tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71204730743210240122024-03-13T11:44:31.359+00:00Ubuntu TrapBrian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-58633418805428372522010-11-05T14:36:00.000+00:002010-11-05T14:36:40.867+00:00Don't worry about them, worry about yourself.This is a response to <a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/11/05/making-our-world-more-respectful/">Jono's Blog</a> about "Making our world more respectful".<br />
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There's always going to be debates in life, whether it be your job, your hobby, your mother, your spouse etc.. there's no avoiding it wherever you go. The debates that Jono mentions are those between different FOSS communities, we're all in it for the same goal, but we all want to go in different directions. Depending on the individual and how strongly they believe in their side will determine how your interactions with them will be.<br />
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In my opinion, I see the following four groups individuals can be put in for debates:<br />
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<b><u>Unknowledged</u></b><br />
These type of people are the newbies to the topic. They typically start by picking a side and getting a feel to start with. The ability to change these peoples minds are fairly easy, and they are a common target for the spirited individuals which I will mention later. The most common mistake of the unknowledged is jumping straight into unchangeable without getting any feel for both sides.<br />
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Good Grasp</u><br />
These type of individuals are those who have hung out as the unknowledged for long enough that they have enough information to reasonably pick a side, and really have a good grasp on the topic. They can now expand their knowledge by talking to the spirited individuals on their side. The ability to change their minds will take a fair amount of discussion, but is definitely in the realm of possibilities.<br />
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These individuals have spent a good amount of time talking to others about their topic that they start to really believe in their side. These individuals are still open to viewpoints on the other side, and will give a great analysis about their side, and make for a very intriguing discussion. It would take a great realization for these individuals to change sides, but these individuals tend to agree to disagree and move on.<br />
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These individuals have gone overboard. They have taken their side as the only way to go. To these individuals there are no alternative options but their own. Getting into debates with these individuals is futile. They will continuously harass you, with the sole intention of forcing you to see their side only and berate you until you do. There is no agreeing to disagree. You've already told them you don't agree with their viewpoint and therefore you are deemed an enemy for life.<br />
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The place where I hope to see everyone in every community is in the spirited department. I love having discussions with those who believe strongly in an opposing viewpoint that will give me a very intriguing and philosophical discussion. If it comes to agreeing to disagree, then so be it. It's funny, but it's those that I agree to disagree with that I become good friends with. I believe this to be the case for a lot of others out there.<br />
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The effect of the unchangeables is that they are the most visible in the communities. They strive to make a scene, spread their viewpoint, won't take no for an answer. From the outside, it can commonly appear scary to those who are in the unknowleged category, and are yet to really take a side. They see the hostility, and they just walk the other way.<br />
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For those who are reading this, I don't want you to worry about the unchangeables. It's pointless. You should worry about yourself, and make your way to the good grasp and spirited categories. Ignore the commotion, and make those in the spirited community more visible by being a part of their group. It's not up to others to form your opinion about the FOSS community, it's solely up to your ability to look past the unchangeable and communicate with those who are truly open to discussion without hostility and make your own opinion. The more we can learn to communicate with each other in a non hostile way, the better everyone and everything turns out in the end.Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-17593093101390744782010-09-15T14:30:00.001+01:002010-09-15T15:09:16.093+01:00Response to Mark Shuttleworth<a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/517">http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/517</a><br />
"Reflections on Ubuntu, Canonical and the march to free software adoption"<br />
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Since the comment feature was broken on marks blog, I figured it was enough of a response that a blog entry would be worth it.<br />
