Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Booth at Maker Faire

Thanks James! I'll send you more info. in the next few days. Cheers, Jack On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:01 PM, James Ouyang wrote: > Hey Jack, > > I can definitely help out on Sunday (and maybe Saturday afternoon). > > See you tomorrow, > > James > > On Sun, May 6,

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Booth at Maker Faire

, Philip Ballew wrote: > I will be there, can be there both days possibly. I would be glad to help > out. > > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Jack Deslippe wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I know everyone is busy prepping for UDS, but I wanted to bring your > > atten

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Booth at Maker Faire

Hi All, I know everyone is busy prepping for UDS, but I wanted to bring your attention for a minute to an event happening the weekend after: I have gotten a booth for BerkeleyLUG (actual title is - "Bay Area Linux Groups") at the maker faire in two weeks - http://makerfaire.com/. I am hoping a c

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] 2011 Elections

Hi All, Just to let you all know, I am not planning on running again. It was a lot of fun and very rewarding, but I am starting a new job and have other commitments this year. I hope this encourages you to put your name in if you haven't done so already. There are a lot of great members of this

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Car Pool to Picnic From East Bay?

Hi All, I am wondering if there is anyone from the East Bay going to the Linux Picnic on Saturday that I might catch a ride with. I'll happily pitch in $10 for gas. Cheers, -Jack -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Meeting tonight, Sunday May 22th at 7PM

Hi everyone, Sorry for the late notice, but tonight we're having our regularly scheduled bi-weekly LoCo meeting at 7pm PT in #ubuntu-us-ca on freenode. For help connecting to IRC with a client, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat Or simply join us via your web browser by goi

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Meeting tonight, Sunday May 8th at 7PM

Hi everyone, Tonight we're having our regularly scheduled bi-weekly LoCo meeting at 7pm PT in #ubuntu-us-ca on freenode. 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.freenod

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Meeting Tonight April 10th

Tonight we're having our regularly scheduled bi-weekly LoCo meeting at 7pm PT in #ubuntu-us-ca on freenode. 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/?channel

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Updated CD Sleeves for California Team

Awesome. They look good to me. Unless someone points out something I am missing, I am going to print a bunch of these tomorrow. -Jack On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Mr. Andrzejak wrote: > Posted below are the updated CD sleeves in three formats: SVG, PDF and PNG. > Let me know if anything ne

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] super team meeting?

I think conferences like SCALE are a good chance for this... On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, seidos wrote: > is there any interest in the whole team getting together to meet, perhaps > at some midpoint between northern and southern california, like once a year > or something? > > -- > with mett

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Flickr or Picasaweb?

I have a personal preference to Picasa (because it is what I use and has awesome Android support). Someone also mentioned command line support at the last meeting. Picasa does have good command line support through GoogleCL: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/ (which, regardless of this discussion

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Our Shared LoCo Team Identity

While I think some uniformity (particularly in the URLs we use) may be helpful, I don't think it is really a show stopper for new people joining the group. Also, if we're going to try to create some uniformity in the website/twitter/identica/facebook URLs, I have to agree with Eric here: Ubuntu Ca

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Photo sharing options

My personal preference would be for Picasa - since it is I already what I use. I have used gallery2 in the past for wordpress websites, but I was never very impressed. Going with Flickr/Picasa means we already have the social ability built in, which I think is more important than just throwing up

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Announcement: New website

It looks really nice! Great work Website team. -Jack On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:33 PM, James Tatum wrote: > Friendly greetings, California! > > The Ubuntu California Website Team is pleased to announce the official > launch of our new home page. This page is running the official Ubuntu > Wordpr

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] howdy all

Here is my info: http://www.jdeslippe.com - though I also blog a lot at www.berkeleylug.com and my profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/jdeslip Cheers! -Jack On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Jessica Ledbetter < jess...@jessicaledbetter.com> wrote: >

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Maker Faire Wrap-Up

I just want to thank everyone who participated in our Booth at the Maker Faire today. I think it was a really big success. We gave out exactly 120 10.10 discs - each representing someone who we had an extended discussion with. In general, the attendees today were much more engaging and intereste

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu at the East Bay Maker Faire

has any stickers and other giveaways etc... that would be awesome too. Look forward to see you all there. -Jack On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Jack Deslippe wrote: > Hi All, > > The BerkeleyLUG was invited to have a table at the 2010 East Bay Maker > Faire (ebma

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu at the East Bay Maker Faire

Hi All, The BerkeleyLUG was invited to have a table at the 2010 East Bay Maker Faire (ebmakerfaire.com): * * *When:* Sunday, October 24, 2010, 10 am to 5pm *Where:* Park Day School, 360 42nd Street, Oakland, CA *Who:* Makers, crafters, cooks, musicians, parents, and kids! Similar to our joint Ber

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Team Leadership Election Announcement!

