This is the XXth IRC General meeting of the NewYorkTeam, starting at 6:00 PM EST and finishing at 7:30 EST When adding new agenda items please "sign" them, place @SIG@ (without the escape - marks) after each of your items. If you won't be in attendance, please describe your item and wishes in detail otherwise those items may not be effectively discussed.
Agenda
- Meet Up Reports
- Rochester: First Thursday's at ???. Nov 1st 7pm
- NYC: Gutsy Release Party
- Encouraging more Meet Ups
- Community Advocacy and Support
- Rochester Computer Refurbish with Ubuntu
- Developing more activities to benefit NY
- Encouraging Member Participation
- State Leadership Meeting Nov 11th 2pm Brothers2 Endicot, NY
- Conference 2008
- Agreement on 2008 Officers: President: Ausimage; Vice President: Yharrow; Secretary: Hal14450
- Discuss how to document incident resolution by a "lessons learned" section on the wiki.
- It would include a non-biased statement of the issue, how it was resolved, and an iWitness report or two.
- Pick a name for this which reflects the point that it is not a forum for personal agendas, but rather for team development and education.
- Team Application for official recognition
- Team Resume of contributions to Ubuntu and its community involvement
Attendance
Minutes
IRC Logs
(07:00:19 PM) ausimage: Lets get things going... AGENDA: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewYorkTeam/Meetings/20071030 (07:01:02 PM) ***CArenas2 reading agenda RobNyc RobNyc-work (07:01:46 PM) ausimage: who is listening..... CArenas2, deejoe, dhgwill, DocRohith, Gnu_Joe, hal14450, hydrogen, infinityxi, isacklow_afk, Ju, n8k99, RobNyc, t0mu, trenchant. WeblionX, xjjk, yharrow (07:01:51 PM) ausimage: WOW... (07:01:57 PM) WeblionX: Hi. (07:01:58 PM) trenchant: hi (07:01:59 PM) falken: niihau, trenchant (07:02:04 PM) hydrogen: I'm kind of listening (07:02:09 PM) hal14450: i'm here for a few minutes anyway (07:02:09 PM) hydrogen: don't trust me to pay too much attention though! (07:02:11 PM) CArenas2: present (07:02:14 PM) xjjk: er, I'm here, but not really participating... (07:02:19 PM) DocRohith: I (07:02:22 PM) xjjk: I guess I'm present (07:02:44 PM) trenchant: falken, are you present? (07:02:44 PM) falken: wish i knew, trenchant (07:03:07 PM) yharrow: hey guys (07:03:14 PM) yharrow: yeah imhere (07:03:30 PM) ausimage: OK.. lets like Meetup Reports (07:03:39 PM) ausimage: er look at (07:04:10 PM) ausimage: Rochester Meet on the first thursday of October (07:04:28 PM) ausimage: We had fewer than last time, but had some new faces.... (07:04:33 PM) RobNyc: ausimage, me (07:04:38 PM) ausimage: some not from Monroe County RobNyc RobNyc-work (07:05:13 PM) ausimage: anyone else from the Meetup want to add anything? (07:05:45 PM) ausimage: K... NYC Gutsy Release Party then... (07:05:53 PM) ausimage: anyone here that attended? (07:05:59 PM) CArenas2: yup (07:06:05 PM) ausimage: details? (07:06:22 PM) CArenas2: slow start, max headcount around 8 (07:06:32 PM) CArenas2: good first mtg, i thought (07:06:38 PM) CArenas2: nice to put faces to nicks (07:06:42 PM) yharrow: yep (07:06:43 PM) ausimage: yup (07:07:23 PM) ausimage: K... Encourage more meetups... (07:07:24 PM) CArenas2: left just when yharrow was gonna give out swag (07:07:30 PM) yharrow: aww (07:07:30 PM) ausimage: ahhh (07:07:33 PM) CArenas2: :-) (07:07:33 PM) ausimage: cool (07:07:59 PM) ***ausimage says it is hard to tell when people are finished :S (07:08:12 PM) ***CArenas2 is finished (07:08:17 PM) ausimage: thnx (07:08:23 PM) ausimage: Encourage Meetups (07:08:25 PM) yharrow: n8 got the tshirt and smat i think his name is , got the coffee mug (07:08:41 PM) ausimage: awesome (07:09:09 PM) ausimage: I think meetups are great for our Team... (07:09:21 PM) yharrow: I agree. :) (07:09:23 PM) ausimage: Rochester has its next one on Thusday... (07:09:27 PM) yharrow: nice :D (07:09:32 PM) ausimage: at 7pm at Victor Unos... (07:09:44 PM) CArenas2: any topic/theme, or just open-ended? (07:09:46 PM) yharrow: Matthew planned a meeting for NYC on the day after Halloween (07:09:46 PM) ausimage: we had planned on checking other locations but time got away (07:09:56 PM) yharrow: Think Cofffee again (07:09:59 PM) yharrow: i will get the details (07:10:20 PM) ausimage: Yeah ... Mathew has a meetup group on linux.meetup.com (07:10:49 PM) yharrow: When? (07:10:49 PM) yharrow: Thursday, Nov 1, 2007, 7:00 PM 20071101T230000Z (07:10:49 PM) yharrow: Where? (07:10:49 PM) yharrow: Think Coffee (07:10:49 PM) yharrow: 248 Mercer Street (07:10:49 PM) falken: well, Think Coffee is if you take a subway to the Broadway/Lafayette station then walk to the Angelica Theater take a right, its maybe a block north (07:10:50 PM) yharrow: , NY 10012 (07:10:58 PM) yharrow: wow! (07:11:06 PM) yharrow: smart bot (07:11:08 PM) yharrow: lol (07:11:17 PM) ausimage: We need to be looking for more members to help start meetups in there areas too... (07:11:44 PM) ausimage: Let us know if you are interested... (07:11:51 PM) DocRohith: yes interested (07:12:04 PM) ausimage: DocRohith: you are in the City? (07:12:07 PM) DocRohith: yes (07:12:14 PM) DocRohith: live brooklyn, work manhattan (07:12:32 PM) ausimage: There is one at Think Coffee (07:12:58 PM) DocRohith: prior meeting scheduled for thursday, will miss.. alternate options? (07:13:23 PM) ausimage: ahhh... I think they plan on making that a regular thing (07:13:49 PM) ausimage: We will need to get up on our Calendar ;) (07:14:03 PM) ausimage: Um lets look at the next topic (07:14:11 PM) DocRohith: ok. will attend thurday after. key contact? (07:14:42 PM) ausimage: that is mjording I believe... (07:14:48 PM) DocRohith: thank you (07:14:56 PM) ausimage: I will get the details after the meeting for you (07:15:01 PM) DocRohith: sure thanks (07:15:09 PM) ausimage: Rochester Comp Recycle (07:15:30 PM) ausimage: not much happening... though they have a line on more computers... (07:15:40 PM) CArenas2: DocRohith: http://linux.meetup.com/392/ (07:15:47 PM) ausimage: some places do not want to take them (07:15:56 PM) yharrow: DocRohith: If there is no meeting the Thursday after this one, we will probably have one a week after. (07:16:12 PM) ausimage: awesome yharrow (07:16:15 PM) DocRohith: ok thanks (07:16:27 PM) yharrow: no problem :) (07:16:50 PM) ausimage: Um next is Direction meeting in Endicot (07:16:59 PM) yharrow: Endicot? (07:17:00 PM) ausimage: it says leadership but it is more than that... (07:17:09 PM) ausimage: Brothers2 (07:17:28 PM) ausimage: though I am looking at an alternate location in the binghamton area (07:17:45 PM) yharrow: ah ok, I thiought it would originally be in binghamton (07:17:50 PM) ausimage: We want every one to attend..... (07:18:02 PM) ausimage: It will be on the 11th from 2-5pm (07:18:40 PM) ausimage: I will be moderating a discussion on several key topics and help develop some goals for the coming year (07:19:08 PM) ausimage: It is a great time to get ideas out there that can help you and other members (07:19:55 PM) ausimage: I will be posting to Email list and my blog... the wiki too the exact location by the weekend (07:20:28 PM) ausimage: if you have RSVPd I will make sure you get it too.. (07:20:56 PM) ***ausimage examines the agenda again (07:21:14 PM) ausimage: Ok... lets look at the slate of officers... (07:21:32 PM) ausimage: How many have objections to the current slate? (07:21:47 PM) ausimage: 2008 Officers: President: Ausimage; Vice President: Yharrow; Secretary: Hal14450 (07:22:10 PM) ausimage: anyone? (07:22:21 PM) yharrow: current or proposed? (07:22:36 PM) ausimage: the slate... I placed in chanel (07:22:54 PM) trenchant: no objection (07:23:03 PM) CArenas2: same here (07:23:32 PM) yharrow: ausimage: are there no other candidates for vice president? (07:23:52 PM) ausimage: um there was n8k99 but he was not interested (07:24:35 PM) yharrow: what about hendrixsi (07:24:54 PM) ausimage: he was not nominated and is not here :S (07:25:06 PM) yharrow: who makes nominations? (07:25:21 PM) ausimage: it was done at the Sep 18th meeting (07:25:27 PM) yharrow: ah ok (07:25:35 PM) ausimage: and was available for comment (07:25:57 PM) ***ausimage was nominated by someelse... (07:26:09 PM) ausimage: *someone else (07:26:38 PM) yharrow: I have an honest question though (07:26:47 PM) ausimage: yes yharrow? (07:26:47 PM) falken: hmmm... yharrow is never around that is why he put ausimage in charge of things (07:26:54 PM) trenchant: lol (07:26:58 PM) ausimage: darn falken (07:27:01 PM) yharrow: lol (07:27:07 PM) DocRohith: cute bot (07:27:19 PM) ausimage: what is it yharrow (07:28:24 PM) yharrow: its one thing to decide to vote. But if you are going to vote. I don't know if it makes sense to do it when there are no more than 5 members around. Personally I am going to abstain because my orginal proposition was a temp position till I get back into swing. But you can do what you like ;) (07:28:42 PM) ausimage: noted... (07:29:38 