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I have long been toted by friends that I can have an inspirational tone to my words at times when my friends need it most. For sure Mark has trumped me in the inspiration department, and I can't say this is the first time either.<br />
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I have had the privilege of "growing up" with a lot of the people Mark mentioned in the article. Although I've never met 99% of the people I interact with on a consistent basis in person, I have a strange connection with them all and I consider most of them friends. The bond of people working towards a similar goal has allowed this to happen, and I think thats among the things that Ubuntu offers as well that can easily get overlooked.<br />
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My LoCo (District of Columbia/ Washington DC) spent this past weekend sitting at a booth at a local folk festival promoting Ubuntu. What I was expecting to hear most of the day was that people haven't heard of Ubuntu or Linux, and that I at least would get some great practice in saying the same thing over and over again. In fact it was quite the opposite. There were a lot of people that have heard of Ubuntu, most hadn't used it, but some had. We "gave up" our own laptops that day so we'd have something to demonstrate to the festival participants, and to those people that hadn't used it before but heard of it were quite interested in trying it out after seeing it in action. The coolest part of the entire day was every time that I handed a free Ubuntu CD to those interested and mentioned that they could try the OS out without any risk of damaging their current OS, they all had this shocked and surprised look on their face with how easy it really was to try Ubuntu out. I have worked at booths before and never have I had so much fun. Talking about Ubuntu made the day go by way too fast, I wanted to be there for longer.<br />
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I'll continue doing what I have been doing for a good while now. Making a difference with every opportunity I get. Ubuntu is one of many, but it definitely makes it easier when everyone I interact with in the Ubuntu community has the same goals that I do. Although the outside sees contributions in code, those of us on the inside know that what we really do is far greater than bits and bytes will ever be.Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-34007200537695143602010-08-06T01:12:00.001+01:002010-08-06T01:17:51.210+01:00Introducing new Ubuntista (and Ubuntu Trap author) Philip KneitingerHey Ubuntistas,<br />
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I'm extremely pleased to announce a new author for the Ubuntu Trap. I decided to ask him a few introductory questions to help you get an idea of how epically awesome Phil is.<br />
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<b>Who is Phil K?</b><br />
I'm a native son and ardent supporter of Buffalo, NY, and also the author and editor of <a href="http://blackbluegold.wordpress.com/">Black & Blue & Gold</a>. I'm a single dad with a kick-*ss son and I'm into heavy metal, being an amateur foodie, collecting hockey jerseys and vinyl records, and watching freaky foreign flicks. <br />
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<b>Everyone has their story about getting into Ubuntu, what's yours?</b><br />
My brother is a huge evangelist for open source. He heard me yelling at my laptop in frustration one day, and suggested Ubuntu. Then he suggested it again, and again, and again, and <b>again</b>. Finally I relented and haven't looked back since.<br />
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<b>People are always weary about switching to Ubuntu from another OS. From your experience how would you go about enticing them to join the Ubuntu community?</b><br />
There are two ways to go about this: push inclusion on big box desktops and push the improved casual user experience. Dell already includes the OS, but doesn't do a very good job marketing it. If my own experience with Ubuntu is the norm, then it's a far superior casual user experience over Windows and ought to be presented as such. Sure, it takes getting used to the new application installation process (.deb instead of .exe), but it's WELL worth it.<br />
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<b>What do you most look forward to in Ubuntu MM?</b><br />
I'm most excited for the streamlined and upgraded graphical presentation and application integration of the desktop/laptop version of Meerkat, but the Unity interface for netbooks has me giddy. I'm most likely getting a netbook as my next computer, so I'll be keeping a close eye on its development.<br />
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I can't wait for the day that Canonical announces the beginning of the Ubuntu tablet project so I can get something kickass like an Archos 9 or the like and be able to load up a fully touch-functional build of Ubuntu.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>So Phil has an awesome background to be an author here on the Ubuntu Trap. He's a good bud of mine, and I fully expect his enthusiasm about Ubuntu to spread throughout the etherwebs. Please give him a warm welcome in the comments section!<br />
