20:00 <czajkowski> #startmeeting 20:00 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Jul 16 20:00:40 2013 UTC. The chair is czajkowski. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 20:00 <meetingology> 20:00 <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 20:01 <czajkowski> aloha folks and thank you all for coming to the LoCo council meeting this month 20:01 <czajkowski> #chair costales PabloRubianes SergioMeneses itnet7 20:01 <meetingology> Current chairs: PabloRubianes SergioMeneses costales czajkowski itnet7 20:01 <costales> Hi everyone! :) 20:01 <czajkowski> #voters PabloRubianes SergioMeneses costales itnet7 czajkowski 20:01 <meetingology> Current voters: PabloRubianes SergioMeneses costales czajkowski itnet7 20:01 <czajkowski> #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Agenda tonights agenda 20:02 <czajkowski> #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Agenda 20:02 <czajkowski> So this evening unless there are any objections we'll go through the list as they appear on the wiki 20:02 <czajkowski> right 20:03 <czajkowski> #topic Japanese Team reapproval 20:03 <czajkowski> anyone here for the Japaenese team ? 20:03 <SergioMeneses> hi guys 20:03 <jkbys> I'm from Japanese Team 20:04 <czajkowski> jkbys: hey there 20:04 <czajkowski> #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JapaneseTeam/ReApprovalApplication2013 20:04 <costales> Hi jkbys and good luck! :) 20:04 <czajkowski> Thanks for coming 20:04 <czajkowski> nice application 20:04 <jkbys> Hi all 20:04 <SergioMeneses> hi jkbys 20:04 <czajkowski> so jkbys care to just tell us a little about your team and how things are doing 20:04 <PabloRubianes> Hi jkbys 20:07 <czajkowski> jkbys: if you'd prefer to prepare some text in a document and tranlsate it via google that is fine 20:07 <czajkowski> I appreicate it's also late over there 20:08 <czajkowski> hmm maybe the connection is gone 20:08 <czajkowski> I dont have any questions but I do like the application and think the team is doing a great job 20:08 <jkbys> We continued to attend meetings, writing articles for this two years 20:09 <SergioMeneses> jkbys, I see your wiki pretty nice and good information 20:09 <czajkowski> yes you have been busy. 20:09 <czajkowski> jkbys: have you had any issues? or things the council can help with ? 20:10 <SergioMeneses> the magazine is awesome http://ubuntu.asciimw.jp/elem/000/000/010/10362/ 20:10 <czajkowski> costales: PabloRubianes any other questions I think we're all ready to vote :) 20:11 <PabloRubianes> czajkowski: I'm ok, they are working really good 20:11 <czajkowski> #vote please vote on the reapproval of the Japanese Team. 20:11 <meetingology> Please vote on: please vote on the reapproval of the Japanese Team. 20:11 <meetingology> Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me) 20:12 <czajkowski> +1 excellent work folks 20:12 <meetingology> +1 excellent work folks received from czajkowski 20:12 <SergioMeneses> I'm going to share an advice: more pictures for the next process 20:12 <PabloRubianes> +1 keep the work! 20:12 <meetingology> +1 keep the work! received from PabloRubianes 20:12 <jkbys> thank you 20:12 <SergioMeneses> +1 keep working 20:12 <meetingology> +1 keep working received from SergioMeneses 20:12 <costales> of course +1 Keep your awesome work!! :D And thanks! 