Re: ubuntu 16.10 ready to order via ubuntu.net.au

2016-10-14 Thread Joel Addison
Thank you for continuing to offer this service Peter! Very much appreciated. > On 14 Oct. 2016, at 2:39 pm, peter baker wrote: > > hey guys > > I have made ubuntu 16.10 available via ubuntu.net.au > > you can still also order the awesome 16.04 lts > > linux mint is still version 18 > > $4

Re: Re-verification

2015-10-29 Thread Joel Addison
> On 28 Oct 2015, at 4:37 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Ali/amjjawad mailto:amjja...@ubuntu.com>> > Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:35 AM > Subject: Re: Re-verification > To: Jared Norris mailto:jrnor...@gmail.com>> > Cc: ubuntu-au@lists.ubunt

LCA 2015 InternetNZ Diversity Programme

2014-11-23 Thread Joel Addison
Hi everyone, I thought I would forward the following message about Linux.Conf.Au, which is being held in Auckland next January. They have recently announced their funding programme, which I thought some people on this list might be interested in. Kind Regards, Joel > > The LCA 2015 Organise

Re: Translating Ubuntu for phones into English (Australia) by RTM

2014-07-20 Thread Joel Addison
Hi everyone, It is great to see so many people getting involved with the en_AU translations again! I thought I would let you know of some resources we made up a while ago, which can be quite useful when doing translations through Launchpad. You can use these in Chrome/Chromium or Firefox with

Ubuntu-AU Sept 2013 Team Meeting

2013-09-19 Thread Joel Addison
Verification and a report on the Introduction to Linux session held last month. I hope to see you there. Thanks, Joel Addison-- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: New Local communities health check process

2013-09-19 Thread Joel Addison
the application here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/VerificationApplication2013 Please take a look at it, and either add details to it, or reply here to the mailing list and I will update it. Thanks, Joel Addison On 19/09/2013, at 9:43 PM, Jared Norris wrote: > Just a quick he

Re: Gnome 2 window manager

2013-09-04 Thread Joel Addison
Hi David, I suspect you will find that it is pretty hard. Gnome 2 is quite different to Unity/Gnome Shell, which both use Gnome 3 applications. You would have to completely uninstall all Gnome applications, and then find someone who is still compiling Gnome 2 for Ubuntu (there may be some Debia

Re: New Local communities health check process

2013-08-30 Thread Joel Addison
Hi everyone, I think we should add this to the agenda for the next meeting, which should be on Sunday 8 September. It is worthwhile doing the health check, even if just to ensure we have everything documented and up to date. It seems to be much easier now, and much less time consuming compared

Ubuntu-AU July 2013 Team Meeting

2013-07-18 Thread Joel Addison
Hi everyone, A reminder that the July 2013 meeting for the Ubuntu Australian Team will be held this Sunday 21 July. It will start at 8pm AEST (UTC+10:00), and will run in #ubuntu-au on Freenode IRC. You can access the channel through any IRC client, or via online webchat ( http://webchat.freenode.

Ubuntu-AU - Team Meeting

2013-05-10 Thread Joel Addison
FreeNode IRC to join in. The meeting will start at 8pm. Thanks, Joel Addison -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Ubuntu-AU March 2013 Team Meeting

2013-03-10 Thread Joel Addison
relevant logs. http://loco.ubuntu.com/meetings/ubuntu-au/543/detail/ Thanks, Joel Addison -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Ubuntu-AU August 2012 Team Meeting

2012-08-07 Thread Joel Addison
/meetings/ubuntu-au/393/detail/ See you all there, Joel Addison-- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Ubuntu-AU March 2012 Meeting Minutes

2012-03-11 Thread Joel Addison
eting will be on April 8, starting at 8pm AEST (UTC+10). The agenda for this meeting can be found at http://loco.ubuntu.com/meetings/ubuntu-au/374/detail/. Please add any items you would like to discuss to the list on that page. Thanks, Joel Addison -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubunt

Ubuntu-AU March 2012 IRC Team Meeting

2012-03-08 Thread Joel Addison
feel free to add further agenda items that you may have to that page. See you then, Joel Addison -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Ubuntu Global Jams - March 2012

