| aidian | good evening | 01:43 |
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| nhaines | aidian: good evening! | 01:58 |
| nhaines | We're about to have a meeting, although a short one since the agenda's empty. | 01:59 |
| aidian | yeah, that's why i showed up. :) i wouldn't mind a chance to introduce myself | 02:00 |
| nhaines | That'll be other business, which is after the agenda (which is empty). It'll come up quick. :) | 02:00 |
| aidian | gotcha. short version: representing linux users group of davis | 02:01 |
| nhaines | Great! | 02:01 |
| nhaines | We're going to be a couple minutes late while I take care of something that just came up. brb! | 02:01 |
| aidian | no worries, i'll be here and quiet til someone hollers at me | 02:01 |
| lynorian | evening | 02:02 |
| nhaines | Okay, I'm back. | 02:04 |
| nhaines | lynorian: glad to see you tonight. :) | 02:04 |
| lynorian | I have been super busy writing the Lubuntu manual | 02:04 |
| nhaines | I've been super busy translating a novel, and I think I envy you. :) But I'm glad you're working on documentation. It's important! | 02:05 |
| nhaines | #startmeeting | 02:05 |
| nhaines | Welcome to the Ubuntu California meeting for October 21st. | 02:06 |
| nhaines | Tonight's agenda can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/18October21 | 02:06 |
| nhaines | #topic Upcoming events | 02:06 |
| nhaines | Are there any upcoming events we should keep an eye on? | 02:06 |
| nhaines | The Southern California Linux Expo's call for papers continues until October 31st, and UbuCon could use more talks! | 02:08 |
| nhaines | You can find more information about submitting a talk here: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/cfp | 02:08 |
| nhaines | If you would like your talk to be considered for UbuCon, please make sure to pick that as your track when you submit. :) | 02:08 |
| nhaines | #topic Announcements | 02:08 |
| nhaines | Ubuntu 18.10 was released last week. It contains a new theme, updated drivers, newer LibreOffice, and a wide assortment of nifty server stuff! | 02:09 |
| nhaines | In addition, Canonical released a report on new Ubuntu installation statistics collected since Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. You can read that here: https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/statistics | 02:09 |
| nhaines | Are there any other announcements for the group? | 02:10 |
| nhaines | #topic Agenda | 02:11 |
| lynorian | nhaines: what do you need to do for submitting a talk? | 02:11 |
| nhaines | lynorian: That is described in detail on the link provided. Mainly, you need a bio and a talk title and abstract. If you have any questions that aren't answered on that page, let me know. | 02:12 |
| nhaines | It's a talk submission system, so it does walk you through pretty much everything. | 02:12 |
| nhaines | There is no agenda for tonight's meeting. | 02:12 |
| nhaines | #topic Other business | 02:13 |
| nhaines | I'm going to make a note to get a meetingology bot in here. I can probably host it if necessary, if we can't get an official one. On my to-do list now. | 02:13 |
| nhaines | aidian: how are you? :) | 02:13 |
| aidian | haha, fine, thanks! | 02:13 |
| aidian | mind if i state my bit now? | 02:14 |
| nhaines | The floor's all yours! | 02:14 |
| aidian | brilliant. :) | 02:14 |
| aidian | I'm here as an officer of the Linux Users' Group of Davis, in Davis, CA. | 02:14 |
| aidian | I found some flyers for this group that got hidden away by the previous president, Bill Kendrick | 02:15 |
| nhaines | We're glad you found us! We used to have a bunch of members in that area. | 02:15 |
| aidian | indeed! we have a pretty big membership still, but admittedly our active membership has diminished quite a bit. the linux advocacy scene has.. changed a lot. | 02:16 |
| nhaines | We're seeing that here and in fact, worldwide in the Ubuntu Local Community teams. | 02:17 |
| nhaines | It's been a wild ride! Lots more work to do, even if it's different. :) | 02:17 |
