#title #ubuntu-meeting Meeting Meeting started by beuno at 20:02:53 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2012/ubuntu-meeting.2012-02-07-20.02.log.html . == Meeting summary == ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/EMEA (beuno, 20:04:15) *iainfarrell's application ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IainFarrell (beuno, 20:05:36) *GunnarHj's application ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GunnarHj (czajkowski, 20:19:39) ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GunnarHj (beuno, 20:19:45) *EgyParadox's application ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyParadox (beuno, 20:33:08) *TadeasParik's application ''LINK:'' https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TadeasParik (beuno, 20:46:20) Meeting ended at 21:00:18 UTC. == Votes == * Iain Farrel's application For: 3 Against: 0 Abstained: 0 * EgyParadox's application For: 4 Against: 0 Abstained: 0 * TadeasParik's application For: 4 Against: 0 Abstained: 0 * o For: 0 Against: 0 Abstained: 0 == Action items == * (none) == People present (lines said) == * beuno (77) * iainfarrell_ (65) * meetingology (39) * czajkowski (37) * TadeasParik (18) * GunnarHj (16) * EgyParadox (13) * vojtech_t (9) * mgamal (7) * Pendulum (6) * stgraber (5) * vibhav (5) * knome (2) * Katchup (2) * Tm_T (2) * Azzurrio_ (1) * thelinuxer (1) * t4nk061 (1) * Wazery (1) == Full Log == 20:02:53 #startmeeting 20:02:53 Meeting started Tue Feb 7 20:02:53 2012 UTC. The chair is beuno. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 20:02:53 20:02:53 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 20:02:53 LOL 20:03:01 * stgraber waves 20:03:04 ^ 20:03:07 ^^^ 20:03:15 iainfarrell_, you seem to be up first! 20:03:16 ok let see if we have enough 20:03:18 * knome waves to stgraber, but very silently 20:03:22 indeed :) 20:03:30 stgraber: Pendulum myself and beuno 20:03:34 yup 20:04:15 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/EMEA 20:04:51 iainfarrell_, tell us about yourself! 20:05:02 iainfarrell_: welcome, thanks for making it, I know you;ve been on this list now since october! :) 20:05:04 well beuno and others 20:05:05 #topic iainfarrell's application 20:05:20 My name's Iain and I've been an Ubuntu user full time I'd say for about 3 years 20:05:25 and played before that 20:05:34 as an aside I recently started playing Eve online 20:05:36 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IainFarrell 20:05:37 and last time I tried it 20:05:41 it was so hard 20:05:44 I stopped playing 20:05:50 and instead installed this new distro 20:05:54 raved about on Digg 20:05:56 called Ubuntu :) 20:06:07 and that's what I love about it, it just works 20:06:17 and this community is exciting and I want to stay a part of it 20:06:28 even though I no longer work for Canonical 20:06:48 as before I want to contribute and mainly in the area of adding photos to our desktop 20:07:01 and helping contribute to its distinctiveness 20:07:06 win 52 20:07:21 * beuno hugs Pendulum 20:07:36 iainfarrell_, great to still see you around post-Canonical 20:07:43 I'm also running the wallpaper contributions process at the mo 20:07:59 iainfarrell_: can you tell us about the wallpaper and your role in that ? 20:08:02 we've got over 1000 entries already and it doesn't close until March :) 20:08:05 yeah 20:08:11 so about 4 releases ago 20:08:31 we decided that the community contributions needed a boost and we'd talked at UDS about what could be done 20:08:48 I decided to see if a small set of beautiful wallpapers could be pulled together 20:08:58 I felt it would really add 20:09:10 and it's something that's reasonably straight forward to run 20:09:20 it's also something that people who aren't technical can contribute to 20:09:30 because there's a lot of that still today 20:09:33 iainfarrell_: great stuff 20:09:43 I see it on the ubuntu-artwork list and chat rooms all the time 20:09:48 iainfarrell_: so how do you see your role in the community going forward? 