35 |
| leumas | I havent Kilos..will do that later | 15:34 |
| Kilos | cool | 15:34 |
| Kilos | my connection is bad today | 16:56 |
| MarwenDo | hi Kilos | 16:56 |
| Kilos | hi MarwenDo how are you | 16:56 |
| MarwenDo | Fine :) what about you ? Kilos | 16:57 |
| Kilos | good ty | 16:57 |
| Kilos | do we have to say Mr. cheche now he is married | 16:57 |
| Kilos | did you see MarwenDo we have a new guy here from nigeria | 16:58 |
| MarwenDo | no ! Welcome Mr nigeria :) | 16:58 |
| MarwenDo | What's his name Kilos | 16:59 |
| Kilos | leumas | 16:59 |
| MarwenDo | hi leumas :) Welcome to our community | 16:59 |
| Kilos | i wish the rest of the world was like us linux users in africa | 17:00 |
| MarwenDo | We are glad to see you here | 17:00 |
| Kilos | i am struggling with pakistan, bangladesh and india | 17:00 |
| leumas | Thanks MarwenDo | 17:00 |
| leumas | Happy to be here | 17:00 |
| Kilos | they cant get past the local conflict issues | 17:00 |
| leumas | Kilos: :) hopefully we can move forward and make Africa great through Open Source | 17:02 |
| MarwenDo | leumas, can you introduce your self ? :) | 17:02 |
| Kilos | that is the plan leumas , we are already connected from tunisia to capetown | 17:03 |
| leumas | Ok, am a Nigerian | 17:03 |
| Kilos | with in between guys as well and even mauritius | 17:03 |
| Kilos | i am south african | 17:03 |
| leumas | MarwenDo: you? | 17:04 |
| MarwenDo | I'm Tunisian , a student , 23 years old , I use Ubuntu Gnome :D | 17:05 |
| leumas | I use Kubuntu 16.04, big KDE fan, employed, married | 17:06 |
| Kilos | hehe ima month away from 65 | 17:06 |
| Kilos | leumas do you know more linux users there? | 17:07 |
| leumas | Kilos: in Nigeria? | 17:07 |
| Kilos | yes? | 17:07 |
| leumas | Yea, some group of friends but i guess i have more interest than they do | 17:08 |
| Kilos | we have a guy who does many servers in kenya as well | 17:08 |
| Kilos | just invite them, when they see how friendly we are they will join as well | 17:08 |
| leumas | I formed a group on whatsapp just for us to update ourselves on the latest on opensource | 17:08 |
| leumas | yea, i did a while ago when i discovered this channel | 17:09 |
| Kilos | update them all about this community | 17:09 |
| Kilos | the tunisians are strong here | 17:10 |
| Kilos | and south africans | 17:10 |
| Kilos | theShirbiny where are you again? | 17:11 |
| Kilos | leumas what irc client do you use? | 17:11 |
| leumas | Kilos: Konversation | 17:11 |
| Kilos | i use konversation | 17:12 |
| Kilos | yay | 17:12 |
| leumas | Like i said big KDE fan | 17:12 |
| Kilos | haha | 17:12 |
| Kilos | mny use quassel | 17:12 |
| Kilos | many | 17:12 |
| leumas | yea....i guessed over the years Kubuntu has switched from Konversation to Quassel and then back to konversation | 17:13 |
| leumas | How long have you been using Linux? which distro/DE did you start with? | 17:14 |
| Kilos | i started with 8.10 gnome2 | 17:14 |
| Kilos | when ubuntu switched to unity it took a year to switch to kde | 17:15 |
| Kilos | kde network manager gave lots of probs on kde before 14.04 | 17:15 |
| Kilos | i can only use mobile broadband | 17:16 |
| leumas | Yea | 17:16 |
| leumas | Been on Kubuntu from the onset | 17:16 |
| Kilos | but now 14.04 is rock stable | 17:16 |
| Kilos | ill try 16.04 when its more stable | 17:17 |
| leumas | I tend to upgrade quickly once a new distro out | 17:17 |
| Kilos | i see many guys with bug probs | 17:17 |
| leumas | verson i mean | 17:17 |
| leumas | version* | 17:17 |
| Kilos | yeah many do that | 17:17 |
| Kilos | im happy with 14.04 because i never have to fix things, everything works | 17:18 |
| leumas | Really, i am runnng 16.04 on an old Lenovo thinkpad with the latest backport updates and am still cool...no probs so far | 17:18 |
| Kilos | i have a thinkpad here as well | 17:19 |
