#title #ubuntu-meeting Meeting Meeting started by leogg at 20:08:25 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2011/ubuntu-meeting.2011-10-18-20.08.log.html . == Meeting summary == *Ubuntu China reapproval ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChinaTeam/ApprovalApplication (leogg, 20:10:05) *Ubuntu Argentina reapproval ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArgentinaTeam/ApprovalApplication (leogg, 20:12:22) ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArgentinaTeam/ReApprovalApplication (itnet7, 20:14:04) ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArgentinaTeam/ReApprovalApplication (juancarlospaco, 20:32:48) *Michigan Team reapproval ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MichiganTeam/ReApprovalApplication2011 (leogg, 20:37:10) *Pennsylvania Team reapproval ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/ReapprovalApplication (leogg, 20:45:28) ''LINK:'' http://ubuntupennsylvania.org/ <- should that work? (popey, 20:47:15) *Montenegro team approval application ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MontenegroTeam/ApprovalApplication (leogg, 20:54:06) ''LINK:'' http://www.vijesti.me/vijesti/u-podgorici-prezentovana-nova-verzija-ubuntu-os-clanak-42896 (tp0x45, 20:58:38) *Ubuntu Brasil reapproval ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrazilianTeam/ReApprovalApplication2011 (leogg, 21:06:18) Meeting ended at 21:16:07 UTC. == Votes == * on ubuntu-penn reapproval For: 4 Against: 0 Abstained: 1 * on Ubuntu Brasil reapproval For: 5 Against: 0 Abstained: 0 * on Montenegro LoCo approval For: 0 Against: 0 Abstained: 5 * on Michigan team re-approval For: 5 Against: 0 Abstained: 0 * on reapproval Ubuntu Argentina For: 5 Against: 0 Abstained: 0 == Action items == * (none) == People present (lines said) == * paultag (97) * leogg (92) * meetingology (58) * Ursinha (39) * popey (34) * tp0x45 (25) * huats (24) * unimix (23) * jedijf (22) * itnet7 (18) * MobileTurkey (18) * snap-l (16) * marianom (15) * juancarlospaco (9) * LogicalDream (8) * Ubuntuser (7) * Andre_Gondim (6) * flomincucci (6) * pvl1 (6) * greg-g (5) * _stink_ (2) * anduril (2) * brousch (2) * pleia2 (2) * gib (2) * malev (2) * beuno (1) * pangolin (1) * jono (1) * magio081 (1) == Full Log == 20:08:25 #startmeeting 20:08:25 Meeting started Tue Oct 18 20:08:25 2011 UTC. The chair is leogg. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlanBell/mootbot. 20:08:25 20:08:25 Available commands: #accept #accepted #action #agree #agreed #chair #commands #endmeeting #endvote #halp #help #idea #info #link #lurk #meetingname #meetingtopic #nick #progress #rejected #replay #restrictlogs #save #startmeeting #subtopic #topic #unchair #undo #unlurk #vote #voters #votesrequired 20:08:33 hi all! 20:08:40 * greg-g waves 20:08:41 welcome to the loco council meeting 20:08:48 hi again from ubuntu-me 20:08:52 the agenda is over here ---> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncilAgenda 20:09:11 * unimix waves 20:09:50 #topic Ubuntu China reapproval 20:10:05 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChinaTeam/ApprovalApplication 20:10:17 so, who's here from ubuntu-cn? 20:11:06 next... 20:11:17 It has to be around midnight in China 20:11:30 if not later 20:11:56 ok, let's move on 20:12:08 #topic Ubuntu Argentina reapproval 20:12:22 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArgentinaTeam/ApprovalApplication 20:12:42 anybody from ubuntu-ar around? 20:13:38 leogg: marianom, juancarlospaco and me 20:13:53 at least 20:13:57 oh, hai there unimix ! :) 20:14:04 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArgentinaTeam/ReApprovalApplication 20:14:07 leogg, o/ 20:14:24 unimix, care to tell us about your team? 20:15:55 test 20:15:58 ok, As you can read, we have an intense activity from the last 3 years to now 20:16:00 o/ 20:16:16 hello friends... 