20:12 <czajkowski> #endvote 20:12 <meetingology> Voting ended on: please vote on the reapproval of the Japanese Team. 20:12 <meetingology> Votes for:3 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 20:12 <meetingology> Motion carried 20:12 <jkbys> SergioMeneses: I see 20:13 <czajkowski> excellent work 20:13 <tdr112> well done 20:13 <SergioMeneses> jkbys, :) 20:13 <SergioMeneses> congrats guys! 20:13 <czajkowski> #action add Japanese team to the launchpad team 20:13 * meetingology add Japanese team to the launchpad team 20:13 <costales> Congrats Japanese Team! :D 20:13 <jkbys> Thank you all 20:13 <Neo31> congrats jkbys 20:13 <elacheche> Congrats Japanese Team! 20:13 <elacheche> :) 20:13 <airurando> congrats jkbys 20:13 <czajkowski> #topic Tunisian Team reapproval 20:13 <czajkowski> good evening folks thanks for coming along 20:14 <Neo31> I will be representing the Tunisian Team 20:14 <czajkowski> so who here is from the Tunisian team 20:14 <czajkowski> Neo31: welocme 20:14 <czajkowski> *Welcome 20:14 <SergioMeneses> Neo31, hi 20:14 <costales> Hi Neo31 and good luck! :) 20:14 <Neo31> I am Ahmed Sghaier, ubuntu-tn loco contact 20:14 <czajkowski> #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/ReApprovalApplication2013 20:14 <nizarus> o/ 20:14 <geekette> O/ 20:14 <elacheche> O/ 20:14 <costales> 6 Ubuntu Members! wow! :) 20:14 <czajkowski> nice detailed wiki 20:14 <czajkowski> thank you :) 20:14 <issam__> O/ 20:15 <Neo31> thank you :) 20:15 <czajkowski> so Neo31 just tell us a little about your team and the things you do 20:15 <Neo31> yes 20:15 <czajkowski> any thing you've found that worked or have struggled with 20:15 <Neo31> we do a variety of activities but mostly we concentrate on IRL events and promoting Ubuntu and FLOSS culture in the tunisian community 20:16 <czajkowski> nods 20:16 <SergioMeneses> :) 20:16 <Neo31> we provide supports for the users and we do our best to contribute to ubuntu by translations etc and we run training for packaging and other sorts of contributions 20:16 <Neo31> we have done more than 30 events since last reapproval 20:17 <SergioMeneses> guys I think you should use more often the locoportal for your events http://loco.ubuntu.com/ 20:17 <Neo31> i also invite you to check some of the photos following the best of photos albums 20:17 <Neo31> sure SergioMeneses 20:17 <czajkowski> Neo31: wow 30 20:17 <czajkowski> impressive 20:17 <SergioMeneses> czajkowski, an important number :) 20:17 <czajkowski> I think the work you are doing is amazing and having that many events shows me how active and organised you guys are 20:18 <czajkowski> my only comment would also to echo SergioMeneses in please use the loco team portal 20:18 <SergioMeneses> it is an amazing work - imho 20:18 <czajkowski> it's the best place to showcase al the work being done by teams in real life of online and also great to have all the evnets in one place 20:18 <czajkowski> costales: PabloRubianes any comments 20:19 <costales> No czajkowski , nice work! 20:19 <PabloRubianes> Impressive work! 20:19 <costales> You did a lot of events 20:19 <PabloRubianes> Neo31: have any new goal in the team? 20:20 <Neo31> yes 20:20 <Neo31> it is detailed on the page that we have been able to fulfill most of our last goals 20:20 <costales> Neo31, What has been the most important event? 20:20 <czajkowski> Neo31: have you antyhing you need from the council ? 20:20 <Neo31> now we are looking forward to improve our activities, team members and release a magazine this year 20:21 <czajkowski> wow :) 20:21 <PabloRubianes> Neo31: really good! 20:21 <Neo31> we are doing quite well until now. in case we need more assistance we will contact you 20:21 <czajkowski> #vote please vote on the re approval of the Tunisian Team 20:21 <meetingology> Please vote on: please vote on the re approval of the Tunisian Team 20:21 <meetingology> Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me) 20:21 <costales> sure! ;) 20:21 <czajkowski> +1 well done 20:21 <meetingology> +1 well done received from czajkowski 20:21 <PabloRubianes> +1 impressive work!, keep the hard work 20:21 <meetingology> +1 impressive work!, keep the hard work received from PabloRubianes 20:22 <costales> +1 Great work! keep it! :D And thanks! 