Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Call for Ubuntu California LoCo Team leadership nominations
Hi everyone! On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Robert Wall rob...@rww.name wrote: The nomination period is now officially over, and we have enough candidates to hold a real election! Since it turns out CIVS and email harvesting are actually pretty easy, I've opened the election early. This will help people travelling over the holidays. The election will still end on 2015-01-01 as originally announced. So far, we have 18 ballots cast out of 63 eligible voters, so I expect some of you are still pondering who to vote for :). Remember that the election will end tomorrow, 2015-01-01, at 7pm PT. Make sure to get your votes in by then! Everybody with an email address discoverable through Launchpad (or OpenPGP key attached to Launchpad) should have received a voting ballot through email from CIVS today. If you do not have a discoverable email address, I am doing research now to find your email address. If you do not receive a ballot today, please email me and let me know so I can get one sent to you. If you were in the ~ubuntu-california Launchpad group at the start of polling and have not received a ballot (or accidentally deleted it or something), please let me know as soon as possible so I can get that fixed. There are a few people that I know didn't get one because I couldn't find an email address for them, and possibly more people who have old email addresses listed, so I know you're out there :) -- Robert Wall rob...@rww.name -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Call for Ubuntu California LoCo Team leadership nominations
Hello again! On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Robert Wall rob...@rww.name wrote: === Timeline === * Nomination period begins: now (2014-12-04) * Nomination period ends: now + 14 days (2014-12-18) * Election begins: now + 21 days (2014-12-25) * Election ends, result announced: now + 28 days (2015-01-01) The nomination period is now officially over, and we have enough candidates to hold a real election! Since it turns out CIVS and email harvesting are actually pretty easy, I've opened the election early. This will help people travelling over the holidays. The election will still end on 2015-01-01 as originally announced. === Constituency === All members of the Launchpad group at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-california are eligible to run and vote in this election. Everybody with an email address discoverable through Launchpad (or OpenPGP key attached to Launchpad) should have received a voting ballot through email from CIVS today. If you do not have a discoverable email address, I am doing research now to find your email address. If you do not receive a ballot today, please email me and let me know so I can get one sent to you. If you have any questions about voting or the election, please feel free to let me know :) Robert -- Robert Wall rob...@rww.name -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Call for Ubuntu California LoCo Team leadership nominations
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Robert Wall rob...@rww.name wrote: [snip] === Nominations === Please add nominations of yourself and/or other people to the wikipage at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Leadership/2014 You can instead nominate on the mailing list if you'd prefer, and I will add the relevant details to the wikipage for you. Nominees must confirm that they accept their nomination. They can proactively do this by contacting me, and I will contact anyone who doesn't do so to confirm. [snip] Nathan Haines and Melissa Draper were nominated (and accepted) at the team meeting today, so I've added them to the wiki. We need at least two more nominations for a real election, so if you've considered nominating yourself or someone else, please do so now. Deadline's in four days, and I'd prefer to stick to it :) Robert -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu California meeting tomorrow, December 14th, at 7pm PT
Hi everyone! Tomorrow, Sunday December 14th, we're having our regularly scheduled bi-weekly LoCo meeting at 7pm PT in #ubuntu-us-ca on chat.freenode.net. For help connecting to IRC with a client, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat Or simply join us via your web browser by going here: http://ubuntu-california.org/chat/ The agenda actually has things on it this week! We're going to discuss SCaLE 13x planning, a member interest survey for future events, our upcoming leadership election, and use of meetup.com. The meeting page is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/14December14 Logs will be available after the meeting and you're welcome to add your comments here on the mailing list if you're unable to attend. Also, as a reminder, please nominate yourself and other people for our leadership election on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Leadership/2014 The deadline for nominations is in five days! Robert -- Robert Wall rob...@rww.name -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Call for Ubuntu California LoCo Team leadership nominations
Good evening, The yearly leadership election for Ubuntu California is coming up. All three leadership positions are up for election. The rest of this email has more information on the election, but in short: please send emails nominating yourself or other people as replies to this email or add them to the nominations wikipage: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Leadership/2014 If you have questions, please read the leadership document: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Leadership ... and post followup questions as replies to this email, or contact me privately. Voting will begin in 21 days, see below for details. === Timeline === * Nomination period begins: now (2014-12-04) * Nomination period ends: now + 14 days (2014-12-18) * Election begins: now + 21 days (2014-12-25) * Election ends, result announced: now + 28 days (2015-01-01) If there are not enough candidates to fill all positions (plus preferably additional people so there's a useful election), this timeline is likely to change. === Constituency === All members of the Launchpad group at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-california are eligible to run and vote in this election. === Position === Ubuntu California has a three-person leadership team who make decisions about issues that cannot be decided by consensus. This position is required by our leadership document, and helps to prevent prolonged arguing and indecision. Team leaders tend to chair our IRC meetings and take point on event logistics, though this is not an official role and we encourage other people to get involved in these tasks :) This position is separate from the position