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Sunday, August 9th, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09August09

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09July26

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09July19

This was an informal meeting at the Community Leadership Summit.

1. GPG Keysign
2. Introductions
   1. Joe Smith
   2. Neal Bussett
   3. Chris Crisafulli
   4. Aaditya Bhatia
   5. Nathan Haines
   6. Robert Wall
3. OSCON Booth Stuff
   1. Schedule
      1. Looking good so far
   2. Materials
      1. Still need a table
      2. Hopefully we'll get a bunch of pressed Jaunty CDs
      3. Print out nametags
      4. Bring in power strips/extension cord and router/switch
4. We should get a webcam to stream from SCaLE next year.

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09July12

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09June28

1. OSCON Planning
   1. OSCON is the 20th to 24th, but the Expo Hall (and booth) is only 22nd and 23rd
   2. "External" booth features

      1. SCaLE booth layout seemed to work well

      2. People liked the video jdeslip posted to the list; probably have that on a monitor somewhere
      3. Enough power for one or two demo computers, possibly one with UNR?
      4. Discussion about burning CDs beforehand vs. burning them at OSCON
   3. Informational stuff / swag
      1. Will have flyers for Bay Area LUGs
      2. CD sleeve design probably needs revisiting at some point to add support links
      3. Flyers would be good for people who don't need CDs, especially if we don't have Internet access to answer questions
      4. Hopefully will have Canonical conference pack with stickers, pens, etc.
      5. We still have some Ubuntu computer case badges
   4. Reference material
      1. Cheat sheets would be useful, since we won't have Internet. Nobody stepped up to co-ordinate making them, though.
   5. Booth branding
      1. jdeslip can get a banner printed on vinyl. Flannel will work on the artwork for it.
      2. nhaines will make name badges for booth volunteers
      3. Should have some t-shirts in the Canonical conference pack for booth volunteers, too
      4. Discussion of making "Ubuntu California" t-shirts or getting Ubuntu shirts from the Canonical store
   6. Pre-OSCON meetup?
      1. Have an in-person meetup in San Jose before OSCON so everyone can get to know each other, etc.?
      2. Possible location: MLK Library at SJSU

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09June14

1. OSCON Planning

   1. Network drop
      1. Prices for network drop were $400 for a single IP, and $200 more per additional computer, so no network drop.
      2. For future reference, benefits of Internet access: access to documentation wikis, demoing package installation and removal (though this can be done with an alternate CD instead)
      3. Could also do Internet using mobile broadband card or router, which would be much cheaper
   2. Power
      1. Power costs will be larger than anticipated, so we need to double-check on whether we have the money for it
      2. Options: $250 (for 500W) to $300 (for 1200W)
      3. Postponing decision until we figure out what we want.
   3. Booth planning
      1. Computer running jdeslip's Ubuntu demo video

      2. Going to keep the booth layout open: tables along back and side walls (like SCaLE booth rather than in-front

      3. jdeslip volunteered to print a large Ubuntu California banner for the back wall; Flannel will hash out design with him
   4. Discussion on sharing with LUGs
      1. Discussion about open layout + demos not leaving space for LUG people.
      2. Vote on whether splitting the booth with LUG people is feasible didn't reach consensus.
      3. Vote with consensus that either way, we should promote LUGs with flyers.
2. Podcast discussion postponed
3. Approval status update
   1. Some Projects pages on the wiki need tidying up, and most need links to mailing list added

   2. The approval app itself also needs work

   3. Apropos: our logo was deemed cool on effiejayx's blog

   4. Time frame for approval continues to be between OSCON and Karmic release.
4. Renaming Launchpad Group

   1. Launchpad group will be renamed from ~california.team to ~ubuntu-california after the meeting to reflect the LoCo naming guidelines.

   2. Wiki pages, bookmarks, etc. need to be changed, and the group itself might break.
   3. Flannel will write an announcement about it to the mailing list
5. Discussion on addition/removal of User Groups link on wiki menu

   1. Flannel (who removed the link) feels that, since it's a list of LUGs in California, and the menu should be for LoCo stuff, it gives the false impression that they're our meetings.

