Meeting opened by AlanBell at 20:10

• <zleap> thanks

  <AlanBell> ok, evening all o/

  <barrydrake> Evening

  <Biglesp> hi o/

  <brobostigon> evening AlanBell

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

review of action items from last meeting

• <AlanBell> [PROGRESS REPORT] People who have achieved something in April, please place it in the report.

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

• <AlanBell> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/TeamReports/11/April

  <AlanBell> well there is the London release party to add to that

  <brobostigon> ok, i may have something for that,but it is a personal achievement, and not related to ubuntu, but OSS and OSH.

  <Biglesp> I need to add a link for Linux Outlaws, and add the fullcircle podcast

  <AlanBell> great

  <AlanBell> quite a full report this month

  <AlanBell> [PROGRESS REPORT] AlanBell Update on the quiz night

AlanBell Update on the quiz night

• <AlanBell> ok, well this was great fun

• brobostigon missed it due to personal commitments,

  <AlanBell> MartijnVdS and popey won baseball hats for their impressive high scores

  <zleap> yay

  <AlanBell> Jessica_Lilly won a copy of the official Ubuntu book as she admitted being a Gentoo user and thus was considered most in need of it!

  <zleap> lol

  <brobostigon> lol,

  <AlanBell> she got the book today

  <AlanBell> popey's hat is sat on my desk still

  <AlanBell> using Mumble worked quite well and we agreed to do that again some time

  <AlanBell> possibly for some evening hack sessions or something

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: yes, it worked very well, once we got it refined properly.

  <AlanBell> for those who missed the quiz you can join the #ubuntu-trivia channel at any time and play with the quiz bot

  <brobostigon> we should use it more,

  <brobostigon>

  <AlanBell> the "ubuntu" category was released for the quiz night and is now generally available in the brain of the bot

  <brobostigon> neat.

  <AlanBell> ok, I think that is about it on the quiz

  <AlanBell> [PROGRESS REPORT] Update on the launch party for natty

Update on the launch party for natty

• <AlanBell> yup, that happened

  <AlanBell> the more formal thing at the BCS didn't, I had to cancel that

  <Biglesp> how come?

  <AlanBell> canonical couldn't send a representative

  <Biglesp> thats a pity

  <barrydrake> That is not good

  <brobostigon> agreed.

  <AlanBell> I worked my way down the org chart asking people until it was getting silly

  <AlanBell> however, they are going to try to arrange it for the next release

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: couldnt someone from us, the community be representtive.

  <AlanBell> not really

  <brobostigon> ok,

  <brobostigon> hmm.

  <AlanBell> however the thing in the pub was fun

  <brobostigon> thats good.

  <AlanBell> although some people struggled to find us

  <Biglesp> was that before or after the beer

  <brobostigon> interesting question.

  <AlanBell> they do have a rather fine selection of beers at the porterhouse

  <AlanBell> ok, the next topic should be the election process vote

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: this is the same place oggcamp will be held?

  <AlanBell> think I am going to defer that to the next meeting as I am not sure where the page is we are voting on and this meeting wasn't announced in advance enough

  <AlanBell> brobostigon: nope, the porterhouse is a pub in central london

  <AlanBell> oggcamp will be in the maltings in Farnham

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: oh, it must be a similer name then.

  <AlanBell> (where they have an annual beer festival)

  <brobostigon> yes, they are similer

  <brobostigon> ok,sorry.

  <AlanBell> hmm, no daubers

  <AlanBell> [TOPIC] Daubers - British Library Sci-Fi Exhibition

Daubers - British Library Sci-Fi Exhibition

• <AlanBell> daubers isn't online right now it seems

  <AlanBell> however take a look at http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/outofthisworld/outofthisworld.html

  <AlanBell> what do you think about that as an activity?

  <AlanBell> a meetup at the british library including or followed by a geeknic of some kind

  <AlanBell> and cake

  <barrydrake> I like it

  <Biglesp> sounds good

  <Biglesp> any potental dates?

  <brobostigon> interesing idea.

  <AlanBell> I don't think any dates have been proposed yet

• <AlanBell> http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/2011plan

  <Biglesp> okey dokey, I'll keep an eye out

  <brobostigon> yes.

  <barrydrake> Can we have a votey thing?

  <AlanBell> yes, we can have a votey thing

  <AlanBell> but we have to narrow it down to a reasonable selection of options first

• <AlanBell> http://www.bl.uk/whatson/planyourvisit/openinghours/index.html

  <AlanBell> so looks like saturdays and sundays would be good options

  <AlanBell> or possibly a tuesday evening

  <Biglesp> definitely weekends, and if we can get dates soon enough it won't cost me an arm and a leg to come

  <brobostigon> i dont think i could attend either, unless finances improve, so count me out, of the decision making,

  <AlanBell> the library and exhibition are free, but travel costs can indeed be a pain

  <Biglesp> yeah, I'm up in Blackpool, so its about £60 return

  <brobostigon> farnham is around £12 eachway, that is alot for me, for oggcamp.

  <barrydrake> I'mm up for that, but have very few unbooked weekends in July/August

  <brobostigon> right now, anyway.

  <AlanBell> ok, so I will have a chat with daubers (as he suggested it) and get some dates together to put to the list on a doodle poll

  <brobostigon> ok.

