Re: LoCo donations idea

2007-09-27 Thread Martin Owens
and that is something I really need an accountant for; unless your team is blessed enough to have one as a volunteer that sort of expertise costs money. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Loco Council, or an alternative idea of what it could be :)

2007-09-28 Thread Martin Owens
Martin Owens put the time in to do it, and I should be getting my order soon (for the Michigan State team). Thanks for the mention, yes it's a hard project to do and I'm not even sure on some of the finer points since the CA company sold us the badges without sales tax thus we may have to file

Re: Who Is LoCo?

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Owens
On 29/09/2007, Pomeroy Lab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um no I have a group of people here in Pomeroy that meet and learn about Linux from me. I am the group leader. That sounds like a LUG to me. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Loco Team Banners

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Owens
try to edit it in inkscape On 29/09/2007, Jason Sandlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried opening the svg file in scribus with no luck. I received an error that there were some unsupported items in the file. When I open it in other image programs it appears to be cut off on the right side. Am I

Re: Unapproved LOCO Teams

2007-10-24 Thread Martin Owens
to be the most expensive arrangement. let me know if you need a hand with anything. Best Regards, Martin Owens On 24/10/2007, Jocelyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, i just wanted to ask what are the alternative for the CDs sending for the unapproved LOCO Teams , we as a LOCO team in Lebanon

Re: Kubuntu Artwork - just in time for the Holidays

2007-12-10 Thread Martin Owens
I think it would be a great idea to upload your XCF file there, and link to it as an 'alternative' image... I can't believe we don't have a guide on the best practices for creating printed media, here is a quick run down for everyone: 1) Do not use raster formats to print nor to store 2)

Re: LocoTeams python stats

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Owens
Two people in the Ubuntu-us-ma loco are hacking this code too, we're hopefully going to add mailing list cross checking so we can flag people who are not on the mailing list or who are not on launchpad. Best Regards, Martin Owens On 11/12/2007, Neal McBurnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue

Re: Ubuntu Mug

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Julius, I'm very interested in participating; what method of delivery will you use? Also do you have a wiki page with how many orders you have gotten so far and what the price points are? Something along the lines of what I did for the Case Badges project. Best regards, Martin Owens On 16

Re: Ubuntu Mug

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Owens
to make things for LoCo teams. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Hardy CDs Orders

2008-03-17 Thread Martin Owens
Don't forget to plan to collect all your gutsy CDs so you can give them out to the public quickly. Here in MA we're planning on getting people onto the street with a contact card and a CD so we can use the resources usefully before hardy arrives. On 17/03/2008, Dan Trevino [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spanish Speaking LoCo's and FLISOL

2008-04-02 Thread Martin Owens
) I think it would be good to openly invite from all LoCos and ask that people be prepared to speak and read spanish so as not to put a translation burden on the teams it's focusing on. Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: Spanish Speaking LoCo's and FLISOL

2008-04-02 Thread Martin Owens
? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: ubuntu shirts from germany again

2008-04-09 Thread Martin Owens
to be fairly good. If any LoCo did want some, we ordered about 50 of them to get them at the cheaper price. Best Regards, Martin Owens 2008/4/9 Tony Yarusso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Julius Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ubuntu-de is doing some shirts again. Here

Re: Hardy CDs

2008-04-11 Thread Martin Owens
Unaproved teams have to order CDs for themselves, we used to ask each of our members to place an order and pool the result. 2008/4/11 Jocelyn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: what about unapproved team . Regards -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: chocolatecoveredspam.com user?

2008-04-18 Thread Martin Owens
ubuntu-us-ma got one today. looks like we've been targeted. do we know by who? 2008/4/18 David Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: New Mexico Team had one sign up yesterday. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts --

Re: chocolatecoveredspam.com user?

2008-04-18 Thread Martin Owens
contacts mailing list and asking if anyone minds. Best Regards, Martin Owens 2008/4/18 Jared Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, That is indeed my employer. I'm a real employee there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Jared -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: chocolatecoveredspam.com user?