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Until next time...Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-28740737182758691192010-08-03T13:00:00.000+01:002010-08-03T13:00:14.280+01:00Empathy, you redesign the contact entry!Hi Ubuntistas,<br />
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There is discussion going on in GNOME for Empathy on where a great place to put the protocol icons would be. With some new enhancements that are on their way into Empathy, there will also be a cell phone icon signifying those contacts that are mobile.<br />
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Currently the contact entries look like this: <br />
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Notice that the protocol icons are in the status icon.<br />
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Now since there is the soon-to-be addition to Empathy for mobile statuses, there is going to be a cell phone icon to notify you of this case. The issue that is going on in Empathy is one about where this cell phone is to be placed in the contact entry. Look at the following empathy-dev mockup:<br />
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Without having to read through the bug, the gist of the issue is that the icons on the right are really for user interaction (i.e. the camera can be clicked on to start a voice chat with someone), and the phone should go somewhere else.<br />
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I have since then submitted a mockup of my idea for a placement of the protocol and phone icons as follows:<br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c1Jcy85ggb8/TFgBGyefxeI/AAAAAAAAFkU/B4bT3w8-o5g/s1600/phoneicon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c1Jcy85ggb8/TFgBGyefxeI/AAAAAAAAFkU/B4bT3w8-o5g/s320/phoneicon.png" /></a><br />
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Now, where do you come into this picture? I would like to get users submissions as to new mockups for contact list entries. I'm not just talking about the protocol and phone icon placement, I'm talking about a complete redesign of the contact entry.<br />
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There has to be the following items in the contact entry:<br />
a)contact name<br />
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e)phone icon<br />
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Please submit them to me in an e-mail to bcurtiswx@ubuntu.com, but don't attach any mockups you make, please upload them to an online source and send the link in the e-mail. You can also post your mockup links in the comments section of this blog for others to look at.<br />
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Happy Ubuntuing!Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-13757048889827912912010-07-21T19:03:00.001+01:002010-07-21T19:06:36.735+01:00Website Help RequestHey all out there in Ubuntu land.<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c1Jcy85ggb8/TEc2IB5ZeaI/AAAAAAAAFOY/j8DFcGp6Pbw/s1600/swfc.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c1Jcy85ggb8/TEc2IB5ZeaI/AAAAAAAAFOY/j8DFcGp6Pbw/s320/swfc.png" /></a>I host a space weather forecasting contest on my Ubuntu machine at work. (Yes, I was brilliant enough to convince my employer to use Ubuntu). I am looking for some help making the site design much more up to todays standards, I am not a design expert hence why you'll laugh at seeing my site.<br />
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If you are interesting in making the site look better than what you see in the picture, you can read more about it at my other blog <a href="http://alifeofweatherornot.blogspot.com/">http://alifeofweatherornot.blogspot.com</a><br />
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Thanks!Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-59628207965772163502010-06-10T20:15:00.000+01:002010-06-10T20:15:14.703+01:00Adium Theme Ubuntu ChangesThere has been a small change to the adium-theme-ubuntu made for maverick (a patch by om26er on freenode irc) that everyone can now check out on Lucid through my PPA.<br />
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What you should notice (and only notice) is that there was a change in the font. If you didn't know already, Gwibber and Empathy both use the same theme, but Empathy's font was noticeably smaller. This change probably won't make it into Lucid based on talks I've had with the maintainers, but if there is enough interest in this change based on the comments in this post, I will talk to a few of the maintainers and see what I can do.<br />
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To the left is the maverick adium-theme-ubuntu and to the right is the lucid one<br />
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Happy Ubuntu-ing<br />