| Kilos | so thats good | 17:19 |
| Kilos | T410.i | 17:19 |
| leumas | Mine is T420i | 17:20 |
| Kilos | haha same machine | 17:20 |
| leumas | Core i3, 4GB, 250GB | 17:20 |
| Kilos | oh | 17:20 |
| Kilos | later | 17:20 |
| leumas | hahahaha... | 17:20 |
| Kilos | mine is i5 4GB and a 128GB ssd | 17:21 |
| Kilos | works well | 17:21 |
| leumas | i got this laptop to run Linux alon for the first time | 17:22 |
| leumas | I have been dual booting with Windows all this while | 17:23 |
| Kilos | i went through a pile of old desktop pcs first before my son gave me the thinkpad | 17:23 |
| Kilos | i wiped widows | 17:23 |
| Kilos | waste of disk space | 17:24 |
| leumas | lol | 17:41 |
| leumas | My main laptop has Windows on it, i hope to wipe it out somedayand install Kubuntu fully on it | 17:42 |
| leumas | it has better specs than the laptop am using now | 17:42 |
| Kilos | you use windows for work? | 17:42 |
| leumas | Yea | 17:42 |
| Kilos | ouch | 17:43 |
| leumas | So when i get home i switch to my Linux self | 17:43 |
| Kilos | lol | 17:43 |
| leumas | Have you tried out KDE connect? | 17:43 |
| Kilos | many linux users have no choice at work | 17:43 |
| Kilos | no i havent | 17:44 |
| leumas | Ok | 17:45 |
| Kilos | what does it do | 17:45 |
| leumas | I have been thinking recently how to engage more people to use Linux and open source in General for the good of my country | 17:46 |
| leumas | KDE connect helps you sync notifications from your phone to your PC | 17:46 |
| Kilos | people are very stubborn and scared to switch from windows | 17:47 |
| leumas | and you can send files as well | 17:47 |
| leumas | it connects both devices via wifi | 17:47 |
| leumas | KDE connect comes by default on Kubuntu and you can install it on your Android phone | 17:48 |
| Kilos | i just run the laptop now. have a desktop with 12.04 unity on but hardly ever even boot it anymore | 17:48 |
| Kilos | i only have an old nokia that can sms and call | 17:49 |
| Kilos | hehe | 17:49 |
| leumas | hahahahaha | 17:51 |
| paddatrapper | leumas: it doesn't on Kubuntu 14.04. But I agree, it is a very useful piece of software | 17:53 |
| leumas | paddatrapper: Yea, i think it became default from 14.10 | 17:55 |
| leumas | I have been trying to make it work for a while now but no success | 17:55 |
| leumas | I have even tried to disable my firewall, ufw but that doesnt help either | 17:56 |
| leumas | What do you guys about the use of Open source by institutions in Africa and the oppurtunity it holds? | 17:56 |
| Kilos | i have a friend in france that helps peeps in africa | 17:57 |
| Kilos | join our mailing list i am about to forward one of her mails | 17:57 |
| leumas | I think Africa needs it most to develop fully IT wise.....we need to do stuff ourselves and create our own future | 17:58 |
| paddatrapper | What issue are you having? | 17:58 |
| paddatrapper | For sure. We also need the infrastructure to do it. There is great potential here that isn't being realised | 17:58 |
| leumas | On the app i should be able to see my phone once I have KDE connect installed on both devices | 17:58 |
| leumas | Yea, Govt needs to support that agenda but as we know we cant wait for them | 17:59 |
| paddatrapper | Sadly can't rely on government. But community can do a lot when they work together | 18:00 |
| leumas | I am thinking of coming up with very affordable solutions in education, health n for SMEs | 18:01 |
| paddatrapper | Are both your phone and laptop on the same network | 18:01 |
| leumas | yup | 18:01 |
| leumas | I have even typed in the laptops IP address on the phone but thats not working too | 18:02 |
| paddatrapper | And they aren't isolated from each other? | 18:02 |
| paddatrapper | Can you ping your phone from your laptop? | 18:02 |
| leumas | i can | 18:04 |
