## page was renamed from OhioTeam/IRC20130123 {{attachment:postable.png}} 00:01 * skellat waits eagerly 00:01 Cheri703: Well, who all is here for the meeting? 00:02 * paultag can be here 00:03 Cheri703: Quite the turnout! 00:03 * drkokandy is here 00:03 Cheri703: ah, ok 00:03 skellat: And there was more than 48 hours notice this time! 00:03 Cheri703: Well, I'll start off with: we've recently been discussing trying to shift some focus from worrying about in-person events to having online events 00:04 Cheri703: Some discussion was had about video vs voice chat, and while I think mumble is a good idea, it ''would'' be hard to get photos of our "event" to send in 00:04 Cheri703: if it's a google hangout, we could at least do screenshots and such. With mumble, a screenshot of the signed in users isn't terribly impressive. 00:05 Cheri703: I think we'd still want to try to do ReLoCo stuff, but as far as trying to get people from larger geographical areas together, it's just not happening, so we'll go with online stuff. 00:05 Cheri703: Anyone have thoughts on that? 00:06 Cheri703: ... 00:06 Cheri703: aaaaanyone? 00:06 Cheri703: crickets 00:06 skellat: At this point I'm continuing to investigate video solutions and have not found anything satisfactory ''yet'' 00:06 drkokandy: I agree with trying to get ReLoCos together for some in-person events 00:06 Cheri703: if anyone wants to volunteer to develop an alternative to google hangouts, they're welcome to do that too ;) 00:07 drkokandy: Because without doing some things in person we're wasting the geographic foundation of the LoCo 00:07 Cheri703: drkokandy: we need to schedule one once the temperatures are consistently above 20 degrees again...it's too stinking cold to go anywhere right now 00:07 drkokandy: that is true 00:07 Cheri703: true drkokandy, but as spread out as we are, the geographic foundation is...tenuous 00:08 skellat: I've still got Lake Effect Snow Warning going until 10 AM tomorrow. Wind chills have been hazardous to human flesh for anything but minimal time lengths of exposure. 00:08 * skellat had to go shovel out family cars before tonight's meeting 00:09 Cheri703: Oh, actually: I'll be in Cleveland the evening of 02/15 because I have to spend the night at the airport, if any ubuntu clevelanders wanted to hang out or grab dinner, I'd be game :) 00:09 Cheri703: I would like to do things in person, and had hopes of doing that at one time, but we seem to be getting sparser and sparser as far as people who actively participate. 00:09 Cheri703: I'd like to see some life in the mailing list/forums at some point. 00:10 skellat: We had fairly good IRC activity today 00:10 drkokandy: we've had a more active IRC than usual these past couple of weeks or so 00:10 Cheri703: yeah, but we have LOTS AND LOTS of people who are technically members of u-ohio and we have 21 signed in to chat right now 00:11 Cheri703: so...irc isn't exactly reaching the masses 00:11 skellat: No, it isn't 00:12 skellat: Then again, how many of the 400+ members actually have any connection or contact with the LoCo at large? 00:12 Cheri703: not many 00:13 Cheri703: Do we have a u-ohio g+ group? does anyone know? 00:13 drkokandy: not one that I'm a part of 00:13 skellat: I don't use G+ 00:13 Cheri703: I think a lot of ubuntu folks are on g+, so probably could poke around there 00:13 skellat: We have an Identica group that paultag is the owner of 00:13 paultag: challah 00:13 paultag: Oh man 00:13 paultag: I can transfer 00:13 Cheri703: yeah...identica is....fairly dead afaik 00:13 Cheri703: ? 00:13 paultag: skellat: seeing as how you're an identica master, I'll chown to you 00:14 skellat: Identica is fairly alive Cheri703 and is still being developed 00:14 Cheri703: I've heard of a lot of people having issues with it 00:14 Cheri703: so I dunno 00:14 skellat: paultag: We'll talk about that separately as we may need Evan involved 00:14 paultag: ack 00:14 Cheri703: I think g+ is rapidly becoming a hub of ubuntu stuff 00:15 paultag: erm, hurm 00:15 paultag: skellat: http://identi.ca/group/ubuntuohio ← I'm not an admin D: 00:15 skellat: Identica is getting set to archive about 80% of the accounts as they're inactive and the data is going to go to Archive.org. The active accounts remain active. 