2012-01-18 Thread Joel Addison
if needed. The Ubuntu Jams are a great way to get involved in the community surrounding the Ubuntu operating system, so please join in. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/JamsForPrecise Kind Regards, Joel Addison -- ubuntu-au mailing list

Re: Congratulations Joel Pickett

2012-01-10 Thread Joel Addison
Congratulations Joel! Your translation efforts have been greatly appreciated by everyone. Keep up the great work. Joel Addison On 11/01/2012, at 7:02 AM, Jared Norris wrote: > I just wanted to write a quick email to congratulate Joel Pickett > (sagaci) on last night obtaining

Ubuntu-AU November 2011 IRC Meeting

2011-11-10 Thread Joel Addison
/ubuntu-au/242/detail/, and add any other topics you would like to discuss at the meeting. See you then, Joel Addison-- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Brisbane Installation Festival

2011-11-09 Thread Joel Addison
Hi Chris, The logo can be found on the wiki, along with the other options that were considered at the time. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Archives/Logo I am not sure who created it, but we could probably find it by looking back through the meetings logs. There is an svg of the logo, so

Re: en_AU translations meeting (lite edition) reminder 8pm AEDST

2011-11-04 Thread Joel Addison
Hi Ben, The meeting was last night. Luckily the meeting was recorded, so you can get the logs at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-au/2011/ubuntu-au.2011-11-04-09.02.moin.txt Joel Addison On 05/11/2011, at 6:25 AM, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote: > Hi Joel, > > Olnly one

Re: Invitation to ubuntu-au accepted by jarednorris

2011-09-26 Thread Joel Addison
Congratulations to everyone on getting re-approval. Thanks a lot to Jared for the hard work to turn the team around over the past few months. Joel On 26/09/2011, at 11:20 PM, Approved LoCo Teams wrote: > Hello Ubuntu Australian Team, > > Jared Norris (jarednorris) has accepted the invitation

Re: video documenting of events

2011-09-12 Thread Joel Addison
For recording your desktop, or live streaming, this short post about webcamstudio on omgubuntu [0] might be useful. I have installed Webcamstudio, and it appears to be working, but I haven't tried streaming or recording yet. [0] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/06/how-to-broadcast-your-ubuntu-

Re: video documenting of events

2011-09-11 Thread Joel Addison
Hi Tom, I think we decided to set up a YouTube account at the moment, and then further investigate live streaming services for future events that we may want it for. The meeting logs will have the end of the conversation. Joel On 12/09/2011, at 10:22 AM, Tom Sparks wrote: > sorry, my system

Sept Ubuntu-Au Team Meeting

2011-09-11 Thread Joel Addison
can be found at http://loco.ubuntu.com/meetings/ubuntu-au/212/detail/. Thanks, Joel Addison -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

July Ubuntu-AU IRC Meeting

2011-07-14 Thread Joel Addison
://loco.ubuntu.com/meetings/ubuntu-au/130/detail/. Regards, Joel Addison -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

July Ubuntu-AU IRC Meeting

2011-07-08 Thread Joel Addison
the list, but please feel free to add any others that you would like to discuss. It would be great to see more people attending the meeting, so if you are available, please join in at #ubuntu-au. Kind Regards, Joel Addison -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: Flash player installation via Synaptic

2011-07-02 Thread Joel Addison
Hi David, Use the flashplugin-installer package, as this is the actual flash installation. The other package is now just a dummy package that will install flashplugin-installer. Regards, Joel On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 21:34 +1000, David wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to install Flash player (YouTub

Re: Ubuntu-AU Social Media

2011-05-31 Thread Joel Addison
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:37 +1000, Jared Norris wrote: > > > > On 1 June 2011 09:15, Paul Gear wrote: > > On 31/05/11 21:03, Joel Addison wrote: > > > ... > > I have added an item to the agenda for the next meeting on June 10

Ubuntu-AU Social Media

2011-05-31 Thread Joel Addison
Hi everyone, A couple of weeks ago I was talking to Jared about the use of social media for the Ubuntu Australia Loco. I think we as a group need to discuss how best to utilise the accounts/groups that we currently have, and decide what could be changed to improve their functionality. My proposa