| leumas | just pinged my laptop from my phone | 18:05 |
| paddatrapper | Hmm... IP's correspond to the same network? | 18:05 |
| leumas | yea | 18:06 |
| leumas | They are both connected to my Wifi modem | 18:06 |
| leumas | Laptop is 192.168.1.6 while phone is ~.4 | 18:07 |
| paddatrapper | Hmm... What's OS is your phone running? | 18:07 |
| leumas | I just fell it should work like charm but its not | 18:07 |
| leumas | Android 6.0 | 18:08 |
| leumas | Cynamodgen 13.0 | 18:08 |
| paddatrapper | It did for me. Literally just installed both and it ran like a charm | 18:08 |
| leumas | woah | 18:08 |
| paddatrapper | Kubuntu 16.04? | 18:09 |
| leumas | yea | 18:09 |
| paddatrapper | Mine was Kubuntu 14.04 and CyanogenMod 11.0... I'll have to have a look when I get home and see if I can think of something | 18:11 |
| Kilos | leumas paddatrapper is in capetown | 18:12 |
| leumas | Thanks paddatrapper! Nice to meet you | 18:12 |
| paddatrapper | Yeah so when I get home is about 20 minutes time | 18:12 |
| paddatrapper | You too! | 18:12 |
| paddatrapper | leumas: where are you from? | 18:12 |
| leumas | Nigeria | 18:13 |
| paddatrapper | Nice | 18:13 |
| leumas | :) | 18:13 |
| paddatrapper | I'm starting to realise just how much potential this channel has to improve, even in a small way, the technological state of Africa | 18:18 |
| Kilos | yes | 18:18 |
| melodie | hi Kilos ! | 18:29 |
| Kilos | hi melodie | 18:29 |
| Kilos | chat to leumas , he is in nigeria | 18:29 |
| Kilos | tell him about your efforts in africa | 18:29 |
| Kilos | leumas melodie is the friend in france i told you about | 18:30 |
| melodie | Kilos is there a special reason to why you want me to do that? | 18:30 |
| Kilos | so he can spread it in nigeria | 18:30 |
| melodie | of course he should! | 18:31 |
| Kilos | my connection is very bad today | 18:31 |
| leumas | Hi melodie, nice to meet you | 18:31 |
| melodie | Nigeria is in North Africa, is that right? | 18:31 |
| melodie | hi leumas ! | 18:31 |
| leumas | West Africa | 18:31 |
| Kilos | im waiting for him to join the mailing list so he will get your last mail as well | 18:31 |
| melodie | I have met Gildas today, who led the Ougadougou Fablab project where there is also a co-working space using Linux Ubuntu and also showing the young how to work with computers and Linux distributions | 18:32 |
| melodie | he did a conference in our Linux install party! the very first one of our new LUG in our département!* | 18:32 |
| Kilos | cool | 18:33 |
| melodie | leumas close to Mali, Ivory, Congo, and Burkina Faso then? | 18:33 |
| melodie | Kilos if you can display that page with your crummy connection: | 18:33 |
| leumas | well yea, we are surrounded by Niger, Benin and Cameroun | 18:34 |
| leumas | and then the Atlantic is South | 18:34 |
| melodie | http://ouagalab.org/ | 18:34 |
| melodie | leumas ok | 18:35 |
| melodie | do you have a LUG there? | 18:35 |
| leumas | Woah great work! | 18:35 |
| melodie | Kilos I keep getting 500 server error, can you display it? | 18:35 |
| leumas | No we dont at the moment, I searched a while back and noticed one was created initially but is currently not active | 18:36 |
| Kilos | let me try | 18:36 |
| melodie | leumas same happened here, but I finally got to make it work. | 18:36 |
| Kilos | yes its open melodie | 18:37 |
| leumas | Cool | 18:37 |
| melodie | during 3 years, I organized an informal meeting around free software, called newspapers, wrote a few lines in some free no cost agendas, and gathered from 3/4 to 12 people at a time in one day, then last year suscribed to the nearest mailing list and at the beginning of 2016 sent a message there saying who I am, what was my path to Linux and experience, and said I wanted to create a LUG and everyone was welcome to join in | 18:38 |
