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. Feb 7th 7pm * Leadership * Develop a core leaders group * Membership * Team Launch Pad memberships Expire one year from join date * Website Changes Complete * Group Blog site swaped for a simple a planet aggregator. * Email addresses now all forward to primary email address. * Community Advocacy and Support * Rochester Computer Refurbish with Ubuntu * Developing more activities to benefit NY * Encouraging Member Participation * Conference 2008 has been postponed indefinetly. * Team Application for official recognition * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewYorkTeam/Approval * Team Resume of contributions to Ubuntu and its community involvement * Needs linkification to details. = Attendance = = Minutes = = IRC Logs = {{{ (07:01:56 PM) ausimage: lets get this meeting started.... (07:02:09 PM) ausimage: agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewYorkTeam/Meetings/20080122 (07:02:40 PM) ausimage: I am going to skip some topics without much news if that is OK... (07:03:07 PM) hal14450: have at on the stuff you've got news about then ;-) (07:03:14 PM) ausimage: Ok then... Meetups are.... (07:04:18 PM) ausimage: Rochester had their meetup on the 3rd of January... We oogled hals new machine... and talked about ubuntu and linux (07:04:39 PM) ausimage: I think that sums up the meeting...? (07:05:09 PM) hal14450: went to barnes & noble after they kicked us out of wegmans and then on to applebees after that (07:05:23 PM) ausimage: Next meeting is the 7th of february at 7pm at the pittsford wegmans cafe.... (07:05:32 PM) ausimage: yeah that happened as well :) (07:05:43 PM) ausimage: Next... (07:07:14 PM) ausimage: Memberships on Launchpad now all expire 1 yr from joining... you just need to acknowledge you want to continue to keep joined (07:07:48 PM) ausimage: Next Website changes and change over complete.... :) (07:07:53 PM) hal14450: how does that work though do we get an email before expiration then? (07:08:19 PM) ausimage: yeah... that is my impression from other users... (07:08:35 PM) hal14450: i have to confess to not using launchpad all that often (07:08:59 PM) ***ausimage either 'cept to file bugs and manage memberships in the teams I lead (07:09:23 PM) ausimage: On site changes.... :) (07:09:57 PM) ausimage: We are using our friend jaguars server, gratas for now... (07:10:28 PM) ausimage: I changed our blogging app to just a planet-like aggregator... (07:10:37 PM) ausimage: as well... (07:10:39 PM) hal14450: new server is in place btw (07:10:50 PM) ausimage: cool (07:11:00 PM) hal14450: so the changeover to that one should happen when he gets a chance (07:11:20 PM) ausimage: um... I set up new announce list to keep everyone informed... (07:11:34 PM) hal14450: it's hosted in a DC in TO and sits close to a rack filled with google servers ;-) (07:11:44 PM) ausimage: the list is only postable to leaders ... (07:11:54 PM) ausimage: and will be low volume... (07:12:09 PM) jaguar: and ill destory it soon :( (07:12:11 PM) jaguar: haha (07:12:16 PM) hal14450: lol jag (07:12:24 PM) ausimage: every member of our team recieves a copy (07:12:49 PM) ausimage: their is also an archive page for emails from that on our website as well now (07:13:22 PM) hal14450: cool, we needed to work something out as far as that goes (07:13:36 PM) ausimage: Um newyork-ubuntu email addies now all forward to primary email addies on file .... (07:14:18 PM) ausimage: though I just realized that email was not being directed to where it should have been... :/ (07:14:29 PM) hal14450: well as far as the questions to the website go i was hoping we'd have some sort of catch all account setup that would forward to members that are interested in responding to those (07:14:32 PM) CyberMatt: someone say my name (07:14:33 PM) ausimage: I have been working with jaguar to resolve this (07:14:41 PM) ausimage: MEETING :) (07:15:02 PM) CyberMatt: :) (07:15:06 PM) ausimage: I can do that hal14450 not very hard... (07:15:18 PM) ausimage: just have not had interest at this point :) (07:15:49 PM) hal14450: well you can cc me on emails to the site and i'll post a reply if i have an answer (07:16:18 PM) ausimage: sure can... I will just add you as a forward for the email address ;) (07:16:46 PM) ausimage: Next topic Advocacy and Support... (07:17:19 PM) ausimage: The main thing there is that I am deciding to postpone the conference idea indefinitely... (07:18:43 PM) hal14450: that's probably a good thing for now (07:19:06 PM) CyberMatt: I'm here (07:19:17 PM) ausimage: I though think perhaps we need to put in the word for possible locations that most people can travel to and from in a day... (07:19:24 PM) hal14450: more regional meetups are good though and working to develop realtionships with existing lugs is something we can shoot for (07:19:26 PM) ausimage: for meetups... (07:19:35 PM) ausimage: yeah... (07:20:05 PM) ausimage: I really think the best thing is to encourage more participation from the team members... (07:20:26 PM) ausimage: I can only do so much... (07:21:00 PM) ausimage: and will not do more than I think I can handle... (07:21:26 PM) ausimage: even if it maybe urgent to someone ;) (07:21:54 PM) ausimage: I think that is all the major points.... (07:22:12 PM) ausimage: Let me open the discussion.... (07:22:14 PM) hal14450: well maybe we should start using the mailing list a bit more to generate more feedback since it's the most common form of communication for a group (07:22:41 PM) ausimage: yeah though only part of the team is on the list... (07:22:59 PM) ausimage: and it seems everytime we get a spike we lose people :( (07:23:15 PM) hal14450: oh? (07:23:22 PM) ausimage: yeah... (07:23:32 PM) ausimage: that is why I started the other list... :) (07:23:39 PM) hal14450: the noise ratio is almost non-existant (07:23:54 PM) ausimage: I know :/ (07:24:06 PM) hal14450: unless i'm not getting all the posts (07:24:17 PM) ausimage: you getting all of them :) (07:24:32 PM) ausimage: I am just telling you my experience with it (07:25:20 PM) hal14450: well as long as we're all careful about how things get worded we're less likely to have another 9/11 like we did last year (07:25:51 PM) ausimage: I have everyone on this other list... and I am thinking about monthly postings... that detail what is up and what can be done (07:26:05 PM) ausimage: I know... no more like that :/ (07:26:18 PM) CyberMatt: 9/11 (07:26:23 PM) CyberMatt: ? (07:27:07 PM) hal14450: CyberMatt, it's an odd coincidence that a post to the list on last year on 9/11 caused a bit of a stir in the membership (07:27:24 PM) ausimage: it was that date last year... that there was major discussion about being involved and ensuring people knew people would attend :S (07:28:01 PM) ausimage: yup... (07:28:21 PM) ausimage: Is there anything else to bring up? (07:29:01 PM) hal14450: well i'm gonna get in touch w/ nate about the hardware project and probably do a presentation for ABC (07:29:31 PM) ausimage: awesome... (07:30:02 PM) hal14450: i'm shooting for february and anyone that wants to help with a presentation is welcome (07:30:14 PM) ausimage: good... (07:30:36 PM) ausimage: we can discuss it on the 7th too ;) (07:31:15 PM) hal14450: plus if we don't use that compaq server in the giveaway i can set it up here and let members use it for stuff (07:31:56 PM) hal14450: unless Dave123 does the same then it saves us having to move it (07:32:49 PM) ausimage: hmmm... (07:33:15 PM) ausimage: I think it would make sense to keep at least one of the machines for live demos ;) (07:33:22 PM) ausimage: and workshops (07:33:47 PM) ausimage: I would love to see an intro to foss thing for area libraries... (07:34:09 PM) hal14450: well so far that's not a problem (07:34:34 PM) hal14450: i'd like to see that podcast thing we talked about before get started (07:34:43 PM) ausimage: sound good... yeah that too (07:34:53 PM) hal14450: so i guess i could work on that and the hardware project (07:35:01 PM) ausimage: we have several ideas floating.... (07:35:16 PM) ausimage: just need to get their foundations layed (07:36:01 PM) hal14450: CyberMatt, you have anything to suggest or would you like to get involved with anything? (07:36:01 PM) ausimage: Ok then... (07:36:17 PM) ausimage: oh yeah... CyberMatt??? (07:36:56 PM) CyberMatt: no i want a syracuse area meat up when there are more people :) (07:37:10 PM) CyberMatt: from syracuse (07:37:14 PM) hal14450: that would be cool (07:37:23 PM) ausimage: CyberMatt: sometimes you have to build it before they come ;) (07:37:34 PM) hal14450: i'd make a trip out there if you set one up (07:38:07 PM) ausimage: I might too... :S (07:38:19 PM) ausimage: seeing as I am in the middle here ;) (07:38:31 PM) CyberMatt: ill see about something after the whirlwind is over (07:38:33 PM) hal14450: yeh you are pretty close to both (07:39:11 PM) CyberMatt: ausimage, where are you exactly (07:39:23 PM) ausimage: Seneca Falls ;) (07:40:11 PM) ausimage: in the middle (07:40:13 PM) CyberMatt: would be fun but i'd need some help to pull it off (07:40:37 PM) ausimage: CyberMatt: choose a location and give us a few times you can be there (07:40:57 PM) CyberMatt: after exams and etc (07:41:08 PM) CyberMatt: lets see (07:41:14 PM) ausimage: I can put a notice on my blog.... and make an effort to attend with hal14450 more than likely... (07:41:29 PM) ausimage: sure... sounds like a plan ;) (07:41:51 PM) hal14450: http://www.syrlug.org/ (07:42:10 PM) hal14450: you might see if anyone there is interested (07:43:13 PM) CyberMatt: yes i keep meaning to go but somthing always gets in my way (07:43:29 PM) ausimage: well invite them to your meetup ;) (07:44:00 PM) ausimage: everything talked about? (07:44:08 PM) hal14450: i guess so (07:44:18 PM) CyberMatt: all i can think of (07:44:21 PM) ausimage: cool... meeting is adjourned }}}