Re: Python text editor

2011-05-21 Thread Joel Addison
Hi Geoffrey, There are a number of Python editors available. I started out using IDLE, which is the "official" IDE for Python. It offers syntax highlighting and formatting, as well as an integrated debugger and Python shell. I find it very easy to use, but I think it is more suited for simple

Re: Team IRC Meetings

2011-05-10 Thread Joel Addison
Sundays should be fine for me also. Joel On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 22:12 +1000, Cary Bielenberg wrote: > Yep Sundays are usually quiet for me. > > Cary > > On 10/05/11 22:09, Joel Pickett wrote: > > > I'd like to add my two cents and suggest the meeting is held on > > Sunday evenings, either 7pm

April meeting followup - ics files from loco.ubuntu.com

2011-05-06 Thread Joel Addison
Hi all, At the April meeting, I brought up the issue of importing .ics files from loco.ubuntu.com into Thunderbird/Lightning, and the times being shown incorrectly on the calendar. I found a method of fixing this problem was to append a 'Z' onto the end of each date/time in the .ics file, and then

Re: Website Renewal

2011-03-17 Thread Joel Addison
On 17/03/2011 7:56 PM, Jared Norris wrote: The current calendar on the site looks to be using the Event module, which has not had a new release since 2007. The module used by most people now for calendars is a combination of the Date + Calendar modules. This setup is quite different to Event from

Re: Website Renewal

2011-03-13 Thread Joel Addison
On 11/03/2011 1:31 PM, MoLE wrote: On 9 March 2011 17:59, Jared Norris wrote: Feel free to suggest anything you like for the site but please make sure it's going to contribute to the website, not just be there so we can say we have it. Jared and ??jra2011 (apologies if I got the nick wrong) di

Re: Logs for IRC meeting 17-05-2010

2010-05-18 Thread Joel Addison
I think you will find that the page for the meeting last night is actually: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings/2010May17 It has the agenda from the meeting as well as a link to the meeting log. On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:17 PM,

Re: Do you want to see an official Australian Ubuntu LoCo?

2010-05-14 Thread Joel Addison
I may not have been a very active contributor (due to time constraints with high school), but I certainly don't want to see the Australian Ubuntu LoCo disappear. Definitely a Yes from me. Joel Addison On 14/05/10 14:03, Lisa Milne wrote: > Well, with comments such as "you are fl

RE: Wireless Modem Problems #4

2009-01-13 Thread Joel Addison
Hi Michael, I think you will find that the autorun.inf file you are currently using is not the driver file, but instead a file that Windows uses to autorun a cd. I would check the cd for another file ending in '.inf', which will be most likely the driver file. Hopefully that helps,

RE: Telstra BigPond (Australia) Users - quota-free apt repo

2008-09-12 Thread Joel Addison
Hi, I sent an email to everyone about this last year. To make your Ubuntu installation use bigpond's mirror, you need to edit the sources.list file. Here are Les Gray's instructions from last time (updated to be for hardy): You can switch to the Bigpond mirror manually, by editing the file /etc

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2008-07-06 Thread Joel Addison
I have a Belkin Wireless G USB adapter (F5D7050) that works well with linux. It was up and running as soon as it was plugged in, with no configuration necessary. I also tried a Billion BiPAC 3012G, however it overheated and the connection dropped out every minute or two. If it hadn't overheated

Re: Bigpond Ubuntu Respository

2007-12-22 Thread Joel Addison
The repository should be unmetered for Cable and ADSL users, because Bigpond Files is unmetered for these users. Joel Matthew Rossi wrote: Are the downloads unmetered for ADSL and Cable customers? becuase if they aren't, then what's the point? On Dec 21, 2007 7:46 PM, Joel Addiso

Bigpond Ubuntu Respository

2007-12-21 Thread Joel Addison
Hi everyone, Bigpond users may be interested to know that Bigpond has now got a Ubuntu repository for the two latest versions. Look at http://files.bigpond.com/ for more details. Joel -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au