PM) yharrow: What is your decision? (07:29:41 PM) ausimage: I was not the one who nominated myself, again, as president.... (07:29:58 PM) ausimage: the team nominated me to that position (07:30:29 PM) ausimage: I feel it helps the team move forward from the bylaws with recognized officers (07:30:57 PM) ausimage: so I was just going to ask for acks from those participating.... (07:31:05 PM) ausimage: I did post to the list... (07:31:23 PM) ausimage: about the slate... and asked for objections... I heard none there (07:31:49 PM) DocRohith: quick interruption.. where can one obtain these team operating instruction / bylaws? (07:32:03 PM) ausimage: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewYorkTeam/ByLaws (07:32:13 PM) DocRohith: thanks (07:32:18 PM) ausimage: sure... (07:32:38 PM) yharrow: ausimage: no problem auis :) (07:32:59 PM) ausimage: I think we to start stop second guessing and start making decisions :) (07:33:19 PM) CArenas2: i agree (07:33:52 PM) yharrow: ausimage: I humbly apologize if it seemed like i was daring to second guess you :P (07:34:06 PM) ausimage: no problem... (07:34:31 PM) ausimage: how many are in favor of the slate ? (07:34:36 PM) ausimage: +2 (07:34:41 PM) ausimage: er +1 (07:34:46 PM) ausimage: :/ (07:34:46 PM) CArenas2: +1 (07:34:57 PM) DocRohith: I (07:35:30 PM) ausimage: anyone else? (07:36:24 PM) ausimage: I see no objections... so I will consider the slate approved.... (07:36:38 PM) ausimage: I will post the results to the List... (07:37:09 PM) ausimage: Last thing... since it is being brought up again... (07:37:12 PM) ausimage: :) (07:37:41 PM) ausimage: Is Encouraging Participation... and Developing Activities (07:37:55 PM) ausimage: do we have comments on this? (07:38:20 PM) ausimage: I really want to work on this... see if we can improve the numbers some how... (07:38:44 PM) DocRohith: if i may... I am very interesting in helping out. especially with community outreach (07:38:53 PM) ausimage: that is awesome... (07:39:15 PM) ausimage: what exactly would you like to do? (07:39:40 PM) DocRohith: i was thinking more along the lines of education (07:39:58 PM) ausimage: We have many ideas at projects.newyork-ubuntu.com (07:40:08 PM) DocRohith: noted.. (07:40:13 PM) DocRohith: seen those.. (07:40:13 PM) falken: I haven't seen 'those..', DocRohith (07:40:27 PM) ausimage: falken, bad (07:40:28 PM) falken: ausimage: huh? (07:40:54 PM) DocRohith: interested in idea that i asked about before meeting (07:40:58 PM) DocRohith: by sal i believe (07:41:02 PM) ausimage: DocRohith: If you need some help sorting things out let me know... I will see what I can do... (07:41:16 PM) ausimage: Yeah... that would be great to get going (07:41:37 PM) DocRohith: if he isin't available at this time, is there anything i can do along those lines (07:42:07 PM) ausimage: DocRohith: if you want you can implement the idea yourself... or with help from the team... (07:42:17 PM) ausimage: we have some excellent speakers (07:42:32 PM) DocRohith: hmm.. (07:42:35 PM) ausimage: Oh... almost forgot... (07:42:44 PM) DocRohith: is this better to talk about here or at the inperson meeting? (07:43:01 PM) ausimage: I had a PM from a developer... that will coming through NYC this weekend... (07:43:15 PM) CArenas2: PM? (07:43:21 PM) ausimage: Is anyone interested in this... (07:43:25 PM) DocRohith: personal message i believe (07:43:26 PM) ausimage: Private Message (07:43:31 PM) ausimage: yeah (07:43:36 PM) CArenas2: thx (07:43:52 PM) DocRohith: sure.. how can meeting with developer help (07:44:13 PM) ausimage: I had touched base with a few NYC members earlier, but not heard back (07:44:36 PM) ausimage: I think it is cool to meet with the people that help make Ubuntu possible (07:45:17 PM) ausimage: I told him that I would double check with the team tonight (07:45:22 PM) DocRohith: k.. understand.. (07:45:53 PM) CArenas2: so the question is re availability to meet developer this weekend? (07:46:03 PM) ausimage: Yeah... (07:46:32 PM) ausimage: sladen: but I'm wondering if you have contacts you would be able to get people together/organise a talk (07:46:32 PM) ausimage: (11:09:19 AM) sladen: on those 3days Saturday 3rd, Sunday 4th, Monday 5th (07:47:14 PM) ausimage: Ok... if you are interested let me know this evening... (07:47:45 PM) CArenas2: i could probably join (07:47:49 PM) ausimage: Ok... looks like that is the end of the agenda... (07:48:08 PM) ausimage: so I call this meeting to a close :)