2008-04-18 Thread Martin Owens
Yep. Which is why we generally reject people who don't go to the trouble of creating either a launchpad.net or wiki.ubunutu.com profile... Draconian, perhaps, but we've been burned before. We don't mind being burned, after a while the pain is numbed by the normality of it. Anyone can

Re: Team Leadership

2008-05-03 Thread Martin Owens
blame when things blow up. Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

LoCo tools, development

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Owens
. Thoughts? As a side note, having a place where we can list loco software would be very useful, things like irc bot software, useful scripts ect, i'm sure there is already one so we can add the above idea to there. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts

Re: LoCo tools, development

2008-05-22 Thread Martin Owens
; I'd rather write the thing from scratch and own and license it without fear that others could not host it for their own teams. Besides there are plenty of people with plenty of servers even in my state who would lend space for such projects. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing

Re: LoCo tools, development

2008-05-25 Thread Martin Owens
You can not plan with communication, communication is in it's self a tool. now what your saying is that the wiki, forums and mailing lists are good enough for communication; yet this isn't good enough for planning and organisation, the wiki here is particularly bad because it's so unstructured

Re: LoCo tools, development

2008-05-27 Thread Martin Owens
You've managed to get me annoyed, not good Mr East. Are you seriously suggesting that you know better for our LoCo team here than we do? I find it offensive that anyone could have the authority to dictate what each individual LoCo group should use or should work on. As I said in a previous

Re: LoCo tools, development

2008-05-27 Thread Martin Owens
like to see notifications being sent out to make sure different parts get done and I'd like to see the events automatically added to calendars and available on the front page for visitors to see what is going on. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts

Re: LoCo tools, development

2008-05-27 Thread Martin Owens
. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Shared Media Resources, Was: collaborative Projects

2008-05-27 Thread Martin Owens
of the authors. very sad because it was amazing work that would look good as a poster anywhere. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Legal entity - part 2.

2008-06-07 Thread Martin Owens
2008/6/7 Mark Van den Borre [EMAIL PROTECTED]: _Why_ would you introduce this extra complexity? What can you do that you can't do without one? I don't think it's a matter for what you _can_ do; in some countries or states it may be a legal requirement and in other places lots of things become

Re: Ubuntu on Alienware? +1

2008-07-08 Thread Martin Owens
Bit of a cheek to ask us to pay more. Sounds like a gouging. 2008/7/8 Sav vas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: They ask if we'd like to pay *more* in order to use gnu/linux... :\ -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts --

Re: Ubutnu Israel soon in local news

2008-07-16 Thread Martin Owens
That aluminium looking powered by ubuntu graphic looks awfully familiar ;-) 2008/7/16 Amir Eldor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I'm Amir from Ubuntu-IL. I've heard that a popular show on local television is making an article about our local community. That's great and I'll let you know when it is

Re: ubuntu cds

2008-08-31 Thread Martin Owens
I don't want to be rude... but you've probably never been to a less than stable country. Things frequently can be and are stolen in customs (especially if they look like they have more value) and you would never know about it. I can't Imagen some thief taking a stack of Ubuntu CDs and

Re: Loco support

2008-09-22 Thread Martin Owens
do with help from others with a vested interest. I've talked with Mr Alan Pope before today about this issue. I've not heard since our initial exchange. Best Regards, Martin Owens 2008/9/22 Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Below is a link to a Brainstorm entry, where a team

Re: Sale of codecs

2008-09-25 Thread Martin Owens
OK Misinformation busting time: It is not illegal to distribute or operate most of the codecs in the US or anywhere else. So long as it's the free software packages, liblame (mp3), ffmpeg, libdecss, and so on. none of these packages have copyright problems and none have been challenged for patent

ccHost for LoCos Was: Intrepid Release Parties!

2008-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
Of course the best would be to have access to the sources (SVG/*SD/ODT) but if that is not possible an image or PDF would do. Again the idea of shared graphics and media comes up. I recommend those sitting on the LoCo Council earn their titles and have a ccHost set up, or something very

Re: ccHost for LoCos Was: Intrepid Release Parties!

2008-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
You might want to talk to the guys who are working on the SpreadUbuntu project[1]. It might not be exactly what are you are looking for, but hopefully it will turn into a nice repo of material that LoCos can leverage. Once we have a convention, we need to push all LoCos to take advantage of

Re: ccHost for LoCos Was: Intrepid Release Parties!

2008-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
We have a test site with a web front end in drupal versions 5[3] and 6[4]. Besides that we are working on the building of the site infrastructure (Web-frontend, LP OpenID, DB, python connectors, bzr for DVCS, launchpad for translations/coordination)[5] and the making of launchpad bzr

Re: ccHost for LoCos Was: Intrepid Release Parties!

2008-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
Martin, where is the MA site running? There is a demo server running at http://ugeeks.media.mit.edu It isn't as new as the code, and launchpad recently updated their openid systems breaking the demo. But the code works fine if you run it localhost (dev) To be honest, getting a job a Canonical

Re: Are there US teams who are 501(c)(3) organizations?

