23:01 <BobJonkman1> #startmeeting monthly IRC meeting
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23:02 <BobJonkman1> Hello Everybodeee!  Katherine sigint KombuchaKip wylde sipherdee cyphermox jaguar- DarwinSurvivor zul txwikinger mars jlamothe laurelrusswurm FiReSTaRT cjop ryanakca bregma dscassel johanbr
23:02 <BobJonkman1> It's time for the monthly IRC meeting.
23:02 <KombuchaKip> Hey all. Kip from the Avaneya project, a cerebral science fiction game for Ubuntu. (White Rock, BC, Canada).
23:02 <BobJonkman1> There's an agenda at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2013/2013-09-26
23:03 <BobJonkman1> Hi KombuchaKip!
23:03 * KombuchaKip waves BobJonkman1
23:03 <BobJonkman1> #subtopic Introductions
23:04 <BobJonkman1> Let's follow KombuchaKip's example. Who are you, where are you from, what's your involvement with Ubuntu?
23:04 <BobJonkman1> I'm Bob Jonkman from Elmira, Ontario (just north of Waterloo). I'm a sysadmin and Ubuntu enthusiast
23:06 <BobJonkman1> Slow night :)
23:06 <BobJonkman1> Must be the good weather on the last nice day of the year
23:08 <BobJonkman1> Well, racing on to the next topic then...
23:08 <BobJonkman1> #topic Events
23:08 <BobJonkman1> Did anyone attend sessions at the Ubuntu Developer Summit?
23:09 <BobJonkman1> http://uds.ubuntu.com/
23:10 <BobJonkman1> It's too bad that most sessions are now on Google Hangouts, and not using Free Software for online collaboration.
23:10 <BobJonkman1> Since I don't have the Google Hangout plugins installed on my computer I didn't see any of the sessions
23:13 <BobJonkman1> #link Recorded videos are on the Ubuntu Community Channel at http://ubuntu.mirocommunity.org/
23:14 <BobJonkman1> But I don't see any of the UDS videos featured on that page.
23:15 <BobJonkman1> #subtopic Ubuntu Global Jam
23:15 <BobJonkman1> So, who jammed?
23:15 <BobJonkman1> We had a pretty good turnout at the Kitchener Global Jam
23:16 <BobJonkman1> #link Pictures are at http://pix.ie/ubuntuca/album/475387/detailed
23:17 <Katherine> I was sorry to have to miss it.
23:17 <BobJonkman1> Katherine: We missed you!
23:18 <Katherine> Maybe next time... I hope.
23:18 <BobJonkman1> There will be other jams, usually about a month for a release
23:18 <BobJonkman1> I filed a few bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~bjonkman
23:18 <BobJonkman1> I know others did too
23:19 <BobJonkman1> But largely it was a good day for meeting like-minded Ubuntu folks
23:19 <BobJonkman1> People came to Kitchener from Mississauga and Toronto!
23:22 <BobJonkman1> Many thanx to Charles McColm @chaslinux for organizing the Kitchener Global Jam event
23:22 <BobJonkman1> @chaslinux tweeted about UGJ : https://twitter.com/chaslinux/status/378910396020953088
23:22 <meetingology> BobJonkman1: Error: "chaslinux" is not a valid command.
23:24 <BobJonkman1> #subtopic Software Freedom Day
23:24 <BobJonkman1> How about SFD last Saturday? Did anyone go to one of the events in Canada?
23:25 <BobJonkman1> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013/Canada/
23:26 <BobJonkman1> There's an upcoming Software Freedom Day celebration in Kitchener at Kwartzlab this coming Saturday (T-minus two days and counting!)
23:26 <BobJonkman1> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013/Canada/Kitchener/Kwartzlab
23:29 <BobJonkman1> I'm giving the first talk on ownCloud, doing a live demonstration.
23:30 <Katherine> what time does your talk start?
23:32 <BobJonkman1> I'm presenting at 11:00am
23:33 <BobJonkman1> I'll probably do a brief introduction of Free Software, since we don't have a "What Is Free Software" presentation this year
23:33 <BobJonkman1> I hope to cover installation, updating, and a brief tour of the major features
23:33 <BobJonkman1> I was on the #owncloud channel to ask a questions, and spoke to one of the developers
23:34 <BobJonkman1> Turns out he's from Waterloo too, and he'll be coming down to help me present
23:34 <BobJonkman1> He writes the News addon, so he'll demonstrate that in the last 15-20 minutes or so
23:35 <BobJonkman1> ...that's Alessandro Cosentino, zimba12 in the #owncloud channel
23:38 <BobJonkman1> We're also going to stream Richard Stallman's keynote speech at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts starting at 5:00pm
23:39 <BobJonkman1> So we'll certainly go much later than the 5:00pm end time indicated on http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013/Canada/Kitchener/Kwartzlab#Charles_McColm:_XBMC:_Building_Your_Own_Entertainment_System
23:39 <BobJonkman1> #subtopic Ubuntu Release Parties
23:40 <BobJonkman1> Let's do some Release Party planning!