~Brian C.Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-50872308114110377662010-03-12T16:17:00.000+00:002010-03-12T16:17:11.556+00:002 reasons not to use when claiming Lucid changes are badThis blog is in response to http://humphreybc.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/its-the-little-things-that-count/<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1: Ubuntu users aren't used to the change</span><br />
I'm getting pretty sick and tired of the Ubuntu users out there that revert to saying that all changes that canonical has made to Ubuntu for 10.04 are bad "<b>because Ubuntu users aren't used to them</b>". I don't really see how you can consider anything change unless something has ... well ... changed. Yes, these same people that are making those claims are the same people that are out there complaining about there being no changes.<br />
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What's wrong with there being change for the sake of change? I learned Ubuntu not by someone telling where every little button is, but by playing around with the UI and seeing where everything is for myself. Even the typical egghead when it comes to computers knows that there will be a close/maximimize/minimize button somewhere in the top of a window. Just because it's magically been moved to the other side doesn't mean Ubuntu's gone to the crapper.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2: Windows users will get confused if they want to switch</span><br />
I'm kind of expanding on my last statement here, but it's not exactly rocket science here trying to find out where things are on the Desktop GUI. I would imagine that most people that want to make the switch to Ubuntu aren't going to go crazy and get depressed because things "aren't where they should be".<br />
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I don't see the macintosh users out there going "hmm, I'm not sure if the windows users who switch over to macintosh are going to like that the title bar menu options are now right next to the window title" or "oh gosh, windows users are going to spontaneously combust when they see the close/maximize/minimize buttons on the left hand side".<br />
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The ability for the new Ubuntu user to use their common sense is something that too many people are ignorant of. There is no reason that a single change made so far by the team at Canonical should be seen as something any new Ubuntu user can't get a grasp of with the use of a little common sense.<br />
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I for one am happy that Canonical has finally decided to make some decent UI changes to Ubuntu, because thats something that I get to look forward to on a constant basis as I test of the newest versions of Ubuntu. There are too many lazy users out there that just aren't willing to accept the changes because IMO they have gotten into such a routine with their daily computer lifestyles that any and all changes are the straw that broke the camels back.Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-58137291459113524142010-03-06T23:53:00.004+00:002010-03-06T23:54:29.004+00:00District Of Columbia LoCo Team Meeting Minutes 3-06-2010The meeting minutes are as follows. Thanks to crimsun for chairing this meeting!<br />
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<div class="line874">Attendees: Magilum, bcurtiswx, lfaraone, kjcole, crimsun, throughnothing</div><div class="line862">[DONE] Magilum to discuss <a class="nonexistent" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistrictOfColumbia">DistrictOfColumbia</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCo">LoCo</a> intent pending imminent Ubuntu SSO policy (02/27) <span class="anchor" id="line-17"></span></div><ul><li>No real contention based on non-regression (non-Free nature) of SSO/OpenID implementations <span class="anchor" id="line-18"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-19"></span></li>
</ul><div class="line874">Local Community Activity Discussion <span class="anchor" id="line-20"></span></div><ul><li>Waiting to see what comes of OCTO's first DC Community Broadband Summit and Ward 1's request for computers <span class="anchor" id="line-21"></span></li>
<li>kjcole handed out quite a few CD's at the Broadband Summit <span class="anchor" id="line-22"></span></li>
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<div class="line891"><a class="https" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-dc/2010-March/000995.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-dc/2010-March/000995.html</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-23"></span></div><ul><li>[DONE] kjcole replied to Sanjay <span class="anchor" id="line-24"></span></li>
<li>[ACTION] kjcole will try to connect with Sanjay to hand off some CD's -- or maybe even make it to the lunch. <span class="anchor" id="line-25"></span></li>
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<div class="line862">[ACTION] Phil Shapiro and kjcole to meet with Lawrence Guyot on 03/07, owner of <a class="http" href="http://ette.biz/">http://ette.biz/</a> (Empowerment through Technology & Education). <span class="anchor" id="line-26"></span></div><ul><li>Lawrence has space that he may be willing to make available for free, for "good causes" like Ubuntu events. (Space is the Woodner Ballroom. 3636 16th Street NW, Ballroom, Washington, DC.) <span class="anchor" id="line-27"></span></li>