20:22 <meetingology> +1 Great work! keep it! :D And thanks! received from costales 20:22 <SergioMeneses> +1 excellent 20:22 <meetingology> +1 excellent received from SergioMeneses 20:22 <czajkowski> #endvote 20:22 <meetingology> Voting ended on: please vote on the re approval of the Tunisian Team 20:22 <meetingology> Votes for:4 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 20:22 <meetingology> Motion carried 20:22 <costales> Congrats Tunisian Team!! 20:22 <SergioMeneses> congrats guys! 20:22 <Neo31> thank you very much :) 20:22 <czajkowski> #action add Tunisian team to launchpad team 20:22 * meetingology add Tunisian team to launchpad team 20:22 <tdr112> great work 20:22 <czajkowski> Neo31: thank you for coming along! 20:22 <czajkowski> #topic Ireland Team re approval 20:22 <elacheche> Thank you guys :) 20:22 <nizarus> Neo31, lunapersa, geekette, elacheche etc... are doing a good job :) big up 20:23 <airurando> congrats Tunisian Team 20:23 <Neo31> we will do our best to keep up the good work and do even better 20:23 <geekette> Thx guys 20:23 <lunapersa> :') 20:23 <czajkowski> #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/IrishTeamReApprovalApplication2013 20:23 <tdr112> hello 20:23 <czajkowski> Evening folks :) who's here from Ireland 20:23 <Neo31> thanks to all present ubuntu-tn members :) 20:23 <zmoylan> hi 20:23 <airurando> hi everyone 20:23 * tdr112 Is 20:23 <czajkowski> also to note I won't be voting in this application :) 20:23 <SergioMeneses> welcome ubuntu irish team 20:23 <PabloRubianes> Welcome to the Irish team 20:23 <SergioMeneses> hey Laura appears in the picture jeje 20:23 <czajkowski> thanks for coming airurando 20:23 <czajkowski> photos do exist of me :) 20:24 <SergioMeneses> nice 20:24 <czajkowski> so airurando care to tell us how the irish team is doing ? 20:24 <airurando> As our Team POC has forgotten I'll fill in 20:24 <airurando> When compared against our activity up to June 2011 the last two years have been considerably quieter in the Irish Team. 20:24 <czajkowski> no worries 20:25 <airurando> Having said that there is still some significant activity in our LoCo. 20:25 <SergioMeneses> airurando, does your team only have 4 ubuntu members? 20:26 <airurando> SergioMeneses: yes I believe so. 2 former Ubuntu members appear to have let their membership lapse. 20:26 <czajkowski> airurando: nods so teams do go through phases of being very active to being active in various ways 20:27 <czajkowski> the very fact you guys care so much and are here today shows us the team is active 20:27 <airurando> I became an Ubuntu Member earlier thus year 20:27 <czajkowski> \o/ 20:27 <airurando> so net reduction is only 1 20:27 <airurando> :-) 20:27 <SergioMeneses> airurando, ok 20:27 <airurando> lots of Ubuntu hours and release parties. 20:27 <tdr112> airurando: has startes to do a lot of work to give thw loco some much needed cpr 20:27 <tdr112> started 20:27 <czajkowski> airurando: so what do you think is the best thing that works for the team, is it social events or just being there to support one another? 20:28 <zmoylan> agreed 20:28 <SergioMeneses> your wiki is pretty nice and a lot of information appears on it... airurando do you have some problems or ideas about your team that you want to share with us? 20:28 <airurando> THe social events have worked great in the past but attendance has dwindles 20:29 <tdr112> i think we have found it hard to get new blood 20:29 <airurando> Aye, A lot of goodwill for the ongoing reboot effort. 20:29 <airurando> The only real struggle is turning that good will into participation and acitvities. 20:29 <PabloRubianes> tdr112: many teams have that problem 20:29 <czajkowski> nods there does seem to be interest in the team, but sometimes it's hard to get people to step up. 20:29 <SergioMeneses> tdr112, always is hard to find new blood 20:30 <czajkowski> But a lot of teams find that so don't be disheartended 20:30 <airurando> we have had some highlights over the last two years 20:30 <SergioMeneses> czajkowski, ++ 20:30 <airurando> we will never get disheartened 20:30 * czajkowski hugs airurando excellent 20:31 <tdr112> thats true only last week we had a great ubuntu hour 20:31 <airurando> indeed 20:31 <tdr112> with some guests from the usa 20:31 <costales> tdr112, great 20:31 <airurando> Pete and Amber Graner were in town! 20:32 <airurando> We had a good chat at that Ubuntu Hour 20:32 <SergioMeneses> airurando, awesome, maybe some day I'll join to one 20:32 <airurando> SergioMeneses: would love to have you over! 20:33 <costales> airurando, Could we help you in something? 