of LoCo Group Contact, which does not expire and is chosen through our normal decision making processes rather than an election. === Nominations === Please add nominations of yourself and/or other people to the wikipage at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Leadership/2014 You can instead nominate on the mailing list if you'd prefer, and I will add the relevant details to the wikipage for you. Nominees must confirm that they accept their nomination. They can proactively do this by contacting me, and I will contact anyone who doesn't do so to confirm. === Voting === Once nominations have been confirmed, I will create a poll on http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/ . Your ballot will be emailed to the public email address associated with your Launchpad account. If you do not receive a ballot within a day or so of the election starting, please contact me and let me know. If you have any questions about this process, please feel free to contact me. Since our next meeting on December 14th falls conveniently within the nomination period, I will also reserve some time there for final discussion. -- Robert Wall rob...@rww.name -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Meetings for rest of year
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Robert Wall rob...@rww.name wrote: We discussed this at the meeting tonight, and I'm bringing it to the mailing list to get consensus. There are a few options; please comment with your preferences and I'll wrap it up a week from now and announce revised dates if necessary Alright, looks like we're skipping. We will *have* meetings on these dates: * December 14th * January 11th * Usual meeting schedule (every other week) thereafter We will *skip* the previously scheduled meetings on these dates: * November 30th * December 28th I'll update the wiki and create pages as needed now. Robert -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu California meeting tonight, November 16th, at 7pm PT
Howdy everyone, I just looked up from nethack and realized that today's a meeting day. We don't have anything on the agenda, but I will be around and will see if anyone has anything to discuss between 7pm and 8pm. We're also quite a bit behind on administrivia (meeting logs, team reports), so I'm going to work through that while I'm waiting if anyone would like to watch/help :) As always, we'll be in #ubuntu-california on chat.freenode.net. For help connecting to IRC with a client, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat , or simply join us via your web browser by going here: http://ubuntu-california.org/chat/ Logs will be available after the meeting and you're welcome to add your comments here on the mailing list if you're unable to attend. You can also drop by the IRC channel and start a conversation if there's something you'd like to share. Apologies for the lackadaisical nature of meetings lately; the council team is up to their ears in plane flights, work, and cats. I'll make extra effort to make sure things go smoother next time. -- Robert Wall rob...@rww.name -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Meetings for rest of year
Howdy everyone, It's that time of the year again when meeting dates get horrendously complicated because of holidays. As of right now (i.e., without any changes), the dates look like this: * November 30th * December 14th * December 28th * January 11th November 30th is the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, and December 28th is a few days after Christmas. I expect people will be travelling and busy on both of those days. We discussed this at the meeting tonight, and I'm bringing it to the mailing list to get consensus. There are a few options; please comment with your preferences and I'll wrap it up a week from now and announce revised dates if necessary: == Option 1: Keep meeting dates as is == * November 30th * December 14th * December 28th * January 11th == Option 2: Skip meeting(s) == (A) * December 14th * January 11th (B) * December 14th * December 28th * January 11th (C) * November 30th * December 14th * January 11th == Option 3: Shift meeting(s) == (A) (shift forwards) * November 23rd * December 7th * December 21st * January 4th (B) (shift backwards) * December 7th * December 21st * January 4th * January 18th Personally, I prefer skipping both meetings (i.e. 2A), but will be available to chair if need be. Shifting meetings makes things complicated for people who already calendared out time for future meetings, and I don't think we have enough to discuss that we need to have three meetings before January. Thoughts? -- Robert Wall rob...@rww.name -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu California meeting today, November 2nd, at 7pm PT
Hi everyone! Tonight, Sunday November 2nd, we're having our regularly scheduled bi-weekly LoCo meeting at 7pm PT (yay timezone changes!) in #ubuntu-us-ca on chat.freenode.net. For help connecting to IRC with a client, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat Or simply join us via your web browser by going here: http://ubuntu-california.org/chat/ Nothing on the agenda right now. If you have any announcements or ideas, please bring them so we have something to discuss :) The meeting page is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/14November02 Logs will be available after the meeting and you're welcome to add your comments here on the mailing list if you're unable to attend. Robert -- Robert Wall rob...@rww.name OpenPGP: D722 7F0A F510 A3F7 8123 6382 B650 13A4 9375 5E08 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Meeting this weekend, Sunday July 27th, at 7PM PDT
Hi everyone! This weekend, Sunday July 27th, we're having our regularly scheduled bi-weekly LoCo meeting at 7pm PDT in #ubuntu-us-ca on chat.freenode.net. For help connecting to IRC with a client, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat Or simply join us via your web browser by going here: https://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23ubuntu-us-ca We don't have anything on our agenda for tonight (boo summer lull!), but if anyone has any topics to discuss, or projects or announcements for us, feel free to drop by and say hi. The meeting page is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/14July27 Logs will be available after the meeting and you're welcome to add your comments here on the mailing list if you're unable to attend. Robert (sending a little earlier than usual so I don't forget) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Meeting tonight, Sunday July 13th, at 7PM PDT
