LoCo Outreach via Team Cross-Pollination

2010-03-28 Thread Nick Ali
This is an idea on how to get new LoCo members interested in different parts of the Ubuntu community. The wiki is a great resource, where new members of the community can learn about all the teams that make up the community, what they do, how they do it, how to get involved, and much more. But som

UGJ Preparation Video

2009-09-07 Thread Nick Ali
I'll do a video live stream on how to prepare and participate in Ubuntu Global Jam today, 7 September 18:00 UTC @ http://people.ubuntu.com/~nali/events/UbuntuGlobalJam2009.html. If you are new to jams, feel free to bring your questions and hopefully we will get them answered. nick -- http://bore

Re: Ubuntu-mx podcast, episode 1!

2009-08-28 Thread Nick Ali
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Federico Torres wrote: > El 28 de agosto de 2009 13:33, Leandro Gómez > escribió: >> >> >> Congrats! Great initiative! >> We've wanted to do something like that for years! :( Congrats! -- http://boredandblogging.com http://ubuntupodcast.net -- loco-contacts ma

Re: Help promoting Ubuntu Global Jam

2009-08-19 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Jono Bacon wrote: > I wanted to see what ideas you folks have for better spreading the word > and to see if anyone would like to help? I think there are 4 things we could work on: 1) LoCos should not feel they have to do all themes. If the LoCo is comfortable wit

Re: LoCo Team Project laucnhpad team populated.

2009-07-19 Thread Nick Ali
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:44 AM, amachu wrote: > amachu wrote: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tamil is Ubuntu Tamil Team's page at > Launchpad. We need to be invited. > Tamil Team is now invited. nick -- http://boredandblogging.com http://ubuntupodcast.net -- loco-contacts mailing list loco

Re: Ubuntu on a Macbook?

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Christopher Stamper wrote: > Hi All, > > I been thinking of getting an older white 15" macbook for my main machine. > I'm looking at a 2.0ghz C2D model, prob about from late 2006-2007. > > So I was wondering if any of you have been running Ubuntu on a macbook. Are >

Re: [ubuntu-us] Proposal for an Annual Ubuntu User Conference

2009-07-08 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, dan wrote: > I've always felt like there was a hole left by the disappearance of Ubuntu > Live.  I think this is a great opportunity for the community and look > forward to helping out. I've always imagined something like UDS would be kind of cool. Organizing and pl

Re: Next Council Meeting

2009-06-26 Thread Nick Ali
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Diego Turcios wrote: > Hi I would like to know the date of the next council meeting. > The wiki is not update :S https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncilAgenda > We want to know the date to check out our approval Aplication and be ready 3 > days before the meeting ;:D >

[Bug 391935] [NEW] [karmic] errors mounting usb fat32 thumbdrive

2009-06-24 Thread Nick Ali
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hal On a x86 Karmic Alpha 2 install (upgraded initially from Alpha 1) on a Dell Inspiron 6000, when I insert a usb fat32 stick, it gives me a popup asking for authorization. I enter my user account password. n...@qwerqwer:~$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID

[Bug 391935] Re: [karmic] errors mounting usb fat32 thumbdrive

2009-06-24 Thread Nick Ali
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28351417/Dependencies.txt -- [karmic] errors mounting usb fat32 thumbdrive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391935 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -

Re: [ubuntu-us] bad link on documentation of ubuntu.com

2009-06-24 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Jonathan Chacòn C wrote: > there is a broken link on this page > http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/documentation > > is "9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) > > your link is https: / / help.ubuntu.com/9.04/server/C / > the real must be: https: / / help.u

Re: [ubuntu-us] South East LoCo Teams

2009-06-23 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:40 PM, jimmy wrote: > I popped into the North Carolina team meeting tonight and Amber Graner > (akgraner) was talking about the upcoming Atlanta Linux Fest > http://atlantalinuxfest.org/  on September 19, 2009 and I presented an idea Unintentionally, Atlanta Linux Fest h

Re: Hug for Efrain

2009-06-16 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Jono Bacon wrote: > I think it is time for a group hug for Effie. :-) > > /me hugs Effie. :-) > Go Efrain! nick -- http://boredandblogging.com http://ubuntupodcast.net -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: [ubuntu-us] Attending SELF on Saturday?