2008-10-07 Thread Martin Owens
It's difficult to say, none of the LoCos I know in the USA are even Incorporated, let alone None-Profit or Charities. there has been much rumblings about the problem. Best bet is to either, donate to the FSF or enter the bounty system (although not as much tax break, but the money goes where you

Re: Announcement: SpreadUbuntu 0.1 - codename “evan”

2008-11-09 Thread Martin Owens
material marketing. Although a bug I've noticed with the get marketing page. My media is duplicated a number of time. Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Ubuntu for Libraries

2008-11-18 Thread Martin Owens
Hey all, Does anyone know of a distro of ubuntu tailored for Libraries? We've got interested parties, although a lot of features are similar to cyber cafe computer terminal features. Regards, Martin -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Ubuntu for Libraries

2008-11-18 Thread Martin Owens
a certain amount of someone's files. I know places that do this, it might not work for libraries though. Regards, Martin Owens On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 15:43 -0500, Jacob Peddicord wrote: Can't think of a version off of the top of my head, but there might be something out there. I would suggest

Re: Sarcasm and making fun of other projects in loco team lists

2009-01-08 Thread Martin Owens
If an argument against a software project or corporation is founded on facts, logic, and void of emotion, I tend to pay attention. If the argument starts off with Why [brand X] sucks, I lose interest quickly. Then again, there are those who are both informed and tactful, yet argue to argue.

Re: Getting into politics?

2009-01-17 Thread Martin Owens
more. Though, unless you have a better government than the UK, I seriously doubt a petition will get enough attention. Modern politics is far too arrogant to take notice of politely reminding them of your views. I'd get the media involved too. Best of Luck, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts

Re: [ubuntu-us] Geaorgia LoCo Contact Change

2009-01-17 Thread Martin Owens
Dang! Chris got off easy in Florida! See, your just not thinking evil enough. I have my second in command make cakes. And then I say: Let them eat cake, and take cds! -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: SD Contact

2009-01-18 Thread Martin Owens
Hi Michael, I took over the South Dakota team a little while back and have been working hard to bring it back to life. Great to hear! Hopefully we'll see you around and about. Do share with us your ideas, as I'm sure others have done in the past. I'm trying to encourage LoCos to talk more

Re: FW: SD Contact

2009-01-18 Thread Martin Owens
This is probably something that tools could help with. To be an official LoCo, you have to be doing monthly meetings as well as other events. If launchpad or some other tool has event management capabilities, it'd be very easy to see a heartbeat and see which teams need help. It'd also be easier

Re: LoCo Council Call Meeting Notes

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Owens
to see Jono, thanks for getting involved and posting the results. I'm feeling positive already about what we can achieve with greater communication and more collaboration. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: #ubuntu-locoteams

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Owens
How about we get that channel pumping? Lets make it a kick-ass place in which to share LoCo knowledge, best practises and all the great things our community is doing. :) You can use pidgin to connect to the freenode irc server. It's not strait forward, but it is pre-installed. Regards,

Re: LoCo Docs Day - 12th Feb 2009

2009-02-03 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 14:02 -0500, Jan Husar wrote: Hi Jono, would be good to announce it in advance, not in 10days I thought you are a manager, doesn't seems so Passive aggressive much Mr Husar? 10 days isn't much time for a physical meet up event, but this is an online event involving

Re: Ubuntu Training in the USA

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Owens
Maybe the US option is not usable in our region. It's not usable in the American underclass either. We've been doing Ubuntu classes for over a year (although nothing like the scale you have in Pakistan) We're just trying to scrabble over misconceptions, governmental and corporate opposition

Re: Ubuntu Training in the USA

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Owens
Bret, I'm not sure, but this sounds like enterprise level training. Possibly the forerunner for Ubuntu Certifications. There is certainly a comfort zone for mid-size to large companies who won't adopt anything that they can't get employees who are classroom trained, or better yet certified

Re: First organizational Ubuntu-hn meeting at IRC

2009-02-13 Thread Martin Owens
Where is ubuntu-hn? On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 17:51 -0600, Elvira Martínez wrote: Hello, I would like to confirme we will have our first Ubuntu-hn organizational meeting at IRC channel on Thursday February 19 at 9PM (UTC -6) under the channel #ubuntu-hn Freenode We will be

