[01:50] <pleia2> meeting in 10 minutes
[02:00] <nhaines> Yay, meeting time.
[02:00] <pleia2> o/
[02:00] <nhaines> #startmeeting
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[02:01] <nhaines> #chair nhaines pleia2 lynorian
[02:01] <darthrobot> Current chairs: lynorian nhaines pleia2
[02:01] <nhaines> Welcome to the Ubuntu California meeting for September 4th, 2016!  Tonight's agenda can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/16September04
[02:01] <darthrobot> Title: [CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/16September04 - Ubuntu Wiki]
[02:02] <nhaines> #topic Upcoming events and general announcements
[02:02] <nhaines> Are there any announcements to be made?
[02:02]  * pleia2 has none
[02:02] <nhaines> I suppose it's noteworthy, if 2.5 months off, that three of us are planning to attend UbuCon Europe.  :)
[02:03] <pleia2> indeed!
[02:03] <pleia2> they're started putting together the schedule :)
[02:03] <nhaines> They've finished putting together the schedule.  :)
[02:03] <pleia2> #link http://ubucon.org/en/events/ubucon-europe/
[02:03] <darthrobot> Title: [UbuCon Europe | UbuCon portal]
[02:03] <nhaines> It should be pretty fun, and by "fun" I mean I won't be running it, hehe.
[02:04] <nhaines> Although I'm sure I'll stilll be moving heavy things.
[02:05] <nhaines> Hmm, Ubuntu 16.10 is moving along quietly.  OTA-13 on the phones is coming, with copy/paste support between native Ubuntu SDK apps and legacy X desktop apps.
[02:06] <nhaines> The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase wallpaper competition for 16.10 is ongoing: https://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-fcs-1610
[02:06] <darthrobot> Title: [Ubuntu 16.10 Free Culture Showcase - Wallpapers | Flickr]
[02:06] <nhaines> And that's all I've got.  :)
[02:06] <nhaines> #topic Agenda
[02:06] <nhaines> There are no agenda items this week.
[02:06] <nhaines> #topic Other business
[02:07] <pleia2> so I haven't been here since our SF release party
[02:07] <nhaines> Did we get an update on that?  How did that go?  :)
[02:07] <pleia2> it went ok :) wasn't blockbuster like past ones
[02:08] <pleia2> but we had fun, had tablets and laptops out for people to play with, and I did a 16.04 presentation + OTA 12
[02:08] <nhaines> Sometimes smaller parties can be fun.  More intricate conversations.
[02:08] <pleia2> http://princessleia.com/journal/2016/08/ubuntu-16-04-release-party-san-francisco-concluded/
[02:08] <darthrobot> Title: [Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party San Francisco Concluded! – pleia2's blog]
[02:08] <pleia2> yeah, there was a fair amount of that
[02:09] <pleia2> so we had about 15 people, lots of nice chats
[02:10] <pleia2> and OpenDNS was awesome for hosting
[02:10] <nhaines> For all the routineness of "it's the 24th Ubuntu release," 16.04 LTS was sort of game-changing.  :)
[02:11] <pleia2> not a bad place for a venue, but it was during a ball game which messed up traffic+parking a bit
[02:11] <pleia2> will have to pay attention to that next time
[02:11] <nhaines> It was really nice of OpenDNS to host.  :)
[02:11] <pleia2> yeah :)
[02:11] <pleia2> that's all really, glad we did it even if it was small
[02:12] <nhaines> That's great.  :)
[02:13] <nhaines> I'll bet the first release party after Unity 8 hits will be amazeballs.
[02:13] <pleia2> hope so!
[02:13] <nhaines> Until then, we just have to convince people that snaps change EVERYTHING.
[02:13] <nhaines> I don't have any other business.
[02:15] <nhaines> Okay, I think that's it for this week, then.
[02:16] <nhaines> I hope everyone has a relaxing Labor Day tomorrow.
[02:16] <pleia2> thanks, you too nhaines
[02:16] <nhaines> Thanks!  :)
[02:16] <pleia2> and happy birthday BirthdayHandler!
[02:16] <nhaines> Happy Birthday!
[02:17] <nhaines> #endmeeting
[02:17] <darthrobot> Meeting ended Mon Sep  5 02:17:09 2016 UTC.
[02:17] <darthrobot> Minutes:        http://ihas.5cat.com/~darthrobot/ubuntu-us-ca/2016/ubuntu-us-ca.2016-09-05-02.00.moin.txt
[02:17] <nhaines> A friend of mine found a private arcade in Anaheim last week that's open most weekend to the public.  $10 cover charge, 4 pinball games and 90 arcade machines on free play.
[02:18] <nhaines> It was pretty cool.  They projected lazer graphics and 80s videos on the walls.  I just wanted to shake my fist at them because even though the videos were served by Kodi they were running Windows!
[02:18] <pleia2> :D
[02:19] <pleia2> I was at a hackerspace in Philly recently and they had a pinball machine that they made, but it ran on Windows :(
[02:19] <nhaines> But I walked in and it was like I was 12 again.  Very cool.
[02:19] <pleia2> they thought it was open source, and written in C# or something portable to Linux, so there was hope
[02:19] <BirthdayHandler> Thank you for the birthday wishes pleia2 :)
[02:20] <nhaines> I got to play Video Pinball, a 1978 Atari machine that used a physical pinball field and a monochrome graphic overlay via a mirror to offer video pinball that was really, really nice.
