Sep27
05:26 dholbach shall we move on to the Florida team for now?
05:27 bordy hooray!
=== bordy ducks
=== johnc4510 is here to cheer on Florida Team Approval Florida Team exemplifiies the Ubuntu Spirit and advocates
effectively!! I highly recommned their approval
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=== nixternal chears on Florida!!! GO BORDY!
05:27 DoctorMO heya
05:27 bordy 
=== peanutb also cheers for Florida
=== statik is here to support florida
05:28 pak33m hooray for Florida and sunshine too
05:28 H264 I met pak33m... seems like a worthy state
05:28 bordy H264: be fair, any state with pak33m is a worthwhile place to be
05:28 nixternal CC: I can actually say that I am totally impressed by the rapid growth that the Florida team has gone through in the past months. They have taken on quite a bit and ran right through it nicely. Definitely a functional and outstanding LoCo team
05:28 dholbach the wiki pages look very good
05:28 bordy thanks nixternal
05:29 dholbach what are the projects in the past you are most proud of? which went best?
05:29 nixternal even though bordy switched back to Gnome from KDE, I still kind of like him and the team :p
05:29 dholbach how long does the team exist now?
05:29 bordy Team started March 3rd I believe. Maybe the 1st.
05:29 bordy early march
05:29 jsgotangco "BBS updates"
05:29 jsgotangco
05:30 statik I joined the team in early march and have been surprised to see it grow to 98 members by now
05:30 bordy I think I personally am most proud of helping with BarCamp, I helped set it up even though I ended up not going, but we had a strong presence there, with at least one presentation (statik would know better), and definitely got the word out on Ubuntu within the Central Florida corridor
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05:30 kjcole nixternal: I think they're a Mickey Mouse operation and a little Goofy. 
(And I don't even know any of them.)
05:30 nixternal lol
05:30 mako your upcoming events page seems to be quite out of date
05:30 MikeB Florida is a big state, what area are you active and have meetings? how are you expanding to the rest of the state
05:30 bordy Mako: the person who was doing that left, and we are trying to restructure that
05:31 pak33m we have a just started a projects page as well
05:31 bordy MikeB: we are most active in central florida, with tampa/orlando area... have a few outliers in Tallahassee and Miami, but mostly central.
05:31 statik I see people active in jacksonville, ft lauderdale, tampa, orlando, and the space coast
05:31 statik because the state is so distributed it is hard to have in person meetups
05:31 bordy it is a very long state
05:31 jsgotangco i can imagine that
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05:32 nixternal bordy: global warming will fix that eventually :p
05:32 seisen lol
05:33 jsgotangco how did SFD turn out in the area
05:33 OgMaciel hahaha
05:33 kjcole bordy, I can sympathize. (Back when LoCo's were entire countries, I thought the word "local" to be a bit odd.)
05:33 bordy jsgotangco: our gainesville members organized something at UF, but had very poor turnout from what I hear
05:34 dholbach how many people show up to your IRC meetings? how do you organise things as a team?
05:34 mako dholbach: dude! i was SO typing that question
05:34 nixternal ya, one thing I learned, is never attempt to measure success by turnout....Chicago has seen its poor turnout as well
05:34 dholbach mako: sorry for that
05:34 DoctorMO It's dificult to include people from an entire state, even smaller ones like MA. we've taken to holding a once every 3 month meeting in central MA just for this problem
05:35 statik the irc channel is pretty active all week, from 10-20 users normally
05:35 bordy dholbach: our IRC meetings usually around 25ish, pak33m runs the meetings (because he's the hammer)
05:35 mako sounds great
05:35 bordy meetings pull in some of the other active members who tend not to idle with us
05:35 statik I always skip the weekly meetings, but we get a lot of people on IRC during the week asking questions and getting assistance
05:35 mako well i'd love to see more attempts at the IRL projects
05:35 mako because they are very effective and help build community
05:35 mako even if not all in the past have been successful
05:35 mako but i'm thrilled with the online communit you've built and am happy with a +1
05:36 mako you should clean up the vents page.. even blank it
05:36 mako it looks real
05:36 nixternal groovy
05:36 jsgotangco dude, they have a BBS!