2009-06-10 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > Any other teams sending down "representatives"? :) It would be fun for > some of us to meet up. Some folks from the Georgia team are going, but not in any organized fashion. Believe the NC and SC LoCos will be manning booths. nick --

Re: Create Mail List for Asturian LoCo Team

2009-06-09 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Marcos wrote: > Hi! :) > Please, can you create the mailing list for Asturian LoCo team? > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AsturianTeam > Thank you very much! ;) Look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamHowto. nick -- http://boredandblogging.com http://ubuntupodcast.net

Re: LoCo Team Meeting Minute from Tuesday June 3rd 17:00 UTC

2009-06-03 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Dave Walker wrote: > Efrain wrote: > However, when was the meeting advertised? Really annoyed I didn't notice > this. We dropped the ball on advertising it. We will start having meetings regularly on the first Tuesday of the month. Starting next month, we'll remind

Re: [ubuntu-us] Ubuntu US cluster

2009-06-02 Thread Nick Ali
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Arno Weber wrote: > > > I think the US LoCos would benefit from having their own servers, even if all > they do is mirror the EU ones.  I would think that if we mirror theirs, they > would at least consider reciprocating. > I think its safe to say that we can ta

Re: [Ubuntu-microblogging] Microblogging @ UDS meeting

2009-05-15 Thread Nick Ali
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2009, Mike Basinger wrote: > >> Works for me. >> >> Mike >> >> Nick Ali wrote: >> >>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mike Basinger >> >>> wrote: >&

[ubuntu-us] Ubuntu US cluster

2009-05-14 Thread Nick Ali
I will preface this whole email by saying its just a thought. There are absolutely no real plans to do anything like this yet. If we ever decide to pull this off, it will take quite a few dedicated people to get it rolling. There is no need for people to pipe in to say they are interested in doing

Re: [Ubuntu-microblogging] Microblogging @ UDS meeting

2009-05-14 Thread Nick Ali
>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mike Basinger >> wrote: >>> Would people like to have a meeting in IRC to get our plans for >>> microblogging at UDS ironed out? How about meeting in #ubuntu-microblogging @ 00:00 UTC Tuesday May 19th? nick -- http://boredandblogging.com http://ubuntupodcas

Re: [Ubuntu-microblogging] Microblogging @ UDS meeting

2009-05-12 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mike Basinger wrote: > Would people like to have a meeting in IRC to get our plans for > microblogging at UDS ironed out? Anytime after 00:00 UTC Friday is fine with me. nick -- http://boredandblogging.com http://ubuntupodcast.net

Georgia US LoCo 9.04 Release Party: Atlanta

2009-04-22 Thread Nick Ali
When? Saturday, April 25, 2009 from 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST Where? Manuel’s Tavern 602 N. Highland Ave Atlanta, GA 30307 Get ready to party like its 1999! :-) nick -- http://boredandblogging.com http://ubuntupodcast.net -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lis

Re: Boot Speed Measurements?

2009-04-19 Thread Nick Ali
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Grant Bowman wrote: > I have had several people ask me about the new "faster boot speeds" > [1] feature of Jaunty.  People (especially reporters) like to know > facts but I have seen no data on this yet.  Has anyone measured the > boot time just before and just aft

9.04 CDs for LoCos

2009-04-14 Thread Nick Ali
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingCds Orders should be placed before April 23rd. nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

LoCo related OpenWeek sessions

2009-04-09 Thread Nick Ali
With OpenWeek coming up soon, it would be helpful to have sessions covering LoCos. Are there any topics that LoCos think should be covered? Leading like a LoCo? Organizing and running release parties / install fests? Promoting LoCos? nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- loco-contacts maili

Re: [Ubuntu-microblogging] Creative denting/tweeting.