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<li>[DONE] bcurtiswx updated wiki for March meeting notes and readied for monthly Team Reports <span class="anchor" id="line-28"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-29"></span></li>
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</ul><div class="line874">[ACTION] lfaraone to follow up with meetbot owners (02/27) <span class="anchor" id="line-33"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-34"></span></div>[ACTION] Magilum to chair 03/13 meeting (03/06)Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-68866705580544017332010-02-27T23:49:00.001+00:002010-02-27T23:49:29.364+00:00Ubuntu District Of Columbia LoCo Team Meeting Minutes 2-27-2010<div class="line874">Our minutes are as follows. </div><div class="line874"><br />
</div><div class="line874">Attendees: Magilum, bcurtiswx_, lfaraone, crimsun <span class="anchor" id="line-19"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-20"></span></div><div class="line874">Apologies: kjcole <span class="anchor" id="line-21"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-22"></span></div><div class="line862">[ACTION] Magilum to discuss <a class="nonexistent" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistrictOfColumbia">DistrictOfColumbia</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCo">LoCo</a> intent pending imminent Ubuntu SSO policy (02/27) <span class="anchor" id="line-23"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-24"></span></div><div class="line874">[DONE] crimsun to install GC and begin workflow construction (02/06) <span class="anchor" id="line-25"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-26"></span></div><div class="line862">[DONE] Magilum to look into officially adopting GIMP for the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCo">LoCo</a> (02/20) <span class="anchor" id="line-27"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-28"></span></div><div class="line862">[DONE] bcurtiswx to create Wiki page for <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCo">LoCo</a> structure (02/20) <span class="anchor" id="line-29"></span></div><ul><li>Consensus reached on members carrying forth with ad hoc roles; no need to formalize with additional bureaucracy <span class="anchor" id="line-30"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-31"></span></li>
</ul><div class="line874">[ACTION] crimsun to blog about GC uses (02/27) <span class="anchor" id="line-32"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-33"></span></div><div class="line874">[ACTION] lfaraone to follow up with meetbot owners (02/27) <span class="anchor" id="line-34"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-35"></span></div>[ACTION] crimsun to chair 03/06 meeting (02/27)Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-23731604015892441452010-02-21T00:23:00.001+00:002010-02-21T00:28:27.775+00:00Ubuntu District Of Columbia LoCo Meeting Minutes Feb 20th 2010<h2 id="Agendum">Agendum</h2><span class="anchor" id="line-4"></span><br />
<ul><li>4:00-6:00 Ubuntu Hours Bug Jam in #ubuntu-us-dc on freenode <span class="anchor" id="line-5"></span></li>
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<li>6:05-6:20 Ground control discussions <span class="anchor" id="line-7"></span><br />
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<li>[ACTION] Magilum to nominate packages for loco adoption <span class="anchor" id="line-13"></span></li>
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<div class="line874">Roll call: bcurtiswx, Magilum, crimsun, kjcole, lfaraone (late) <span class="anchor" id="line-16"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-17"></span></div><div class="line862">[ACTION] crimsun to install GC and begin testing merging & bug workflow for Global Jam <span class="anchor" id="line-18"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-19"></span></div><div class="line874">[ACTION] Discuss Mar 20th more about Ground Control <span class="anchor" id="line-20"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-21"></span></div><div class="line874">[VOTE] dismiss Iphone app discussion <span class="anchor" id="line-22"></span></div><ul><li>Vote passes 3-0-1 <span class="anchor" id="line-23"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-24"></span></li>
</ul><div class="line862">[DONE] crimsun to follow up with fridge admins regarding <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCo">LoCo</a> activities on Ubuntu fridge Google calendar <span class="anchor" id="line-25"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-26"></span></div><div class="line862">[VOTE] DC <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCo">LoCo</a> to adopt GNU Image Manipulation Program <span class="anchor" id="line-27"></span></div><ul><li>Vote passes: 2-0-2 <span class="anchor" id="line-28"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-29"></span></li>