Yes, I believe we are voting to end the "draft phase" since there were no proposed amendments for the last week or so. The document can still be amended in the future - under structure the following line is written - "This structure is a brief, bare-bones, skeleton for the California team and can

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Team Leadership Election Announcement!

+1 from me :) On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Jessica Ledbetter > wrote: > > When will we vote on > > this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Leadership/ ? I dig it > > overall. Reminds me of by-laws which I guess all LoCos ha

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Code Camp Session went quite well

Thanks for organizing this. I think it was a pretty nice event. I talked to a bunch of potential developers about quickly after. The only comment I have is that next year we should allocate less time to discussing open-source vs proprietary and Linux vs. Windows. I noticed a few people walking

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] "The Ubuntu community cannot, and does not want to, prescribe which formal s tructure its local teams should use”

Hi, Just added some stuff to my wiki page here: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/jdeslip - copied style wise almost wholesale from Lyz. About being inward focused, hopefully this is only temporary - sometimes it is necessary to clean up your desk/office before you can go on doing more work. ;) Cheers, Ja

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] "The Ubuntu community cannot, and does not want to, prescribe which formal s tructure its local teams should use”

Mark, What on earth is the point of this email? And more importnatly, why... why is written like a LaRouche pamphlet with random quotations and random highlighting? The council made a decision to restructure the group because the current "structure" of the group was not functioning in a way that

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Maverick Release Party in the Bay Area

Sunday is a BerkeleyLUG meeting at Bobby G's in Berkeley. We'd be happy to have an Ubuntu themed meeting if you guys are interested. We mostly just hang out, have some food, hack on a project and share cool developments in OSS world. We did a previous Ubuntu release party at BerkeleyLUG and it w

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Leadership Document

to the mailing list later in 2009. Cheers, Jack On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > (changed the subject to shift the discussion) > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Jack Deslippe wrote: > >> This is an excellent document and I think will help

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Team Leadership Election Announcement!

> This is an excellent document and I think will help form the basis for > our leadership document (to be hosted on the wiki) moving forward, you > rock! If you don't mind, I'll try to take some time tonight to put the > key points into wiki format. Sounds good. Feel free to do whatever you like

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Team Leadership Election Announcement!

Hi All, Some time ago (January 2009 apparently), I crafted the following proposal for the Cali-team structure - https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVvuU9dbI-YnZGhtOWh6cHZfMjYzcXpxdDhoZA&hl=en - It was met with some interest at the time but never enacted. While, I am in no way really attached to a

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] introduction

Im also really interested to participating in this event. I can bring 3 USB disks with netbook remix on them. In my opinion the hardest part will be advertising enough to actually get people to show up to have installs done. We should think of appropriate channels. Sorry I haven't made many IRC

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Brochure

Hello All, I have finally got around to updating the "I've Got Ubuntu - What do I do now?" brochure based on new ubuntu artwork and everyone's comments. Thanks everyone who helped construct the brochure and correct errors (especially Nathan for his detailed list of corrections). I believe I incl

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] 10.04 CDs

Hi All, As I haven't been able to make many of the IRC meetings as of late, I'd actually appreciate being kept up to date on the Lucid CD situation on the list. For Karmic, I got 15 (or maybe 20?) disks from Robert which we mostly gave out to people installing Ubuntu for the first time at the UC

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Tri-Fold Source Files

Thanks for comments everyone - I also got a lot of comments from the folks at the jam. I intended to update the screenshots and marketing to fit with lucid today ( as Nathan suggested ) but got side tracked by other goings-on. I'll send a new draft out in a couple days. Ill remove snes9x as well

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Tri-Fold Source Files

Hi Everyone, I have put up the source files for our second brochure here: http://civet.berkeley.edu/~jdeslip/Ubuntu/ Have a look and give me some comments. -Jack -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/list

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Global Jam Events

Hi Cali-Folks, I am going to try to be at the A'cuppa in the afternoon that day. If nothing formal is planned, I'll be working on a couple more patches for Banshee I've been waiting for some free time to work out. I'd also like to announce a Berkeley Global Jam event hosted by BerkeleyLUG Sunday

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Asking For Opinion: Leadership Appointment Process

Just a quick response to Robert: Jack: > I agree with you that a set of bylaws would go a long way towards > fixing the problems I outlined above. I agree with most of your > proposal, though as I mentioned above, I have reservations about using > Launchpad membership as a definition of who is eli