20:16:41 juancarlospaco, hola! 20:16:54 hey juancarlospaco, logg :) 20:16:59 *leogg 20:17:02 the most important events were Ubucon 2010 and the two edition of CISL with gov support 20:17:07 hello flomin 20:17:24 flomincucci, o/ 20:17:26 among others 20:17:49 unimix, nice 20:18:10 unimix, I didn't see any team reports on the app? 20:18:17 how do you coordinate your team since argentina is large country ? 20:18:37 please answer leogg first 20:19:19 :) 20:19:53 any answer ? 20:19:58 ok, I have done team reports in irregular basis, but the last months are uo to date 20:20:18 s/uo/up 20:21:20 ok 20:21:37 unimix, what about my question on the coordination in your team? 20:21:54 we have main activities in Buenos Aires and use the mailing list to coordinate and encourage the other to make events in the rest of the country 20:22:19 ok 20:22:33 unimix, I can only fin https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARGENTINA/TeamReports 20:22:43 s/fin/find 20:23:43 leogg, I have found the august/september/october on too 20:23:44 sorry I'm late 20:23:49 leogg, there are thre months of team reports at least i have done by myself 20:24:09 thats right leogg 20:25:28 there are some othe reports for 2010, for sure 20:25:38 unimix, you should spend some time on reporting, otherwise it's difficult to see what you guys been doing 20:26:14 unimix, for example, there's a lot of events in 2009 and 2010, but I don't see much activity in 2011 20:26:59 <_stink_> i have to jet, but i want to make sure i say that i'm a member of ubuntu-us-mi (which is up next) and i am overflowing with wub for ubuntu-us-mi. please excuse my out of turn wub. 20:27:06 ok, leogg, that's my fault cause i'm in charge of that task. 20:27:12 _stink_: noted :) 20:27:30 _stink_: go bucks! 20:27:52 unimix, you should delegate :) 20:28:01 leogg++ 20:28:07 <_stink_> paultag: i'll just ask Nebraska about that here... :D 20:28:07 unimix, there are other active members on your loco? 20:28:08 leogg, yeap 20:28:19 _stink_: oh, burn! :) 20:28:29 unimix: are they here? 20:28:44 yes, leogg, five more 20:28:52 o/ 20:28:56 ubuntu members 20:29:32 unimix, I think the question of leogg is that they should step up to show us you are not alone... 20:30:10 huats, i get the point 20:30:12 for active members do you mean ubuntu members? 20:30:14 hi there 20:30:24 i'm part of the loco, but still not a ubuntu member 20:30:36 all members are encouraged to participate :) 20:30:38 hello im active member of ubuntu-ar loco 20:30:45 flomincucci, active member in the loco are great ! 20:30:52 unimix, I think you're an awesome team, but having no recent activity reports doesn't help 20:30:59 terrific ! 20:31:03 hi leogg, hi paultag, hi again unimix (hi flomincucci and juancarlospaco) 20:31:10 unimix: do you have photos or any sort of documentation of recent events in 2011? 20:31:13 marianom: Hiyya! 20:31:14 hello! unimix is not alone 20:31:22 marianom, hey! o/ 20:31:22 that is what we want to "see" : people supporting there team 20:31:24 leogg, we have the last month done ! 20:32:06 paultag, we have a lot of pics, some of them are in the wiki 20:32:29 unimix: would you mind linking us to a few events from like 2-3 differente events from 2011 and why they are special? 20:32:31 we added a couple of pictures from this year events in the application Iguess 20:32:35 let me check 20:32:48 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArgentinaTeam/ReApprovalApplication 20:32:56 i see pics there 20:33:03 ah right right 20:33:30 those look like they're from 2010 from the way it's set up 20:33:38 paultag, do you see it ? 20:33:42 (the link on the agenda is wrong) 20:33:54 unimix: I see some photos, but again, nothing from 2011 20:34:19 I found them, though 20:34:22 unimix, paultag: there are two photos for the nevet36 in august 20:34:31 (both of them) 20:34:33 marianom: yep, got it 20:34:35 the photos for the piratefest were horrible 20:34:37 sorry 20:34:44 It's OK. I'm ready 20:34:49 there is no one you could tell anything 20:35:02 I mean there was no way to tell anything from the photos 20:35:03 ok, we're ready to vote 20:35:26 #voters huats itnet7 paultag popey leogg 20:35:26 Current voters: huats itnet7 leogg paultag popey 20:35:39 #vote on reapproval Ubuntu Argentina 20:35:39 Please vote on: on reapproval Ubuntu Argentina 20:35:39 Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me) 20:35:46 +1 20:35:46 +1 received from popey 20:35:52 +1 20:35:52 +1 received from paultag 20:35:52 +1 20:35:52 +1 received from itnet7 20:35:54 +1 20:35:54 +1 received from huats 20:35:56 Well done. I like it 20:35:56 \o/ 20:35:57 +1 20:35:57 +1 received from leogg 20:36:06 nice, congrats 20:36:10 great! 