| mmikowski | I don't know if I fit the bill Rick, but I might be interested. | 18:56 |
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| mmikowski | I could certainly show up with some awesome machines and talk at length about all the benefits of Kubuntu. | 18:58 |
| mmikowski | sgmoore I hope your arm heals well. | 19:02 |
| mmikowski | btw, we are selling more to government agencies and research departments. Not giant volumes, but they keep coming in. | 19:03 |
| arraybolt3 | IMO mmikowski going could be a really good idea since he's in a unique position to push the "professional use" part of Kubuntu becaues of how Kubuntu Focus works. Depending on how it works out that could result in more donations to Kubuntu. | 19:20 |
| mmikowski | sgmoore valorie @Rick_Timmis ^^^ | 19:20 |
| valorie | I'm logged in, but failing to find anything about ubuntu/kubuntu? | 19:28 |
| mmikowski | Hi valorie, @Rick_Timmis mentioned Maruo Gaspari has openings for the Ubuntu Summit on 25-27 October. Is that what you are looking for? | 19:31 |
| valorie | yes - where is the summit this year? | 19:31 |
| mmikowski | valorie: not sure. As long it's not in Kyiv, I can probably make it :) | 19:32 |
| valorie | heh | 19:32 |
| valorie | well, I'm not traveling internationally until my genealogy society president role is over, which is next May | 19:33 |
| valorie | really, the weekend is SeaGL is probably all I can do | 19:34 |
| valorie | and only if some *buntu folks are going to show up in Seattle too | 19:34 |
| mmikowski | If there is interest, I can talk about how building together makes Kfocus possible. That could give a good sales boost, which could make more (and hopefully ongoing!) funding of the project possible. We already have donated 4 laptops to developers and have funded some for years. But we would like to do more. | 19:37 |
| valorie | that's good news, mmikowski | 19:38 |
| mmikowski | valorie That's always been the dream, to commercialize Kubuntu in a good way, and have that feed back to ensure the project is healthy. | 19:39 |
| valorie | it's interesting to see KDE enter into such partnerships in Europe | 19:40 |
| mmikowski | This year has been looking up, and strategically and the environment is right for it. | 19:40 |
| valorie | might be the future, considering how important the tech in machines is becoming more implicated in security and /or the lack of security | 19:41 |
| mmikowski | Hmm, what's their recent partnerships? Like KDE Slimbook, Valve, etc? | 19:41 |
| mmikowski | Or is there something new? | 19:41 |
| valorie | trying to recall the details - might not be announced yet | 19:42 |
| mmikowski | oh, I thought 5 years ago that this was where we are going. | 19:42 |
| mmikowski | Ah. Well, we are a paying corporate sponsor, which should provide some additional insight. But we haven't heard anything either. Apparently, you have better sources than I. | 19:42 |
| valorie | well I follow tech news, so I've seen all these implications that the mainstream press seems to miss | 19:42 |
| valorie | mmikowski: < KDE e.V. Member | 19:43 |
| mmikowski | Well, I follow that too. But I could have missed something. | 19:43 |
| valorie | altho passive right now | 19:43 |
| valorie | also I have lots of friends in tech around everywhere from Linuxchix and also Google Summer of Code community | 19:44 |
| valorie | believe it or not linuxchix still has an IRC server | 19:44 |
| valorie | some people there I've known for a quarter of a century | 19:45 |
| mmikowski | Wow. | 19:45 |
| mmikowski | That means you must be about 35 now! | 19:45 |
| mmikowski | :) | 19:45 |
| valorie | rofl | 19:45 |
| valorie | my kids are all over that age | 19:45 |
| valorie | I'm 71 | 19:45 |
| mmikowski | I've been 29 for decades now myself. | 19:46 |
| valorie | I switched to linux in 2000 | 19:46 |
| mmikowski | Oh, I did think you were quite a bit younger than that. | 19:46 |
| mmikowski | 1997 for me. Had to run a company with SGI as my core machines. | 19:47 |
| valorie | I would not be 29 again for $$$ | 19:47 |
| mmikowski | Linux integrated. WinNT was a joke. | 19:47 |
| arraybolt3 | has WinNT ever not been a joke? | 19:47 |
| arraybolt3 | *ducks* | 19:47 |
| valorie | Win2k Pro was not too bad | 19:47 |
| valorie | but I still wanted free and open source | 19:48 |
| mmikowski | It was a /serious/ joke in 1997. I spent 80 hours trying to get it running after having it "professionally" installed. I reinstalled it and DLL hell and had driver CDs strung across an office floor. You had to order them just right so the right DLLs got overwritten without breaking the other drivers. | 19:48 |
| valorie | Mandrake was cool | 19:48 |
| valorie | but once I tried kubuntu I stuck with it | 19:49 |
| mmikowski | Never got it working. Installed Mandrake and had it serving NIS and NFS to our company, email server, and website in 2 hours. | 19:49 |
| mmikowski | I moved to Kubuntu in 2007. | 19:49 |
| valorie | I can't remember the year, but 'twas awhile ago | 19:50 |
| mmikowski | yeah, I was hooked though. The Ubuntu base really moved the needle. | 19:52 |
| mmikowski | Note to Bill Gates the genius: Versioning your libraries is a good idea. | 19:53 |
| mmikowski | I'm grateful he finally hired someone that understood that. Because other OSes had been doing that for, oh, 30 years at that point. | 19:54 |
| mmikowski | But not my 1997 WindowNT! | 19:54 |
| mmikowski | Win2000 fixed all that. The guy who oversaw VMS was brought in for that. | 19:55 |
| mmikowski | valorie we are KDE e.V. Corporate Patron. You can see the patron logo at the bottom of kfocus.org. We also have an advisory board seat, although those meetings are usually quite buttoned-down. | 20:02 |
| IrcsomeBot | <sgmoore> mmikowski I really think you should go. I am sponsored with snap work, but will bounce between kubuntu and snap table. Help would be awesome. I wasn't going to travel at all but my GSOC student talked me into going. | 20:44 |
| mmikowski | sgmoore Thanks! I think it could be a great opportunity to present and help out. | 20:58 |
| IrcsomeBot | <sgmoore> It would!! | 20:58 |
| IrcsomeBot | <sgmoore> If we could fill both spots even better | 20:59 |
| mmikowski | Indeed, and it would be great to meet you there! | 21:01 |
| mmikowski | sgmoore: I sent you a pm for consideration on a presentation :) | 21:07 |
| mmikowski | sgmoore although that might not be a requirement arraybolt3 now tells me :) | 21:15 |
| IrcsomeBot | <sgmoore> Computer is up for evening. Still recovering from hospital. Will take a look in morning. | 21:32 |
| mmikowski | Thanks sgmoore! | 21:59 |
| mmikowski | feel better | 21:59 |
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