05:36 mako out of date
05:36 bordy mako: thinking about dropping it altogether
05:36 nixternal BBS?
05:36 nixternal no way
05:36 bordy oh yeah a bbs
05:36 bordy one of our youngins made it for us
05:36 mako bordy: that's better than keeping it out of date like that
05:36 DoctorMO whatis BBS?
05:36 mako bordy: it makes you look inactive
05:36 statik mako: one of the brevard members is planning an in person meeting after the gutsy release, presenting to a couple of other user groups
05:36 bordy mako: indeed. I think there are better ways of organizing it anyway
05:37 kjcole DoctorMO: Bulletin Board System
05:37 macogw i'm with DoctorMO....what's...oh ok
05:37 macogw kjcole: you type too fast
05:37 nixternal that is funny, a youngin made a BBS....
05:37 statik it's not a real BBS, it's just a server with SSH enabled
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=== macd hugs vbbs
05:37 jsgotangco yeah i just looked at the forum pages
05:37 statik but it's neat that he set it up despite being so young
05:38 bordy he teaches me stuff. I'm not ashamed. lol
05:38 dholbach how do you think your POA is coming along?
05:38 dholbach https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/POA
05:38 nixternal ya, usually BBS's today are created by old people :p
05:38 jelkner is there a scheduled time for the membership approval part of this meeting?
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05:38 dholbach what kind of activity are most people involved in?
05:38 jelkner i fear i'll need to leave before it starts
05:38 dholbach jelkner: this is the last agenda point before we do membership approval
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05:38 dholbach jelkner: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda
05:39 macogw jelkner: got a class to teach?
05:39 bordy dholbach I think its coming along nicely, we are getting more organized, more directed, and the subteam leaders are really coming through for us
05:39 statik dholbach: I'd guess most folks are doing advocacy stuff, I'm trying to learn more about packaging (got several in-process right now)
05:40 dholbach statik: that's great to hear - if you have questions or can get people interested in MOTU, let me know
05:40 dholbach I'm happy with +1 too, seems some healthy action and good structure in the team
05:40 bordy dholbach: once I learn something at all I would love to learn about packaging
05:40 statik dholbach: will do, thanks for the help in #ubuntu-motu so far.
05:40 bordy lol
05:40 dholbach statik: de rien
05:40 dholbach bordy: rock on, let me know when you want to get started on that
05:41 dholbach MikeB, jsgotangco: any more questions?
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05:41 MikeB dholbach: none here
05:41 jsgotangco i'm fine, giving my +1, please just update some of your pages (Events, etc)
05:41 bordy yeah that events page might be sayin bye bye
05:42 dholbach it might be worth looking into: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting
05:42 jsgotangco its alright to start virtual teams for now for such a big state
05:42 mako i turn into a pumpkin in 45 minutes, so lets get through as much as we can
05:42 MikeB +1 here also
05:42 dholbach congratulations florida!
05:42 mako are we waiting on anyone?
=== johnc4510 w00t congrats to the Florida Team nice job!!
05:42 jsgotangco what really needs to be nurtured is the activities that you guys take part of, even tough not as a big group
05:42 bordy hooray!
05:42 pak33m dholbach: i will be looking at the reporting page and reporting in general for Florida
05:42 dholbach pak33m: great
05:43 bordy jsgotangco: we're trying to branch, not getting too much interaction with local lugs, but we'll get there.
05:43 nixternal j1mc isn't around, so you can skip him
05:43 dholbach ok, let's move on; I think jelkner has to leave in a bit; shall we get him first?
05:43 elmo +1
05:43 kjcole +1
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05:43 dholbach jelkner: your stage
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05:44 dholbach it's been quite a while since we met in Sydney - what happened since then?
05:44 elmo (that was to the florida team, sorry - tho it may be moot)
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