20:09:52 and I've run it ever since 20:09:56 well continue to do that 20:10:11 I'm also talking to the guys at 500px about pulling together the first of a curated collection 20:10:22 which would be a gift to the community if you like 20:10:27 it wouldn't fit on the ISO 20:10:35 but would be lovely high res images 20:10:42 which we source from pro photographers 20:10:46 and we give away 20:10:58 it promotes us and the very powerful technical and creative tools we offer 20:11:04 to an audience who've never heard of us 20:11:09 and are tinkerers by nature 20:11:18 they think this free tool made by a bunch of us 20:11:22 who are all over the world 20:11:27 and barely see each other 20:11:32 is quite a cool thing 20:11:49 and that's why I also want to get more involved in DarkTable 20:11:56 which is a really cool project and you should all check it out 20:12:06 it's a very very powerful photo editing tool 20:12:08 cool 20:12:28 I could go on but then I do that, I'm easily excited :) 20:12:31 cool cool 20:12:34 so do tell me to stop :) 20:13:02 iainfarrell_, you involved at all the LoCo? 20:13:33 hot 20:13:40 not regularly since I left London, I usually was a conduit for them to get to people in the building for catching up :) 20:13:54 for example if one was trying to track down Ivanka or Charline or someone 20:14:10 now I live in the north east too and they're mostly further south 20:14:23 so I'm not sure where I'd help but I'd be very happy to pitch in 20:14:42 to be honest, with the move I've not really looked into any groups locally 20:14:50 it's quite rural where I am now 20:15:01 but we use Ubuntu at work on all our dev machines 20:15:04 which is pretty cool :) 20:15:08 indeed! 20:15:11 alright 20:15:14 time to vote 20:15:16 so I advocate in a professional space 20:15:23 * iainfarrell_ shuts up :) 20:15:50 #voters czajkowski Pendulum stgraber beuno 20:15:50 Current voters: Pendulum beuno czajkowski stgraber 20:15:57 #vote o 20:15:57 Please vote on: o 20:15:57 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) 20:16:20 #vote Iain Farrel's application 20:16:20 Voting still open on: o 20:16:20 bah 20:16:31 #endvote 20:16:31 Voting ended on: o 20:16:31 Votes for:0 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 20:16:31 Deadlock, casting vote may be used 20:16:34 #vote Iain Farrel's application 20:16:34 Please vote on: Iain Farrel's application 20:16:34 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) 20:16:41 ok, now :) 20:16:43 +1 from me 20:16:43 +1 from me received from beuno 20:16:45 +1 20:16:45 +1 received from Pendulum 20:16:57 +1 20:16:57 +1 received from stgraber 20:17:09 and I have: 20:11 < czajkowski> I'm +1 20:17:15 she just went off for a bit 20:17:21 #endvote 20:17:21 Voting ended on: Iain Farrel's application 20:17:21 Votes for:3 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 20:17:21 Motion carried 20:17:25 welcome iainfarrell_! 20:17:28 iainfarrell_, congrats 20:17:33 iainfarrell_: congrats 20:17:34 * vibhav hugs iainfarrell_ 20:17:44 Yay! many thanks beuno and knome and Tm_T 20:17:51 very pleased and excited 20:18:06 -1 20:18:08 * iainfarrell_ pops a cork 20:18:09 no jo-erland? 20:18:16 iainfarrell_: congrats! 20:18:27 Cheers Pendulum :) 20:18:32 iainfarrell_: congrats 20:18:42 GunnarHj, you around? 20:19:01 Sure. Hi all! 20:19:11 #topic GunnarHj's application 20:19:20 GunnarHj, tell us about yourself! 20:19:30 I'm Gunnar Hjalmarsson, a Swedish fellow living in Gothenburg. 20:19:32 Have used Ubuntu for about 1.5 years, and been involved in (mostly) i18n related patching and bugfixing for almost as long period. 20:19:34 Applied last July, but was turned down (zeroes). Since then I have basically kept doing the same kind of work; the good news is that there are a few testimonials on the wiki page this time. 20:19:39 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GunnarHj 20:19:45 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GunnarHj 20:21:03 GunnarHj: so mainly in bugs and translations? 20:21:48 Well, not translations exactly. It's more about the interfaces for setting languages etc. 20:22:19 So it's about making the translations easily available to the users. 20:22:24 GunnarHj: basicly the work that has to be done so translations can be done? 20:22:34 Yes. 20:23:05 GunnarHj: are you involved in other areas in the Ubuntu community, such as your locoteam? 20:23:38 I'm a member of the Swedish team, but haven't yet been active there. 