This is the XXth IRC General meeting of the NewYorkTeam, starting at 7:00 PM EST and finishing at 8:00 EST When adding new agenda items please "sign" them, place @SIG@ (without the escape - marks) after each of your items. If you won't be in attendance, please describe your item and wishes in detail otherwise those items may not be effectively discussed.
Agenda
- Meet Up Reports
- Encouraging more Meet Ups
- Upcoming Events
- Rochester: First Thursday's at Pittsford Wegmans-Upstairs Cafe. Jan 3rd 7pm
- Leadership
- Develop a core leaders group
- Membership
- Set team Launch Pad memberships to expire one year from join date - Will be activating soon
- Website will be moving...
- Yharrow got notice the server our site is on will be shutting down by the end of the month.
- Community Advocacy and Support
- Rochester Computer Refurbish with Ubuntu
- Developing more activities to benefit NY
- Encouraging Member Participation
- Conference 2008
- Team Application for official recognition
- Team Resume of contributions to Ubuntu and its community involvement
- Needs linkification to details.
Attendance
Minutes
IRC Logs
(07:01:48 PM) ausimage: Who is here besides RobNyc and deejoe_rcsi? (07:02:06 PM) deejoe_rcsi: hi (07:02:06 PM) spudnoggin: privet, deejoe_rcsi (07:03:55 PM) ***ausimage was hoping for more participation... :/ (07:05:25 PM) ausimage: Lets make this a quickie I guess :) (07:05:45 PM) ausimage: Our first topic is meetups... (07:06:09 PM) ausimage: deejoe_rcsi: you went to the rochester meetup... want to give a summary? (07:06:19 PM) ***ausimage could not go.. :( (07:07:10 PM) deejoe_rcsi: on my n800 (07:07:21 PM) ausimage: on the meetup :) (07:07:26 PM) deejoe_rcsi: so ,in brief (07:07:36 PM) ausimage: yeah... (07:07:54 PM) deejoe_rcsi: dave123, hal14450 aand i went (07:08:14 PM) deejoe_rcsi: nice space, wifi (07:08:56 PM) deejoe_rcsi: we just hope (07:09:19 PM) deejoe_rcsi: no one went to victor ny mistake (07:09:41 PM) deejoe_rcsi: hendriski was out of country (07:09:45 PM) ausimage: yeah that would not be good... (07:10:01 PM) deejoe_rcsi: ausimage was shopping ;) (07:10:16 PM) deejoe_rcsi: that's it. (07:10:24 PM) ausimage: yeah :( gotta do what the wife wants ;) (07:10:35 PM) deejoe_rcsi: jan 19th rcsi ifest (07:11:15 PM) ausimage: The Rochester meetup next is Jan 3rd at 7pm Pittsford Wegmans Cafe... again... (07:11:27 PM) ausimage: I do hope to make it this time... (07:11:44 PM) ausimage: deejoe_rcsi: feel free to spread the word ;) (07:12:19 PM) deejoe_rcsi: there was some ? as to whether to do it close to new years (07:12:40 PM) deejoe_rcsi: i think we said go for it (07:12:47 PM) ausimage: yeah I am wondering that... but I do not think it be a problem (07:14:06 PM) ausimage: next is Launchpad memberships... I will be setting the yearly expiration date as soon I as I get time and ensure it will work correctly... (07:14:25 PM) deejoe_rcsi: jan 19th rcsi ifest 1 to 430 greece pub lib (07:14:45 PM) deejoe_rcsi: good re lp expiry (07:15:26 PM) ausimage: The responses from the email list were mostly that would not be able to continue after the expiration... which is not true just an acknowledgement (07:15:37 PM) ausimage: will reinstate their membership (07:15:55 PM) ausimage: um... next is our website... (07:16:26 PM) ausimage: yharrow gave me some bad news... the host is shutting down (07:16:37 PM) ausimage: or something to that effect... (07:16:52 PM) ausimage: I have backed up what we do have on our site... (07:17:12 PM) ausimage: We have two solutions I can think of at this point... (07:17:44 PM) ausimage: use my hosting plan.... which allows for multiple domains (07:18:07 PM) ausimage: or get hal14450 to help us with setting up on his... (07:18:30 PM) ausimage: I think hal14450 was looking at a virtual server for us... (07:19:19 PM) ausimage: but since I have not been able to get a response on IRC... nothing has been decided (07:19:45 PM) deejoe_rcsi: hmm (07:20:01 PM) deejoe_rcsi: how soon from yharrow? (07:20:11 PM) ausimage: 26th of dec (07:20:21 PM) ausimage: EOY (07:20:41 PM) ausimage: I need to see if he is willing to transfer the domain too (07:20:42 PM) deejoe_rcsi: ok (07:20:49 PM) deejoe_rcsi: yeah (07:21:17 PM) ausimage: I would not mind attempting to host on my webhosting account temporarily (07:21:52 PM) ausimage: I think hal14450 server will be the best longterm (07:21:52 PM) deejoe_rcsi: at least list, irc & wiki won't be affected (07:21:57 PM) ausimage: yeah (07:22:46 PM) ausimage: So it is a wait and see at this point... (07:23:21 PM) ausimage: The last topic I have is the next time of our general IRC.... (07:24:07 PM) ausimage: I am thinking that we wait to the fourth Tuesday in January... and then hold one on the 2nd and 4th tuesday (07:24:09 PM) deejoe_rcsi: hehe (07:24:24 PM) ausimage: or we could mix things up (07:24:33 PM) deejoe_rcsi: i like 2nd & 4th (07:24:46 PM) ausimage: 2nd thu and 4th tue ? (07:25:01 PM) ***ausimage just thinking aloud... (07:25:16 PM) ***deejoe_rcsi shrugs (07:25:24 PM) deejoe_rcsi: good as any (07:25:24 PM) ausimage: I know... (07:25:53 PM) ausimage: if we very the day of the week... it may give a chance for more to participate... (07:26:19 PM) ausimage: though I am not sure that it would confuse too :/ (07:26:35 PM) ausimage: deejoe_rcsi: opinion? (07:27:04 PM) deejoe_rcsi: wed is the only other one (07:27:24 PM) ausimage: hmmm... (07:27:25 PM) deejoe_rcsi: tho some do church then (07:27:30 PM) ausimage: :/ (07:28:02 PM) ausimage: I guess I could throw it the list... :S (07:28:20 PM) ausimage: see how many would chose which ? (07:28:38 PM) deejoe_rcsi: ask for top 3 prefs (07:29:39 PM) ausimage: hmmm... K... well get something to the list later tonight then (07:29:50 PM) deejoe_rcsi: decreasiasing order (07:29:58 PM) ausimage: but the weeks will be firm (07:30:07 PM) ausimage: 2 and 4 (07:30:56 PM) ausimage: Ok... that is everything I wanted to discuss... (07:31:09 PM) ausimage: anything else from anyone else? (07:31:15 PM) deejoe_rcsi: ok (07:31:20 PM) deejoe_rcsi: nope (07:31:27 PM) ausimage: good adjourned