2009-03-26 Thread Nick Ali
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Jorge O. Castro wrote: > It's been a while since I've seen anything on this list, but I'm really > digging http://twitter.debian.net/. The Debian Developers have access to > the API to post to both Twitter and Identica through a single point

March 2009 Team Reports

2009-03-23 Thread Nick Ali
Please add your LoCo activities to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/March2009. thanks! nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Planet Issue..

2009-03-16 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Efrain wrote: > Currently planet Ubuntu-ve holds a feed for several wordpress hosted > blogs. these blogs get cut in half and the urls do not point to the > blog. they point to the planet. Is this the wordpress issue listed at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlanetUbuntu?

Re: [ubuntu-us] ubuntu-us.org website

2009-03-02 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > Hi all, > > One of my tasks from the past meeting was to try to regain access to > the Canonical-hosted ubuntu-us.org and planet.ubuntu-us.org sites. I > submitted a ticket to get new people added last week and have heard > nothing back,

Reminder: Ubuntu LoCos Meeting Saturday 28 Feb 09 18:00 UTC

2009-02-27 Thread Nick Ali
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamMeeting Feel free to add to it. Also, please invite your members as well. We want all LoCo members to feel part of the larger community, not just their LoCo! thanks, nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] 4 videos moving forward

2009-02-21 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Jacob F. Roecker wrote: > Dear All: > > These first four videos are in direct competition with MS and Mac's ad > campaigns. They are a start. This project has been silent for too long, > and I needed some easy way to start it going again. This seemed to be the >

January 2009 Team Reports

2009-02-03 Thread Nick Ali
Please add your LoCo activities to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/January2009. thanks, nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: [Ubuntu-microblogging] Groups coming to identi.ca

2009-01-23 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > They're updating identi.ca next week to support groups. > > http://mail.laconi.ca/pipermail/laconica-dev/2009-January/000780.html > > I was thinking when this goes live that we should snag some groups, > something like this: > > !ubuntu - T

Re: [ubuntu-us] Geaorgia LoCo Contact Change

2009-01-17 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Martin Owens wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:35 -0500, Nick Ali wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Joshua Chase >> wrote: >> > I am pleased to announce that Jon Reagan has accepted the duty of LoCo >> > Contact for the

Re: [ubuntu-us] Geaorgia LoCo Contact Change

2009-01-17 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Martin Owens wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:35 -0500, Nick Ali wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Joshua Chase >> wrote: >> > I am pleased to announce that Jon Reagan has accepted the duty of LoCo >> > Contact for the

Re: [ubuntu-us] Geaorgia LoCo Contact Change

2009-01-17 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Joshua Chase wrote: > I am pleased to announce that Jon Reagan has accepted the duty of LoCo > Contact for the US Gearogia team! Congrats Jon! We expect great things from you :-) -- http://boredandblogging.com -- Ubuntu-us mailing list Ubuntu-us@lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-us] Geaorgia LoCo Contact Change

2009-01-17 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Joshua Chase wrote: > I am pleased to announce that Jon Reagan has accepted the duty of LoCo > Contact for the US Gearogia team! Congrats Jon! We expect great things from you :-) -- http://boredandblogging.com -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists

Re: Announcing the next Global Bug Jam

2009-01-06 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Chuck Frain wrote: > My suggestions on the Bug Jam topic. > > Have a 'Running a bug jam' meeting in early January to give people time to > prep a bit based off what they learn. Then a followup at the end of the > month or early February to catch follow up questions

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] whyubuntu.com (Martin Meredith)

2008-12-28 Thread Nick Ali
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Jacob F. Roecker wrote: > whyubuntu.com will be purchased with a registrar on Monday (don't like > making other people work on Sunday). The space has already been allocated. > > Please contact me directly (ja...@roeckerfam.com) if you're interested in > working o