20:24:04 so how do you feel Ubuntu membership will help you and the community ? or does it have any effect? 20:24:08 Spent too much time on the dev. stuff, I think. 20:24:24 GunnarHj, a testimonial from pitti is pretty impressice! 20:24:30 and impressive 20:25:21 It would be a showed appreciation of my contribution, and would likely make me more inclined to keep on and entering new areas of contributions. 20:25:37 GunnarHj: what other areas would you look at 20:27:03 Can't tell right now. You could say that I have been a driver of certain matters, and right now I'm occupied with ensuring that they make it into 12.04. 20:27:19 what are they ? 20:28:11 GunnarHj: I'm just trying to ask what areas you'd like to get into in the community 20:29:08 In summary it's about providing bug free user interfaces for changing languages and settings for regional formats. Those things were buggy in 10.04, and we have gradually god rid of most of the bugs. 20:29:25 that's super valuable work 20:29:28 lets vote! 20:29:32 #vote 20:29:32 Please vote on: 20:29:32 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) 20:29:42 One thing that has made it more complicated is that the underlying architecture has changed. 20:29:42 +1 20:30:21 +1 20:30:32 * beuno slaps meetingology 20:30:44 +1 but would like to see other areas explored 20:31:00 +1 20:31:05 #endbote 20:31:08 #endvote 20:31:08 No vote in progress 20:31:16 sorry folks, sucking today at typing 20:31:21 GunnarHj, congrats! 20:31:34 GunnarHj: congrats 20:31:37 Thanks! It makes me very happy and flattered. :) 20:31:47 well done GunnarHj :) 20:31:59 And yes, I will dig in more areas soon. 20:32:05 thanks 20:32:39 EgyParadox, you around? 20:32:42 Yes I am here 20:32:46 sweet 20:32:50 Thanks for you time, guys! 20:32:53 #topic EgyParadox's application 20:33:08 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyParadox 20:33:24 EgyParadox: welcome thanks for coming along 20:33:42 :) 20:33:59 EgyParadox, tell us about yourself 20:34:29 My name is Omar Mohsen, I started using Ubuntu about 6 years ago 20:34:51 I joined the Egyptian LoCo team about 2 years ago 20:35:51 My contribution is mainly support through different ways 20:35:53 through IRC, events 20:36:28 I also administer our social media pages 20:36:52 EgyParadox: so you help grow the locoteam? 20:37:08 yes czajkowski 20:37:36 EgyParadox: what would you like to do to help your team, and get more people involved in your community ? 20:38:46 organize more events 20:39:15 EgyParadox, you're involved in both the Egypt and Malaysian LoCo's? 20:39:36 I wanted to be involved in the Malaysian LoCo but I no longer live there 20:39:45 ah, I see :) 20:40:18 EgyParadox, got quite a few testimonials as well! 20:40:49 guys 20:40:50 I provided IRC support for about 2 years 20:40:53 EgyParadox: last question, what do you plan to do in the future to help your team? anything specific ? 20:40:56 sorry to interfere 20:41:16 mgamal: we're in the middle of an appliction, is it regarding EgyParadox ? 20:41:21 yes 20:41:33 I just wanted to say I didn't have time to write my testimonial 20:41:59 but I'd like to tell EgyParadox he was such a great team mate in the Egyptian LoCo :) 20:42:18 he contributed a lot to the LoCo's social media presence 20:42:42 and he helped get us about 2000 followers on our FB pages and twitter 20:43:18 mgamal: thanks 20:43:21 beuno: ready to vote 20:43:26 k 20:43:29 #vote EgyParadox's application 20:43:29 Please vote on: EgyParadox's application 20:43:29 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) 20:43:48 +1 20:43:48 +1 received from czajkowski 20:43:50 +1 20:43:50 +1 received from beuno 20:43:54 +1 20:43:54 +1 received from Pendulum 20:44:09 +1 20:44:09 +1 received from stgraber 20:44:18 * beuno tickes stgraber 20:45:03 * czajkowski pokes beuno end vote 20:45:08 #endvote 20:45:08 Voting ended on: EgyParadox's application 20:45:08 Votes for:4 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 20:45:08 Motion carried 20:45:23 congrats EgyParadox! 20:45:23 TadeasParik: you about ? 20:45:31 yes, I am here 20:45:45 congrats EgyParadox :) 20:45:54 Thanks beuno strgraber Pendulum 20:45:56 #topic TadeasParik's application 20:45:56 Thanks thelinuxer 20:46:13 congrats EgyParadox :) 20:46:20 #link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TadeasParik 20:47:02 can I start? 