| aidian | yeah. that's why i figured i should reach out. we're really trying to be more active. we're writing new advocacy and outreach materials and doing more public work. | 02:17 |
| aidian | we had our first booth at the davis farmer's market in something like a decade just this month. | 02:18 |
| nhaines | Oh, that's fun. How did that go? | 02:18 |
| aidian | it didn't go too badly at all, especially for a first go with new administration. | 02:19 |
| aidian | it was a great time, we had probably 25 people come over five hours | 02:19 |
| nhaines | That's not a bad turnout. Plenty of time to spend with each person! | 02:19 |
| nhaines | Is there a report or blog post about that anywhere? | 02:20 |
| aidian | yeah, not too bad for being down in the socio-political ghetto end of the market | 02:20 |
| nhaines | Location, location. :) | 02:20 |
| aidian | i haven't posted pictures to our website (www.lugod.org) yet, but there are some on our facebook page | 02:21 |
| aidian | https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/ | 02:21 |
| nhaines | Thank you. I'll check that out. | 02:21 |
| nhaines | Are you subscribed to our mailing list? | 02:21 |
| aidian | i am! it reminded me to be here tonight. | 02:21 |
| nhaines | That's good! Usually reminders happen during the week, but I've been exceptionally busy lately. Not a great excuse, but at least it's true. | 02:22 |
| aidian | believe me, i feel you. | 02:22 |
| aidian | what i really wanted to do was talk about advocacy resources, though. we're looking for anything and everything we can use to share and promote linux and foss in general. | 02:23 |
| aidian | since i found a stack of flyer for this group, they'll be on our table at monthly meetings and at our next market stall on november 10th. | 02:24 |
| aidian | (provided you're ok with that, of course) | 02:24 |
| nhaines | I appreciate that! We do talk about refreshing those from time to time, but it never seems to happen. | 02:24 |
| nhaines | If you could maybe email a photo of the flyers so I can make sure they're still accurate, that'd be nice. My email is my nick @ubuntu.com | 02:24 |
| aidian | shall do next time i raid our bin o' flyers. | 02:25 |
| nhaines | Great. :) | 02:25 |
| nhaines | Anything else to add? | 02:26 |
| aidian | nope, just if anyone wants to talk about sharing existing or creating new printable flyers or other promotional material that we can display, give me a shout | 02:26 |
| aidian | i'm on freenode at this nick, in #lugod, and reachable at root@lugod.org | 02:26 |
| aidian | ...which i probably should have spam shielded in that line, but too lat enow. | 02:27 |
| aidian | anyways, that's all. thanks a lot. | 02:27 |
| nhaines | I'll redact it from the meeting log if you wish. :) | 02:27 |
| nhaines | Thanks for being here! | 02:28 |
| aidian | would be appreciated :) | 02:28 |
| aidian | cheers | 02:28 |
| nhaines | That'll wrap it up for this meeting. Our next meeting will be on November 4th, 2018. | 02:28 |
| nhaines | It will be at 7 pm PST, and do note that yes, Daylight Savings Time ends that morning. :) | 02:29 |
| nhaines | Until then! | 02:29 |
| nhaines | #endmeeting | 02:29 |
| aidian | fun :) | 02:29 |
| aidian | i suppose i should have also mentioned that we're always looking for speakers. :) | 02:29 |
| nhaines | Right... well luckily that's a perfect thing to post on the mailing list! :D | 02:30 |
| aidian | is it? oh good. | 02:30 |
| aidian | hehe | 02:31 |
| aidian | advocacy is a tough business. | 02:31 |
| nhaines | It sure can be. Fun, though! | 02:32 |
| aidian | also that. i've had a blast since i started in lugod. accidentally became president a couple years ago now. | 02:32 |
| nhaines | The farmer's market booth was a good idea. It helps get people thinking about events and participating. | 02:32 |
| aidian | yeah. it took a bit of work to put together, but not really that much, and it was great to just be seen out there. | 02:33 |