00:15 skellat: paultag: Crap! I'll contact Evan separately so I can take control of that myself. 00:16 paultag: ack 00:17 skellat: Cheri703: I thought we had a Page on G+ back during one or the other of my abortive attempts to use the service. I wonder if we still do. 00:18 Cheri703: looks like bioselement made a page 00:18 Cheri703: I'll reach out to him 00:18 drkokandy: Oh, found one: https://plus.google.com/116070181546687340819/posts 00:19 drkokandy: here's the community: https://plus.google.com/communities/113576253272216114772 00:20 Cheri703: sent a message 00:20 Cheri703: hopefully we can get that going a bit 00:20 skellat: I've pinged Evan via Identica to see if I can take control of the group there 00:22 Cheri703: So: Goals for this next month: Try to get some online presence going, whether g+, identica, mailing list, forum, also try to get some sort of local events moving in some capacity somewhere. Mansfield will have one this coming month, if any other areas can get SOMETHING to happen, that'd be great. Even if it's a "I will be at x location at y time with my computer and able to give demos" and have like a sign on your table or something. I dunno 00:22 Cheri703: . SOMETHING that is contact with the outside world. :) 00:22 Cheri703: I will probably post something to the mailing list tonight just to try to get some conversation going 00:23 Cheri703: well...will probably post within the next week or so. big work thing going on so my brain is a bit...wobbly 00:23 Cheri703: anyone have any other thoughts on that? 00:23 skellat: Nope. 00:24 skellat: I'll be running the educational session next Monday at 10 PM Eastern 00:24 Cheri703: Everyone can participate in getting things going on the mailing list btw ;) 00:24 Cheri703: awesome! 00:24 skellat: I'll be posting the slide deck to SlideShare 00:26 skellat: What metric do we want to use to measure the success of the event? 00:26 Cheri703: I think for the level of participation we usually get to events, HAVING the event is a success. :) 00:26 skellat: Okay 00:27 skellat: PING: Unit193 jrgifford canthus13 jacob 00:27 Cheri703: I'm serious! We haven't done something like that before, so I consider it a positive thing to be doing it at all :) 00:27 skellat: Alrighty 00:28 skellat: Is there anything paultag can share with us about the state of Debian efforts relative to Wheezy? 00:29 paultag: current RC bug squash rates place release at about 3 months out 00:29 paultag: if you'd like to see it sooner, fix bugs :) 00:29 paultag: BSP I'm helping run in Boston @ MIT this weekend 00:29 paultag: questions? :) 00:29 skellat: So we're looking at April instead of February then 00:29 paultag: yeah, sadly 00:30 paultag: there were some RC bugs found late in freeze 00:30 paultag: and it's set us back a bit, I think. 00:30 paultag: help is welcome, and as always I'd be glad to help anyone get involved 00:30 skellat: And for the record I'll remind folks across the LoCo that efforts to aid Debian in squashing bugs do trickle down to help Ubuntu 00:31 Cheri703: Alright, any other topics for tonight? 00:32 skellat: Any recent contacts with the LoCo Council? 00:32 Cheri703: talked with cztab: unofficially a few weeks ago 00:33 Cheri703: result of that convo was the push toward ANY activity, then working out in-person activity later 00:34 skellat: Laura Czajkowski, you mean? 00:34 * paultag chuckles 00:34 Cheri703: yeah 00:34 skellat: Alrighty 00:35 skellat: Cheri703: Could you ask Laura Czajkowski in her Launchpad-related capacity about whether or not it is possible to change the LoCo team's settings so that e-mail cannot be turned off? 00:36 Cheri703: I think that with spam and opt-in/out regulations we can't force email on anyone 00:36 skellat: Darn 00:36 skellat: Okay 00:36 skellat: I've got nothing else 00:36 Cheri703: I know that if I'd opted out of email and suddenly started getting it again, I'd be SUPER mad 00:36 Cheri703: so...yeah 00:37 Cheri703: ok. I guess that wraps things up for the meeting. I'll (as always) be idling in here, so if anyone has thoughts , feel free to toss them out! 00:38 skellat: Then we stand adjourned, I guess? Our next meeting is our educational session on Monday at 10 PM. 00:38 Cheri703: Yep. Have a good night folks! 00:40 drkokandy: sounds great! Good night all!