   2. Grant feels that, since interacting with LUGs is part of a LoCo's mission, the link should stay there.

   3. rww brought up the idea of reinstating the link with altered text to make it clear that the meetings are LUG meetings, not LoCo meetings.

   4. Eventual decision that Grant would come up with some alternate text and submit it to the mailing list.
6. Meeting adjourned, further discussions moved to mailing list.

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Nothing was on the agenda, so no meeting was held (mailing list thread).

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09May17

1. Introduction to LoCos

   1. Lots of new people tonight, so we spent a few minutes talking about what LoCos are and how they relate to LUGs

   2. Useful links: LoCoFAQ, CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UserGroupContacts, LoCoWorkingWithOtherGroups

   3. LUGS tend to be focused on in-person, fun, social meetups. LoCos are more focused on advocacy (representing Ubuntu at conferences, speaking and presenting at LUGs, etc.)

2. OSCON
   1. We definitely have a booth now

   2. Internet and electricity aren't provided for free, so we need to decide whether to pay for them or not (mailing list link)

      1. Once we find out whose booths are around us, we could talk to them about sharing power and 'net
      2. Maybe just bring laptops (run off battery power)? Do we need internet access?

   3. CaliforniaTeam/Projects/OSCON2009 will be updated with more OSCON info soon

   4. Not guarenteed another Canonical conference pack (since we used one this year at SCaLE already)
   5. Discussion moved to mailing list
3. Open Source World (aka Linux World)

   1. OSW's dotOrg options this year are very limited. Regular booths are >$1000, and they decided we don't qualify because Canonical is for-profit. Fedora and !OpenSuSE don't qualify either

   2. Even if we could have gotten a booth, it's very soon after OSCON, so it might have been too much.
4. Jaunty installfests
   1. LUGOD (Davis) has an installfest on May 30; SVLUG has one June 23rd
   2. Clarifications about the role we would play at a LUG installfest: not taking it over, keeping identities separate, cooperating with other distro users, etc.

   3. The usual SoCal installfest at Chapman may not work, because they'll be on summer when we'd have it (--> fewer people around). Other options: UC Irvine ACM, OCLUG (at CSU Fullerton)

   4. Discussion moved to mailing list

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09May03

1. Release Party Wrap-up

   1. Photos: Nathan Haines' photo from the SoCal party; Santa Monica party photo

   2. Still looking for photos from Walnut Creek party

   3. Writeups: San Francisco party, Walnut Creek party

2. OSCON

   1. Thread about description of us for the registration form: April, May

   2. Discussion about putting stuff about Ubuntu vs. Ubuntu California vs. OSCON activities in description, consensus was that we should talk about Ubuntu, maybe mention the LoCo, and link to the Ubuntu website

   3. Further discussion moved to mailing list
3. Jaunty Installfests
   1. Since we don't have the resources to do one ourselves (especially in North California), we're going to look into attending LUG installfests with CDs and support materials instead
4. Discussion about splitting up mailing list
   1. Discussion about making an -announce list or -chat list to separate announcements (low-volume) and discussion (high-volume?)
   2. LoCoFAQ says we should stick with one list
   3. List currently isn't high-volume enough to consider it
   4. Maybe standardize formatting of announcement emails so people can filter them with procmail
   5. identi.ca and Twitter feeds focus on announcements, for people who want that

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09April19

1. California Team Podcast

   1. A few people on the mailing list have expressed interest (mailing list thread)

   2. Doing one monthly would be a good start, with biweekly as an eventual target
   3. Focused on end-user stuff, rather than technical subjects
   4. Preference for audio, rather than video, podcast
   5. Topics for discussion on mailing list: who will produce it, hosting, writers, topics, who'll speak in the podcast, topics, length
2. Jaunty Release info
   1. Ubuntu 9.04; not an LTS
   2. Mirrors will be (as usual) swamped, so make a local mirror if you're installing to a bunch of machines
   3. Boot time improvements (especially with ext4)
   4. Update manager will give 8.10 users an option to upgrade; upgrades from earlier versions need to go through 8.10 (e.g. 8.04 would upgrade to 8.10 then 9.04)