| melodie | leumas this is how it worked | 18:38 |
| melodie | and now I continue to make it work, using this method seen at TedX (if you can access, I know connexions in Africa are not always easy): | 18:39 |
| leumas | Woah, that must have taken you out of your comfort zone | 18:39 |
| melodie | http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement?share=161fa539c1 | 18:39 |
| paddatrapper | melodie: great persistence! | 18:40 |
| Kilos | yeah she doesnt give up | 18:40 |
| melodie | leumas a bit, but not that much. I find it rewarding to see that today we had our very first meeting, I did a presentation with video projection, and explaining the economies and the ecology and why GNU/Linux and there were so many poeple who can and attended, it was great! | 18:41 |
| melodie | and everyone in the team who had been able to come participated very actively! | 18:41 |
| melodie | we had a Mageia, a Fedora, several Ubuntu to show and let people try and test... | 18:42 |
| melodie | it was inauguration day also today | 18:42 |
| melodie | paddatrapper that's what it takes... 12 years now using a computer, only the 3 first months with Windows. I'm a very stubborn one :D | 18:43 |
| Kilos | haha | 18:43 |
| leumas | All i can say is a resounding well done to all your efforts and congrats on achieving so much milestones | 18:45 |
| leumas | The video was very insighful too, thanks for that. I will have to pick the learnings and practice | 18:46 |
| leumas | I will have to move to get your space soon | 18:46 |
| leumas | I have the ISO files of about 11 distros on my laptop ready to introduce/install for anyone who needs it and share my ll knowledge with them as well | 18:47 |
| leumas | I really feel inspired by your experience melodie! | 18:48 |
| leumas | Kilos: I have joined the comunity on Launchpad | 18:48 |
| leumas | Awaiting approval | 18:48 |
| Kilos | cool leumas | 18:49 |
| melodie | leumas wonderful! | 18:49 |
| Kilos | you see how many members we have there | 18:50 |
| melodie | Kilos Burkina Faso will be joining soon! | 18:50 |
| melodie | Gildas/Ougadougou | 18:50 |
| Kilos | one of then did chat with me a while back | 18:51 |
| melodie | Kilos great! | 18:52 |
| melodie | today he told me he now IRC | 18:52 |
| melodie | some of our newcomers here have never heard of IRC, which makes African people more advanced than some European ones! XD XD XD | 18:52 |
| melodie | he knows* IRC | 18:53 |
| Kilos | but he never joined on lp or https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AfricanTeams | 18:53 |
| melodie | give him time? | 18:53 |
| melodie | I'll send him your mail address in a few days, if you want me to? | 18:53 |
| Kilos | yes please | 18:53 |
| Kilos | or tell him how to get here | 18:54 |
| Kilos | mails arent my favourite way of doing things | 18:54 |
| Kilos | im an irc person | 18:54 |
| Kilos | leumas youve been approved. now can you join the mailing list there | 18:55 |
| Kilos | ? | 18:55 |
| Kilos | then ill forward melodie s mail | 18:56 |
| Kilos | then all africa has it | 18:56 |
| leumas | Kilos: Cool | 18:56 |
| melodie | Kilos I told him about #ubuntu-africa but if he does not get in touch within a week or two, I'll send him a mail so you can connect together. but he told me he will! | 18:57 |
| melodie | they even have a good internet in their fablab! fancy? | 18:57 |
| Kilos | cool, ty melodie | 18:57 |
| leumas | I can see am already subscribed to the mailing list ubuntu-africa@launchpad.net | 18:57 |
| leumas | is there any other mailing list? | 18:58 |
| Kilos | great leumas | 18:58 |
| Kilos | not yet when we have time we are moving off lp mail | 18:58 |
| leumas | Alright | 18:58 |
| melodie | Kilos my pleasure | 18:59 |
| Kilos | the LP list is buggy | 18:59 |
| Kilos | check if you got that one leumas | 19:01 |
| leumas | An email? | 19:02 |