23:41 <BobJonkman1> Ubuntu 13.10, Saucy Salamander, is scheduled for release on 17 October
23:41 <BobJonkman1> That's T-minus 21 days and counting!
23:42 <BobJonkman1> Who's planning an Ubuntu Release Party?
23:43 <BobJonkman1> dscassel says that Release Parties are a tradition, and there will almost certainly be one in the Kitchener-Waterloo area
23:45 <BobJonkman1> My guess is that it'll be at Kwartzlab, probably on Thursday, 17 October
23:45 <BobJonkman1> (they've got a Hackathon planned for Saturday and Sunday, 19-20 October
23:46 <BobJonkman1> Or maybe Ubuntoids will be invited to the Hackathon, and we'll all party together.
23:47 <Katherine> what are they coding about?
23:50 * BobJonkman1 goes to check the Kwartzlab calendar...
23:51 <BobJonkman1> #link: Kwartzlab Global Synchronous Hackathon: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=OTk5ZHMzZmxpNWs5NTBvcW82MjljMXJmbDggZXZlbnRzQGt3YXJ0emxhYi5jYQ&ctz=America/Toronto
23:54 <BobJonkman1> Doesn't say much about the topic for the hackathon.
23:55 <BobJonkman1> Hopefully someone will post to the Kwartzlab blog about it
23:55 <BobJonkman1> #topic Other stuff
23:55 <BobJonkman1> We're approaching the end of the IRC meeting (T-minus five minutes and counting)
23:56 <BobJonkman1> Anyone have anything else?
23:56 <BobJonkman1> I should mention the Ubuntu Hour in Guelph tomorrow night...
23:56 * BobJonkman1 mentions the Ubuntu Hour in Guelph tomorrow night
23:56 <BobJonkman1> So that's covered :)
23:57 <BobJonkman1> #link to Ubuntu Hour Guelph: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-ca/2545-ubuntu-hour-guelph/
23:58 <BobJonkman1> The next IRC meeting would be on the fourth Thursday in October, that would be the 24th.
23:59 <BobJonkman1> But the last few meetings it's just been me talking to myself.
23:59 <BobJonkman1> I can do that without scheduling a meeting.
23:59 <BobJonkman1> So is there anyone who really wants to schedule the next one?
00:00 <BobJonkman1> If not, we can leave it until there's a desperate, pent-up demand...
00:01 <BobJonkman1> OK, let me know, either here in the #ubuntu-ca channel, or on the mailing list.
00:01 <Katherine> Is interest really declining or are there just people temporarily away?
00:01 <BobJonkman1> It's been quiet all over, so I think people may just be enjoying the last few days of nice weather
00:02 <BobJonkman1> But there's the possibility that Ubuntu (and Linux in general) have become so mainstream that there is no longer a need for specialized groups.
00:03 <Katherine> The weather is unlikely to be this warm late in October.
00:03 <BobJonkman1> I'll bet there were Telephone User Groups back in Alex Bell's day
00:03 <BobJonkman1> But you don't see TUGs around any more, either
00:03 <BobJonkman1> I dunno, we've had some nice days around Hallowe'en in the past.
00:04 <BobJonkman1> But I also remember trekking door-to-door with my son through the snow
00:04 <Katherine> They could have used party lines for their meetings.
00:04 <BobJonkman1> :)
00:04 <BobJonkman1> If you want a meeting, let me know.
00:05 <BobJonkman1> Or even better, just pop over to the Ubuntu-ca LoCo page and schedule one yourself.
00:06 <BobJonkman1> The Ubuntu Hours in Guelph are new, and have been pretty popular (both of them) :|
00:06 <BobJonkman1> Katherine: If you schedule a meeting or an Ubuntu Hour then I'll come.
00:07 <Katherine> I don't really know enough about what's going on to schedule meetings but I'll try to attend if meetings are scheduled.
00:08 <BobJonkman1> :) OK.  It's pretty easy, just go to http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-ca/ and log in with your Launchpad ID, then you can create a new event
00:09 <BobJonkman1> We've been using "Event" to schedule a meeting since the "Meeting" interface is pretty clunky.  "Event" does what we want, even for meetings
00:10 <BobJonkman1> So give it a shot.  If you schedule the meeting I'll take care of putting up an agenda.  We can do the meeting announcements together
00:10 <BobJonkman1> All right, if there's nothing else, I'll #endmeeting
00:11 <BobJonkman1> (we're already at T-plus 10 minutes and counting for the meeting end :) )
00:12 <BobJonkman1> #endmeeting