Re: Hardy CDs

2008-04-11 Thread Martin Owens
Unaproved teams have to order CDs for themselves, we used to ask each of our members to place an order and pool the result. 2008/4/11 Jocelyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > what about unapproved team . > > Regards > -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: chocolatecoveredspam.com user?

2008-04-18 Thread Martin Owens
ubuntu-us-ma got one today. looks like we've been targeted. do we know by who? 2008/4/18 David Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > New Mexico Team had one sign up yesterday. > > > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-cont

Re: chocolatecoveredspam.com user?

2008-04-18 Thread Martin Owens
this loco contacts mailing list and asking if anyone minds. Best Regards, Martin Owens 2008/4/18 Jared Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > That is indeed my employer. I'm a real employee there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -Jared > > -- loco-contacts mailing

Re: chocolatecoveredspam.com user?

2008-04-18 Thread Martin Owens
> Yep. Which is why we generally reject people who don't > go to the trouble of creating either a launchpad.net or > wiki.ubunutu.com profile... Draconian, perhaps, but we've > been burned before. We don't mind being burned, after a while the pain is numbed by the normality of it. Anyone ca

Re: Team Leadership

2008-05-03 Thread Martin Owens
n. Even if it's one just to take blame when things blow up. Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Legal entity

2008-05-06 Thread Martin Owens
is that ubuntu-us is very afraid of the legal consequences of going ahead with any sort of incorperation. But I'm afraid of the consequences if we don't. Best Regards, Martin Owens 2008/5/6 Søren Bredlund Caspersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello everyone, > > in the Danis

LoCo tools, development

2008-05-21 Thread Martin Owens
db backend. Thoughts? As a side note, having a place where we can list loco software would be very useful, things like irc bot software, useful scripts ect, i'm sure there is already one so we can add the above idea to there. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing lis

Re: LoCo tools, development

2008-05-22 Thread Martin Owens
s locoteams if you ask me... I'm not keen on google app engine; I'd rather write the thing from scratch and own and license it without fear that others could not host it for their own teams. Besides there are plenty of people with plenty of servers even in my state who would lend space for

Re: LoCo tools, development

2008-05-25 Thread Martin Owens
You can not plan with communication, communication is in it's self a tool. now what your saying is that the wiki, forums and mailing lists are good enough for communication; yet this isn't good enough for planning and organisation, the wiki here is particularly bad because it's so unstructured that

Re: LoCo tools, development

2008-05-27 Thread Martin Owens
You've managed to get me annoyed, not good Mr East. Are you seriously suggesting that you know better for our LoCo team here than we do? I find it offensive that anyone could have the authority to dictate what each individual LoCo group should use or should work on. As I said in a previous email,

Re: LoCo tools, development

2008-05-27 Thread Martin Owens
ly that but I'd like people to be rewarded for taking part in events, I'd like to see notifications being sent out to make sure different parts get done and I'd like to see the events automatically added to calendars and available on the front page for visitors to see what is going o

Re: LoCo tools, development

2008-05-27 Thread Martin Owens
going down this route, thanks for adding the fridge mailing list too. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Shared Media Resources, Was: collaborative Projects

2008-05-27 Thread Martin Owens
't get responses out of the authors. very sad because it was amazing work that would look good as a poster anywhere. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Legal entity - part 2.

2008-06-07 Thread Martin Owens
2008/6/7 Mark Van den Borre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > _Why_ would you introduce this extra complexity? What can you do that > you can't do without one? > I don't think it's a matter for what you _can_ do; in some countries or states it may be a legal requirement and in other places lots of things bec

Re: Best Practices: Getting the word out?

2008-06-24 Thread Martin Owens
I have suggested setting up a LoCo based ccHost website for multimedia and marketing materials. Some other people are interested in having the resource, would the marketing team be interested in running it? 2008/6/24 Daniel Holbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash

Re: Ubuntu on Alienware? +1

2008-07-08 Thread Martin Owens
Bit of a cheek to ask us to pay more. Sounds like a gouging. 2008/7/8 Sav vas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > They ask if we'd like to pay *more* in order to use gnu/linux... :\ > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts >

Re: Ubutnu Israel soon in local news

2008-07-16 Thread Martin Owens
That aluminium looking powered by ubuntu graphic looks awfully familiar ;-) 2008/7/16 Amir Eldor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, I'm Amir from Ubuntu-IL. > > I've heard that a popular show on local television is making an article > about our local community. That's great and I'll let you know when it

