Meeting opened by popey at 21:00

• <HazRPG> *waves*

  <popey> anyone about for the meeting go o/

  <DJones> o/

  <HazRPG> o/

  <popey> quite one

  <popey> o/ btw

  <popey> quiet even

  <DJones> Are we supposed to have a vote on Daviey's replacement, or was that last meeting which I may have missed

  <popey> hmm

  <popey> AlanBell / Daviey poke

  <HazRPG> erm, if I recall... this meeting was to confirm it

  <HazRPG> we were giving people chance to at least pick someone

  <HazRPG> sort of an extended chance... since no one else came forward (and still haven't iirc, but links are failing me at this moment in time)

  <ZoeR> Hullo

  <popey> ok, well if neither Daviey nor AlanBell are around we'll have to defer it

  <popey> anyway...

  <popey> [TOPIC] review of action items from last meeting

review of action items from last meeting

• <popey>

  <popey> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20110303 is the log from the last meeting

  <popey> action items at the bottom

  <popey> nothing from barry and alan so far

  <popey> I'll take an action to poke them

  <popey> [ACTION] popey to poke Barry Drake and Alan Cocks about in-store promos

• <popey> the next one is part of that

  <popey> I believe Alan Bell has done the doodle poll and there is a date selected for the quiz

  <popey> Saturday 16th April at 21:00 BST

  <popey> [TOPIC] next team leader

next team leader

• <popey> (as part of the actions from last time)

  <popey> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2011-February/028779.html was the original mail from Dave stepping down

  <popey> ]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/2011Election has only Alan Bell on it

  <HazRPG> safe to assume Alan Bell wins

  <popey> well, we decided on the following last time...

  <popey> two weeks of more potential candidates followed by declaring AlanBell the leader if nobody else steps up

  <popey> we have done the first part so it's really a formality to announce the latter

  <popey> agreed?

  <DJones> Agreed

  <HazRPG> +1

  <popey> win

  <HazRPG> agreed

  <popey> I'll take an action to announce that tonight after the meeting

  <HazRPG> \o/

  <popey> [ACTION] popey to announce the new uk team leader on the mailing list tonight

• <popey> right, that's everything from the last meeting

  <popey> as usual..

  <dutchie> ooh, a meeting

  <popey> [PROGRESS REPORT] People who have achieved something in march, please place it in the report.

People who have achieved something in march, please place it in the report.

• <popey> hi dutchie

  <HazRPG> dutchie: you always seem to do that :P

  <popey> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/TeamReports/11/March

  <dutchie> HazRPG: it is due to my high degree of organisation

  <HazRPG> dutchie: also, oh hi

  <popey> so that's basically it

  <DJones> Podcast only since last meeting then

  <popey> yeah, just added that

  <gneel> Sorry I'm late!

  <HazRPG> I haven't had chance to write up my notes yet, so likewise some video-casts haven't been made yet

  <DJones> congrats on the new season

  <popey> no gneel

  <popey> thanks

  <popey> [TOPIC] Any other business

Any other business

• <popey> right, we have ~50 mins to kill

  <popey> open house

  <HazRPG> but I'll be working on it at some point

  <HazRPG> DJones, gneel: \o

• AlanBell turns up

  <popey> Congratulations AlanBell

  <AlanBell> yay

  <AlanBell> thanks

  <HazRPG> AlanBell: Congrats dude

  <HazRPG> ah you beat me to it popey :P

  <DJones> COngrats, well deserved

  <HazRPG> indeed, don't know a better man for the job

• AlanBell is quite pleased

• HazRPG quietly says speech to AlanBell - but is unsure if this is the appropriate place for it

  <AlanBell> heh

  <AlanBell> I would just like to thank my agent, my mum, my chickens . . .

  <DJones> If there is a speech,ds to fill the remaining 45 minutes of the meeting slot

  <DJones> s/ds/it needs

  <BigRedS> That's an impressive typo

  <HazRPG> I do have something to ask, but ... speech first

  <HazRPG> BigRedS: indeed!

  <DJones> BigRedS: sticky keyboard

  <HazRPG> won't ask ...

  <BigRedS> DJones: I'll ask no questions!

  <AlanBell> there will be no speech, move on!

  <HazRPG> ah okay

  <gneel> Release party/ies?

  <AlanBell> I spoke to marianna from Canonical about the London party

  <AlanBell> she was going to run some ideas past Jane Silber

  <AlanBell> I will find out what happened with that

  <HazRPG> erm... iirc, there was mention of how elections are done, memory is foggy - but I think something about posting somewhere about it (like a formal rule set) to be sort of devised

  <HazRPG> however I could just be making this up in my mind :S

  <AlanBell> that was an action for daubers

  <popey> HazRPG: we usually use CIVS

  <popey> but on this occasion only one person volunteered and it was decided he was more than capable

  <HazRPG> ah, ok

  <popey> [ACTION] Alan Bell to liase with Canonical to organise one of the Natty release parties

• <HazRPG> yeah I figured that this election was fair since Alan was the only one to come forward

  <BigRedS> HazRPG: Usually, if only one person stands, questions are asked about the nomination process

  <BigRedS> I'm not suggesting this is applicable here

  <gneel> It was a self-nomination process, and only Alan stepped forward

  <AlanBell> we will just write up what happens with a little flowchart or something

  <BigRedS> but there's probably something suboptimal somewhere if only one person steps forwards

  <gneel> Or everyone else stepped back quickly!