   5. Jaunty upgrade instructions

   6. Read the release notes!

3. Jaunty release parties

   1. Walnut Creek and San Francisco ones are already organized
   2. lcafiero is going to look into doing one in Felton at their LUG meeting

   3. LA/Orange one will be at Pei Wei, 7pm Saturday

Sunday, April 5, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09April05

1. Gutsy will be going EOL on the 18th. Relevant links: EOL announcement, support timeframes for all releases

   1. Most Gutsy users should upgrade to Hardy, which is an LTS (so it'll be supported for 3 to 5 years). The next scheduled LTS after Hardy (which Hardy users can upgrade to directly) will be 10.04.

2. OSCON

   1. Still working on red tape for getting a booth. Yasumoto wasn't around to give an update.
   2. Booths are 10' x 10' according to the prospectus.

   3. OSCON is at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center

   4. Consider mini-keysigning party? Would help to widen the Ubuntu-CA web of trust, which is limited to SoCal people right now.

   5. Consider a signup board at the booth for the California LoCo mailing list, Ubuntu Weekly News, or ubuntu-announce.

3. Jaunty release party

   1. So far, no suggestions for SoCal release party. Consider Pei Wei or PF Changs.

   2. Current locations for parties: South California somewhere, San Francisco (organized by Jesse Zbikowksi), Walnut Creek, maybe Santa Cruz

4. LoCo Approval

   1. Most meetings now have summaries; all of them will be done (and old ones moved to archive pages) before the next meeting
   2. Grantbow worked on the projects page and home page.

   3. CaliforniaTeam/Projects/ToDoList has a mostly-current list of things to do

   4. "Wiki one-a-week": if a group of people did one wiki edit a week, it'd help a lot with keeping things up to date
   5. Flannel, Yasumoto, and nhaines need to compile their photos of past events and document stuff
   6. Help out! Put stuff on the todo list if it isn't already there!
   7. Timeframe for approval: no definite deadline, but before Karmic would be good.

5. User Group Contacts

   1. Project to keep communications open with various !LUGs in California.
   2. Peninsula LUG is looking for a speaker for August; rww will talk to them about doing a Jaunty presentation for that, is looking for co-presenters
   3. A simple way to participate in the User Group Contacts project, especially in more remote parts of the state, is to simply show up at a LUG with a few burned Ubuntu copies.
   4. The todo list also has LUGs that need contacting.
   5. CD inventory: about 2 full boxes total, with about 80 CDs per box.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09March22

1. Jaunty stuff
   1. Party close to release, educational/promotional/installfest thing later
   2. Release is on Thursday, so the party would be on the Friday or Saturday
   3. Going to try to do something in both the north and south of the state (LA and Bay Area)

2. OSCON

   1. July 22-23 (Wednesday / Thursday) in San Jose
   2. It's a little early for many people to commit, but there's interest in having a booth there

   3. Prospectus with information

   4. Yasumoto will get in touch with them and do some more research before we commit to it.

3. LoCo approval

   1. Need to get the wiki in order: get the meetings and events properly summarized.

   2. List of stuff that needs doing is at CaliforniaTeam/Projects/ToDoList.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09March08

1. SCaLE wrap-up

   1. Handed out about 150 CDs (compared to 120 last year), which is notable considering that Canonical was also handing out CDs there. Have about 100 pressed 8.10 desktop 32bit CDs left from the 200 Canonical gave us.
   2. Used the two demo computers as burners, because 'buntustand wasn't finished. We didn't have a problem keeping up with demand, so three computers when we use 'buntustand in the future should be fine.

   3. Interest in collecting the full set of pressed Ubuntu CDs to make a display. We'll have to keep them protected, though: our copies of 5.10 got taken accidentally, so some poor people probably tried to install four-year-old software

   4. Poster: didn't have one for SCaLE, but will look into it in the future, possibly 3'x5' paper, which would be cheaper than vinyl.
   5. Suggestions for next time:
      1. Specified 1 to 2 hour shifts, so that people can plan to attend specific sessions
      2. Consider not doing Bug Jam next time around. Lots of people didn't understand what it was.
2. Jaunty Release
   1. Jaunty's being released on April 23rd.
   2. In the past, we've done a party a few days after release, followed by an installfest a few weeks after (to give the mirrors some time to recover, and let bugs get ironed out).