20:47:11 TadeasParik: yup thanks for coming 20:47:11 TadeasParik, yes! 20:47:21 TadeasParik: can you tell us a little bit about yourself ? 20:47:23 please 20:47:28 ok, so my name is Tadeáš Pařík, 26 years old, Prague, Czech republic 20:47:38 I use Ubuntu from 8.04 and from 2008 I am active member of our Czech Ubuntu forum where I help with the standard problems, from this year I am also on Launchpad 20:48:25 from 2010 I am active moderator of this forum and from 2011 I am admin of this forum and of all ubuntu official pages in Czech republic (ubuntu.cz, facebook, G+ pages, Czech Ubuntu wiki etc.) 20:48:46 I am especially involved in all official events/meetings/presentations about Ubuntu in the Czech republic (I represented Ubuntu onLinuxExpo conference, there were also other distros and Microsoft) 20:49:17 and also in non official, e.g. we have special Ubuntu beer event in Prague 20:49:23 TadeasParik, have you by any chance met Jenda? 20:49:46 I know him from our forum, but unfortunately he is not active memeber now... 20:50:06 Jenda is unfortunately long time inactive 20:50:12 yeah, I know 20:50:28 thought maybe he'd still go to the parties for the beer at least :) 20:51:07 I helped to organise two release party in Czech republic, during the first one I was presenting about new Ubuntu 11.04 and for the second one I found the place and I was fronting this action 20:51:34 there were some articles on Czech IT portals 20:52:14 on Launchpad I am a member of translation team 20:52:19 TadeasParik, you seem to only have one testimonial (although a strong one) 20:52:34 is the .cz LoCo small? 20:52:36 so we are preparing czech localization 20:52:44 it's because there are only few active ubunteros in the czech rep. 20:52:54 and i'm the only one active ubuntu member 20:52:54 it's an approved loco 20:53:02 yes, there is only Vojta and me... 20:53:04 vojtech_t: you dont have to be an approved member to leave a comment 20:53:14 I mean active members... 20:53:14 anyone can leave a testimonal on a wiki page 20:53:30 for an approved loco there are only 2 active members.... 20:53:55 vojtech_t, so I guess you're a strong supporter of TadeasParik? 20:54:02 czajkowski, we have about 5-10 really active people 20:54:03 for me it is life's hobby... 20:54:07 beuno: yes 20:54:38 awesome 20:54:46 TadeasParik, what does the future look like to you? 20:54:59 czajkowski, maybe it's my fault, because i thought only ubuntu members can write testimonials 20:55:42 I would like to finish our Czech localization, now we are preparing next GlobalJam and we started with preparations for Release party... 20:55:51 vojtech_t, that's fine, you think there's more fans out there then? 20:56:17 and I would like to find more active people here for our LoCo 20:56:44 maybe we can trick jenda to getting involved again :) 20:56:47 beuno, yes, as forum administrator tadeas is really popular 20:57:05 beuno: shall we vote 20:57:10 lets! 20:57:17 #vote TadeasParik's application 20:57:17 Please vote on: TadeasParik's application 20:57:17 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) 20:57:22 beuno: i don't know, he is married, works as lawyer, i think he hasn't much spare time for ubuntu 20:57:35 +1 from me 20:57:35 +1 from me received from beuno 20:57:39 +1 20:57:39 +1 received from czajkowski 20:57:48 +1 20:57:48 +1 received from Pendulum 20:58:11 +1 20:58:11 +1 received from stgraber 20:58:25 #endvote 20:58:25 Voting ended on: TadeasParik's application 20:58:25 Votes for:4 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 20:58:25 Motion carried 20:58:33 TadeasParik, welcome \o/ 20:58:37 congrats 20:58:46 yay :) 20:58:48 thanks a lot!! 20:58:52 well done TadeasParik 20:59:14 TadeasParik: well done 20:59:20 vibhav, you're the last one on the list, but I think the concerns from the Americas board still stand 2 weeks later 20:59:26 TadeasParik: congrats 20:59:35 vibhav, I'd take them into consideration and re-apply in a few months 21:00:03 Well , Actually , interaction is something I fail at 21:00:18 and with that 21:00:18 #endmeeting Generated by MeetBot 0.1.5 (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology)