[01:58] <nhaines> Hmm, I feel surprisingly well for having had 6 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours.  Power of naps, I guess.
[02:00] <pleia2> o/
[02:00] <nhaines> Okay, meeting time!
[02:00] <nhaines> pleia2: glad you made it.  :)  I'm glad *I* made it.
[02:01] <nhaines> #startmeeting
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[02:01] <nhaines> #chair nhaines pleia2 lynorian
[02:01] <darthrobot> Current chairs: lynorian nhaines pleia2
[02:01] <nhaines> Good evening everyone!  It's time for our biweekly LoCo meeting!
[02:02] <nhaines> Tonight's agenda can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/16July24
[02:02] <darthrobot> Title: [CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/16July24 - Ubuntu Wiki]
[02:02] <nhaines> #topic Upcoming events
[02:03] <pleia2> so, we have our release party in SF coming up :) https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/2016-June/002735.html
[02:03] <darthrobot> Title: [[Ubuntu-US-CA] San Francisco Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party]
[02:03] <nhaines> Thursday is the 16.04 Release Party in San Francisco!  \o/
[02:03] <pleia2> tell your friends, neighbors, cats
[02:03] <nhaines> But not too many cats, because they steal pizza!
[02:03] <pleia2> it's true
[02:03] <pleia2> everything is all set, looking forward to it
[02:03] <nhaines> Party details are here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/2016-June/002735.html and you should definitely RSVP if you are planning to attend.
[02:03] <darthrobot> Title: [[Ubuntu-US-CA] San Francisco Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party]
[02:04] <nhaines> pleia2: is it true that everyone who attends should bring Arch discs for installation?
[02:05] <pleia2> I don't think any of my laptops take discs...
[02:05] <pleia2> but I will have some Ubuntu USB sticks :)
[02:06] <nhaines> Yay! Are they giveaways?
[02:06] <pleia2> indeed, got a conference pack with some hats, a tshirt, pins
[02:06] <pleia2> https://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/28403665235/
[02:06] <darthrobot> Title: [Giveaways for the @ubuntu_us_ca release party in SF next w… | Flickr]
[02:06] <pleia2> stickers too
[02:07] <pleia2> and I should have a copy or two of the 9th edition of the official ubuntu book
[02:07] <nhaines> That is the most official Ubuntu book!
[02:08] <nhaines> It all sounds great.  I wish I could be there.  :)
[02:08] <pleia2> same!
[02:09] <nhaines> Well, I look forward to hearing how it all went.
[02:09] <nhaines> #topic Announcements
[02:09] <nhaines> Does anybody have any topical announcements to make?
[02:09] <pleia2> The reports of the meetup.com group death have been greatly exaggerated.
[02:10] <pleia2> all 300+ members of the team were emailed this morning about it shutting down in 14 days, sorry about that, I've been trying to get the team at Canonical to renew it
[02:10] <nhaines> Yeah, I'll have to check with the Community Team to find the status of that.  They were trying to find the right person to set things up.
[02:10]  * pleia2 nods
[02:11] <pleia2> other teams got similar notices today, so it is on their radar
[02:11] <pleia2> including Florida, where one of them lives, so hoping that helps
[02:12] <pleia2> no other announcements from me, just wanted to clear the air there
[02:12] <nhaines> I'm thinking a brief mass email to the meetup can clear things up.  Just a note that the pilot was a success and it's a just hiccup as we transition to committing to use the service.
[02:12] <nhaines> Something along those lines.
[02:13] <pleia2> nhaines: from us, or the broader Ubuntu group running it?
[02:13] <nhaines> Probably from us, unless the bigger group can still do that.  I might have to see if I have those credentials.
[02:14] <nhaines> If not, we can share the email with the other teams using Meetup so they can adapt and resend it.  :)
[02:15] <pleia2> ok, can you take care of that then?
[02:15] <nhaines> Yup.  I'll look at it Monday or Tuesday and get the message out.
[02:16] <pleia2> thanks :)
[02:16] <nhaines> You're welcome.  :)
[02:17] <nhaines> #topic Canonical no longer provides Ubuntu DVDs; LoCos now receive 25 USB sticks per event instead of 150 DVDs.
[02:17] <nhaines> #subtopic wat do?
[02:17] <pleia2> right, so I'm preparing for this release party
[02:17] <nhaines> As is tradition.
[02:17] <pleia2> not sure how many I should give away there, and I haven't gotten much word at all about whether teams can request more packs of USB sticks or anything
[02:18] <pleia2> in fact, availability was never formally announced at all, I just kept nagging on the mailing list ;)
[02:18] <nhaines> Soon!
[02:19] <nhaines> Actually, I'm waiting for the person in charge of handing requests to come back from leave before announcing it.  ;)
[02:19] <pleia2> ok
[02:19] <nhaines> That way she's not completely swamped.  Should be a week or so.
[02:19] <nhaines> Leave sounds weird.  I understand it's just a vacation.
[02:20] <pleia2> europeans, always taking weeks off
[02:20] <nhaines> It's nice work if you can get it!
[02:20] <pleia2> indeed :)
[02:20] <pleia2> anyway, I'm not sure where that leaves us
[02:20] <nhaines> So I think we can just order more when we do a major event.
[02:21] <pleia2> ok
[02:21] <nhaines> The LoCo Council had a meeting with the the Community Team last week and I definitely brought this up.
[02:21] <pleia2> these are what they are, fwiw: https://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=1206
[02:21] <darthrobot> Title: [Canonical Store]
[02:22] <pleia2> which means they go for about $8 each, and they're really nice looking, useful
[02:22] <pleia2> with DVDs we just told people to email me and I'd drop them in the mail, but this is a bit trickier
[02:22] <nhaines> Oh, here's a question only you can answer!  :)  How big are they?
[02:22] <pleia2> 8G
[02:22] <pleia2> or dimensions?
[02:22] <nhaines> \o/
[02:23] <nhaines> Nope, capacity.  Dimensions-wise they're smaller than a breadbox.
[02:23] <pleia2> they are quite small
[02:23] <pleia2> dimension-wise ;)
[02:23] <pleia2> 8G is nice
[02:24] <nhaines> Big enough to throw a couple ISOs on there or something.
[02:24] <pleia2> yeah
[02:24] <nhaines> I think there's a sort of idea that if LoCos want or need DVDs, they can have them locally produced and send a community reimbursement request.
[02:24]  * pleia2 nods
[02:25] <nhaines> The Community Team is going to make sure the artwork (which we all think exists) is up on the wiki.
[02:25] <pleia2> I did have someone come to the BALUG meeting who expected me to have some DVDs to give away, but I didn't
[02:25] <pleia2> didn't have the USB sticks yet either
[02:26] <nhaines> Yeah, I mentioned that for SCALE, for instances, 25 sticks is nuts.
[02:26] <pleia2> heh, yeah
[02:27] <nhaines> I think you should probably keep 1 or 2 for use during Ubuntu Hour or LUG events, and give the rest away.
[02:27] <pleia2> at local northern california events, or open it up to everyone?
[02:28] <pleia2> not sure I *can* open it up to everyone, we only have 25 of them :)
[02:28] <nhaines> Local events.  If we do some SoCal stuff, I'll request a conference pack.
[02:28] <pleia2> ok, sounds good
[02:29] <nhaines> I might see if I can just get USB sticks.  I still have a bunch of leftover stuffs from SCALE, not counting 14.04 DVDs.  :)
[02:29]  * pleia2 nods
[02:29] <nhaines> But yeah, do what you can with the ones you have.  No sense in hoarding them.
[02:29] <pleia2> no, definitely not, just wanted to make sure we had a fair plan
[02:29] <nhaines> Have an Ubuntu Hour and make people reflash them with 16.04.1.  ;)
[02:29] <pleia2> haha, right
[02:30] <pleia2> alright, that's all I have
[02:30] <nhaines> I sort of suspect if 25 USB sticks turns out to be woefully inadequate, they'll revisit that.  But for now I think we're fine.
[02:31]  * pleia2 nods
[02:31] <nhaines> Unfortunately, I think that's because if pleia2 or I ask for more, they'll trust that we'll put them to good use.
[02:32] <nhaines> But we'll start with that.  Making them special giveaways at events isn't the end of the world, either.
[02:32] <nhaines> We'll just see what happens at SCALE!
[02:32] <pleia2> yeah :)
[02:32] <nhaines> Okay, that's all from me there.
[02:33] <nhaines> #topic Other business.
[02:33] <nhaines> Anything else before we wrap up?
[02:34] <pleia2> that's it from me
[02:34] <nhaines> Okay, that'll do it for tonight, then.
[02:34] <nhaines> pleia2: thanks for making it.  :)
[02:34] <nhaines> #endmeeting
[02:34] <darthrobot> Meeting ended Mon Jul 25 02:34:49 2016 UTC.
[02:34] <darthrobot> Minutes:        http://ihas.5cat.com/~darthrobot/ubuntu-us-ca/2016/ubuntu-us-ca.2016-07-25-02.01.moin.txt
[02:35] <nhaines> Next meeting August 7th.
[02:35] <pleia2> thanks nhaines
[02:35] <pleia2> I'll be out of the country during next meeting
[02:36]  * pleia2 looks at timezones
[02:36] <nhaines> Double-checking my calendar, I should be around.
[02:36] <pleia2> I think I'll be on a plane to London during the meeting
[02:36] <pleia2> on my way home
[02:37] <nhaines> But I am not feeling like doing the post-meeting checklist stuff on my laptop keyboard with no mouse, so I will probably do that tomorrow.
[02:37]  * pleia2 nods
[02:37] <pleia2> there's that done at least ;)
[02:38] <nhaines> Ooh, you beat me to it!  :)
[02:38] <nhaines> Thanks.
[02:44] <nhaines> pleia2: if you like kids and the 80s and creepy things and Netflix, you definitely should watch Stranger Things.
[20:55] <pleia2> nhaines: I actually just added it to my queue yesterday after someone else recommended it :D