20:33 <airurando> costales: not sure 20:33 <tdr112> we would take some advice on getting new people 20:33 <airurando> we have held and continue to hold straight talking meetings 20:34 <airurando> tdr112 is right. 20:34 <SergioMeneses> I think we are ready to vote 20:34 <airurando> that is really what we need 20:34 <costales> tdr112, It's complicate that point ;) A lot of teams have that problem 20:34 <czajkowski> costales: perhaps give an example how your team gets new people 20:34 <czajkowski> SergioMeneses: PabloRubianes same for you guys :) 20:34 <czajkowski> share knowledge :) 20:35 <SergioMeneses> I think I can share something in a post in these days 20:35 <czajkowski> #action SergioMeneses to blog about how to get new members into teams 20:35 * meetingology SergioMeneses to blog about how to get new members into teams 20:35 <czajkowski> SergioMeneses: :) 20:35 <czajkowski> now you won't forget 20:35 <SergioMeneses> jeje nice try 20:35 <airurando> :-) 20:36 <czajkowski> #vote please vote on the re approval of the Irish LoCo 20:36 <meetingology> Please vote on: please vote on the re approval of the Irish LoCo 20:36 <meetingology> Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me) 20:36 <costales> I think face2face meetings generate much stronger teams and friendship 20:36 <SergioMeneses> costales, totally agree 20:36 <SergioMeneses> +1 excellent work! 20:36 <meetingology> +1 excellent work! received from SergioMeneses 20:36 <airurando> costales: I also agree 20:36 <costales> +1 Go Éire!! Thanks for your work!! Keep it! :D 20:36 <meetingology> +1 Go Éire!! Thanks for your work!! Keep it! :D received from costales 20:36 <PabloRubianes> +1 good work! 20:36 <meetingology> +1 good work! received from PabloRubianes 20:37 <airurando> sincere thanks to you all :-) 20:37 <czajkowski> #endvote 20:37 <meetingology> Voting ended on: please vote on the re approval of the Irish LoCo 20:37 <meetingology> Votes for:3 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 20:37 <meetingology> Motion carried 20:37 <czajkowski> well done :) 20:37 <elacheche> Congrats Irish Team! :D 20:37 <SergioMeneses> congrats ubuntu Ireland team 20:37 <SergioMeneses> :D 20:37 <czajkowski> #action czajkowski add team to Launchpad 20:37 * meetingology czajkowski add team to Launchpad 20:37 <airurando> that is wonderful news 20:37 <PabloRubianes> congrats to the Irish Team!!! 20:37 <zmoylan> huzzah 20:37 <costales> Congrats Irish Team! and thank you! 20:37 * airurando is delighted! 20:37 <Neo31> congrats Irish Team :) 20:37 <SergioMeneses> czajkowski, PabloRubianes costales maybe we have to write a blog-post about this meeting 20:37 <PabloRubianes> I would accept A Guinness to celebrate! 20:37 <czajkowski> thank you all for coming 20:37 <SergioMeneses> PabloRubianes, +1k 20:37 <costales> PabloRubianes, me too xD 20:37 <airurando> thanks Neo31 20:38 <czajkowski> PabloRubianes: costales so which one of you will update the wiki with the mins 20:38 <czajkowski> I've already given SergioMeneses a task :) 20:38 <SergioMeneses> czajkowski, :O 20:38 <PabloRubianes> I do it at night today 20:38 <costales> It's a little late for me now 20:38 <czajkowski> #action PabloRubianes to update the wiki with the minutes and post to locoteams mailing list 20:38 * meetingology PabloRubianes to update the wiki with the minutes and post to locoteams mailing list 20:38 <czajkowski> np 20:38 <costales> I could do it tomorrow :) 20:38 <czajkowski> #endmeeting