  <gneel> AlanBell: sounds good

  <AlanBell> BigRedS: the sub-optimal part was when we didn't know quite what to do next

  <AlanBell> and as you shouldn't really make up election processes as you go along we will just document those kind of eventualities and it is all cool

  <BigRedS> AlanBell: well, if too few people have the time/inclination to fulfil the role, should it be filled by one person?

  <popey> [ACTION] Alan Bell to begin implementation of process to find his successor

• <popey>

  <AlanBell> heh

  <HazRPG> :P

  <HazRPG> still trying to make some sense out of my local LUG to try and see if we can get an ubuntu release shin-dig going

  <HazRPG> or anything...

  <HazRPG> still no joy

  <HazRPG> seems some people have corrugated onto facebook, and just seems to be a stream of info but no real communication going on... and seems no one knows what exactly is happening

  <BigRedS> your lug is a facebook group?

  <HazRPG> and I'm not sure if I'm up to being a leader of any type

  <HazRPG> BigRedS: seems that way :/

  <popey> which LUG?

  <BigRedS> how times change...

  <HazRPG> Cumbrian LUG

• <HazRPG> http://www.cumbria.lug.org.uk/

  <popey> ahh

  <popey> schwuk lug

  <HazRPG> I'm on the mailing list, but not much happens

  <HazRPG> heh, yeah apparently one of my friends is on a course with schwuk

  <HazRPG> all my knowledge is about him, he's on a course with my friend Lunchie doing the HND I previously did... and seems to be the head guy on the facebook group

  <HazRPG> and works for Canonical (I think?)

  <popey> he does

  <popey> ok

  <popey> anything else that needs discussing?

  <HazRPG> don't laugh, but an idea I had floating around was to see if I could try and get in contact with Stephen Fry, see if he would be willing to come to Carlisle for an ubuntu-uk release and see if we could do something fancy...

  <HazRPG> or anywhere in Cumbria... that's sort of central to Cumbrians

  <popey> good luck

  <HazRPG> see if I can get a linux user base going

  <HazRPG> popey: I know it sounds out there, but it could happen

  <gneel> Not the worst idea I've heard

  <HazRPG> don't ask, don't get - sort of scenario

  <popey> ok, so

  <popey> [TOPIC] Date of next meeting

Date of next meeting

• <popey> 2 weeks?

  <HazRPG> seems people have stuff on today...

  <popey> we didnt send a reminder

  <gneel> 2 weeks sounds good to me

  <BigRedS> Ah, paddy's day

  <HazRPG> ah, of course heh

  <popey> 31/3

  <gneel> Not a Tuesday is my preference

  <HazRPG> 2 weeks is good

  <gneel> 31st sounds ideal

  <HazRPG> yeah, lets roll with that

  <popey> [ACTION] next meeting 31/3 at 21:00

• <DJones> Thursdays are good for me

  <AlanBell> sounds good

  <popey> chair?

  <AlanBell> HazRPG:

  <HazRPG> wait, what...

• HazRPG freezes up

  <popey> well volunteered!

  <gneel> HazRPG: I think you mentioned watching a meeting then possibly running one...

  <gneel>

  <HazRPG> erm... okay... sure... gotta start somehow right?

  <popey> great!

  <DJones> HazRPG: Its not that difficult, mostly copy & paste & keeping things moving

  <popey> thank you!

  <AlanBell> "<HazRPG> I might do the one after that :)"

  <popey> The log never lies.

  <HazRPG> heh, I know what I said :P

  <popey> [ACTION] HazRPG to chair

• <HazRPG> I thought there was going to be more interaction in this one to learn more - but still cool with it either way *steps forward*

  <HazRPG> guessing the meeting start # (but other way round) is how one kicks the whole thing off correct?

  <DJones> HazRPG: If you want to test out beforehand, I'm sure there'll be somebody around to practise

  <HazRPG> ah, I'm sure it'll be fine

  <DJones> HazRPG: http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/Mootbot-UKHowTo

  <HazRPG> DJones: winner

  <popey> #endmeeting

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Meeting closed at 21:44

People Present

• HazRPG
• popey
• DJones
• ZoeR
• dutchie
• gneel

• AlanBell

• BigRedS

Actions Recorded

• popey to poke Barry Drake and Alan Cocks about in-store promos
• popey to announce the new uk team leader on the mailing list tonight
• Alan Bell to liase with Canonical to organise one of the Natty release parties
• Alan Bell to begin implementation of process to find his successor
• next meeting 31/3 at 21:00
• HazRPG to chair