[02:20] <pleia2> hah, nice
[02:20] <nhaines> You even launched the ball with a spring-loaded plunger and could push down on the console to nudge the ball.  :)  So that's my new retro obsession.
[02:22] <pleia2> hehe
[02:26] <nhaines> The only flaw was that the ball's terminal velocity was a little slow.  Other than that (and that the playfield had an extreme disco theme) it was a very satisfying pinball experience.
[02:27] <pleia2> :)
[02:34] <nhaines> pleia2: how's your German?
[02:34] <pleia2> does not exist
[02:34] <pleia2> should go over well when I go there in a couple weeks
[02:34] <pleia2> where there is Germany
[02:35] <akk> Most Germans speak better English than Americans anyway.
[02:36] <nhaines> Oh, it's easy!  Repeat after me: „Die Käse ist alt und schimelig.“  The cheese is old and moldy.
[02:36] <akk> A phrase useful for any occasion!
[02:36] <nhaines> akk: especially for wine and cheese tastings!
[02:37] <pleia2> beer and cheese tastings :d
[02:37] <pleia2> akk: that has been my experience too ;) but people are funny in their own countries
[02:37] <nhaines> Hahah, yeah, I intend to hit a biergarten while I'm there.  Several if possible.
[02:38] <nhaines> And Sujeevan said he'd be interested to visit Neander Valley (Neandertal) with me.  Of course, it'll have to be Tuesday after UbuCon, because German museums are open 6 days a week but closed on Mondays.  :)
[02:39] <pleia2> heh
[02:39] <pleia2> cool
[02:39] <nhaines> I believe it's just a dinky little museum, but had I known it was so close to Köln back when I was there in 2003, I'd have gone!
[02:42] <nhaines> And I may be close enough to eat Sauerbraten there.  Although my friend insists it's a regional dish on the Rhein.  "Essen is in Nordrein-Westfalen."  "No, that's nowhere close, Sauerbraten is a Rhein dish."  "They call it the Rheinland!" "No, it's from the Rhein."
[02:42] <nhaines> I'll figure it out.
[02:43] <pleia2> hehe
[02:43] <nhaines> There was an AirBNB home right in Marburg an der Lahn for suuuuper cheap, so it was clear I could spend half a week just basically duplicating the last time I was in Germany, which as tempting as it was I decided to abandon.  I spent two weeks there, so I should see other places.  :)
[02:44] <pleia2> yeah
[02:44] <pleia2> so I'm going to Walldorf in a couple weeks
[02:45] <pleia2> and because work never lets me book things in a timely manner anymore, I am flying in to Frankfurt and out of Dusseldorf
[02:45]  * pleia2 gets to take a train to DUS
[02:45] <pleia2> so that'll be fun :) I like trains
[02:45] <nhaines> Ooh!  That's in Baden-Württemburg.  Where I've never been but whenever I say it it alarms Germans because I pronounce it right.  :)
[02:46] <pleia2> lol
[02:46] <nhaines> I can very cheaply fly from John Wayne Airport straight to Düsseldorf, which is amazing to me because it's suuuuuper convenient not to have to drive to LAX.
[02:46] <pleia2> nice
[02:46] <nhaines> German trains are amazing.
[02:47] <pleia2> I'm excited
[02:47] <nhaines> I remember when I took them, they always arrived within 15 or 20 seconds, and of course the Germans were really grumbling about how late they were but I was like "wow, right on time!"
[02:49] <nhaines> pleia2: if you can say Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft, you can pronounce any German word.  https://soundcloud.com/nhaines-1/donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitatenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
[02:49] <darthrobot> Title: [Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft by nhaines | Free Listening on SoundCloud]
[02:50] <pleia2> o_o
[02:50] <nhaines> Just take a breath beforehand.
[02:50] <pleia2> hahaha
[02:52] <nhaines> Funnily enough, when my friend's bilingual kid was 5 and I would visit and read to him, I'd throw him little 2-3 letter 'sight words', and occasionally just to harrass him I'd throw him really long English words.  And he never, ever blinked.  He'd attempt to sound them out, so I had to be careful to only give him something that was more or less phonetic.
[02:52] <pleia2> clearly we are weak
[02:53] <nhaines> I assume that was because German has big compound words.  And when he'd get tired of reading in English, we'd switch to a German book because it's all strictly phonetic.  So I taught him to read in English and German.  :)
[02:54] <nhaines> He turned 10 yesterday, and is a SUPER fantastic reader.  Half of that is because I always have subtitles turned on in Netflix, and half because videogames.
[02:54] <pleia2> :D
[02:54] <nhaines> But "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and some Dr. Seuss early on certainly didn't hurt either.
[02:58] <nhaines> Anyway, there's the slimest chance that he and his mom will be in Germany the week after UbuCon, and I'm crossing my fingers because it'd be great to have an interpreter (simultaneous interpretation is her job, and he can always use the practice but is also pretty comfortable translating.)
[03:00] <pleia2> neat
[03:01] <nhaines> If that pans out, I might pick him up under one arm and go to Hamburg and watch The Lion King musical.  But it *just* opened in San Diego (where he lives) so... decisions, decisions.