20:36:10 #endvote 20:36:10 Voting ended on: on reapproval Ubuntu Argentina 20:36:10 Votes for:5 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 20:36:10 Motion carried 20:36:13 'grats guy! :) 20:36:15 awesome! 20:36:15 Congratulations Team AR! 20:36:16 YAY! 20:36:18 congrats -ar 20:36:21 thanks guys!!!! 20:36:23 please do do some team reports for 2011, though 20:36:23 Thanks \o/ 20:36:23 Keep on rocking! 20:36:24 wow!!!!! AWESOME!!!!! 20:36:24 congrats -ar 20:36:24 thanks dudes !! 20:36:27 and 2012, it's coming up soon :) 20:36:28 woot, amazing! :) 20:36:36 unimix, but you should really start to do the reports! 20:36:38 I agreewith paultag 20:36:40 +1 20:36:42 I think that all of you have done some really nice work, congrats 20:36:44 thank you people ! :P 20:36:47 and blogging :D 20:36:50 :D 20:36:50 o/ 20:36:56 we appreciate your confidence on us 20:36:56 we have been working non stop since day one 20:37:04 #topic Michigan Team reapproval 20:37:04 OK, who's up next, we have a long agenda leogg :) 20:37:05 paultag, yeah, i get the point about TR :) 20:37:07 nice. 20:37:09 unimix: :) 20:37:10 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MichiganTeam/ReApprovalApplication2011 20:37:17 Congrats Argentina! ;) 20:37:20 we have a great team and we appreciate the support from the community 20:37:25 First, I'd like to say, for the record: 20:37:28 Go bucks. 20:37:36 michigan team? anybody here? 20:37:45 i am here! 20:37:53 * greg-g waves laggily 20:38:01 paultag: +1 20:38:03 Hello there 20:38:16 hey guys! welcome! 20:38:18 ah, there's craig 20:38:35 so, who's going to tell us about your team? 20:39:14 I can speak for our team 20:39:24 snap-l, go ahead! 20:39:31 We're comprised of the state of Michigan, with two centers of major activity 20:39:40 Metro Detroit, and West Michigan 20:39:48 West Michigan is headed by brousch 20:40:02 nice, decentralized. 20:40:08 We've been active now for a while now 20:40:17 very nice indeed 20:40:32 Our team regularly meets on IRC every day, and at least once a month to discuss loco business 20:40:33 hello 20:41:17 we were officially founded way back in 2007 20:41:18 mostly we socialize on IRC, but have been known to discuss Ubuntu from time to time. ;) 20:41:23 :) 20:41:34 snap-l, what would you say is your teams biggest strenght? 20:41:35 We originated the Jam concept 20:42:00 leogg: I'd say our ability to group together and organize 20:42:18 and also to innovate new ideas 20:42:32 and cross group work (eg: we work well with many other linux-focused groups in the area) 20:42:48 greg-g: ++ 20:42:49 nice! 20:43:08 ok, let's vote then! 20:43:18 We work very closely with our local LUG 20:43:18 I think we're all good to vote 20:43:18 #voters huats itnet7 paultag popey leogg 20:43:18 Current voters: huats itnet7 leogg paultag popey 20:43:23 +1 20:43:25 +1 20:43:25 no question at all 20:43:27 +1 20:43:28 great work 20:43:29 Oh crap 20:43:34 +1 20:43:37 easy guys!! 20:43:39 hehe 20:43:41 we need leogg to kick it off 20:43:42 Thank you 20:43:46 #vote on Michigan team re-approval 20:43:46 Please vote on: on Michigan team re-approval 20:43:46 Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me) 20:43:46 oops 20:43:47 :D 20:43:48 =1 20:43:49 +1 20:43:49 +1 received from huats 20:43:50 +1 20:43:50 +1 received from paultag 20:43:51 bah! 20:43:54 +1 20:43:54 +1 received from leogg 20:43:54 well done, keep it up guys :) 20:43:56 +1 20:43:56 +1 received from popey 20:44:01 +1 20:44:01 +1 received from itnet7 20:44:07 #endvote 20:44:07 Voting ended on: on Michigan team re-approval 20:44:07 Votes for:5 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 20:44:07 Motion carried 20:44:07 sorry, got excited :D 20:44:11 me too!! 20:44:12 well done -mi! 20:44:15 \o/ 20:44:17 Great Job!! 20:44:18 congrats Michigan! 