Meeting opened by AlanBell at 20:01

• <AlanBell> hi all

  <brobostigon> o/

  <AlanBell> quick meeting today, not that much to cover

  <brobostigon> ok.

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

review of action items from last meeting

• <suprengr> [burp] too much coke

  <AlanBell> only action item was to set up a facebook page, and we did that

  <brobostigon> success

  <AlanBell> https://www.facebook.com/UbuntuUK

  <brobostigon> and then google+ camalong.

  <AlanBell> 60 people like it which is nice

  <AlanBell> indeed, G+ is interesting, we should probably do a mass hangout or something at some stage

  <popey> yes!

  <brobostigon>

  <brobostigon> isnt there a hangout limit ?

  <AlanBell> dunno, but I expect that won't be a huge issue

  <AlanBell> [TOPIC] Daubers - British Library last minute arrangements

Daubers - British Library last minute arrangements

• AlanBell sees muffins

  <brobostigon> hehe

  <AlanBell> so the plan for tomorrow is as follows

  <AlanBell> meeting at 11:00 at platform 9 3/4 Kings Cross station

  <AlanBell> this is just outside the station and looks like two bits of cheap plastic brick wallpaper that someone stuck on a wall

• brobostigon points at the message to the ML earlier also.

  <AlanBell> and a baggage trolley that someone took an angle grinder to shoved up against it

  <AlanBell> https://plus.google.com/photos/109175303602657131317/albums/5632279650910795537/5632131424301638930

  <AlanBell> so we can hang out there for a bit and take photos of people pushing the trolley through the wall etc

• brobostigon awaits floods of pictures to see on google+

  <popey> oh jeez

  <popey> it's going to take me 1.5 hours and two train changes to get to Kings Cross

  <AlanBell> why?

  <popey> thats what the train thing says

  <AlanBell> train to waterloo, tube to kings cross

  <popey> and engineering work on underground

  <popey> this weekend

  <AlanBell> crap

  <czajkowski> aye sunday trains are also a lot slower

  <czajkowski> they go the longer route from waterloo to farnham

  <popey> No trains will run. Because of this engineering work there will be no interchange with the London Underground at:

  <popey> London Kings Cross

  <popey> (amongst many other stations)

• <popey> http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/end16af6c54f4ac388a6e578971b3e70/details.html

  <AlanBell> I was thinking of driving quite a long way in anyway

  <popey> dunno if that link works

  <suprengr> sympathies - but you're at least able to get there

• suprengr refers all to mail sent to list & earlier post here... & re-apologises for absence tomorrow

  <AlanBell> bother

  <AlanBell> well that is a bit of a pain

  <AlanBell> ok, so I will send a mail to the list suggesting people check their transport arrangements

  <brobostigon> best plan. yes, incase people dont know.

  <AlanBell> anyhow, lunch at Argyle Square

  <AlanBell> then over to the British Library for the Science Fiction thing

  <czajkowski> AlanBell: is the square far from the park

• <AlanBell> http://www.londontown.com/LondonStreets/argyle_square_215.html

  <AlanBell> it is just over the road from the station really

  <AlanBell> I might drive all the way in, want a lift popey?

  <popey> thats very kind of you

• popey looks at maps

  <brobostigon> latitude

  <AlanBell> yay, I have a navigator

  <popey> Sam is good with a map, but maybe not that good.

  <czajkowski> cool 14 mins on tube

  <czajkowski> or 25 on zee bus

  <popey> czajkowski: did you miss where I mentioned tubes being closed?

  <czajkowski> popey: elephant and castle says ok..

• daubers is uber late

  <popey> czajkowski: kings cross is closed

  <czajkowski> bus it is then

  <czajkowski> ty

  <daubers> k/c is closed?

  <AlanBell> no, it isn't

  <AlanBell> just from circle line

  <AlanBell> northen line from waterloo takes you to euston, which is close to kings cross

• brobostigon is reminded he needs to look for oggcamp arrangements.

  <popey> oh, sorry, just circle line

  <popey> & H&C

  <daubers> Hmmmm.. have to play tube bingo tomorrow to get there from paddington by the look of it

  <AlanBell> northern from elephant and castle goes all the way there

  <AlanBell> and victoria line should be working

  <AlanBell> ok, I will mail the list and update various places with transport info

  <czajkowski> although the norther line is seemingly working fine tomorrow

  <czajkowski> damn lag

  <AlanBell> any other questions about tomorrow?

  <andres_kain> food? or did I miss that?

• daubers made muffins \o/

  <AlanBell> bring some stuff

  <andres_kain> OK, already had some spanish omelets. no drinks though, ..

  <czajkowski> daubers: whoooo

  <czajkowski> :d

  <AlanBell> bring some food, some drink, some stuff to share

  <AlanBell> something to sit on

  <daubers> We still meeting at platform 9 and doo dah?

  <AlanBell> the exhibition and library are free

  <AlanBell> yes, still meeting at platform 9 3/4

• brobostigon wonder if the oggcamp camp site has facilities. ie, showers etc?

  <brobostigon> 8 mile away. hmm.

  <AlanBell> ok, lets move on from the geeknic stuff

  <brobostigon> sorry. my mind is wandering.

  <AlanBell> [TOPIC] AlanBell - LoCo reapproval, are we ready?

AlanBell - LoCo reapproval, are we ready?

• <AlanBell> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ReApprovalApplication2011

  <AlanBell> probably not

  <AlanBell> we need to put dates against all the events and arrange them into some kind of logical order

  <AlanBell> we need to cover two years, not sure if we have or some goes back further

  <AlanBell> and we need to put more photos in

  <brobostigon> i agree. i think we got most of it organised a afew weeks ago.