  <barrydrake> good

  <AlanBell> [action] AlanBell & daubers to sort out doodle poll for British Library SciFi exhibition

• <AlanBell> [TOPIC] Any Other Business

Any Other Business

• <AlanBell> does anyone have other things they want to raise at this time?

  <Biglesp> If I may

  <AlanBell> go ahead

  <brobostigon> yes, my someones idea, of me doing a preentation at oggcamp because of myhydraulic car project, using arduino and other.

  <Biglesp> I took an action at the last meeting to pull together a lessons learnt document, based on my experience of organising ucubed

  <Biglesp> I have pulled together the following http://dl.dropbox.com/u/448790/Lessons%20learnt%20from%20UCubed.pdf

  <AlanBell> excellent

• brobostigon shuts up.

  <Biglesp> and this is still in draft form, I will refine the document and include it in a full guide soon

  <Biglesp> I will also be working with the venue to produce a template for other events to use, to ensure that they achieve the most from their day

  <AlanBell> that looks great at first glance, will read in full later

  <Biglesp> hopefully the template will be transferrable for other events / venues

  <Biglesp> AlanBell: Thanks

  <Biglesp> All done!

  <barrydrake> Just curious as to reactions to Natty so far

  <AlanBell> great

  <AlanBell> brobostigon: do you need any help with that talk?

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: yes, not done anything like it before,

  <AlanBell> ok, lets discuss that a bit more after the meeting

  <brobostigon> ok.

  <brobostigon> thank you.

  <AlanBell> barrydrake: natty seems to be going down OK in the media I think

  <barrydrake> Great!

  <AlanBell> I think the next release will be a lot more "finished"

• brobostigon is gnome-shell man though, than a unity one.

  <AlanBell> and that means the important LTS at 12.04 will be great

  <barrydrake> Indeed

  <brobostigon> yes.

  <brobostigon> remembering the year + worth of work prior.

  <AlanBell> couple of other things to raise, this week is Ubuntu Open Week

  <AlanBell> which is a series of online presentations aimed at users of Ubuntu

  <zleap> ah

  <brobostigon> mark's questions yesterday.

  <AlanBell> loads of really great information in them

  <zleap> when does that start or did it start

  <barrydrake> I WAS a gnome desktop person until I persevered long enough to appreciate the power of Unity

  <popey> sorry

  <AlanBell> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek

  <AlanBell> logs and schedule for the rest of the week are there

  <AlanBell> hi popey

  <zleap> ah

  <brobostigon> evening popey

  <barrydrake> Hi popey

  <AlanBell> zleap: you have 2/5th of it remaining

  <popey> sorry, forgot

  <brobostigon> brb, sorry.

  <zleap> np

  <zleap> it would be good if there was a way to notify users of such events, via the ubuntu notification thing

  <AlanBell> and the next thing to raise is the Ubuntu Developer Summit which is next week

• <AlanBell> http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-o/

  <AlanBell> zleap: http://ubuntu-news.org/calendars/fridge/

  <zleap> thanks

  <AlanBell> so the developer summit is a week packed with sessions discussing different topics

  <AlanBell> generally about things people might be working on for the next development cycle

  <brobostigon> we do have our google calendar thingie dont we, zleap

  <zleap> me, er nope

  <AlanBell> decisions get taken there, and then get implemented and turn up on the CD six months later

  <brobostigon> ical*

  <zleap> i still use a paper organiser

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: i have some idea, on the gnome3 blueprint.

  <AlanBell> the schedule is huge, and you can attend stuff remotely

  <AlanBell> there are IRC channels for each room, a live audio feed

  <brobostigon> yes.

  <AlanBell> and collaborative notes via etherpad (I made that bit \o/)

  <brobostigon> here is a thought, uds session contribution help via mumble,

  <AlanBell> so do have a look through the schedule and drop in on some sessions

  <zleap> will have to look in to it, just signed up for another open uni course, that should keep me busy over summer

  <AlanBell> audio is one way using icecast

  <AlanBell> ok, anything else to mention?

  <brobostigon> i have all the sessions layed out in my google calendar,

  <candt> Apologies I do not have time just now to attend usefully

  <candt> alan cocks

  <AlanBell> hi candt

  <brobostigon> evening candt

  <AlanBell> [TOPIC] Date of next meeting

Date of next meeting

• <candt> Hi Alan, a bit over busy with a couple of PCs from a friend from france and doing soem maintenance, so cannot attnd, apols.

  <AlanBell> that is OK

  <AlanBell> so next meeting, 3 weeks or so?

  <brobostigon> no worries.

  <Biglesp> yeah

  <AlanBell> Thursday again?

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: sounds ok here,

  <AlanBell> 26th may

  <Biglesp> yeah

  <barrydrake> I'm out of the country, but if I can get a good signal, I'll be there

  <AlanBell> popey to chair?

  <popey> uh, yes

  <AlanBell>

  <popey> feel free to phone/text me next time

  <popey> you have my number

  <AlanBell> [agreed] next meeting Thursday 26th 9PM popey to chair

• <AlanBell> #endmeeting

Meeting closed at 20:53

People Present

• zleap

• AlanBell

• barrydrake
• Biglesp
• brobostigon
• popey
• candt

Actions Recorded

• AlanBell & daubers to sort out doodle poll for British Library SciFi exhibition