20:44:18 conrgrats 20:44:20 congrats guys! really amazing work! 20:44:24 +1 20:44:30 yeah us! 20:44:33 thanks all 20:44:40 congrats snap-l 20:44:47 #topic Pennsylvania Team reapproval 20:45:09 Alright, who's here from -penn? 20:45:12 * jedijf pulls over 20:45:18 I am from PA 20:45:19 i am here 20:45:24 Im here 20:45:28 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/ReapprovalApplication 20:45:38 pvl1 is also here 20:45:44 and pleia2 20:45:55 welcome guys! 20:46:00 +1 20:46:03 thanks :) 20:46:05 please talk a bit about your team 20:46:08 Ubuntu PA is great! Philly area is active. 20:46:25 irc is active. Forums and mailing list have slowed. 20:46:26 This is probably more to the success of Ubuntu in general; 20:46:27 less issues/problems and questions. 20:46:46 we do a fair bit of troubleshooting on the IRC 20:46:47 yeah the irc is definetly more active than the forum 20:46:47 Getting the other areas of PA involved in meatspace stuff 20:46:48 is an ongoing goal. 20:46:50 just general pointers and tips 20:47:03 we talk a lot about technologies as well. lots of interesting stuff 20:47:12 I *love* the unity debate, even if solely for the passion that 20:47:14 it has brought back. There is no bad press. 20:47:15 http://ubuntupennsylvania.org/ <- should that work? 20:47:15 many seasoned vets as well as some new comers 20:47:27 yes 20:47:29 that is our website! :D 20:47:34 doesnt work here 20:47:36 loads here 20:47:45 loads here as well 20:47:53 Loads for me popey 20:47:56 i see it 20:48:01 bah 20:48:04 my stupid isp 20:48:05 nvm 20:48:12 popey just imagine greatness 20:48:20 * popey imagines ponies 20:48:21 :-) 20:48:23 jedijf, I have to say that your app is extremely difficult to read, sorry... 20:48:26 popey: here is google cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UIWEWyreZPQJ:ubuntupennsylvania.org/+ubuntu+pa&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us 20:48:30 leogg: agreed 20:48:34 leogg: yeah, totally 20:48:37 ponies on trampolines 20:48:45 jedijf: if I might ask, how many people worked on the app? 20:48:45 leogg: i was trying to make it easy to reference the events 20:48:52 just as a sidenode 20:48:58 just me 20:49:02 OK 20:49:19 rather than have vague references and then go to a timeline 20:49:31 jedijf is our fearless leader... 20:49:34 :) 20:49:45 :P 20:49:45 so each reference would show corresponding data 20:50:04 popey: itnet7: huats: anything else? 20:50:13 and.... 20:50:16 No, I'm ready 20:50:18 we have a few more minutes 20:50:24 and 3 more teams, I think I have an idea 20:50:34 In the past we were spoiled by having pleia2 do the blogging, photographing, 20:50:37 and wiki administriva. That is an area that I would like to delegate. 20:50:49 jedijf: I tink looking into that would be wise 20:51:00 popey: huats: ? 20:51:02 we've been working over the past few months to get all the administrative keys moved over to active, local members (since a bunch of us moved away) 20:51:04 paultag, +1 20:51:06 nothing more 20:51:38 leogg: let's hit this. We're good 20:51:46 #voters huats itnet7 paultag popey leogg 20:51:46 Current voters: huats itnet7 leogg paultag popey 20:51:48 we can't keep waiting if we have a queue 20:51:57 #vote on ubuntu-penn reapproval 20:51:57 Please vote on: on ubuntu-penn reapproval 20:51:57 Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me) 20:52:02 +1 20:52:02 +1 received from paultag 20:52:03 +1 20:52:03 +1 received from itnet7 20:52:10 +1 20:52:10 +1 received from popey 20:52:11 +0 20:52:11 +0 received from leogg 20:52:16 *BUT* I'd like to qualify that - please do revamp some of the administrative things jedijf 20:52:34 jedijf: your app is a bit of a mess, but I can see the team it's self is stable 20:52:45 huats, ? 