  <AlanBell> Generally we need to be better at writing up events after they happen, we have stuff saying "we are going to do $awesome event" but not much about how awesome it was

  <brobostigon> my achievement was an unsuccessful release party, and i am not going to put that in there, a release party of four people.

  <AlanBell> three better than it could have been

  <brobostigon> agreed.

  <AlanBell> however anything can go in the form really

• <AlanBell> http://www.lczajkowski.com/2011/07/22/preparing-for-approval-and-re-approval-dos-and-donts/

  <AlanBell> wonderful blog post I saw the other day

  <AlanBell> </creep>

  <daubers> So we need photo and video from tomorrow

  <AlanBell> we do indeed

  <daubers> \o/

• daubers checks the camera battery

  <brobostigon> consisting of me, directhex, and then partners, friends.

  <AlanBell> The LoCo Council meets on the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 21:00 UTC

  <AlanBell> I make that 16th August for the next meeting

  <brobostigon> i dont think there is much more i can add, other than about my release party.

  <AlanBell> if you can work out some dates of things that would be great

  <AlanBell> so should we go for 16th August?

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: thaat isnt going to be easy, i am awful and remembering dates.

  <AlanBell> look them up on the mailing list

  <brobostigon> good thinking.

  <czajkowski> or you know, your team reports

  <brobostigon>

  <czajkowski> will be easier now as well to look at past events on the LD if you've created them there

  <AlanBell> yes, them too

  <daubers> AlanBell: I would go for it, so there is a deadline at least

  <daubers> Otherwise we'll just keep dithering until the last minute

  <popey> +1

  <AlanBell> team reports don't go back two years though I think

• <czajkowski> http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-uk/events/history

  <AlanBell> however, lets go for August 16th and get it done by then, I think we have enough down already that it is a realistic deadline

  <brobostigon> ok.

  <AlanBell> [agreed] put the team down for reapproval at the August 16th LoCo Council meeting

• <AlanBell> ok, any other business?

  <czajkowski> don't forget to come to the meeting

  <AlanBell> oggcamp stuff?

  <brobostigon> do we have an ubuntu-uk diary to put it into linked tio google calnadar?

  <czajkowski> and update the bug

  <czajkowski>

  <AlanBell> bug, yes

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: the stuff i mumbled about ealier.

  <daubers> AlanBell: We good on video cameras now?

  <AlanBell> brobostigon: right, I was in the maltings earlier, could have checked

  <AlanBell> don't think they have showers, but it is a big rambling place, they might somewhere

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: my concern is, i dont mind camping, however transport back and forth, and the facilities there.

  <popey> AlanBell: he was talking about campsite, not maltings

  <popey> AIUI

  <AlanBell> ah

  <daubers> brobostigon: http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/pocket-shower/index.html

  <AlanBell> some people are camping in my back garden

  <brobostigon> AlanBell: my main concern in my eczema, and loking after it properly, more than anything.

• daubers is intending to commute, have offered the Reading Hackspace guys lifts

  <AlanBell> is there a campsite others are using?

• <daubers> http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=4113 <- is the campsite on the website. Says it has showers

  <daubers> as does http://www.campingandcampsites.co.uk/campsites/Basingstoke+Canal+Centre/205/

  <brobostigon> ok,

  <brobostigon> howabout travekl back and forth from there to the nevue?

  <brobostigon> venue*

  <brobostigon> hazrpg is giving me a lift down there.

  <popey> I would recommend anyone thinking of camping should contact oggcamping@gmail.com

  <AlanBell> that is a bit of a trek

  <popey> they are co-ordinating the camping

  <brobostigon> no chance, with osteoporosis.

  <brobostigon> popey: i only recently considered camping, when i saw hotel prices.

• AlanBell emailed oggcamping and had no reply

  <brobostigon> eeeek

  <daubers> brobostigon: I suspect you might be able to bag a lift from someone

  <brobostigon> daubers: yes, however, i cant work as random as that, i need a layed plan.

  <daubers> brobostigon: Email the camping peeps

  <AlanBell> ok, well this is something to work on I think

  <brobostigon> daubers: i am just formulating something.

  <AlanBell> the other point was videos

  <AlanBell> we can discuss that a bit more tomorrow I think

  <daubers> Okies

  <AlanBell> probably do need more cameras/tripods

• brobostigon is getting a worries feeling about uncertainty again.

  <AlanBell> any more other business before we wrap up the minutes?

  <brobostigon> no.

• brobostigon lies, but keeps quite, to to silly questions.

  <brobostigon> quiet*

  <AlanBell> next meeting then

  <AlanBell> maybe August 9th? a week before the reapproval meeting?

  <brobostigon> saturday also?

  <AlanBell> a tuesday

  <daubers> 2 weeks tuesday

  <daubers> Sounds good to me

  <brobostigon> nope. play chess tuesday night.

  <AlanBell> want to get the people who are available on a tuesday there

  <brobostigon> i am of limited use anyways.

  <AlanBell> aww

  <AlanBell> you are fine

  <brobostigon> thank you AlanBell

  <AlanBell> however if you are not available on tuesdays preparing for the reapproval meeting on the following tuesday will be of limited use

  <brobostigon> tuesday however ownt work for me, i can catch up though.

  <brobostigon> quite.

  <AlanBell> [agreed] meeting Tuesday 9th August 9PM

• <AlanBell> #endmeeting

Meeting closed at 21:01

People Present

• AlanBell

• brobostigon
• suprengr
• popey
• czajkowski
• daubers
• andres_kain

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