Those aluminium stickers

2009-03-11 Thread Martin Owens
Hey all, As requested by Rubén R (huayra) on my blog: http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/zareason-makers-of-swag There is an interest in getting lots made specifically for providing LoCos a better price. So we'd need interest in buying 10,000 at least. That's about $0.22 each

None Locale, Language Teams

2009-03-16 Thread Martin Owens
? what are for and how do they marry up with the geographic setup of LoCos so far? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Ubuntu-Honduras Begins to work

2009-03-21 Thread Martin Owens
Congratulations Ubuntu Honduras LoCo! Getting the first Event over and out is the hardest, but then you have too do the meetings and plan your activity... Best Regards, Martin Owens On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 15:12 -0600, Diego Turcios wrote: Hi At the beginnig of the year, here in Honduras, we

Teaching FOSS Principles

2009-03-23 Thread Martin Owens
-foss.pdf The SVG files are available and so the whole thing can be translated into locale languages. http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/foss-understanding-foss-visual-guide/ Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Can we get 9.04 CDs and somd ads?

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Owens
For adverts/posters etc, you best bet is to go to spread ubuntu: http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ There you will find plenty of resources to use to edit your own posters and adverts. Regards, Martin On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 21:34 +0900, JiHui Choi wrote: Hello. We(Korean Team) have plans to

Re: Can we get 9.04 CDs and somd ads?

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Owens
of inspiration. Are you encouraging people to add their media to the spread ubuntu website? It's designed to allow us to collab our media. http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ But we need source files to make good derivative works. SVGs for preference for printed media. Best Regards, Martin Owens

Educational Topics

2009-04-28 Thread Martin Owens
, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Those aluminium stickers

2009-05-03 Thread Martin Owens
if they are popular enough. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 14:21 +0200, Rubén Romero y Cordero wrote: Hei there, Martin it would be really nice if you could share a wiki page, google spreadsheet or the like with interested people. Under the Jaunty party here in Oslo I met many

Re: LoCo Governance - How is your LoCo-team organised?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Owens
they learned from an event. But I won't have a comity of people pointing fingers, wasting time. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Ubucon Central America

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Owens
Well done guys! I love hearing about all the awesome work going on. Funny enough I was editing all the central american countries together in inkscape today, Mexico is a part of central america right? what about cuba? Regards, Martin On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 19:30 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote:

Re: Ubucon Central America

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Owens
Mexico is North America, together with Canada and the US. OK Mexico is big enough to click from the world view... what about cuba? Cuba is part of the caribbean countries. Would it make sense to combine the Caribbean Countries and Central America for expediency sake? Despite the

Re: Ubucon Central America

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 23:03 -0400, Chuck Frain wrote: Perhaps Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island should be combined for expediency sake while you're condensing things. Well yes, they will be, it'll be in something called North America and you'll have to drill down to get to The United

Government Service Initatives

2009-06-23 Thread Martin Owens
: http://www.serve.gov/ 3. Ideas: http://www.serve.gov/toolkits/general/index.asp Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: UDS follow up - Improving Conference Pack

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Jono, On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 17:06 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: On 06/20/2009 07:21 AM, Adi Roiban wrote: In this case maybe we can make a list of things that we would like to see in the conference pack and make a big order of stickers/pins/etc for all locos or for group of locos.

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 10:59 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: Hi all, Recently I have been talking to Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome publishers of The Official Ubuntu Book All in all a pretty sweet deal, methinks. Enjoy! Thanks for organising and pushing for this Jono, a sweet deal

Re: Loco team contact change in Ubuntu-bo

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 20:25 +0100, Dave Walker wrote: There are really a few ways this could be cleanly implemented, not necessarily meaning the LoCo team leader is the Launchpad admin. Perhaps we should discuss this at the next LoCo meeting, which we should have soon. :) There isn't always a

Re: Ubuntu LoCo Team Lists?

