[02:00] <theShirbiny> elacheche, o/
[08:26] <Kilos> helloooo africa
[13:00] <Kilos> congrats elacheche
[13:00] <Kilos> married man now
[14:25] <leumas> Hiya All, just discovered this channel
[14:25] <leumas> Was searching for LoCo team for my country, Nigeria
[14:26] <leumas> Am happy to have found one for Africa
[14:26] <Kilos> hi leumas
[14:27] <leumas> Hi Kilos
[14:27] <Kilos> glad you found us
[14:27] <Kilos> im trying to remember if we have other nigerians here
[14:28] <Kilos> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AfricanTeams
[14:29] <Kilos> you can go see our site https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AfricanTeams
[14:31] <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
[14:32] <Kilos> great. i use kubuntu as well
[14:33] <Kilos> with luck you can help get the nigerians motivated again
[14:35] <Kilos> leumas did you join us on https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-africa
[14:35] <Kilos> join the mailing list as well
[15:34] <leumas> I havent Kilos..will do that later
[15:34] <Kilos> cool
[16:56] <Kilos> my connection is bad today
[16:56] <MarwenDo> hi Kilos
[16:56] <Kilos> hi MarwenDo how are you
[16:57] <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
[16:58] <Kilos> did you see MarwenDo we have a new guy here from nigeria
[16:58] <MarwenDo> no ! Welcome Mr nigeria :)
[16:59] <MarwenDo> What's his name Kilos
[16:59] <Kilos> leumas
[16:59] <MarwenDo> hi leumas :)   Welcome to our community
[17:00] <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
[17:02] <leumas> Kilos: :) hopefully we can move forward and make Africa great through Open Source
[17:02] <MarwenDo> leumas, can you introduce your self ? :)
[17:03] <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
[17:04] <leumas> MarwenDo: you?
[17:05] <MarwenDo> I'm Tunisian , a student , 23 years old , I use Ubuntu Gnome :D
[17:06] <leumas> I use Kubuntu 16.04, big KDE fan, employed, married
[17:06] <Kilos> hehe ima month away from 65
[17:07] <Kilos> leumas do you know more linux users there?
[17:07] <leumas> Kilos: in Nigeria?
[17:07] <Kilos> yes?
[17:08] <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
[17:09] <leumas> yea, i did a while ago when i discovered this channel
[17:09] <Kilos> update them all about this community
[17:10] <Kilos> the tunisians are strong here
[17:10] <Kilos> and south africans
[17:11] <Kilos> theShirbiny where are you again?
[17:11] <Kilos> leumas what irc client do you use?
[17:11] <leumas> Kilos: Konversation
[17:12] <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
[17:13] <leumas> yea....i guessed over the years Kubuntu has switched from Konversation to Quassel and then back to konversation
[17:14] <leumas> How long have you been using Linux? which distro/DE did you start with?
[17:14] <Kilos> i started with 8.10 gnome2
[17:15] <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
[17:16] <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
[17:17] <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
[17:18] <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
[17:19] <Kilos> i have a thinkpad here as well
[17:19] <Kilos> so thats good
[17:19] <Kilos> T410.i
[17:20] <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...
[17:21] <Kilos> mine is i5 4GB and a 128GB ssd
[17:21] <Kilos> works well
[17:22] <leumas> i got this laptop to run Linux alon for the first time
[17:23] <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
[17:24] <Kilos> waste of disk space
[17:41] <leumas> lol
[17:42] <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
[17:43] <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
[17:44] <Kilos> no i havent
[17:45] <leumas> Ok
[17:45] <Kilos> what does it do
[17:46] <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
[17:47] <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
[17:48] <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
[17:49] <Kilos> i only have an old nokia that can sms and call
[17:49] <Kilos> hehe
[17:51] <leumas> hahahahaha
[17:53] <paddatrapper> leumas: it doesn't on Kubuntu 14.04. But I agree, it is a very useful piece of software
[17:55] <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
[17:56] <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?
[17:57] <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
[17:58] <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
[17:59] <leumas> Yea, Govt needs to support that agenda but as we know we cant wait for them
[18:00] <paddatrapper> Sadly can't rely on government. But community can do a lot when they work together
[18:01] <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
[18:02] <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?
[18:04] <leumas> i can
[18:05] <leumas> just pinged my laptop from my phone
[18:05] <paddatrapper> Hmm... IP's correspond to the same network?
[18:06] <leumas> yea
[18:06] <leumas> They are both connected to my Wifi modem
[18:07] <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
[18:08] <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
[18:09] <paddatrapper> Kubuntu 16.04?
[18:09] <leumas> yea
[18:11] <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
[18:12] <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?
[18:13] <leumas> Nigeria
[18:13] <paddatrapper> Nice
[18:13] <leumas> :)
[18:18] <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
[18:29] <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
[18:30] <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
[18:31] <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
[18:32] <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!*
[18:33] <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:
[18:34] <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/
[18:35] <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?
[18:36] <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.
[18:37] <Kilos> yes its open melodie
[18:37] <leumas> Cool
[18:38] <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
[18:39] <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
[18:40] <paddatrapper> melodie: great persistence!
[18:40] <Kilos> yeah she doesnt give up
[18:41] <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!
[18:42] <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
[18:43] <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
[18:45] <leumas> All i can say is a resounding well done to all your efforts and  congrats on achieving so much milestones
[18:46] <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
[18:47] <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
[18:48] <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
[18:49] <Kilos> cool leumas
[18:49] <melodie> leumas wonderful!
[18:50] <Kilos> you see how many members we have there
[18:50] <melodie> Kilos Burkina Faso will be joining soon!
[18:50] <melodie> Gildas/Ougadougou
[18:51] <Kilos> one of then did chat with me a while back
[18:52] <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
[18:53] <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
[18:54] <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
[18:55] <Kilos> leumas youve been approved. now can you join the mailing list there
[18:55] <Kilos> ?
[18:56] <Kilos> then ill forward melodie s mail
[18:56] <Kilos> then all africa has it
[18:56] <leumas> Kilos: Cool
[18:57] <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
[18:58] <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
[18:59] <melodie> Kilos my pleasure
[18:59] <Kilos> the LP list is buggy
[19:01] <Kilos> check if you got that one leumas
[19:02] <leumas> An email?
[19:02] <Kilos> yes in the list
[19:02] <Kilos> more of melodies work
[19:03] <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?
[19:04] <Kilos> oh dont you use thunderbird mail
[19:07] <melodie> leaving, good night!
[19:09] <leumas> Oh, seen. I can read it from the archives
[19:12] <Kilos> i get my mail downloaded to pc with thunderbird mail client using pop
[19:17] <Kilos> then you get an alert when a new mail arrives
[19:39] <Kilos> sleep tight africa
[19:40] <marwen_> Good night Kilos
[20:34] <acetakwas> Hi leumas
[20:34] <acetakwas> Fellow Nigerian here
[20:41] <leumas> Hi Acetakwas
[20:58] <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
[21:05] <leumas> hi acetakwas
[21:07] <leumas> Hi paddatrapper
[21:07] <leumas> My KDE connect is working fine now
[21:08] <acetakwas> leumas::  Hi
[21:08] <acetakwas> What part of Nigeria are you in?
[21:08] <acetakwas> I'm guess your real name is Samuel.
[21:09] <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!!
[21:10] <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
[21:11] <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
[21:12] <acetakwas> Yes
[21:12] <acetakwas> Linux encourages the use of IRC by given a default client on most distros
[21:13] <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)
[21:14] <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
[21:15] <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
[21:16] <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
[21:20] <leumas> Am yet to make the full switch, hopefully in the near future
[21:22] <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
[21:27] <paddatrapper> leumas: great to hear!
[21:50] <leumas> paddatrapper: thanks once again