Re: 8.10 CDs

2008-11-06 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/5 Joshua Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Yup, I'm still waiting too :) Soon Come! >> >> as they say in Jamaica! >> >> Josh >> > > > Florida should get theirs before Georgia, just as a matter of principle. lol, what principle w

Re: [Uwn-de] UWN Translation Germany

2008-11-05 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Mathias/mfm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > As stated before, we re-launched the translation of the UWN for the > german-speaking community. > It is not a pure translation, since it's oriented more on news from > german news portals, only translating texts that

Re: [Ubuntu-microblogging] Re-denter?

2008-10-29 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The use I was thinking of was having an account > (identi.ca/ubuntu-bugjams?) that re-dents, say, #bugjam so people can > watch for a #bugjam post to show up and see if it's for their town. > crimsun's "impromptu bugjam

[Ubuntu-microblogging] any ideas for improvement?

2008-10-28 Thread Nick Ali
Do you guys have any ideas on how we could promote the ubuntu* accounts more? It would be really cool if people thought they were the best ways of getting the latest Ubuntu information the fastest. How can we improve them as well? We have already hooked up quite a few feeds to them. nick -- ht

Re: [Ubuntu-microblogging] who's here so far?

2008-10-28 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So who's here so far? And does sending with your @ubuntu.com as the > From work? Its possible we need to contact the others and tell them about this list. Might have missed the comments on identi.ca. nick -- http:/

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Possible to have countdown timer in HTML?

2008-10-06 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM, shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I saw and love the countdown timer at > http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown > > Could somebody have an HTML code of the same as well. My site > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > doesn't handle javascript ..

Re: ccHost for LoCos Was: Intrepid Release Parties!

2008-10-06 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Martin Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those who don't know what ccHost is, it's a media sharing CMS > which openclipart.org is founded. It supports lots of collaborative > features including being able to tell people what works your work is > derived from (so

8.10 CDs

2008-09-30 Thread Nick Ali
Approved LoCos can now put in their requests or 8.10 CDs: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingCds nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: LoCo Council Meeting 30 September 2008 19:00UTC

2008-09-30 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Sav vas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What date & time is actually the next week's meeting? 07 October, 19:00UTC -- http://boredandblogging.com -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

LoCo Council Meeting 30 September 2008 19:00UTC

2008-09-23 Thread Nick Ali
If you are a LoCo that wants to get approved[1] or would like to discuss any LoCo related matters, add yourself to the LoCo Council agenda[2] and attend the meeting. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingApproved [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncilAgenda nick -- http://boredandblogging.co

Re: ubuntu cds

2008-08-30 Thread Nick Ali
Is it possible that these CDs were stopped in customs? nick On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Diego Turcios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well here in Honduras we were trying to make our presentation, but we > cancelled it, because they did not approved the cds. > > > > __

[ubuntu-us] Possible Ubuntu plug on NBC tomorrow morning

2008-08-26 Thread Nick Ali
NBC's The Today Show Wednesday August 27th, between 9-10am EST. Unknown segment, but possibly something to do with new notebooks. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-August/000161.html If you have a DVR, please record it and post it online. nick -- http://boredandblogging

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] list verification?

2008-08-08 Thread Nick Ali
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:52 PM, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I notice I have not received any messages from the list for a while. > Is it something at my end of things or what, or just a very quiet time? Just quiet. nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list

Re: LoCo Lost - Approval Date Column

2008-07-16 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Adi Roiban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What are the rules for filling Approval Date column from Loco Team List > wiki page? > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList > > I say that many team have a day and month but not an year for approval? > > Why it so?

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] RedRap and Ubuntu

2008-07-12 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Rubén Hubuntu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm reading the guardian weekly and I'm thrilled to see the Ubuntu > desktop side by side with the RepRap machine in the article's picture. > > It would be fun to see a note about it on UWN or something. We covered RepRap

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Core Marketing Team Created! Join Us!