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:30 -0700, Michael S. Mason wrote: Hello, my name is Michael Mason. I am interested in getting my group added to the official 'Ubuntu LoCo Team/Group List?' Hey Michael, So are you wanting to set up an Ubuntu Local Community group within your existing LUG? What local

Request for Comment: Launchpad LoCo Tools

2009-07-30 Thread Martin Owens
. * Get launchpad devs to deploy it in their next round. Thoughts? Please add to fridge Fri 7th August 22:00 GMT, #ubuntu-meeting if you know how or have access to a central google calendar. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: LoCo Directory Update

2009-08-17 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Jono, Fantastic, the quicker it's out the quicker 2.0 can come :-) I'm waiting for the xml out so I can so some funky svg maps based on it. Hows life Jono, you've been all quiet in the loco realm. Martin, On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 19:14 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: Hi All, Just a quick update

Mozilla Serivce Week

2009-08-20 Thread Martin Owens
some knowledge and training on unix-like operating systems. Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Help promoting Ubuntu Global Jam

2009-09-20 Thread Martin Owens
We shouldn't be questioning the license decision of authors, but more fixing the lack of attribution. Don't forget that attribution is as specified by the author. Which means that if I say that you must link to a certain website and place my email address, then that's what must be done to

Re: A Global Ubuntu Release party

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Alex, The video idea is interesting, even if the videos were not streamed but just regular edited videos. I'm going to see if I can get our new guy with the camera to come to our party and shoot some people, maybe ask them what they're looking forward to in the new release. Martin, On Tue,

Re: ShipIt label translations

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 14:14 -0400, Chuck Frain wrote: If you want to take it down this road, how much of the source is even on the disc itself? Well, all of it is accessible from the CD when booted. apt-get source blah. It's also notable that Mark himself used Free Software in his recent

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-10-20 Thread Martin Owens
=20091020050110241). If you're in support of this idea, just pass on any simple actions you come across to the list. There's also this nifty activism guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActivismGuide Interesting, thanks for posting Dan. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco

Re: ShipIt Changes

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hello Mike, Jane via Jono, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 15:58 -0500, Michael Lustfield wrote: Canonical is the company that owns Ubuntu and funds all Ubuntu operations (we all know this). Er, perhaps it's because I have an economists vision of 'funds' but a volunteers time is funding, contributions

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hey John, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 10:46 -0500, John Vilsack wrote: It saddens me because Ubuntu is a dominant product that could be so much more if the grassroots movement would allow itself to have direction. But after years of infighting in politics and other open source products, I didn't

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Fwd: [FSF] Why is free software important to you? Submit your response to our new video campaign!

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hey DPic, Would you like to do a group video at the next meeting? We could add it to our blogs and such. Post about it to the rest of the Ubuntu community. Martin, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 23:03 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: Just thought this was a good idea that Ubuntu LoCo's could get in on

Re: Shipping Karmic CDs for LoCo teams

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Mauricio, On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 23:48 -0300, Mauricio Peñaloza S. wrote: It's very important do not loose the real objective of Ubuntu, is to be an alternative as an operative system. We must spent more time teaching how to use the Ubuntu system. The effort used delivering the CD's is a

Re: Top things to do after installing Karmic

2009-10-30 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:45 +0100, Przemek Kulczycki wrote: 2009/10/30 Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com: ffmpeg might have support for wmv9 by now, downloading w32codecs is just as illegal (and the same illigal) as downloading the fluendo codecs. Copyright infringement. It depends

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Can Ubuntu reach over 16, 000 anime lovers in April?

2009-11-24 Thread Martin Owens
, Martin Owens On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 20:12 -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: We, the Ubuntu MA LoCo are organizing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention and need support-- Please spread the word! http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/11/can-ubuntu-reach-over-16000-anime.html Reddit

Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing

2009-12-07 Thread Martin Owens
Is it useful to set up a qa-fest? local event to help people get alpha testing set up and running? Martin, On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 13:36 -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: It's already time for Alpha 1, can you believe it? Fire up zsync! The Testing team (part of the QA Team) is reaching out to the

Re: LoCo Directory

2009-12-11 Thread Martin Owens
I proposed the idea on IRC, but no one was online, that we take all teams without added data and list them in an uncategorised section. All teams with data would be categorised by the country, region and city supplied by the team owner. Martin, On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:09 -0430, Efrain Valles

Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing

2010-01-05 Thread Martin Owens
What's the date? We can make a pizza feast of it. Martin, On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 18:11 +, Shane Fagan wrote: Interesting idea Martin, I think it will be very helpful maybe we should try get something for Beta 1 of lucid? Regards Shane Fagan On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:43 +, Martin

Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing

2010-01-05 Thread Martin Owens
would suggest then so we can have a lot of testing done before beta 2 so issues can be ironed out. Although you can start testing now :) Regards Shane Fagan On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 21:55 +, Martin Owens wrote: What's the date? We can make a pizza feast of it. Martin, -- loco