Hi everyone! Tonight, Sunday July 13th, we're having our regularly scheduled bi-weekly LoCo meeting at 7pm PDT in #ubuntu-us-ca on chat.freenode.net. For help connecting to IRC with a client, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat Or simply join us via your web browser by going here: http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23ubuntu-us-ca We don't have anything on our agenda for tonight, but if anyone has any topics to discuss, or projects or announcements for us, feel free to drop by and say hi. The meeting page is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/14July13 Logs will be available after the meeting and you're welcome to add your comments here on the mailing list if you're unable to attend. Robert (Apologies for the lateness of this announcement. We spent all weekend sorting out kitten troubles too : ) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] and Debian meteting to follow: Re: Wednesday, July 9th: San Francisco Ubuntu Hour
I unfortunately won't be able to make it to either this month. We got a kitten over the weekend and he's being needy today :) Have fun! Robert On July 9, 2014 12:48:17 PM PDT, Michael Paoli michael.pa...@cal.berkeley.edu wrote: And there's also Bay Area Debian (BAD) meeting right after very close by: http://bad.debian.net/pipermail/bad/2014-July/003617.html From: Elizabeth K. Joseph l...@princessleia.com Subject: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Wednesday, July 9th: San Francisco Ubuntu Hour Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 11:52:43 -0700 Hi everyone, On Wednesday night, July 9th, we'll be having another Ubuntu Hour at the Starbucks on New Montgomery Street, next to The Palace hotel. Location: Starbucks, 74 New Montgomery Street Details: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2842-ubuntu-hour-san-francisco/ Look for the little Ubuntu Hour sign on our table. I'll be wearing an Ubuntu t-shirt and will have my pink netbook, a unicorn toy (Utopic Unicorn!) along with some Ubuntu stickers. So come out to enjoy some coffee, perhaps a pastry and chat about Ubuntu :) -- Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 http://www.princessleia.com -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Leadership Document amendment: Decisions on non-agendized topics during IRC meetings
This was approved at our June 29th team meeting, and I have added it to our leadership document. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback! Robert On 06/22/2014 01:17 PM, Robert Wall wrote: Howdy, On 06/15/2014 12:21 PM, Robert Wall wrote: Unless otherwise requested, I will bring this amendment (or a superior alternative offered in reply) up for discussion and action at the June 29th team meeting. As our leadership document does not specify a particular process for amendments, I suggest that its adoption be decided by rough consensus as detailed in section C. I have added this amendment to the June 29th meeting agenda. If anyone has any comments on it, please reply here or bring them up during the meeting. So far, I haven't seen any requested changes apart from pondering about the 48 hour time-frame. [ And if anyone has anything they'd like to talk about next week, now would be a really good time to go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/14June29 and add it to the agenda ;) ] Thanks, Robert signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Event ideas for summer/fall
Hello (again), A meeting or three ago, we discussed event ideas for this summer/fall, as we're historically a bit thin on happenings during that time period and it looks like the same will be true this year. If you have any thoughts for events that have been bouncing around your head, or you have an event space that you're looking for something to do in, this would be an excellent email to reply to ;) Personally, I've been pondering the Ubuntu Phone app development process, and looking at the App Development School stuff at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoRunningAppDevSchool . I think Nathan Haines was thinking along similar lines. I don't have free time right now though, so if someone else is raring to do one of these, go for it :D In addition: If you happen to have ideas or files for promotion materials (fliers, posters, etc.) for official Ubuntu flavors or Ubuntu itself that you think we could use, we're looking for them too ;) Robert Wall [fulfilling action directed during May 4th IRC meeting .] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Meeting tonight, Sunday May 4th, at 7PM PDT
Hi everyone! Tonight, Sunday May 4th, we're having our regularly scheduled bi-weekly LoCo meeting at 7pm PDT in #ubuntu-us-ca on chat.freenode.net. For help connecting to IRC with a client, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat Or simply join us via your web browser by going here: http://ubuntu-california.org/chat/ Our agenda was looking a little bare, so I added some items: * Ubuntu 14.04 LTS DVD distribution (as discussed on this list recently) * Release parties wrap-up * Future events * OCLug Installfest on May 24th * Event ideas? And as always if you have projects you wish to talk about or other announcements, you're welcome to join us and share. The meeting page is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/14May04 Logs will be available after the meeting and you're welcome to add your comments here on the mailing list if you're unable to attend. Robert signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu 10.10 question about the
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Robert Lewis bob.l.le...@gmail.com wrote: That does indeed work. Now to duplicate the same with yahoo calendar which a friend uses. You probably already figured this out by now, but to document for posterity: OMG!Ubuntu ran an article on how to sync Yahoo! Calendar with Evolution today, at http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/sync-yahoo-calendar-evolution-linux/ -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] LoCoCouncil-mandated logging of LoCo channel
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Robert Wall robertw...@ubuntu.com wrote: snip Hello again, I apologize for the tone and structure of my previous email to this list and the conversations I had subsequently in Ubuntu's IRC channels. I was upset and tired last night, and should have logged out and gotten some sleep. Instead, I was unnecessarily combative and confused the issue by cross-posting to this list and loco-contacts. Contrary to my belief last night, logging the IRC channel of LoCos in general is currently being discussed on the loco-contacts list, and I apologize for confusing that issue. While I disagree with some of the solutions decided by the LoCo Council last night, I believe that we share a common goal of helping Ubuntu California become awesome, and hope that my antagonistic behavior did not harm said goal. Thanks for your time, ~ Robert -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] LoCoCouncil-mandated logging of LoCo channel
