00:00 <BobJonkman> #startmeeting Ubuntu Canada Video Chat for 23 January 2014 00:00 <meetingology> Meeting started Fri Jan 24 00:00:11 2014 UTC. The chair is BobJonkman. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 00:00 <meetingology> 00:00 <meetingology> Available commands: #accept #accepted #action #agree #agreed #chair #commands #endmeeting #endvote #halp #help #idea #info #link #lurk #meetingname #meetingtopic #nick #progress #rejected #replay #restrictlogs #save #startmeeting #subtopic #topic #unchair #undo #unlurk #vote #voters #votesrequired 00:00 <BobJonkman> Meeting's on! Roll call: dscassel mainmeister katherineB aruna_ mars dougdastew1 FiReSTaRT DarwinSurvivor bregma BobJonkman jaguar zul laurelrusswurm1 jlamothe johanbr IdleOne azend|vps Chex ryanakca samthetechie sipherdee greeter cyphermox azend txwikinger2 00:00 <BobJonkman> Hello Everybody! 00:01 <dscassel> Hi BobJonkman! 00:01 <BobJonkman> This meeting is also on the Google Hangout at URL https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/7acpj7lt99uvi3m8iirprakd4g?hl=en 00:01 <BobJonkman> Come join us there if you can 00:02 <bregma> you can adjust your bandwidth with the little star-step tool 00:02 <BobJonkman> So let's start with some introductions 00:02 <BobJonkman> #topic Introductinos 00:03 <aruna_> BobJonkman:Sounds Great see you there :-) 00:04 <BobJonkman> I'm Bob Jonkman from Elmira, just north of Waterloo 00:04 <dscassel> Hi, I'm Darcy in Waterloo. I'm also a co-contact, although I've been seriously slacking off lately. Thanks, Bob! 00:04 <katherineB> Hi! I'm Katherine in Waterloo. 00:06 <BobJonkman> Online we also have Aruna, dscassel, David, John, Doug, Jeff, John, Stephen and William 00:07 <aruna_> Hi Katherine welcome 00:07 <dougdastew1> Hi I'm Doug from London ont. 00:07 <katherineB> Hi aruna_ 00:07 <aruna_> Hi Doug welcome 00:08 <CrankyOldBugger> helloooooo 00:08 <aruna_> Hi Jeff 00:08 <aruna_> hell-ooooh 00:08 <aruna_> :) 00:08 <BobJonkman> We're joined by Ron from Maryland LoCO 00:09 <BobJonkman> #topic Events 00:09 <BobJonkman> Lots of events on the agenda 00:09 <BobJonkman> Lets start past Events 00:09 <BobJonkman> #subtopic Past Events 00:10 <BobJonkman> Aruna's Ubuntu Hour in Toronto 00:11 <bregma> hey guys, using headphones will prevent the delay feedback, just so you know for next time 00:11 <BobJonkman> Aruna explains the reason for holding Ubuntu Hours. Getting people to particate 00:11 <BobJonkman> We had a lot of fun, so it was a successful Ubuntu Hour 00:13 <BobJonkman> Kitchener Ubuntu Hours? 00:13 <BobJonkman> None in January, but maybe in February 00:14 <bregma> control-D will toggle the microphone nute 00:14 <bregma> Mute* 00:14 <BobJonkman> (asking people to mute mics when not speaking) 00:14 <BobJonkman> Ubuntu Hour Toronto pictures at http://pix.ie/ubuntuca/album/482290/detailed 00:15 <BobJonkman> I don't know what the Ubuntu Development Sprint is, and noone else seems to know 00:15 <BobJonkman> #subtopic Upcoming events 00:15 <aruna_> Bob is explaining about upcoming events on the video chat 00:15 <genii> Luckily I had a headset 00:15 <aruna_> me too :) 00:16 <BobJonkman> App Developer Week is on now 00:16 <BobJonkman> Lots of people would like to participate, but they're not programmers. 00:17 <aruna_> hey Katherine and Doug ask away if you guys have questions 00:17 <aruna_> Saturday is Ubuntu User Days 00:18 <aruna_> Ubuntu User days are information sessions 00:18 <BobJonkman> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays are online courses 00:19 <BobJonkman> Ubuntu Developer Summit 00:20 <BobJonkman> Also an online session, using Google Hangouts 00:20 <BobJonkman> http://uds.ubuntu.com/ but that site hasn't been updated for this year yet 00:20 <BobJonkman> bregma says it will probably be in February 00:21 <pirivan> the hangout is full, I can't join :( 00:21 <aruna_> pirivan: hold on let me leave so yo0u can join 00:21 <BobJonkman> Roundtable discussions on upcoming features 00:21 <aruna_> 1 sec 00:22 <BobJonkman> Phone and Cloud discussions, talking about convergence 00:22 <pirivan> aruna_, why do you want to leave? 00:22 <katherineB> How many people can be in the hangout 00:22 <aruna_> pirivan: so you can JOIN my friend 00:22 <BobJonkman> I think 10 people is the max 00:22 <aruna_> maximum TEN I belive katherine 00:23 <dscassel> I'll be having to leave soon so there'll be a space opening. 00:23 <pirivan> nope, still full 00:23 <aruna_> no darcy stick around 00:23 <aruna_> you can add value where as I have little 00:24 <aruna_> pirivan: try now 00:24 <pirivan> I'm in! 00:24 <aruna_> Yaaay ! 