| Kilos | yes in the list | 19:02 |
| Kilos | more of melodies work | 19:02 |
| Kilos | she is involved with everything | 19:03 |
| Kilos | very busy lady | 19:03 |
| leumas | Sorry i need some guidance, how do go about that? | 19:03 |
| Kilos | oh dont you use thunderbird mail | 19:04 |
| melodie | leaving, good night! | 19:07 |
| leumas | Oh, seen. I can read it from the archives | 19:09 |
| Kilos | i get my mail downloaded to pc with thunderbird mail client using pop | 19:12 |
| Kilos | then you get an alert when a new mail arrives | 19:17 |
| Kilos | sleep tight africa | 19:39 |
| marwen_ | Good night Kilos | 19:40 |
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| acetakwas | Hi leumas | 20:34 |
| acetakwas | Fellow Nigerian here | 20:34 |
| leumas | Hi Acetakwas | 20:41 |
| leumas | paddatrapper: Hi, All of a sudden KDE connect is working! | 20:58 |
| leumas | I didnt make any change | 20:58 |
| leumas | it just came up, I have paired both devices together | 20:58 |
| leumas | hi acetakwas | 21:05 |
| leumas | Hi paddatrapper | 21:07 |
| leumas | My KDE connect is working fine now | 21:07 |
| acetakwas | leumas:: Hi | 21:08 |
| acetakwas | What part of Nigeria are you in? | 21:08 |
| acetakwas | I'm guess your real name is Samuel. | 21:08 |
| leumas | Am from Imo State, based in Lagos, u? | 21:09 |
| acetakwas | Oh cool | 21:09 |
| acetakwas | From Osun State. Resident in Lagos too. | 21:09 |
| leumas | yea, thats my name | 21:09 |
| acetakwas | :) | 21:09 |
| leumas | :) | 21:09 |
| acetakwas | Well.... glad to have you here. | 21:09 |
| leumas | Nice to meet you!! | 21:09 |
| acetakwas | In all of my IRC-ing. You are the third Nigerian I'm having to chat with. | 21:10 |
| leumas | hahahaha | 21:10 |
| acetakwas | Nogerians don't do much IRC-ing. | 21:10 |
| acetakwas | s/Nogerians/Nigerians | 21:10 |
| leumas | IMHO IRC is a Linux thing | 21:11 |
| acetakwas | Well. That might be a valid reason. | 21:11 |
| leumas | Most ppl stick with the mobile chat platforms or Skype on PC | 21:11 |
| acetakwas | Yes | 21:12 |
| acetakwas | Linux encourages the use of IRC by given a default client on most distros | 21:12 |
| acetakwas | Pidgin comes with Ubuntu for instance | 21:13 |
| leumas | Am happy to have met you here, whats your fav distro? | 21:13 |
| acetakwas | Well... I haven't explored many distros | 21:13 |
| leumas | Yea Konversation comes with Kubuntu which is what I use | 21:13 |
| acetakwas | I have always used Ubuntu predominantly | 21:13 |
| leumas | Okay, cool | 21:13 |
| acetakwas | Only trying out Backtrack (before it went defunct) | 21:13 |
| acetakwas | And Fedora | 21:14 |
| leumas | I have been stuck with Kubuntu from day 1, tried other distros but still see Kubuntu as my main distro | 21:14 |
| acetakwas | I celebrated 4 years of a permanent Linux shift two days ago | 21:14 |
| acetakwas | Nice | 21:15 |
| leumas | I have Kali on a netbook which i boot up fro time o time | 21:15 |
| acetakwas | I use LXDE on Ubuntu | 21:15 |
| leumas | Woah, good for you man! | 21:15 |
| acetakwas | Yes, life has never been the same | 21:15 |
| acetakwas | Especially as a developer | 21:15 |
| acetakwas | There's a lot more support for Linux out of the box | 21:16 |
| leumas | I have been dual booting all this while but I got a fairly used laptop and installed Kubuntu on it straight up | 21:16 |
| leumas | Yea, you are absolutely right | 21:16 |
| leumas | Am yet to make the full switch, hopefully in the near future | 21:20 |
| acetakwas | Aah. You should. | 21:22 |
| acetakwas | I have dual boot setup with Win 8 too | 21:22 |
| acetakwas | But I only use Windows once in a blue moon | 21:22 |
| paddatrapper | leumas: great to hear! | 21:27 |
| leumas | paddatrapper: thanks once again | 21:50 |
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