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Asking For Opinion: Leadership Appointment Process

Hi all, I generally agree with what DW said (though the characterization of the SoCal/NoCal mentality may be a bit simplified...). I have always been of the opinion that the issues and personal problems in this group derive from a lack of a well-defined and fair structure/by-laws. A couple month

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Pressed Canonical CD distribution

Robert, I'd like 25-50 discs to distribute to colleagues and family who have a real desire in switching to Linux as well as a supply to give away whenever a professional looking disc would make an impact. -Jack On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Darkwing Duck wrote: > Can I also put in a request f

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Placing Team Karmic CD Order

I'd also like some professional looking CDs to give out. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Darkwing Duck wrote: > Ill take a bunch to hand out down here. > > DW > --Original Message-- > From: Neal Bussett > Sender: ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com > To: Ubuntu US California > ReplyTo

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] the shirts

Please do not send any more emails on this subject to the list. I think it is clear that everyone agrees that getting the shirt in as many shapes and sizes as is cost effective is best; so people (men and women) can make up their own mind about what they like best. If I have another "you have mai

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] LoCo Contact Forwards

Robert et. al., I hope you do read this email... While I think you are right that a lot of what has been sent back and forth on the mailing list (and despite your best efforts apparently in multiple private conversations between the three 'decision makers' on this issue as well as among yourself,

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] LoCo Contact Forwards

Neal, This is getting out of hand. On Oct 1, 2009 12:21 AM, "Neal Bussett" wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:29:58PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > a) Who are the list moderators at th... Nathan, Robert, and myself. > b) How was this decision arrived at? We discussed it, and determined it was an

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Party in San Francisco! Sat, Sept 26th at 8:00pm

What time you headed there? On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Grant Bowman wrote: > Elizabeth Krumbach will be visiting from Pennsylvania, so let's have a > no-host party! I would like to invite as many Ubuntu community folks > and Canonical staffers as possible, so spread the word. The Thirsty

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Team organization and dispute resolution

uffled. > > > With good spirits, > Abhejit Rajagopal > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Jack Deslippe wrote: > >> Hey Robert et. al. >> >> Very well said. Talking behind peoples' back, letting personal feelings >> dominate arguments seems to

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Team organization and dispute resolution

Hey Robert et. al. Very well said. Talking behind peoples' back, letting personal feelings dominate arguments seems to be a real problem on both sides. I find Ubuntu LoCo meetings etc. very tiring. I would like to clearly state my own opinion of things here for the record. Since I am new to the

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Help with Solano Stroll wiki page

I just updated it a bit more. Don't have the time today to do much more though. -Jack On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Robert Wall wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 15:49 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > > I created > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/SolanoStroll2009 > > and added it

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Testimonials for Grantbow

Done :) Grant Bowman wrote: > Hello all, > > Would those that feel inclined please provide testimonials for me on > my wiki page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grantbow in preparation for the > meeting Wed, Sept 9th at 3 PM Pacific Time as I go before the Americas > membership board > https://wiki.ubuntu

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Linux Banner and Brochure

ard it to other lists they think would be interested. Cheers, Jack Deslippe -- 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] Linux Picnic

As discussed at the meeting last night, several members of the Ubuntu LoCo team are headed the the Linux Picnic next week (mainly myself, Grant and Vivek). The event website, http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix18/, suggests groups bring banners/projects in order to represent their tea

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Global Jam [ & Karmic Release Parties ]

Ya, I might be interested in putting together a Jam in Berkeley. Or, perhaps we can get a few LUGs together for the Walnut Creek Jam. I could probably get us some space at UC if we think that is the best place. Anyway, I'll bring it up at our next BerkeleyLUG meeting to see who is interested

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Got Banner

> >> Epic! Thanks Jack :) >> >> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jack Deslippe wrote: >> >>> I think it looks good and colors pretty much identical to my screen. I >>> will take a pic when get home. >>> >>> Grant, if you are

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Got Banner

I think it looks good and colors pretty much identical to my screen. I will take a pic when get home. Grant, if you are coming to BerkeleyLUG tomorrow, I'd like to pass it off to you in case I have flight trouble or something coming back from Florida. -Jack -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-u

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] [Fwd: Re: Second Banner Attempt]

> sent it originally with the wrong email address. :( > > I added one line at the bottom. > > Mark > > On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 11:28 -0700, Jack Deslippe wrote: >> After a brief discussion with Neal, here is a new attempt a banner: >> http://www.jdeslippe.com/drop

