[00:38]  * nhaines waves at popey.
[00:39] <popey> 👋
[00:39] <nhaines> I'm still not used to emoji in IRC. Particularly not color ones.  :)
[02:53] <nhaines> Hello, everyone!  Meeting coming up in about 6 minutes.
[03:00] <nhaines> #startmeeting
[03:00] <nhaines> Hello everyone, and welcome to the Ubuntu California meeting for November 18th!
[03:00] <nhaines> Tonight's agenda can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/18November18
[03:00] <nhaines> #topic Upcoming Events
[03:00] <nhaines> Anything exciting coming up around California?
[03:03] <aidian> linux users group of davis meets tomorrow? :)
[03:03] <nhaines> That works!  :)
[03:03] <nhaines> Is there a link?
[03:03] <aidian> http://www.lugod.org
[03:04] <nhaines> Thank you!  :)
[03:04] <nhaines> #topic Announcements
[03:05] <nhaines> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be supported by Canonical for 10 years!  That makes it a very LTS.
[03:05] <nhaines> I don't have any further information, though.  I assume this is for server and Ubuntu Core and not necessarily the desktop.  But information is still slim!
[03:07] <nhaines> Mark Shuttleworth mentioned financial servies, telecommunications, and IoT at the same time, so it will be very interesting to see what this long support window ends up looking like.  :)
[03:07] <nhaines> In any case, I'm sure it's something we'll be asked about at SCALE, so we'll be sure to brief everyone with what we know by then.
[03:07] <nhaines> #topic Agenda
[03:07] <nhaines> There are no items on tonight's agenda.
[03:08] <nhaines> #topic Other business
[03:08] <nhaines> Is there any other business for tonight's meeting?
[03:12] <nhaines> Okay, our next meeting is December 2nd.  Happy Thanksgiving for all those who celebrate with turkey and other savory proteins, and see you all then!
[03:12] <nhaines> #endmeeting
[03:12] <aidian> cheers :)
[03:12] <nhaines> aidian: cheers :)
[03:12] <aidian> fwiw, tomorrow we're having our monthly meeting as an "opensource tech cafe"
[03:13] <nhaines> Oh, that sounds fun.
[03:13] <aidian> where people can come with technical questions, q's about f/oss software, andwe'll have a small pile of demo machines
[03:13] <aidian> laptops, netbooks, a pi or two, running various distros for people to try out
[03:13] <aidian> etc
[03:14] <nhaines> Very nice!
[03:14] <aidian> it's a thing anyways,hehe
[03:14] <aidian> ubuntu will be showing up in lubuntu form
[03:14] <nhaines> Do you get lots of newcomers for those types of meetings?
[03:15] <aidian> not a whole lot, but we're in the local newspaper this month, so hopefully a few more than usual
[03:16] <nhaines> We did a nice installfest for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, I think, at OCLUG, and not only did we get a few newcomers, but also revitalized our existing members.
[03:16] <aidian> ooh, nice.
[03:16] <aidian> last year we did 'installfest junior' which this is kind of a theme on
[03:17] <aidian> not a full-day event installfest, but a similar thing, people could bring machines to install, or get help with existing machines
[03:17] <nhaines> We got some lanyards and pizza money from the Ubuntu community donations fund. It was efficient, but fun.
[03:17] <aidian> we had a handful of people show up, people compiling drivers,someone tryingto install qubes, a borked mint install we fixed
[03:17] <aidian> oh wow nice
[03:18] <aidian> we takea donations for club funds but we also out of pocket a lot of stuff
[03:18] <aidian> there wasa run of laptop snatching thefts recently for example, so a couple members ponied up to buy us a stock of cheap cable locks to give away, that was fun
[03:19] <aidian> afk, gotta move
[03:19] <nhaines> Yup, I pitched it as a group project, got us all to pick a distro (I recommended Ubuntu in my professional, unbiased opinion, ha!), got everyone to promise not to badmouth whatever distro we picked and to not offer other distros (but happily help with anything any new user asked for!).
[03:20] <nhaines> And it was a lot of fun.  Attendance doubled after that, I printed out disclaimers and equipment inventory sheets, published the anonymous results, etc.  It was good for the LUG.
[04:23] <aidian> hahaha wow, nice
[04:23] <aidian> we're trying to grow more after a long-term slow shrink