2008-06-13 Thread Nick Ali
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:56 PM, John Vilsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Launchpad is now up and running. Mailing list is in process. An LP mailing list? Then see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-April/003610.html nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- ubuntu-mar

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu marketing?

2008-05-31 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Nick Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Simon Schneebeli > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Actually, since this release party last month, I have the idea in my >> head to write something like a guide

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu marketing?

2008-05-31 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Simon Schneebeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, since this release party last month, I have the idea in my > head to write something like a guide on "how to organise a perfect > release party". Instead of reinventing anything from scratch I thought > I'd fi

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team (Mike Feravolo)

2008-05-29 Thread Nick Ali
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Mike Feravolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I have been reading this list and the marketing list of another flavor > of Linux for a while and would like to make a suggestion. > > Maybe the current marketing team should be broken up by function: > > 1) Amba

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-28 Thread Nick Ali
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:15 AM, John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Onno, > As far as putting together a wiki template for press releases, I am > certainly willing to take a stab at it, although it might go slow until > I get more comfortable with wiki codes. I use very little coding on

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Server survey

2008-05-28 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Onno Benschop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I mentioned in previous postings, the Ubuntu Server team is in the > process of launching a survey to find out how people are using Ubuntu > Server and what functionality is missing for them. Might want to contact some

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-27 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:18 PM, John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:50 -0400, Cory K. wrote: >> John Vilsack wrote: >> This is kinda what was talked about at UDS. A team made up of people in >> each LOCO (local level) who want to promote Ubuntu. Along with ties to

Re: Community Web Forums list

2008-05-27 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Søren Bredlund Caspersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who administrates this list: > http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/webforums > > And how do we (The Danish Team) get our forum > http://ubuntudanmark.dk/forum/ on to that list? Submit your request to https:/

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-19 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [disclaimer] > I don't know which list is the best to discuss it because there is no > specific list for discussing Ubuntu's website, so sorry for the duplication. > When the thread expands someone could decide to ke

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-19 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [disclaimer] > I don't know which list is the best to discuss it because there is no > specific list for discussing Ubuntu's website, so sorry for the duplication. > When the thread expands someone could decide to ke

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] TechTarget offers link to Ubuntu blog

2008-05-07 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Derringer, Pam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi – one of my colleagues suggested you'd be interested in a link to my > blog. Is this the right place to send it? Pam, It was covered in the last Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewslette

Re: Legal entity

2008-05-07 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Jad madi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > May 03 22:30:35 Synutx asked if the LoCo can > provide commercial support to companies > May 03 22:31:36 specifically if the business > opportunity can be done under the LoCo team > May 03 22:32:50 while

Re: Joomla Themes

2008-05-01 Thread Nick Ali
On the main site? Looks like Drupal. nick On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Jocelyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do anybody know what software is ubuntu using ? > > regards > > > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Dan Trevino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Our (florida.ubuntu-us.org) theme is a l

Re: Joomla Themes

2008-04-30 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Jocelyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All , > > anybody has an example about ubuntu theme for joomla . > Hopefully someone from the Florida team can help you, they are using Joomla at http://florida.ubuntu-us.org/. nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- l

Re: Approval process

2008-04-29 Thread Nick Ali
Correct. nick On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Jad madi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > great, so we don't have to attend to the next community council for > our application? > > 2008/4/28 Nick Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:

Re: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/local page and Tamil Team

2008-04-29 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:39 AM, ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ் <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I request the appropriate admin of http://www.ubuntu.com/support/local site > to include the details of Ubuntu Tamil Team both under India and Sri Lanka. You should probably submit an issue at https://launchpad.