</ul><div class="line862">[ACTION] Magilum to look into officially adopting GIMP for the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCo">LoCo</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-30"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-31"></span></div><div class="line862">[ACTION] bcurtiswx to create Wiki page for <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCo">LoCo</a> structure <span class="anchor" id="line-32"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-33"></span></div><div class="line874">[ACTION] lfaraone to get meetbot in here <span class="anchor" id="line-34"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-35"></span></div><div class="line874">[ACTION] Magilum to chair next meeting <span class="anchor" id="line-36"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-37"></span></div>[ACTION] Magilum to discuss Ubuntu SSOBrian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-14592579808651319592010-02-06T23:55:00.001+00:002010-02-06T23:55:13.115+00:00Ubuntu District of Columbia LoCo Meeting Minutes 02-06-10Weekly Ubuntu District of Columbia Meeting Minutes<br />
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In attendance:<br />
crimsun<br />
kjcole<br />
Magilum<br />
bcurtiswx<br />
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[START] crimsun opens meeting at 18:00 sharp<br />
[DONE] kjcole finished redirect of DCTeam to DistrictOfColumbiaTeam wiki page<br />
[DONE] crimsun posted last week's bugjam/LoCo team photos to http://www.flickr.com/photos/crimsun/sets/72157623317037372/<br />
[ACTION] crimsun to follow up with fridge admins regarding LoCo activities on Ubuntu fridge Google calendar]<br />
[ACTION] crimsun to investigate merging Lucid source packages using Ground Control<br />
[ACTION] bcurtiswx to follow up about using GC to fix bugs<br />
[ACTION] bcurtiswx to chair next meeting<br />
[ACTION] Magilum to nominate packages for loco adoption<br />
[END] crimsun closes meeting at 18:48<br />
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Thanks to all who attendedBrian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-70652271544111463072010-01-31T00:41:00.000+00:002010-01-31T00:41:54.461+00:00Ubuntu DC LoCo Meeting Minutes 01-30-2010<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Ubuntu DC LoCo Community Meeting</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Freenode IRC #ubuntu-us-dc</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Saturday, Jan 30 2010 06:00ET</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div>[START 18:00ET] KJCole brings meeting to order.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Crimsun: [ACTION] crimsun to clean up current DCTeam wiki page</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Crimsun: [ACTION] crimsun to post existing Loco-related pictures to Flickr</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Crimsun: [DONE] crimsun added bugjam and dc locoteam weekly events to Fridge calendar (awaiting approval)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Crimsun: [ACTION] Magilum to manage importing identi.ca streams to the dc locoteam wiki page</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">BCurtisWX: [ACTION] bcurtiswx will blog about this meeting (to go on planet.ubuntu)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Maco: [ACTION] interested members should sign up on spreadubuntu</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">[END 19:31ET]</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Lots of other suggestions were made, and it was a very great meeting with all of the great discussions that went on. It's good to see how involved we all still want to be :D.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We are going to be holding regular jams from 4-6 before our weekly IRC meetings. Feel free to join us in #ubuntu-us-dc on FreeNode and participate</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">On that note as well, our meetings are every Saturday at 18:00ET.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Some bug-jamming fun from 16:00-18:00ET right before the weekly meeting.</span></span></div></div>Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-12347818694776516622009-10-27T12:27:00.003+00:002009-10-27T12:31:46.988+00:00Ubuntu on BBChttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8326264.stm<br /><br />Ubuntu on the BBC! Here is a short snippet from the article. There's a video in the link too!<br /><br /><blockquote><p>Canonical is also making it easier to road test Ubuntu with a "live mode" that lets potential users run it off a USB drive to check its compatibility with the hardware on their desktop or laptop. </p><p>Evidence that it is being taken seriously can be found, he said, in the annual "10-K form" that Microsoft files with the SEC. Every public firm must file one of these to outline the market conditions and competitors it believes pose the greatest threat to its business. </p><p>In 2009, for the first time, Canonical got a mention. </p><p>Given that Microsoft recognises its success, Mr Kenyon is convinced that it's only a matter of time before Ubuntu's 12 million strong pool of users is joined by many more. </p><p>"We're nearing a tipping point," said Mr Kenyon.</p></blockquote>WTG Ubuntu!Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-75443682107254772572009-09-29T02:08:00.008+01:002009-10-01T19:27:36.192+01:00My Ubuntu Vision: 10.04Lucid Lynx: Codename for Ubuntu 10.04<br />Lucid (Adjective): Easily understandable, clearly perceived.<br /><br />It's time to close your eyes, and take a trip into the future. When? How about April, 2010. Where? How about right where you are now. No this isn't a "where do you see yourself in a year" blog entry. It's a journey through about 30 minutes of my life.<br /><br />Ok, right, so the interest level at this point is probably sinking lower than the titanic did. This journey you are about to partake in is my vision of where I hope to see Ubuntu for it's next release.<br /><br />Imagine getting home from work around 6:50PM, you are tired, worn out, and the next thing you are itching to do is relax because your boss kept you late. Take a venture to your comfy desk chair, turn on the monitor, or flip up your laptop lip, and boot into your newly installed/upgraded Ubuntu 10.04 installation. <br />Quick and snappy like water flowing down a river, the system boots up, and within 10 seconds you are ready to log in. While it's waiting for your user input it loads the necessary drivers and default settings, so as soon as you hit the enter key from typing in your password your desktop appears like it came out of thin air.<br />Don't look now but that blinking light you're used to waiting to stop blinking before you can use your computer, has already stopped.<br /><br />While you were sitting there admiring the serenity of no blinking light you received 5 new instant messages, you notice the blinking orange dot on the indicator applet icon and click it to find out whats up. Hey, you got 3 new e-mails in GMail and your boss sent you an e-mail on your work account. Works most important, but you don't want to forget about the people in GMail. Well don't worry about that, the indicator applet light has stopped blinking but stayed orange to let you know there are items that still need your attention but you've already noticed them.<br />You click on the entry in your indicator applet for your work e-mail and Evolution is already loaded with the list of new e-mails. You finish replying when the notification applet notifies you of a video chat you promised your father today for his birthday at 7:00PM. Thankfully you had your google calendar linked in evolution so it knew to notify you.<br />OH NO! You realize it's 6:59 PM, and your father only has AIM video chat! Well don't worry about the hastle of switching over to windows, empathy's video and voice interface has been the primary focus of this release and to your surprise the notification applet is notifying you of your fathers request to webcam and upon clicking the notification you can start your video birthday wishes.<br /><br />Finally, the video chat is over, and you start chatting with your best friend. They are anxious to share a few new songs with you while you work on your project together. Your friend offers to share their desktop with you so you can work together, theres no need to transfer files, you can listen to their music right from their desktop, as well as edit the file from there as well. You load banshee and your friends library appears for you to listen to. You load nautilus so you can access your project files on their computer.<br /><br />There were quick edits to make, and you've decided you want to have a copy of it for yourself, well just by drag and drop through nautilus you can copy the folder contents to your computer.<br /><br />7:15 comes along and you and your friend are getting bored so you decide to play a game together. You both vote on checkers. As your friend invites you to join their loaded game, the notification applet lets you know they've invited you and you click the notification, checkers loads with your friends first move already made... sneaky friend!<br /><br />Sneaky wasn't good enough, and you beat them with ease. As you close out the game you notice the red blinking light in the indicator applet, Ubuntu has security updates available. You decide to do them later, so upon clicking out of the indicator applet the light stops blinking and goes back to orange signifying you have things that require your attention later.<br /><br />Ok, time to come back to today. Yes these things seem like a stretch from reality, but the steps are in place for these things to become reality quicker than you imagine. The telepathy framework, empathy desktop sharing, evolutions linked calendars, notification applets, indicator applets, will all help allow us to eventually do all of the things mentioned above. If that was only 30 minutes of fun, imagine how much fun you can have in an hour, a day, even a week using Ubuntu 10.04.<br /><br />By the time 10.04 comes around, it will be easy to see how lucid the lynx has become in such a short time.<br /><em></em>Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-9057059646235537162009-08-02T05:51:00.003+01:002009-08-02T06:10:45.870+01:00DC LoCo Bug Jam: August 22nd, 2009 3-9PMHi all,<br /><br />It's official! On Saturday August 22nd, 2009 starting at 3PM and going no later than 9PM I will attempt to do my best at hosting a Bug Jam.