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Second Banner Attempt

Ok. I have posted several more versions of Banner2 with various colored backgrounds at http://www.jdeslippe.com/dropbox - please have a look. In my opinion, the two brown versions and the grey one are the nicest. -Jack On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Jack Deslippe wrote: > Ya, it may b

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Second Banner Attempt

t the background color though, it seems a bit .. peachy? > > Joe > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Jack Deslippe <mailto:jdes...@berkeley.edu>> wrote: > > After a brief discussion with Neal, here is a new attempt a > banner: http://www.jdeslippe.com/dropbox/

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Second Banner Attempt

After a brief discussion with Neal, here is a new attempt a banner: http://www.jdeslippe.com/dropbox/Banner2.pdf The differences are that the big logo is now the Ubuntu one (cali-loco logo is smaller and next to the team name). I also dropped a shadow on ubuntu logo. There is an example banner h

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Banner for OSCON

Hello All, Since I am going to be out of town All next week until Tuesday the 21st, I would like to get the banner printed this week (ideally maybe on Friday). So, if we could work out the details in the next few days, that would be great. As I mentioned last week, the only real constraint on th

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Banner Dimensions

Hello All, I had a chance to check out the possible banner dimensions for printing. It seems like the only constraint is that smaller dimension can be at most 60 in (5 feet) and it has to be PDF format. I would recommend that we shoot for something on the order of 24" x 80" (w x h). Jack --

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] LUGs at OSCON (Was re: User Group Link)

Bill Kendrick wrote: > > "Tent" being ...? > > To quickly summarize: "Multi-LUG booth" is on a waiting list for > an .ORG Pavillion spot at OSCON, since that pavillion is currently full. > > Ooops. In my head, the word pavilion became tent ;) My question was whether you had heard anything re

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] User Group Link

Did the LUGs definitely not get a booth in the other tent?? Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:09:36PM -0700, Nathan Haines wrote: > >> I am, however, very happy and proud that we have a couple Bay Area LUGs >> who are providing fliers for our OSCON booth, and I'm sorry that our

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] User Group Link

Hi All, I am rather new to Ubuntu-US-CA (and to running a LUG), but I thought I'd give my perspective on this issue. There has been a lot said so far; so, I won't try to comment on what everyone else has said. First, I have to say that I find the whole discussion a little absurd. It seems th

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] OSCON Booth Planning

Here is the link to the youtube video of the demo I have so far. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBlZjY2uxeU -Jack Jack Deslippe wrote: > Darn, I didn't see this email until I sent mind. Hope you don't mind. > In order to stay organized, I will paste the text of my other

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] OSCON Booth Planning

Darn, I didn't see this email until I sent mind. Hope you don't mind. In order to stay organized, I will paste the text of my other email here so people can respond to this thread. Here is a quick summary of what I would personally like to contribute to the OSCON table and my opinions on the

[Ubuntu-US-CA] OSCON Continued

Hi All, So the irc meeting just ended and I am pretty tired; So here is a quck summary of what I would personally like to contribute to the OSCON table and my opinions on the questions about the booth that are still under discussion. I would like contribute the following: A v

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] electricity

I have an idea. I can bring a 22 Inch LCD monitor (if anyone has a bigger/brighter one that would be great) that we can use to play a fullscreen video on auto loop. I have been playing around with desktop recording software (gtk-record-my-desktop / istanbul) - and it seems possible to record

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] OSCON page updated; discussion topics from last meeting

>From my understanding, power has already been paid for. Neal Bussett wrote: > Robert Wall wrote: > >> * 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 foc

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Possiblity of sharing space with Ubuntu-CA

Grant/Bill, How big (in physical size) is the Ubuntu-CA booth? I guess Bill was hoping to use ~half of the space to be manned by local LUGs? To be honest, unless there is a lot of space, I think it is a better idea to use the space to provide a well put together booth demoing and providing i

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Desktop Linux Oriented User Group Meeting This Sunday

(Sorry if you find this email to be spam. It is the one and only time I will advertise to the Ubuntu-CA list) BerkeleyLUG is having its second meeting this Sunday (May 31) at Bobby G's Pizzeria in Berkeley California at Noon until 3:00pm. This is a new user group focused primarily on the uses/deve

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] LUGOD requests our attendance

Is Ubuntu-CA doing anything for the Maker Faire? It would be awesome if there were an ubuntu booth. I think it fits the theme, since Linux/Ubuntu is the self/community built OS. If we missed this cut this year, we should think about it for next year. -Jack Grant Bowman wrote: > The regular