{{{#!irc * Joe_CoT has changed the topic to: IRC meeting NOW. If you're not here, you get 2 demerits if it werent for the occasional accident i doubt most of us wouldnt be here /anyway/.... sorry okay, so i think this is most of the people that were at the regional meetings. hi hi hello hi * Joe_CoT pokes Grarg ok, things that went on at the meetings: people talked about how annoying Xorg configuration was, we thought a linux LAN party was a good idea, and TCF is April 28th-29th TCF + linux lan = 2 events. we need to think of another good one helpdesk? elaborate... workshop, apple genius bar style we can do a installfest/helpfest, but it needs to be promoted, heavily How about a presentation at a library or elementary school? and we fix people's xp problems? by installing ubuntu there it is heh there we go :) it's not as simple as that, and that's the problem. Feisty will help with that A helpdesk is nice - but people have to have it to get help... if they don't have ubuntu, why would they need help? well thats why its not going to be the first thing to do :) we wouldn't just have a helpdesk. it'd be an installfest. I think having a helpdesk/installfest every month or so would be a really good idea so as a follow up to an installfest? apple is getting a lot of peopel to swich partially becasue they can stop in and get help, one on one and in workshops it woudl be nice to offer than after some other events lets do it yeah! I think once a month is pretty ambitious, especially initially. yeah, quarterly may be good I'd like to get the first 3 done quickly. So we wouldn't have an event before tcf, but we should be planning and getting prepared for ones I wouldn't, I want them to be done well i doubt people would be showing up in droves, so it wouldnt be all that bad to do a few well a couple weeks after the install fest we could workshop, then set up quartlerly after that if we think its good I think we might want to start out with a presentation, before an installfest, to gather support for it install fests might get more people out for the loco team, they generally don't get the average joe out to em qQuig1: I'm talking weeks, not days. in my mind, the order would go: tcf, installfest, lan. tcf and the installfest won't talk a whole lot of planning. the installfest needs promoting, and the lan needs a lot of preparing i dont think it needs to be said but cordinatign any event, particuarly an install fest with LUGs would be a nice bon, so long as its an ubuntu events :) gQuig1: what do you think would get the average Joe out? "What your computer to just work? Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings" Joe: Maybe a 'don't want to spend $400 on vista?' Check this out what if we set up a table in a best buy somewhere and showed off fiesty? they would never allow that i don't think setting up in a store would be good for anything but getting arrested ok lets do it well i'm just talking concept here haha somewhere where people can get face time with it a college campus maybe i work at a lab in drexel, maybe i could set up some of the lab pc's for a night bookstore? campus areas, libraries, coffee joints, merchants association meetings, ... invite people in to see what its about? is there anything that we could do, where it wouldn't be so much people going to it, but people happening upon it? those seem to work the best yeah, just being ther efor drive bys is cool to we could distribute live cds joe: 'happening upon it'? thats why we ste up on campus and libraries and such :) People will come by, probably have a few minutes to spare does a library really get that much foot traffic? (i wouldn't know, i haven't been to one for years except for chlug) yeah definitely the cherry hill llibrary seems to have a good bit during meeting time people could set up a table outside my lab and promote it, and then send them inside to see more we have to catch the groups going out of the computer labs for schedueld events too, you know, for extra boost to timing is key * gQuigs (n=bryan@c-24-0-105-148.hsd1.nj.comcast.net) has joined #ubuntu-us-nj how about an installfest /at/ a college campus? we can promote it with demos in public areas, and then have the installfest later. sounds good only problem is that there's only about a month left of this school year :-/ yeah thats cool youd better hurry then :) drexel is year round ;) * gQuig1 has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) I think that would do better in the fall most places are, but are empty in the summer. get those young, impressionable freshmen yeah but drexel is really year round and not empty yea I know, but half of us aren't there at any given time .... yeah, but drexel's in philadelphia ;) Let's not steal all of the PA team's thunder just yet. haha ok, how many people would be interested/able to be at tcf? ./ * FrostyColdDrink will be in LA i think im good for it you giving a talk / demo there? i have to email the guy. If i haven't done so by the end of this week, come to my house and slap me just do it now i'm at work we'll wait you can't send e-mails? but you can hold an IRC meeting something isn't adding up here i'll email them tonight, ok? ok sure uh huh ok. like i said, only 2 badges, but it looks like that doesn't matter past set up. I need one other badge person who can be there to set up / take down. Doesn't need to be the same person both days I can be there at least one day what's a badge ? "vendor" badge ie you're allowed to be at the table. during the show, doesn't matter, but it probably matters when vendors are setting up i think i would be able to be there one day okay, i stand corrected: http://www.tcf-nj.org/web/Purchase-Advance-Tickets.html it's apparently cheaper to get a vendor badge than to get admission o.O it makes sense which is a bummer, so we'll need to talk about that when people know when they can come ok, so what's the first thing you guys want to do after tcf? installfest so they can participate in the lan party :) yah * gQuig1 (n=bryan@c-24-0-105-148.hsd1.nj.comcast.net) has joined #ubuntu-us-nj haha. they can participate in the lan party either way. linux games are like that hmm but the lan party is a good dry run to get people to want to install :) if we want to do the lan party first, we need to start working on it pronto * gQuigs has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) no install fest first is better :) do we have a specific date for fiesty release yet? "When it's Done" it's supposed to be April 19th. It'll definately be before tcf, so we'll be giving it out then well we'd want to do the fest as soon after fiesty release as possible. right? But I won't be here :) yeah, but we wouldn't want to plan it close enough to the 19th to chance it not being out yet how about cinco de mayo? and there might be issues that need resolving. Edgy broke everyone's wireless cards when it first came out thats roughly 2 weeks If you're gonna do it at a college, may is around finals time that could work, but is a week after tcf. i can do it, i don't know who else would, esp because of finals yeah no one will car the week or two before finals, through the end wussie college students i could do it the 12th. that's right after finals. on the 19th i'll be at pacs so it seems unless we do soemthing before the tcf we aren't going to get the college boon, am i right? yes people will be around after finals, but i know a lot of students take the summers off right, and before tcf we risk Feisty badness. I think the college thing is a good thing to remember for the fall yeah, so noted so tenetive install fest mat 12? so we'd need to think of somewhere else to have it if we wanted it in mid-may, and we'd need to find a way to get the word out i do have a coffee shop I can try and scam :) that's pretty far south though. that's the other problem. people won't come far and wide for an installfest what if we put out a ad saying something to the effect of "you got the slick new computer, but lets put some life back in that old one" jersey sucks. Cali peeps would do it how much do you really want to coordinate state-wide though? I mean, you cant even get north jersey to come out :) i know lots of people with old p3's that they dont know what to do with if you pick central jersey, that w ould be least pain for all, but who would come from the far north? who would come from the south? lol i would farmers dont use computers ;)\ we could carpool, but we aren't going to attract any other people from the south yeah. i think we'd be better picking a region for the install fest and promoting it there yeah, so it may be a good idea to do sattilite events, as much as that sucks ass we could have 2, a couple weeks apart but i'm only hearing 2 ppl for cherry hill talk right now, so i don't know how well that would pan out *from and i have to travel to get up to cherry hill too well your the loco team leader so its on you to work it out :) well thanks ;P I still like the invade a school idea :) gQuig1: me too, but i think it'll probably have to wait til the fall err. . I mean not the college thing, the edubuntu lab at local school thingy its sortof easier than an installfest so burlington is as far north as I'm willign to travel on my own, and it ould have to be a long affair. I think attacking a public library is a good option too lots of different age groups, and a lot of people loitering and people receptive to education, hopefully :) right haha and then we 'demo' to the staff that it works well, i could definitely car pool you guys up, it's definitely easy enough for gQuig, and you're willing to drive to cherry hill as it is. but i don't think a split installfest would be that bad either. We've got some people in the south, and enough people in the north when combined with ruslug for it to work perhaps try and get a promo session with them gQuig1: how'd things go with haddonfield/cherry hill? I gotta jet for now, enjoy yourselves. cya bye later yea... procrastination got me too later haha. it's not so much procrastination as work, school, everything okay, so it mostly looks like it's just gQuig1, FrostyColdDrink, joincamp, and I at this point. anyone else alive still? ping? pong! yeah but we alreadt knew you were there okay. I think that's about it for the "meeting" then. we can keep talking about stuff, but realize there's no one from north jersey on at all. heh. seems like you are just going to have to call some shots, and hope you can bus in eough people to make it work gQuig1: getting back to something you said earlier, i do want this stuff done right, but I'm anxious to get the 3 planned. Getting approved means canonical stops treating us like lepers FrostyColdDrink: yeah, i know. but i did that for the north jersey meeting location, and only 1 person that was outside new brunswick came. i'm here... just eating if living in NJ has tought me anything, its that people who drive in NJ either pass through, or don't go far i think we could get people to go far for the linux lan, but that one's the most important to me as far as planning it very well agreed, but I know ppl that would travel pretty far for LAN party yeah, network capacity is easy, but power reqiirements are tough ruslug guaranteed me a location. they're friends with a gaming league in new brunswick. that's space + power + parking sweet yeah i'm in the lan needs a lot of planning, though. i'm anxious to plan the event that's going to come after tcf, so we can start planning the lan How should I address the Haddonfield guy? I now have a team willing to help your school get a lab set up running edubuntu.... Do I ? well we can note the wiki as we have ideas, yhen sit downto plan, sowe dont forget yeah gQuig1: if they say yes, we'll have people to do it. tell them you can demo Ubuntu to them. I can come with if you want. I've already demoed it :/ what'd they say? oh, ok. do they seem interested? the superintendent loved it thought it was the future the IT Admin likes vista thats good thats not ha the IT Administrator has reviewed openoffice and found compatibility problems.... strange, france didn't of course... ah.. IT Admin /= to IT Adminstrator, 2 people IT Admin = Sysadmin what i'd suggest is telling them we could do it on only a few PCs initially, so they can try it out and see how well it works for them. I think fiesty is worth another demo though besides them, what about schools that don't bleed money? their IT departments might be a bit more willing politics is the problem. youve got to be insidious and gurilla like Cherry hill, but they won't return my emails I'm gonna start writing the email write them and fax them it will get more attention gQuig: we might want to just consider making an appointment with someone high up at west or east to demo phone works a lot better than email. I can put west/east on the list of people i need to call this week that would prolli work much better thanks ok, i'll give them a call tuesday sometime to see if they're interested. I can meet with them as early as friday. when are you around? i start working fulltime monday morning :/ ah, lol co-op? yup where? PJM Interconnection yeah, i'm completely off on fridays, so I'll see what I can arrange with them cool okay, i think i'm gonna get back to work :) I'll post meeting notes raw now, and summarize it later. It'll probably be more productive to move installfest/tcf/lan discussion to the mailing list yeah probably :) yeah i need my beauty sleep make sure you get everyone to briainstorm on teh wiki though :) sorry i havnt had much to contribute i am just a n00b night night night g'nite all i'm going to post a signup list for tcf on the wiki. if you know you can make it, put your name on the list on that day, and then i'll get vendor badges when i have numbers }}}