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] ubuntu beta day

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Mike, I hear the lucid release is fairly stable though. I've messaged the whole loco contacts list so they can join in the discussion. My thoughts are that we should have the day when ever we think it would be most effective, but as soon as we've announced it, we should stick by that date

Re: [General Information] Ubuntu shipit

2010-03-06 Thread Martin Owens
If you need a server cd, then I will give you one. We have too many and can never give them away to many people. 9.04 and 9.10 available. On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 23:16 -0600, Michael Lustfield wrote: Could you please be more specific about this 'get lost' message? I ordered my Server CD through

Re: Server CD distribution (was: Ubuntu shipit)

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Owens
/75/25 @++ original message- De: Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com A: Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:53:10 +0200 - 2010/3/7 Martin

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] The Free Software, Open Source promise: what FOSS means for non-coders

2010-03-09 Thread Martin Owens
You need to define if you mean examples, description or one liners. I'm confused. On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 19:18 -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: Spreading the ideals of FOSS is a bit difficult when we have to explain how our tools respect freedom and why peer-review and our methods create better

Re: Google don't like Kurmandji

2010-03-13 Thread Martin Owens
Hello Amed, To thread you replied to was about Google's summer of code, not it's internal translation business. I've started a new thread with a new title so others who want to discuss these ideas can do so without confusing people interested in the Summer of Code project. My own thoughts are

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] The Free Software, Open Source promise: what FOSS means for non-coders

2010-03-17 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 17:34 -0400, Kevin Cole wrote: All well and good, but I was addressing the question What do you do when people don't know what 'software' is? I think the promises make sense if you're talking to a more savvy audience. It's like a television show, but instead of being

RE: Banner

2010-03-18 Thread Martin Owens
might want to refresh their branding :-D Best Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 15:22 -0400, Rebecca LaBarge wrote: Hi Martin, I would be honored if you pass along my information. We have clients all the way up and down the east coast primarily and would be more then happy to talk

Re: Banner

2010-03-18 Thread Martin Owens
Yes there are, address, phone number and contact. On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 14:58 -0500, Daniel Stone wrote: The Offset House 89 Sand Hill Rd Essex, VT 05451 802-764-4032 -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Martin Owens
as lots of practical tips. But would the FSF appreciate that balance? Depends on the person from the FSF I think. Regards, Martin Owens On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 17:35 -0430, Efrain Valles wrote: I would like to salute everyone out there representing Ubuntu in events around the globe

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 02:46 -0400, Dan Trevino wrote: and mp3 libraries Pedant Alert: MP3 Libraries are Free Software. LGPL licensed. They are restricted because of patent abuses, not because of licensing. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: What have LoCo teams organised

2010-04-12 Thread Martin Owens
Aloha Cz, Don't we have a good database to put all these events in at loco.ubuntu.com ? that's where we keep all our data. Although we're missing our repeating dates such as our Tuesday sessions (2 years running so far) and 8 week long sysadmin classes. Martin, On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 11:24

Re: Defining Leader

2010-04-23 Thread Martin Owens
The code of conduct is an important part of being a more permanent member of the LoCo though, it's a document which confirms your willingness to be helpful, friendly and part of the community. Sure you don't have to sign it, but it's better if you do. Personally I like it, it's more of an oath to

Re: Defining Leader

2010-04-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 20:16 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: Asking those people to make a LP account, create a GnuPG key and upload it, and sign some text upload it, could very well result in a serious loss in enthusiasm to volunteer... ;) Event organisers are not team leaders, co-ordinating is

Re: People problems when organizing an event

2010-04-28 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Le Kien Truc, I think you should offer the opportunity to come only if they can do some work before hand, like publish the even on social networking sites or get 10 people using Ubuntu from their community. :-) Mostly I reserve the free tickets to events for the people who will be manning

Re: KOREA LoCo Team GOT the CDs

2010-05-06 Thread Martin Owens
MA did too. Thanks to shipit, a great experience this year! On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 23:18 +0900, Jason Jang wrote: Hi All, I got the 10.04 CDs todays morning, I am thankful for yours. As follows; We scheduled Release Party on 15 May [1] Annual Great Conference on 26 Jun. [2] I hope that

Re: NYS LoCo Community -- Belated Announcement

2010-05-16 Thread Martin Owens
Congratulations cprofit, I hope your team has lots of sucess and I wonder if we should host some sort of NewEnglandish/East Cost LoCo leader meetup. Martin, On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 19:00 +, indigo...@rochester.rr.com wrote: Hello all: I apologize that this was delayed -- I was unaware of

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