| nhaines | Hat kind of Linux usage do you see in your LUG? (distros, purpose, etc.) | 02:33 |
| aidian | oh, a pretty wide range of use, really. we have some purists who are 100% linux all the time, plenty of people who used mixed OS's (including me) | 02:34 |
| aidian | pretty much every variety from Mint to Gentoo | 02:34 |
| aidian | Ubuntu as well, of course, hehe. i have a netbook with lubuntu | 02:35 |
| nhaines | I'm Ubuntu only except for gaming, which is 50/50%. But less and less relevant in my life unfortunately. :) | 02:35 |
| aidian | most of my linux stuff is just running debian on a home server, or raspbian on raspberry pis | 02:36 |
| aidian | the club webserver is ubuntu | 02:36 |
| nhaines | Oh, I think Ubuntu 18.10 just got full kernel support for the RPi 3 and 3+. :) | 02:37 |
| aidian | ooooh nice | 02:37 |
| nhaines | I'm looking forward to finding an excuse to run Ubuntu Core on an RPi for a project. Those updates are nice. | 02:38 |
| aidian | i'm looking for an excuse to get a pi3+, hehe | 02:38 |
| nhaines | I want a pi0w, but I'm pretty sure I have no use for one, haha. | 02:39 |
| aidian | i'm actually using one as a security camera | 02:40 |
| nhaines | How do you like it? | 02:40 |
| aidian | it's really pretty nice. motioneye is really slick. | 02:40 |
| aidian | and i love the official pi0 case. | 02:40 |
| nhaines | I like the Piromoni cases, but the pi0 case is pretty cute. | 02:41 |
| aidian | it is. really fun to break one out of my backpack as a demonstration unit and hand it to someone. | 02:42 |
| aidian | "here's a linux computer." | 02:42 |
| nhaines | Yeah, I have Ubuntu MATE on mine. But a quick SD card swap yields Kodi and emulators. | 02:44 |
| aidian | oooh, nice. | 02:44 |
| nhaines | A full graphical desktop always makes for an impressive demonstration. | 02:46 |
| aidian | yeah, it does. my 2b is a raspbian desktop. i tend to leave it at home with vnc enabled, and remote into it. | 02:47 |
| aidian | ..and then i like.. fire up xmille, lol | 02:48 |
| aidian | https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/xmille | 02:49 |
| nhaines | Ooh, that's a new one to me! | 02:50 |
| aidian | haha, it's very old | 02:50 |
| aidian | that or i show off tuxpaint | 02:51 |
| nhaines | Haha, tuxpaint is fun. | 02:51 |
| aidian | our founder and former president is the author :) | 02:52 |
| nhaines | As is 'hollywood' https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/hollywood | 02:52 |
| nhaines | Oh, how did I not remember that? :) | 02:52 |
| aidian | :D | 02:52 |
| aidian | oh man, i wish there was a debian equivalent of hollywood, haha | 02:55 |
| nhaines | Haha, is it not in Debian? | 02:55 |
| aidian | doesn't seem to be | 02:56 |
| nhaines | There's info and a YouTube video here, if you haven't found it: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/12/hollywood-technodrama.html | 02:59 |
| nhaines | I guess you could also just try the snap. :) | 03:02 |
| aidian | one of our members has a pretty good 'hollywood' technique. i think he just hexdumps /dev/urandom and greps for a random number | 03:03 |
| nhaines | Oh! Actually: https://twitter.com/dustinkirkland/status/923942207266095104 | 03:03 |
| aidian | oh sweet deal | 03:04 |
| nhaines | I just found out about the variant 'wallstreet', so now I'm checking that out (thanks to the snap). | 03:05 |
| aidian | neat | 03:07 |
| nhaines | Unfortunately, I have to get back to work. I got hired to do a book translation with a short turnaround time, and it started off slower than I planned (it's a scifi videogame tie-in, so lots of cross reference with the manual and guides). So it's back to work for me! :D | 03:08 |
| aidian | whoo boy, well good luck with that | 03:08 |
| aidian | nice talking to you | 03:08 |
| aidian | i'll be around if anyone else wants to pipe up about stuff, too | 03:08 |
| nhaines | Thanks! :) And great talking to you, too. | 03:09 |
| aidian | :D | 03:10 |
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