Re: Approval process

2008-04-28 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Jad madi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I wonder what's the current status of the new LoCo teams approval > process as we (Ubuntu-Jo) are ready to apply and actually I sent an > email to Jono a day before the last Community Council meeting but in > that m

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] BBC article

2008-04-23 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:29 PM, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Yarusso wrote: > > For UWN consideration: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7358483.stm > > see also the Blog: > Is it lift off for Linux? > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/04/is_it_lift_off_for_linux.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] BBC article

2008-04-21 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tony Yarusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For UWN consideration: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7358483.stm Thanks. nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] new TechTarget Ubuntu sotry

2008-04-21 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Donnelly, Matthew <> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Here's one to consider for your weekly newsletter: > > > http://searchitchannel.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid96_gci1310488,00.html. Thanks Matthew. We'll put it in the next UWN. nick -- http://boredandblo

Re: [Ubuntu-fridge] Action Requested: Fridge LP mailing lists

2008-04-16 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Martin Albisetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fully agree with this, and was my main reason for trying to create a > -news team. > Stop duplicating efforts, centralize all news flow in o

Re: [Ubuntu-fridge] Action Requested: Fridge LP mailing lists

2008-04-15 Thread Nick Ali
gestions like > "submit-stories" and "news-submissions". > > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Nick Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Joey Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > perhaps instead

Re: [Ubuntu-fridge] Action Requested: Fridge LP mailing lists

2008-04-15 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Joey Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perhaps instead of a meeting, since it's already been well reviewed > previously, we could just email the relevant groups with notification > that we're going to implement the spec and to raise any issues. What > do yo

[Ubuntu-fridge] 8.04 Press Release Translations on Fridge

2008-04-14 Thread Nick Ali
I've been pushing the LoCos to translate the upcoming Canonical press release to as many different languages possible. I've asked Gerry Carr if we could post them on ubuntu.com with the official release. I'm not sure that will work out, but how about posting them on the Fridge? nick -- http://b

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Announcement

2008-04-14 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Danny Piccirillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are organizing a letter writing and calling campaign to get Ubuntu in > Stores. Please read "The Final Push: Linux in Stores" and Digg it! I find it interesting that you have Walmart listed in the UbuntuInStores wiki

Re: 8.04 Press Release Translations

2008-04-12 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Przemys?aw Kulczycki wrote: > > Nick Ali pisze: > >> We have access to parts of the official Canonical press release for > >> 8.04. It would be helpful if LoCos could translate it an

8.04 Press Release Translations

2008-04-10 Thread Nick Ali
We have access to parts of the official Canonical press release for 8.04. It would be helpful if LoCos could translate it and pass it on to local media outlets once Canonical releases it officially. Translations are already in the works for the following languages: French Spanish German Czech If

[ubuntu-marketing] marketing meeting

2008-04-08 Thread Nick Ali
I missed the last meeting, so I thought I'd pipe in with some of my thoughts. Martin mentioned contacting Canonical about marketing. Gerry Carr might be person to get in touch with. Also, Gerry has said he should have a press release available soon that can be passed out to LoCos for translation.

[Ubuntu-fridge] fridge event module issues

2008-04-05 Thread Nick Ali
fridge.ubuntu.com/event is showing a blank screen again. Webmaster has been notified. nick -- http://boredandblogging.com ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-fridge Post to : ubuntu-fridge@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://la

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Marketing meeting April 8th, 23:00 GMT

2008-04-05 Thread Nick Ali
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Felipe Lerena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys! We are having a ubuntu marketing team meeting this Tuesday, > April 8th, 23:00 GMT. > you can look at the meeting's agenda or add your own items in the > meeting wiki page at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingT

Re: [Ubuntu-fridge] Fridge Outage

2008-04-02 Thread Nick Ali
Everything is back to normal. nick On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Joey Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our working theory is that php has run out of memory. It's set pretty > low so we've requested it be raised significantly. > > > > On Wed, Apr 2,

Re: [Ubuntu-fridge] Fridge Outage

2008-04-02 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Vid Ayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Joey Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The Fridge's event module is not currently working. > > > > We're getting the white screen of death (see > http://drupal.org/node/15