3. LoCo approval

   1. Benefits of approval: allows us to get swag from Canonical easier and quicker, bulk CDs (100s) for events, hosting

   2. Process: put together an application documenting what we've done and what we plan to do (in other words, we need to flesh out the wiki). Then, representatives from the LoCo show up at an IRC meeting.

   3. Cleaning up the wiki: Add tasks to CaliforniaTeam/Projects/ToDoList. Do tasks from that list. Easy!

      1. We have plenty of people, and no real deadline, so we should be able to chip away at it and get everything done.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09February21

This meeting was at SCaLE.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09February08

1. February 22nd meeting: moved to Saturday night (21st) at 7pm in-person at SCaLE in the upstairs GBJ room.
2. Storage company wants a manifest for the stuff we want to store overnight by the Thursday before SCaLE, so we should get that sorted out by next Sunday
3. SCaLE presentations
   1. Room for 4 presentations total (two per day)
   2. Potential topics: EC2, Games (Wine), Wubi, Regular Install, "Make Ubuntu your Own" (Desktop customization/preferences/themes), Moving from Windows to Ubuntu, Virtualbox (with USB), Fixing GRUB, VPN (Including work Emails, etc), Package Installation, X Forwarding with SSH
   3. Narrowed down to: customization, WINE, X-Forwarding, Windows to Linux
4. Booth discussion
   1. 'Buntustand should be ready in the next few days

   2. CaliforniaTeam/Projects/CDSleeves: modified to increase readability, will be printed by erichammond's company

5. CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Scale7x/BugJam: 11am to 6pm on Saturday, 11am to 4pm on Sunday

Sunday, January 25, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09January25

1. 8.04.2 released
   1. Includes all updates since 8.04 release.

   2. Change list at HardyReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/8.04.2

   3. Problem with vim-tiny: version on server and alternate CDs is from hardy-proposed, not hardy-updates.
   4. Ubuntu 8.04.2 is what we will be burning for hardy at SCaLE.
   5. Current Hardy users can just apt-get upgrade; they don't need to get a new CD or change their sources.list.

2. SCaLE

   1. Booth tables are 6ft x 24in

   2. Will be participating in GlobalBugJam using a separate room upstairs (same room as for presentations), which theoretically has wireless internet access.

   3. Yasumoto is trying to find a projector; troyready has one at home we can use if necessary.
   4. Equipment, demo computers, etc. can sit in the separate room when not needed, then go to overnight storage (near the Westin)
   5. Presentations:
      1. Two GBJ presentations by Yasumoto: "How to set up a bug jam", "how to work with bugs"
      2. Potential presentation topics: running games in WINE, installing with Wubi, Ubiquity, EC2, customizing Ubuntu,
   6. Going to have 32-bit CDs of the various Ubuntu flavors on-hand, and will burn 64-bit CDs on demand. Have both Hardy and Intrepid CDs.
   7. Canonical will also have a booth at SCaLE; we should know specifics sometime next week.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/09January11

1. SCaLE!

   • Six weeks!
     • Pretty self-explanatory.
   • CDs - While we'll have everything available, what do we want as a sensible default?
     • We'll probably prep about 200 CDs. We had around 120 given out last year.
     • Edubuntu proved to be extremely popular.
   • Business cards -- Do we need more? (depends on how we do sleeves)
     • We don't know if we need extras, or if last year's will suffice.
   • CD Sleeves? -- What to package CDs in

     • Now with advertising for the LoCo!

     • Maybe fit a "How to get help with Ubuntu" guide on them.
   • buntustand status update
     • Some technical updates. If you know Python, there's still stuff to do.
   • Presentations (at our booth)
     • We plan to have small slide shows, with maybe a couple install demos.
   • Booth Layout (not in agenda)
     • We hope to be in the same booth as last year (Corner booth 31)
   • Cheat Sheets (also not in agenda)
     • MAYBE making cheat sheets for booth workers of common facts which would prove helpful for Ubuntu and Canonical.

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