Hello, The LoCo Council informed Ubuntu California today that they have decided to require public logging of our IRC channel, and that they expect to extend this requirement to other LoCo teams in the future. As I have mentioned in the past when overzealous individuals advocate logging channels without the consent and approval of their occupants, I consider this a terrible idea. I believe that LoCo channel communities should be free to decide whether to log their channels, and I strongly object to higher authorities requiring logging. I also strongly object to the lack of public discussion about this beforehand, both in California's case and that of LoCo teams in general. The first I heard about this topic was when LoCo Council members brought it up for discussion at an IRC Council meeting back in May [1]. Given the lack of progress on it since then, and the lack of public discussion (that I can find, anyway), I had hoped that common sense had prevailed and killed the idea, but apparently not. [1] logs of which begin at http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/05/30/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t19:01 As a consequence of this and other unrelated decisions, I do not feel that I have sufficient autonomy to effectively act as a channel operator in #ubuntu-california, and have thus removed those privileges from myself. I recommend that other operators of LoCo channels with active communities consider carefully whether those communities would be happy with everything they say being available /in perpetuum/ on a public, search-engine-indexed website. I also recommend that California LoCo members consider the same before using our channel. Thanks for your time, and for the lessons I learned as an op in #ubuntu-california, ~ Robert Wall (Ubuntu Member; Ubuntu California LoCo Team member) (If replying, please note that I emailed this to ubuntu-us-ca and loco-contacts lists, and modify replies' destinations to your liking.) -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Launchpad process page
Hi everyone! At our latest meeting on June 13th (log and agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/10June13 ), we discussed the first revision of the Launchpad process page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/LaunchpadMembership . The processes on this page will replace the current situation where some people in the Launchpad group have expiration dates set and others don't, and gives an objective process for approving new members. I'm emailing the list to give everyone a chance to look at it and offer suggestions for improvement before it's implemented. Please read over the page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/LaunchpadMembership and bring up any areas that aren't clear, or which need improvement. Ideally, I'd like us to have any changes sorted out before our next IRC meeting on the 27th, so please make sure to take time to reply before then. As a final note, if you're not already aware of the several resources that our LoCo team uses (e.g., if you're sitting here wondering what on earth a Launchpad is ;), https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/GetInvolved has a little more information. As always, feel free to ask me or one of the other people listed at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/WhoDoesWhat if you need help using one of our team resources. Thanks for your time, and for any suggestions you have, ~ Robert -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Upgrade question for the group
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:41:18PM -0700, Donald Jacob wrote: Hi, I am running Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS and would like to upgrade. Do I have to reinstall the latest version or is there a way that I can upgrade my version. Thanks Don Hello! You can upgrade directly from Ubuntu 8.04.4 to Ubuntu 10.04. For more information, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades and http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading ~ Robert -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] MD5 SHA1 integrity digital fingerprint for ubuntu 10.04 64-bit OS
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 02:05 -0700, Arnoldo Rico wrote: Hi - i've been looking for the MD5 SHA1 algorithm integrity fingerprint for ubuntu 10.04 64-bit OS but can't seem to find it. Your help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance. :) AR Los Angeles Hello Arnoldo! I'm not clear on your question, but think you're asking how to find and verify the MD5 and SHA1 fingerprints for an Ubuntu ISO. The instructions for doing so are at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM , and the MD5 hashes themselves are on a secure (only editable by a handful of trusted people, despite being on a wiki) page at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes . You can also find MD5, SHA1, and SHA256 fingerprints for any Ubuntu ISOs in the same directory you got the ISO from. For example, the following files have the fingerprints for Ubuntu 10.04 ISOs: http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/MD5SUMS http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/SHA1SUMS http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/SHA256SUMS If that doesn't fully answer your question, or I misunderstood your question, feel free to reply and I'll clarify! ~ Robert signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] CD Sleeves
n Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@gmail.com wrote: Is the WTFPL really the most appropriate? In my opinion, yes. It accurately conveys the restrictions I wanted to put on CD sleeve licensing (read: none), while avoiding overly legalistic language. It's on the list of FSF free licenses ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses ) and is used by packages shipped in various distributions (including (according to the website; I have not verified this) Debian and thus likely Ubuntu). Therefore, I believe it is appropriate from the standpoints of my personal preference and legal soundness. The complaint I assume you might have about it is the F part of WTFPL. We considered creating a new license with a different name, but ultimately decided that license proliferation is a larger evil (and more confusing, and more work) than what it would prevent. Is the scale8x version what you currently recommend? Depends on how long you plan on keeping the sleeves for. If you're going to use them all before Maverick comes out, they'd work fine. Otherwise, you likely want to make a version with 10.10 (and higher, if you're going to be keeping them that long) on it. Would anyone like to help get something ready from these sources that has the new branding and colors? I believe we've been waiting on the design/art/whoever it is team releasing 1) the font they use, 2) SVG logos using said font, 3) color swatches, before working on any new branding stuff. Without them, it might be difficult to do, but feel free to have a go at it :). Though, you likely want to leave the background white, rather than going with the seemingly ubiquitous purple background, for ink usage reasons. By the way, if anyone has any questions about how to get this stuff from bzr, or how to upload changes (which you should all be able to do, assuming you're in the Ubuntu California Launchpad team, and if you're not drop me a line and I can do it for you), I'd be happy to help. ~ Robert -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Asking For Opinion: Leadership Appointment Process
