Meeting Info

Meeting about Ubuntu-ZA July 2010

Convened at 2010-07-08 17:10:46.274723 by tumbleweed in #ubuntu-za on freenode

Present

• nuvolari
• Gustav H Meyer (inetpro)
• Maia Grotepass (maiatoday)
• David Rubin (drubin)
• Hannah Snyman (mrs_fly)
• magespawn

• SubOracle

• dwidge
• Michael Gorven (cocooncrash)
• Gerrit Maritz (gnmza)
• Raoul Snyman (superfly)
• highvoltage
• Wesley Werner (wezley)
• Stefano Rivera (tumbleweed)
• morgs

Agenda

• Review previous minutes
• Upcoming Events:
  • Ubuntu User day - 10th July
  • Ubuntu Developer Week - 12th July
  • CLUG Beginner talk - 13th July

  • Global Jam - 27th - 29th August << Needs owner/driver

  • Software Freedom Day - 18 Sept
  • Maverick release party - 10 Oct (10.10.10, we can't miss this!)
• Activity in other centers. CPT/Stellenbosch seems semi active try get others involved.
• Website. Reviews/ Posts
• schedule regular meetings (doodle poll for time - day)
• Put a list of things we can do on a semi regular basis together, and then see about committing to actually doing some of them ;-)0
• What can we do to drive up community / development involvement by Ubuntu-ZA members
• Some possible online/IRC activities (for discussion in the meeting - just jotting them down before I forget them):
  • Ask a Techie: A panel of sysadmins, developers, etc. answers your questions (ideal for "newbies" who don't understand some of the terms thrown around in Ubuntu)
  • How to set up a web server
  • How to set up a file server and file sharing
  • How to set up a database server (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
  • How to set up a site using Drupal
  • How to set up a simple network with DNS and DHCP

Summary

Minutes

[17:10:46] STARTED (tumbleweed)
[17:13:54] TOPIC: previous minutes (tumbleweed)
[17:20:17] TOPIC: Upcoming Events (tumbleweed)
[17:23:27] IDEA: do similar idea to Dev week but host locally with familiar faces and people (drubin)
[17:33:59] IDEA: maiatoday will write summary of events and post to list and website (drubin)
[17:38:01] AGREED: We need to plan talks for Global Jam tumbleweed, maiatoday, drubin to help plan (drubin)
[17:48:26] AGREED: wezley Will do an ubuntu hour in Durbs (drubin)
[17:48:46] AGREED: tumbleweed will make Ubuntu hour in CPT happen (drubin)
[17:53:56] TOPIC: Website. Reviews/ Posts (tumbleweed)
[17:55:05] AGREED: maiatoday Will write report back on website (drubin)
[17:56:44] AGREED: We need to keep updating the website more often (drubin)
[17:57:18] TOPIC: schedule regular meetings (drubin)
[18:02:03] AGREED: meeting will happen on the 3rd Thursday of every month. (drubin will update the Gcal0 (drubin)
[18:06:52] AGREED: wezley Will email the list to find a time for meeting (drubin)
[18:08:30] TOPIC: other activity in other centers (drubin)
[18:17:37] TOPIC: What can we do to drive up community / development involvement by Ubuntu-ZA members (drubin)
[18:30:50] AGREED: we will at least start planning events(meet ups/ubuntu hours) in each city/center by next meeting (drubin)
[18:33:30] AGREED: we will embed gcal on website http://pastebin.com/a3spjkDT (drubin)
[18:41:09] AGREED: SubOracle and superfly will look into a calendar solution possibly Drupal + Gcal (drubin)
[18:42:55] TOPIC: Online Activities and IRC discussions (drubin)
[19:03:02] ENDED (drubin)

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