<br /><br />I have scheduled a room at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Anyone interested in going to the event please send me an e-mail at briancurtis.wx AT gmail DOT com and I can give you the details.<br /><br />If you take the METRO in I would recommend taking the CUE bus to GMU from the Vienna/GMU stop and walking through campus to get to the research building. If you drive in, there is parking in the parking garage across from the research building. Unfortunately its not free, but I don't imagine its very expensive.<br /><br />There will be wireless internet available in the room, and you will be required to bring your own laptop. The room does not have any computers in it.<br /><br />Since I am not made of money, I would appreciate people to RSVP by August 15th so I can get an idea of how much pizza/soda to get and then I can give attendees an idea of how much to donate to the food. If you are vegetarian or vegan etc.. then please let me know so I can<br />try to plan for that as well.<br /><br />Hope to hear back from lots of you!<br /><br />~Brian CurtisBrian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-19398943067411108462009-06-07T23:23:00.000+01:002009-06-07T23:39:26.646+01:00Introducing BCurtisWXHi fellow Ubuntu enthusiasts!<br /><br />My name is <a href="http://launchpad.net/%7Ebcurtiswx">Brian Curtis</a> and I have recently been accepted as an Ubuntu member.<br /><br />I wanted to give everyone a little bio of myself, I hope that lots of you will introduce yourselves to me at some point.<br /><br />I am currently a graduate student at George Mason University. My goals are to achieve a PhD in Computational Sciences and Informatics. My concentration is in Space Science and Astrophysics and I am focusing on Space Weather Prediction. I have kept an interest in prediction from my undergraduate degree which is a B.S. in Meteorology.<br /><br />I have been a part of the Linux community ever since 2004/2005, and a part of the Ubuntu Linux community since 2007. I am known here in the Ubuntu community as a bug triager. I find that when I'm bored after a long day at work I like to triage bugs. I like it so much it's become a hobby of mine, and I have joined the Bug Control team. I have had a ton of help from <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacoMorgan">Mackenzie Morgan</a>, in getting involved and staying involved, and I met her through the <a href="http://dc.ubuntu-us.org">DC Loco</a>, to which I am a member of. I am also planning a Bug Jam for August, and once I get more information from the LoCo members, I will make an official announcement on here.<br /><br />I'm anxious to meet everyone, and I hope that I have enough money so I can join you at the next UDS.<br /><br />Until next time,<br />~Brian CurtisBrian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-34456128125937507472009-06-02T02:08:00.000+01:002009-06-02T16:34:13.970+01:00Banshee to become default media player in Karmic.According to the spec at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-default-media-player-choice it appears as if Ubuntu is trying to use banshee as the default media player for Ubuntu.<br /><br />I like banshee myself and I have replaced rhythmbox with banshee on all of my installs. I don't think this makes my opinions biased in this sense. I love nice GUI's and one of the bigger reasons I chose banshee over rhythmbox is the GUI.<br /><br />Back to the spec. Ubuntu appears to be choosing banshee due to the size it takes up on the CD compared to rythmbox. If I have to put my two cents in here, I would say this is also a plus because rhythmbox support has stopped, and banshee support seems to be great.<br /><br />Until Next TimeBrian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7120473074321024012.post-78011434518028733852009-04-01T03:40:00.000+01:002009-04-01T03:47:58.028+01:00Welcome to the Ubuntu TrapHi all,<br /><br />Welcome to my blog about Ubuntu Linux.<br /><br />I have been involved with Ubuntu Linux ever since the summer of 2007. I have always been interested in the cost free environment that Ubuntu Linux is. I got sick of always having to pay for this and that in Windows that once I found out about Linux, I could not resist.<br /><br />I currently work in bug triage, and am a member of the bug control team in ubuntu. Our main purpose is to triage bugs related to Ubuntu to make sure that they have the right information as they are passed on higher up the chain of events that bugs go through. This is the same that people experience in hospitals as the nurses are there to gather as much information about your problem as possible to make sure that you are headed in the right direction to be assisted the best.<br /><br />This blog will contain information here and there about Ubuntu and maybe a few things here and there about Linux in general. You can bet there will be a lot about my work with bug triage. I hope that my information may help people in the future with their problems, or maybe their transition from another OS to Ubuntu.<br /><br />Happy Reading!Brian C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12420923224859849890noreply@blogger.com0