Thanks for the replies thusfar, and for the time people are spending reading, thinking, and writing about these issues. I hope this thread continues to be a reasoned discussion of the issues involved. ~ Robert Wall (rww) -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] IRC Meeting on February 21st canceled; in-person meeting at SCaLE February 20th
Hello everyone, As we decided at our last meeting, this week's IRC meeting is canceled in favor of an in-person meeting at SCaLE on Saturday Feb 20th to discuss how the first day of the booth went and make adjustments for the second day. If you're coming to SCaLE: we'll be meeting up at 5:45pm on Saturday, February 20th at the Ubuntu booth in SCaLE's expo room. We might walk from there to another room, depending on availability, so try to be on time :) Our next IRC meeting will be on March 7th, 2010, in #ubuntu-california on Freenode. As always, you can find more information about our IRC meetings at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings ~ Robert signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] The need for CDs
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Mark Terranova m...@gidgetkitchen.org wrote: I assumed the IRC chat covered this, but, I need me some CDs. The CDs are important to my being an Ubuntu advocate. I also need a few for CLSwest my talk at SVLUG. I will have some burned CDs as well - I just need a few to display at least. Hello Mark, How many do you mean by a few? 5? 10? 15? More? ~ Robert -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Pressed Canonical CD distribution
Hello again everyone, If you've been pondering replying to my earlier email about Canonical pressed CDs and have been putting it off, please take a couple of minutes to reply over the next day or so. I'd like to figure out how much demand there is in the next couple of days so that we can move on to actually getting CDs into peoples' hands this coming week. Again, if you only need a handful of CDs to hand out, go ahead and email me or Neal directly. If you have larger plans, reply to the list. Thanks to the various repliers so far! ~ Robert On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Robert Wall robertlikesturt...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone! We recently received a shipment of professionally-pressed Ubuntu Karmic CDs from Canonical and have to figure out what to do with them. We have the following quantities of CDs to work with: * Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop (32-bit): 250 * Kubuntu 9.10 Desktop (32-bit): 75 * Ubuntu 9.10 Server (64-bit): 75 We set aside 100 Ubuntu Desktop CDs (and 25 each of Kubuntu and Server) for SCaLE in February, which leaves 150 Desktop CDs (and 50 each of Kubuntu and Server) for us to work with. After SCaLE, we'll take another look at our CD situation and redistribute accordingly. To make distribution easier, Neal and I have split the CDs, so we should be able to get them to anyone in the state reasonably easily. We have about 5 months left to distribute these CDs before 10.04 comes out, so I'd like to get a start on distributing them. Reply to this on-list if you think you'll need more than a few at a time for something; if not, contact Neal or me directly so we can arrange to get some to you. ~ Robert -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Placing Team Karmic CD Order
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Grant Bowman grant...@gmail.com wrote: According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingCds we have two more days to place a team order for Karmic CDs in order to avoid unnecessary delays. Who will be placing this order? On a related note, Canonical changed the criteria for how many CDs non-Ubuntu member individuals can receive through ShipIt. This won't affect getting CDs as a LoCo, but I figure some of the people on the list might individually be affected by it: http://blog.canonical.com/?p=264 -- Robert Wall robertlikesturt...@gmail.com www: http://rww.name/ -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Karmic Countdown
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@gmail.com wrote: The Karmic version was announced here. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1922 Is there a non-Javascript image that still counts down, like the one that the front page had for Jaunty? -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] LoCo Contact Forwards
I'm replying to the parts of this directed at me. On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 11:01 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: Robert, I talk with you approximately every other week in person for several hours at www.dvlug.org and you have not to my recollection brought this up, and certainly not recently. I'm baffled at what Neal represents is your current stance on this issue. The last time you forwarded something here was Wednesday, which I note is after the last time I saw you in person. I have not had any chance to discuss anything with you in real time since then. As far as your bafflement goes, 1) Neal did not misrepresent my stance, 2) my reply to your private email to me yesterday makes that abundantly clear: On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 01:55 -0700, Robert Wall wrote: Neal asked us what we thought about your forwarded emails. We agreed that it isn't really appropriate for you to forward emails directly from loco-contacts, as I believe Neal has explained to you already. Since contacting you about it privately and asking you to stop did not yield a useful response from you, and you in fact continued, we agreed that moderation is necessary until you discuss it further. If you didn't understand part of it, I would have expected your next private emails to me to ask me a question about it, but they didn't. If I had a problem with Neal's representation of my opinion, I would obviously have posted to the list about it. I'm not in the habit of sending Me too emails, because I see them as a waste of everyone's time. The time spent on this new issue has also been significant. Yes, it has, and I have better things to do than engage in this sort of politics. Good luck to whichever one of y'all next tries to figure out how to fix this team, because you'll need it. I will be ignoring further messages (from anyone) about these issues and whichever ones pop up in the future, because it is evident that my involvement in all this has yet to help. I'll continue my various responsibilities in this team, including list moderation, but am going to be making every effort to stay out of the way of this team's drama, because I am sick and tired of it. Attending meetings, going to events? Yes. Getting involved when said meetings get dramatic? No. Reading the next drama thread that pops up on here? Also no. What's that quote? I am because we are? Well, right now I am very, very tired of all this. ~ Robert -- Robert Wall rob...@rww.name Webpage http://rww.name/ GPG key 0x0CBC1491 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] CLS meeting summary; post-keysigning instructions