00:24 <aruna_> gud stuff n pls pay attention 00:25 <dscassel> I'm out, so there's another spot open if someone wants in. 00:26 <BobJonkman> Darcy has just left, but hopes to have a Trusty Tahr release party 00:26 <aruna_> oki 00:26 <ronswift_> someone can also take my spot 00:26 <BobJonkman> genii will be holding a URP in Toronto on the day of release 00:26 <ronswift_> bye 00:26 <BobJonkman> I'm hoping we'll Global Jam in Computer Recycling in Kitchener 00:26 <aruna_> thanks for dropping by Ron 00:29 <BobJonkman> genii suggests having simul-parties so we communicate on IRC and video 00:32 <BobJonkman> I'm explaining that Release Parties are social events for me, but they can also be installfests or educational events 00:34 <BobJonkman> We're talking about the direction of ubuntu, and what we're running on our own desktops 00:34 <aruna_> Katherine do u have a webcam and mic+headset dear 00:35 <aruna_> Please feel free to ask away everyone here is friendly and helpful 00:35 <katherineB> I can't afford to upgrade from dialup. That's why I don't try to use video from home. 00:36 <aruna_> your on dial-up ? yikes 00:36 <aruna_> we have to do some thing about that :) 00:36 <katherineB> Yeah. I know. Yeech! 00:36 <aruna_> LOL its not dat bad 00:37 <katherineB> A job that pays enough to live on is what will free me! 00:37 <aruna_> join the club hun 00:37 <aruna_> have faith 00:38 <aruna_> never lose faith or give up 00:38 <katherineB> Faith is taking a long time to do any good. 00:38 <BobJonkman> Talking about the other events... 00:39 <BobJonkman> John says he's running CrunchBang on an old laptop, wiht low resources 00:39 <BobJonkman> I didn't know #! was an Ubuntu Derivative 00:40 <BobJonkman> bregma and John are swapping stories about the EEE PC and the pre-formatted SSD drive 00:41 <BobJonkman> John mentions Bohdi Linux 00:41 <bregma> it's just an SD card, not an SSD 00:41 <BobJonkman> Pedro has Bohdi on an tiny old computer 00:42 <bregma> the system was read-only with a unionfs overlay, so you could never actually delete any files and eventually you'd run out of disk space and need to reformat 00:42 <bregma> and the keyboards were so cheap the keys always fell off when my kids used the machines 00:43 <dougdastew1> try now I just left 00:44 <dougdastew1> try now 00:46 <genii> BobJonkman: Tenant came down to my office complaining of wino in the driveway, had to go wake him up and send him on his way 00:47 <BobJonkman> #topic Other Stuff 00:51 <BobJonkman> Ubuntu presence on Social Media channels like StatusNet, Twitter, Facebook, &c 00:52 <BobJonkman> I've got some of it covered on StatusNet: http://sn.jonkman.ca/group/ubuntuca 00:52 <CrankyOldBugger> is that what I said?? 00:52 <BobJonkman> and http://sn.jonkman.ca/group/ubuntu 00:53 <BobJonkman> CrankyOldBugger will look after Google Plus announcements, &c. 00:53 <BobJonkman> https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/103177632744805958694 is the Ubuntu Canada LoCo community 00:54 <BobJonkman> John mentions Sunflower filemanager, worth looking at 00:54 <BobJonkman> It's a graphical FM. 00:58 <BobJonkman> Arunu asks can I handle IRC and Video together? 00:58 <BobJonkman> Yes, but I think people on IRC are losing out on a lot of the conversation 00:59 <aruna_> That was my concern as well 01:00 <BobJonkman> Should we do video chat again? 01:00 <BobJonkman> Consensus, yes. 01:00 <CrankyOldBugger> I hear music.. 01:01 <genii> CrankyOldBugger: Aruna's phone :) 01:01 <BobJonkman> Bregma say Hangouts on Air solve part of that problem by letting more than 10 people participate by viewing only 01:01 <BobJonkman> So next time I'll try that 01:02 <aruna_> Sorry I had to take the call it's my son from Sri lanka 01:02 <genii> Well, good night and we will hopefully "see" each other again soon 01:02 <CrankyOldBugger> good night everybody 01:03 <BobJonkman> Also, I'd likt to try running in a community area like Kwartzlab where we can participate as a group, allowing people without video access to participate 01:04 <katherineB> That would be nice. 01:06 <BobJonkman> For February's meeting we can try Hangouts On Air, and I'll ask Darcy about using Kwartzlab. 01:07 <BobJonkman> Perhaps azend can see about using Diyode.. 01:07 <BobJonkman> Anyway, that about finishes off the night. The video chat has shut down, and if nobody has anything else we can end the meeting 01:08 <BobJonkman> #endmeeting