20:52:45 + 20:52:52 jedijf: I think your goal on the next cycle might be getting some people to support you, because you're really working hard 20:52:59 +1 20:52:59 +1 received from huats 20:52:59 paultag: ok 20:53:03 #endvote 20:53:03 Voting ended on: on ubuntu-penn reapproval 20:53:03 Votes for:4 Votes against:0 Abstentions:1 20:53:03 Motion carried 20:53:25 congrats pennsylvania :) 20:53:33 dance party... 20:53:39 congrats - pennsylvania 20:53:40 :D 20:53:41 YAY PA! 20:53:42 #topic Montenegro team approval application 20:53:42 'grats PA :) 20:53:45 good work!! 20:53:54 Congrats! 20:54:06 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MontenegroTeam/ApprovalApplication 20:54:09 We're going to run over, who's got the meeting room after this, and can we get a few more minutes? 20:54:19 we hope so :) 20:54:19 does it look bad if the whole ubuntu pa team leaves the meeting? 20:54:20 anyone from Montenegro? 20:54:22 please please please 20:54:26 MobileTurkey: nah :) 20:54:33 here 20:54:35 I can't stick around long 20:54:37 Im form ubuntu-me 20:54:42 paultag: well then, thank you and keep up the good work 20:54:46 popey: me neither 20:54:48 thanks 20:54:48 MobileTurkey: back atcha 20:54:53 I am from ubuntu-me team 20:54:54 hey magio081 LogicalDream ! 20:55:01 tp0x45, o/ 20:55:09 hi all 20:55:10 Hi all 20:55:15 ok, ubuntu-me - who's the contact? 20:55:16 so, care to tell us about your team? 20:55:28 I can be a contact for today: Tomo POpovic 20:55:52 we are a team coming from a small but proud nation of 600,000 20:56:21 we unofficially exist since 2007 with on and off activities with collaboration with other teams in the region 20:56:46 since 2009 we formed a Facebook (I know) group that has been fairly active 20:56:53 It has over 100 members now 20:57:03 Cool. How would you use the new-found approved status (if granted it) to help the end-goal of promoting Ubuntu? 20:57:22 MIchigan team +1 20:57:32 we see it as a big motivational boost, as we just recently started the website, forum, planet, etc 20:57:39 gib: jcastro: a bit late, they already got the +1 :) 20:57:53 we are hoping to organize more events such as our recent release party the other day 20:58:06 we established a good relationship with university of Montenegro 20:58:25 and it just so happened that one of the major local newspaper reported on the event and team activity today 20:58:38 http://www.vijesti.me/vijesti/u-podgorici-prezentovana-nova-verzija-ubuntu-os-clanak-42896 20:58:40 Had to run an errand for the wife. 20:58:45 gib: np :) 20:58:52 tp0x45: that's really cool! 20:59:09 tp0x45, very nice! 20:59:25 we have lots of very young mombers and I think would be very cool to have them get more involved and see that our efforts are being recognized 21:00:05 we are also trying to educate facebook users to use our forum, site, IRC, etc... 21:01:10 tp0x45: this sounds really cool :) 21:01:12 the activities in last 3-4 months were really result of a team work ... and I hope with the approval of the team we will get even more people that were active in past to reactivate again :) 21:01:37 from 2006 when Montenegro got back Independent status , This is the first time that we are officaly applaing for approval 21:01:38 tp0x45, you've done a great job so far, but I think you need a little more experience 21:01:49 +1 21:02:09 I think the work so far is absolutely monumental 21:02:20 thanks paultag :) 21:02:25 Tnx 21:02:31 OK. I'm ready to vote 21:03:01 The thing is that even with a terrific work like your we like to have an activity on a wide period of time 21:03:06 ready to vote too 21:03:10 ya 21:03:38 #voters huats itnet7 paultag popey leogg 21:03:38 Current voters: huats itnet7 leogg paultag popey 21:03:46 well the activity spread back to 2007, we hope to get more people involved 21:03:54 #vote on Montenegro LoCo approval 21:03:54 Please vote on: on Montenegro LoCo approval 21:03:54 Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me) 21:03:59 +0 21:03:59