Hi everyone! We had an informal pre-OSCON meeting and keysigning event after the Community Leadership summit today. There's a short summary from that meeting online [1] for people who didn't attend. I also wanted to explain (as a part 2 to my previous email) about what to do once you get back from a keysigning event. The commands below are taken from V. Alex Brennen's excellent The Keysigning Party HOWTO [2], which I'd highly recommend to anyone who wants to organize their own keysigning party, with the caveats that 1) the instructions for generating a key are currently wrong (see my previous email for details), 2) the Political Activism section isn't keysigning-related =/. First, get the keys in question from the keyserver. Since we're an Ubuntu group, we may as well use the Ubuntu keyserver, so the command looks like this: gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys Key_ID where Key_ID is the 8-character code you got at the keysigning party. If you just have the long fingerprint code, it's the last 8 characters of that. If you have multiple keys to get, just list them all, separated by a space. ( I note that Neal didn't upload his key to the keyserver yet, so the meeting people will likely get an error saying his couldn't be found until he does that. ) Next, if you have the 40-character fingerprint, you can check it with: gpg --fingerprint Key_ID Next, sign each key: gpg --sign-key Key_ID Finally, send the now-signed keys back to the keyserver: gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --send-key Key_ID It's also nice to let the other person know that you signed their key (partly so that they get a reminder to do yours ;). Meeting people: all of yours are done (except Neal's). Again, if you have any questions about this, feel free to ask! ~ Robert [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09July19 [2] http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html -- Robert Wall robertlikesturt...@gmail.com OpenPGP key: 0x0CBC1491 | see http://rww.name/rsaswitch.txt Webpage: http://rww.name/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Keysigning at OSCON: HOWTO, suggestions for locations?
Hi everyone! Before and during OSCON this year, people from Ubuntu California are going to be signing each others' OpenPGP/gnupg keys. This mail aims to explain what's going on to the people who don't know what that means, give information about how you can generate an OpenPGP key (if you have a DSA-1024bit one right now, you should read this section too), what you need to do to get your key signed, and where we'll be doing keysigning before and during OSCON. === What is OpenPGP, gnupg, and keysigning? === OpenPGP is a standard for electronically signing and encrypting data. The most popular implementation of it, especially on Linux, is GNUPG (GNU Privacy Guard). If you don't know anything about OpenPGP, gnupg, or the concepts of signing and encrypting, there's a great article about them written for the PGP (another similar program) user manual at http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/ which I'd highly recommend. The short version is that generating an OpenPGP key and getting it signed by other people creates a web of trust that lets you be sure that emails from other people in the web are really from them, and that lets you have private, encrypted conversations with them. Ubuntu uses gnupg to sign packages in its repositories, and many people in the Ubuntu community use it to sign emails that they send out. Therefore, building the Ubuntu web of trust is generally a productive and good idea :) === How do I generate a secure key with gnupg? === So, now that I've established /why/ OpenPGP keys are relevant to Ubuntu, I'll cover how to make one of your own. This would usually be a very short process, but there's currently some concern that gnupg's default settings are insecure, so it's a little more complicated right now. gnupg is installed by default with Ubuntu, so you probably already have it, but the commands are a little arcane (the settings are getting changed at some point, at which time things will be easy again...). If you already have a DSA-1024 key, you probably want to read http://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/48 . It explains the security problems with those keys rather well, and provides a plan for transitioning to a new key. If you're making a key for the first time, or ** if you currently have a DSA-1024 key **, you should generate a new keypair using the instructions at http://andys.org.uk/b/2009/05/09/gnupg-rsa-key-pair-mini-howto-with-stronger-digests/ . If you're going to be meeting up with us at OSCON and want to be involved in keysigning, you should make a key before you get there. Some notes about the andys.org.uk article: * Key length: you probably don't need 4096 bits. More bits is theoretically more secure, but 4096 is probably overkill. I used 2048, which appears to be sane, and is the default. * Key expiration: this is a matter of personal preference. If you think you might accidentally lose your key files, you should set an expiration date (a couple of years in the future is fine). If you're like me and back up everything obsessively, expiration is probably not necessary. * Real name: consider making this your real name, rather than a pseudonym, if you use both online. One part of keysigning is checking that someone is actually who they claim to be, so it's easier if your key has the same name as your photo ID. * Revocation: generate a revocation certificate, but don't actually revoke your key (or double-click on the certificate in GNOME, since that does the same thing). The article's revocation instructions are for if you lose control of your key *at a future date*. Apart from that, it's a pretty clear article. If you have problems following it, let me know (if you don't want to email the list, sending me private email for help is fine with me). === Keysigning HOWTO === So, now that