Re: [Ubuntu-fridge] the Fridge LP mailing lists

2008-03-28 Thread Nick Ali
We can do the contact form on the fridge without a code change. You can see it under the Site Building category. nick On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Joey Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with all of your points. We've talked about them during the > fridge code refresh. >

Re: [Ubuntu-fridge] Action Requested: Fridge LP mailing lists

2008-03-28 Thread Nick Ali
Like mentioned previously, requiring someone to subscribe to a list to submit a story is not good. I can't think of a good solution for that. nick On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Joey Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to reopen the discussion of the Fridge and News Mailing

Re: [Ubuntu-fridge] Ubuntu fridge editor

2008-03-27 Thread Nick Ali
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Martin Albisetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Joey Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Only good things can come from Cody being an editor. > He's done magic with the UWN and helped me through my first steps in > the community

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] misprint at http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1376

2008-03-26 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Jason Joines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1376, "The Ubuntu Weekly > Newsletter, Issue 82 for the weeks March 16th - March 22nd..." should be > "The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 83 for the weeks March 16th - March > 22nd.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Identity fraud...or worse

2008-03-26 Thread Nick Ali
Don't mean to reply to my own mail, but I stopped by #canonical-sysadmin and asked them about the spam. They said that all list mail gets filtered through spamassassin. Not much else we can do. nick On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Nick Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I nee

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Identity fraud...or worse

2008-03-26 Thread Nick Ali
Yeah, I need to look into that. Most of the spam doesn't get through because spammers don't realize you have to sign up for the list, so I just reject them. But some have figured it out. nick On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brings me to the point tha

Re: [Ubuntu-fridge] new bot on #fridge

2008-03-24 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Joey Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The IRSeek folks contacted me today asking for permission to add their > IRSeeK bot to the fridge channel. I've given them my approval. Their > service is an IRC Log search engine. > > http://www.irseek.com/

[ubuntu-us] Next Meeting?

2008-03-22 Thread Nick Ali
Should we set up another meeting? Maybe to discuss what LoCos are planning on doing for Hardy release parties and install fests? Maybe help out some of the newer teams with ideas? nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- Ubuntu-us mailing list Ubuntu-us@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsub

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Promoting Ubuntu at libraries?

2008-03-21 Thread Nick Ali
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Dylan McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, before I meander way off topic: I can't possibly be the only one who > has pondered promoting Ubuntu, in some way, at a public library. Any > experiences, examples, related stories, screams of terror or links? Feel >

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team,

2008-03-13 Thread Nick Ali
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jad madi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I hope this is worth mentioning at UNW > > http://syntux.net/blog/2008/03/13/ubuntu-jordan-loco-floss-introduction-the-jordanian-way/ It will be added to the next UWN. thanks, nick -- http://boredandblogging.com

Re: [ubuntu-us] Time for another social meet-n-greet?

2008-03-05 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Aaron Toponce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Ali wrote: > > March 13th is also the next regular #ubuntu-us meeting. Did we want to > > do all these the same night? > > What did we have planned for that? Maybe we could move that

Re: [ubuntu-us] Time for another social meet-n-greet?

2008-03-05 Thread Nick Ali
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Aaron Toponce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for sitting on this. Let's plan it one week from tomorrow > (originally the plan). > > March 13th 20:00 MST, #ubuntu-us March 13th is also the next regular #ubuntu-us meeting. Did we want to do all these the same

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] I always fix

2008-03-02 Thread Nick Ali
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:31 PM, André Gondim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not know why, but you alway wrong the translation stats. I fix it > again. > > Thanks, Oops, I've made a change to the template, so it shouldn't happen again. thanks, nick -- http://boredandblogging.com -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Linux Day

2008-02-26 Thread Nick Ali
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Zapien, Manuel J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To whom it may concern: > > Good morning! My name is Manuel Zapien and I am President of the local > chapter for Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) at Colorado State > University-Pueblo. Next month in March,

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