[01:43] good evening [01:58] aidian: good evening! [01:59] We're about to have a meeting, although a short one since the agenda's empty. [02:00] yeah, that's why i showed up. :) i wouldn't mind a chance to introduce myself [02:00] That'll be other business, which is after the agenda (which is empty). It'll come up quick. :) [02:01] gotcha. short version: representing linux users group of davis [02:01] Great! [02:01] We're going to be a couple minutes late while I take care of something that just came up. brb! [02:01] no worries, i'll be here and quiet til someone hollers at me [02:02] evening [02:04] Okay, I'm back. [02:04] lynorian: glad to see you tonight. :) [02:04] I have been super busy writing the Lubuntu manual [02:05] 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] #startmeeting [02:06] Welcome to the Ubuntu California meeting for October 21st. [02:06] Tonight's agenda can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/18October21 [02:06] #topic Upcoming events [02:06] Are there any upcoming events we should keep an eye on? [02:08] The Southern California Linux Expo's call for papers continues until October 31st, and UbuCon could use more talks! [02:08] You can find more information about submitting a talk here: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/cfp [02:08] 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] #topic Announcements [02:09] 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] 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 [02:10] Are there any other announcements for the group? [02:11] #topic Agenda [02:11] nhaines: what do you need to do for submitting a talk? [02:12] 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] It's a talk submission system, so it does walk you through pretty much everything. [02:12] There is no agenda for tonight's meeting. [02:13] #topic Other business [02:13] 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] aidian: how are you? :) [02:13] haha, fine, thanks! [02:14] mind if i state my bit now? [02:14] The floor's all yours! [02:14] brilliant. :) [02:14] I'm here as an officer of the Linux Users' Group of Davis, in Davis, CA. [02:15] I found some flyers for this group that got hidden away by the previous president, Bill Kendrick [02:15] We're glad you found us! We used to have a bunch of members in that area. [02:16] 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. [02:17] We're seeing that here and in fact, worldwide in the Ubuntu Local Community teams. [02:17] It's been a wild ride! Lots more work to do, even if it's different. :) [02:17] 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. [02:18] we had our first booth at the davis farmer's market in something like a decade just this month. [02:18] Oh, that's fun. How did that go? [02:19] it didn't go too badly at all, especially for a first go with new administration. [02:19] it was a great time, we had probably 25 people come over five hours [02:19] That's not a bad turnout. Plenty of time to spend with each person! [02:20] Is there a report or blog post about that anywhere? [02:20] yeah, not too bad for being down in the socio-political ghetto end of the market [02:20] Location, location. :) [02:21] i haven't posted pictures to our website (www.lugod.org) yet, but there are some on our facebook page [02:21] https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/ [02:21] Thank you. I'll check that out. [02:21] Are you subscribed to our mailing list? [02:21] i am! it reminded me to be here tonight. [02:22] 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] believe me, i feel you. [02:23] 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. [02:24] 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] (provided you're ok with that, of course) [02:24] I appreciate that! We do talk about refreshing those from time to time, but it never seems to happen. [02:24] 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 [02:25] shall do next time i raid our bin o' flyers. [02:25] Great. :) [02:26] Anything else to add? [02:26] 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] i'm on freenode at this nick, in #lugod, and reachable at root@lugod.org [02:27] ...which i probably should have spam shielded in that line, but too lat enow. [02:27] anyways, that's all. thanks a lot. [02:27] I'll redact it from the meeting log if you wish. :) [02:28] Thanks for being here! [02:28] would be appreciated :) [02:28] cheers [02:28] That'll wrap it up for this meeting. Our next meeting will be on November 4th, 2018. [02:29] It will be at 7 pm PST, and do note that yes, Daylight Savings Time ends that morning. :) [02:29] Until then! [02:29] #endmeeting [02:29] fun :) [02:29] i suppose i should have also mentioned that we're always looking for speakers. :) [02:30] Right... well luckily that's a perfect thing to post on the mailing list! :D [02:30] is it? oh good. [02:31] hehe [02:31] advocacy is a tough business. [02:32] It sure can be. Fun, though! [02:32] also that. i've had a blast since i started in lugod. accidentally became president a couple years ago now. [02:32] The farmer's market booth was a good idea. It helps get people thinking about events and participating. [02:33] 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] Hat kind of Linux usage do you see in your LUG? (distros, purpose, etc.) [02:34] 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] pretty much every variety from Mint to Gentoo [02:35] Ubuntu as well, of course, hehe. i have a netbook with lubuntu [02:35] I'm Ubuntu only except for gaming, which is 50/50%. But less and less relevant in my life unfortunately. :) [02:36] most of my linux stuff is just running debian on a home server, or raspbian on raspberry pis [02:36] the club webserver is ubuntu [02:37] Oh, I think Ubuntu 18.10 just got full kernel support for the RPi 3 and 3+. :) [02:37] ooooh nice [02:38] I'm looking forward to finding an excuse to run Ubuntu Core on an RPi for a project. Those updates are nice. [02:38] i'm looking for an excuse to get a pi3+, hehe [02:39] I want a pi0w, but I'm pretty sure I have no use for one, haha. [02:40] i'm actually using one as a security camera [02:40] How do you like it? [02:40] it's really pretty nice. motioneye is really slick. [02:40] and i love the official pi0 case. [02:41] I like the Piromoni cases, but the pi0 case is pretty cute. [02:42] it is. really fun to break one out of my backpack as a demonstration unit and hand it to someone. [02:42] "here's a linux computer." [02:44] Yeah, I have Ubuntu MATE on mine. But a quick SD card swap yields Kodi and emulators. [02:44] oooh, nice. [02:46] A full graphical desktop always makes for an impressive demonstration. [02:47] yeah, it does. my 2b is a raspbian desktop. i tend to leave it at home with vnc enabled, and remote into it. [02:48] ..and then i like.. fire up xmille, lol [02:49] https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/xmille [02:50] Ooh, that's a new one to me! [02:50] haha, it's very old [02:51] that or i show off tuxpaint [02:51] Haha, tuxpaint is fun. [02:52] our founder and former president is the author :) [02:52] As is 'hollywood' https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/hollywood [02:52] Oh, how did I not remember that? :) [02:52] :D [02:55] oh man, i wish there was a debian equivalent of hollywood, haha [02:55] Haha, is it not in Debian? [02:56] doesn't seem to be [02:59] There's info and a YouTube video here, if you haven't found it: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/12/hollywood-technodrama.html [03:02] I guess you could also just try the snap. :) [03:03] 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] Oh! Actually: https://twitter.com/dustinkirkland/status/923942207266095104 [03:04] oh sweet deal [03:05] I just found out about the variant 'wallstreet', so now I'm checking that out (thanks to the snap). [03:07] neat [03:08] 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] whoo boy, well good luck with that [03:08] nice talking to you [03:08] i'll be around if anyone else wants to pipe up about stuff, too [03:09] Thanks! :) And great talking to you, too. [03:10] :D