I've explained what OpenPGP is and how to use it, here comes the social side of it: keysigning! To form the web of trust, we need to get together, exchange key fingerprints, and check IDs. If you want to participate in keysigning, generate a key using the instructions above, then write down the key fingerprint, which you can get with: gnupg --fingerprint [keyid] where keyid is something like 0x0CBC1491 or Robert Wall. You then want to copy down that fingerprint and bring it with you. You don't need to bring a copy of your key file, or even a computer at all, with you to OSCON, just that fingerprint. To make things more orderly, email the fingerprint to me, and I'll generate a list of keys for everyone so we can all just check boxes instead of writing down lots of stuff. You still need to write down *your* fingerprint and bring it with you, though, to make sure I got the right one. So yes. To get involved with keysigning at OSCON: * Generate an OpenPGP key using the instructions in the previous section * Write down your key fingerprint and bring it with you * (optional but recommended) Email your fingerprint to me so I can make key lists * BRING PHOTO ID WITH YOU so
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu California IRC meeting tonight (July 12th)
Hello everyone! There's a California LoCo Team meeting tonight at 7pm (1900 PDT) in the #ubuntu-california IRC channel on freenode. If you need help connecting, reply to this mail for help, or try the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/ContactUs Our meeting tonight will likely focus mostly on planning for the O'Reilly Open Souce Convention. Even if you're not attending, we'd welcome any input you can provide. From what I've read on the mailing list recently, things are coming together nicely, so that should be a good discussion. We'll also talk about where we are with the LoCo approval progress right now, and how you can help with it. If you have additional topics you'd like to talk about tonight, please add them to the agenda at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09July12 For more information about Ubuntu California IRC meetings, logs from previous meetings, and dates of upcoming meetings, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings Hope to see you there! -- Robert Wall robertlikesturt...@gmail.com Web: http://www.rww.name/ OpenPGP key ID: 6AB3FC6C -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Talking Point: Firefox 3.5
Looks like 3.5 final got published to karmic and jaunty-proposed simultaneously yesterday, and the karmic package is working out well for me, so hopefully it doesn't have any major bugs and won't be in jaunty-proposed for too long :) On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 20:51 -0700, Neal Bussett wrote: Just as an aside/disclaimer for those who don't know (since we get this a lot): *-proposed is NOT meant for general human consumption (so don't enable it as a repository). Indeed. I think the proposed repository actually has fewer testers than development releases these days, so stuff occasionally goes crazy in there. I've had more problems with -proposed than with using Ubuntu alpha versions, so... yeah. Don't use -proposed unless you like broken things. For anyone wondering exactly what version each official repo has right now, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5 is the place to look. Happy 4th of July, everyone! ~ Robert -- Robert Wall robertlikesturt...@gmail.com Web: http://www.rww.name/ OpenPGP fingerprint: EF31 62BC 85B2 0566 7732 B0B4 7B88 E371 6AB3 FC6C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Possiblity of sharing space with Ubuntu-CA
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 08:21 -0700, Jack Deslippe wrote: How big (in physical size) is the Ubuntu-CA booth? According to the prospectus, 10' x 10' (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09April05 ) Is this the only Ubuntu table at OSCON? Or is there something official from Canonical? Or are you still trying to find that out? If this doesn't represent the Ubuntu booth at OSCON, then we can/should probably be more flexible. While Canonical employees are involved in some of the presentations, I haven't seen anything about them having a booth. I don't think we ever got a hold of anyone from Canonical to check on that, though. Finally, is there a page on the wiki for people to sign up for times? There's a signup list at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/OSCON2009 (which you're on already, probably because you said you'd be there at a meeting). It hasn't been narrowed down to specific times yet, since the conference is still a month or so away, and people are still figuring out their schedules. Grant Bowman wrote: We queried the Canonical led Ubuntu-Marketing mailing list but have not heard back anything about Canonical's presence. From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09May17 : 07:29 Grantbow no word back from ubuntu-market...@lists.ubuntu.com yet about Canonical's presence, formally or informally. 07:30 Flannel Grantbow: the marketing team has no official say, they wouldn't be the ones to know. 07:30 Flannel Grantbow: The marketing team is also mostly defunct right now. 07:30 Grantbow Flannel: formally, right. 07:31 Flannel Well, -marketing started up a ... year ago, and then died a little afterwards (except for spreadubuntu), but, that's offtopic. I was thus unaware that we were supposed to be getting a reply from the marketing list. On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Bill Kendrickn...@sonic.net wrote: I heard that Ubuntu-CA will be having a booth there, and wondered if you'd be willing to share some space for the LUGs and some volunteers. Right now I've jotted down a dozen people, representing six bay area LUGs, who've shown interest in seeing this happen and/or helping make it happen. See the OSCON booth organizing page I've put up over at the LUGOD site: http://lugod.org/projects/oscon/ [3] Would this be possible? Is Ubuntu-CA interested? We have an IRC meeting this Sunday (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09June14 ), and I'll add this to the agenda. Hopefully, we'll be able to hash out an answer to that question there, if not sooner on the mailing list. Personally, I think it's a good idea, and would be fine with promoting bay area LUG stuff. There are, however, a few problems I can see: 1) Ubuntu LoCos and Linux User Groups have different purposes and identities, and this has the possibility to confuse that. 2) I don't know exactly what we're planning to do, and thus don't know if there'd be conflicts with space. The first problem would probably be helped with gratuitous use of nametags, so that booth visitors see that there are a few different organizations represented. As for the second... that'd probably be better hashed out at the meeting, since we were planning to discuss what we're going to be doing anyway. Re: http://lugod.org/projects/oscon/ , I note that Grant isn't running the Ubuntu California table. Joe Smith has been liaising with O'Reilly and doing the organizing, and as for the rest of us... I thought we were an autonomous collective. A minor oversight, but I decided to point it out so nobody wonders why there are a bunch of people putting their oar in! Glad to see something sparked OSCON discussion, since I tried and failed to do so! ~ Robert -- Robert Wall robertlikesturt...@gmail.com Web: http://www.rww.name/ OpenPGP fingerprint: EF31 62BC 85B2 0566 7732 B0B4 7B88 E371 6AB3 FC6C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Possiblity of sharing space with Ubuntu-CA
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 13:24 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Robert Wallrobertlikesturt...@gmail.com wrote: Re: http://lugod.org/projects/oscon/ , I note that Grant isn't running the Ubuntu California table. [...] Robert, I emailed Bill about this and a few date corrections on that page already. I did not represent myself as the only organizer to Bill at any time. I figured, Grant. I just wanted to uncross any crossed wires, since more Ubuntu California people were replying than one would have expected if one had the impression that you were running it. No harm done :) On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 13:21 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: I've corrected that, and added a note about the current status of our discussions. :) Lemme know if anything there is incorrect. That looks great. Thanks! ~ Robert -- Robert Wall robertlikesturt...@gmail.com Web: http://www.rww.name/ OpenPGP fingerprint: EF31 62BC 85B2 0566 7732 B0B4 7B88 E371 6AB3 FC6C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] OSCON page updated; discussion topics from last meeting
Hi everyone! I've updated our wiki page about OSCON with a bunch of information, like times and dates and activities. If you've been meaning to look into it, now would be a good time to start :). It's at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/OSCON2009 Things you can do! * If you have ideas for activities we can do at our OSCON booth, add them to the page. We'll hone down the list to a suitable number at some point, so don't worry about having too many ideas! * If there's a good chance you'll be attending OSCON, and you want to help out at the booth, it'd be great if you could put your name up on the wiki page (or reply to this email) so we can get an idea of how many people we have. You don't need to commit to anything yet, though; July is still a while away, so work/school/[your busy activity here] still have plenty of time to get in the way. At the May 17th IRC meeting, we decided to move a few topics to the mailing list for further discussion. Here are some discussionful topics: * Internet and power at the booth: we would have to pay for both. Some people think we should do that; some people think we should use a laptop or two for demonstrative purposes but focus more on talking (it's cheap!) to people. * What resources do we need to bring? Ubuntu CDs (how many, what flavor), tables, computers, handouts, etc. * what activities do we want to do? (see also wiki page) Thanks for reading! ~Robert PS: If you've attended Ubuntu California events in the past and have time on your hands, the event pages linked on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects would love any write-ups, information, photos, etc. you can contribute :) -- Robert Wall robertlikesturt...@gmail.com Web: http://www.rww.name/ OpenPGP fingerprint: EF31 62BC 85B2 0566 7732 B0B4 7B88 E371 6AB3 FC6C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] OSCON
Hi Joe and everyone, On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 23:02 -0700, Joe Smith wrote: Hey guys, I've got a rough draft for our OSCON application, and wanted to run it by you all. Here's the request: Please email me a 50-word company description and a hi-res logo. We prefer vector-based art (such as an Adobe Illustrator file), and if that is not possible we need a CMYK, 300 dpi file of the logo at least 3 wide. I also need the url you would like your logo to be linked to. Here's my description: Ubuntu promises to provide an up-to-date, stable experience for the average user, with a strong focus on usability and ease of installation. The Ubuntu California Team will demonstrate the various flavors of Ubuntu and will be on hand to answer questions attendees may have about the Ubuntu Linux distribution. After a little discussion in the IRC channel, I suggest one of the two following descriptions. The first attempts to describe Ubuntu California more than Ubuntu, while still having room to talk about what we'll be doing at OSCON. The second describes Ubuntu and Ubuntu California, but does not describe our OSCON plans (which seems more consistent with the other descriptions on the OSCON site). Option #1: Ubuntu California is a local community team of Californian Ubuntu users who advocate free software and the spreading of Ubuntu through as many avenues as possible. Members of the team will demonstrate the various flavors of Ubuntu and will be on hand to answer questions about it. Option #2: Ubuntu California is a local community team that supports and advocates for Ubuntu: a GNU/Linux distribution for human beings that focuses on ease of use. Team members interact with Linux user groups, present at conferences and events, and come together to discuss anything and everything related to Ubuntu. Feel free to edit boldly and reply here or in the channel, as always :) And for the logo, I'm thinking of using https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Official, particularly https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Official?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=UbuntuCoF.svg or https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Official?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=UbuntuLozengeLogo.svg I vote for the second, since many more people will recognize the name Ubuntu (it's awful popular these days :) than just the logo by itself. As for the url you would like your logo to be linked to, I assume everyone agrees with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Robert Wall robertlikesturt...@gmail.com Web: http://www.rww.name/ OpenPGP key ID: 6AB3FC6C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] OSCON Planning
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 11:29 -0700, Joe Smith wrote: Anyone else interested in helping to work the booth? I am! I'll find out on the 10th whether I have class on those days, but if I don't, and if I can finagle my parents' car, I'll be there both days. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