Re: ubuntu cds

2008-08-31 Thread Martin Owens
> I don't want to be rude... but you've probably never been to a "less than > stable" country. Things frequently can be and are stolen in customs > (especially if they look like they have more value) and you would never know > about it. I can't Imagen some thief taking a stack of Ubuntu CDs and s

Re: Loco support

2008-09-22 Thread Martin Owens
as run into. And these things could do with help from others with a vested interest. I've talked with Mr Alan Pope before today about this issue. I've not heard since our initial exchange. Best Regards, Martin Owens 2008/9/22 Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >

Re: Sale of codecs

2008-09-25 Thread Martin Owens
OK Misinformation busting time: It is not illegal to distribute or operate most of the codecs in the US or anywhere else. So long as it's the free software packages, liblame (mp3), ffmpeg, libdecss, and so on. none of these packages have copyright problems and none have been challenged for patent

Re: Should the default wallpaper of 8.10 be changed?

2008-10-03 Thread Martin Owens
That's the wallpaper for Ibex? Ew. Not that I care, more people will start using my advanced backgrounds program to change their background to something interesting. But still, how bland. Regards, Martin 2008/10/3 Savvas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I know it's somehow off-topic, however I believe the

ccHost for LoCos Was: Intrepid Release Parties!

2008-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
> Of course the best would be to have access to the sources > (SVG/*SD/ODT) but if that is not possible an image or PDF would do. Again the idea of shared graphics and media comes up. I recommend those sitting on the LoCo Council earn their titles and have a ccHost set up, or something very simil

Re: ccHost for LoCos Was: Intrepid Release Parties!

2008-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
>> You might want to talk to the guys who are working on the SpreadUbuntu >> project[1]. It might not be exactly what are you are looking for, but >> hopefully it will turn into a nice repo of material that LoCos can >> leverage. Once we have a convention, we need to push all LoCos to take advanta

Re: ccHost for LoCos Was: Intrepid Release Parties!

2008-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
> We have a test site with a web front end in drupal versions 5[3] and > 6[4]. Besides that we are working on the building of the site > infrastructure (Web-frontend, LP OpenID, DB, python connectors, bzr > for DVCS, launchpad for translations/coordination)[5] and the making > of launchpad bzr bran

Re: ccHost for LoCos Was: Intrepid Release Parties!

2008-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
> Martin, where is the MA site running? There is a demo server running at http://ugeeks.media.mit.edu It isn't as new as the code, and launchpad recently updated their openid systems breaking the demo. But the code works fine if you run it localhost (dev) To be honest, getting a job a Canonical

Re: Are there US teams who are 501(c)(3) organizations?

2008-10-07 Thread Martin Owens
It's difficult to say, none of the LoCos I know in the USA are even Incorporated, let alone None-Profit or Charities. there has been much rumblings about the problem. Best bet is to either, donate to the FSF or enter the bounty system (although not as much tax break, but the money goes where you w

Re: 8.10 CDs

2008-11-06 Thread Martin Owens
> > > > Florida should get theirs before Georgia, just as a matter of principle. > > lol, what principle would that be? > > BTW, Georgia got CDs today. Do we even know if he meant Georgia USA or Georgia just next to Russia. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https:/

Re: Announcement: SpreadUbuntu 0.1 - codename “evan”

2008-11-09 Thread Martin Owens
to post your SVGs as vector is a million times better than raster for printed material marketing. Although a bug I've noticed with the get marketing page. My media is duplicated a number of time. Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Announcement: SpreadUbuntu 0.1 - codename “evan”

2008-11-09 Thread Martin Owens
> > > I am asking all of you to tell members of your LoCo teams about our > > > project and invite them to use it, to come to our site and thus get > > > the repository bigger and more relevant for the global community! You > > > can visit it here: http://ubuntu.ec/su/drupal5/ > > > I also found

Re: 8.10 CDs

2008-11-12 Thread Martin Owens
say that makes you partners; who are being supplied useful materials to aid your volunteer work. To add to the me toos, Massachusetts got our CDs last week. Not sure on the brown design with the BLOCK font though. I liked the previous red ones. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing

Ubuntu for Libraries

2008-11-18 Thread Martin Owens
Hey all, Does anyone know of a distro of ubuntu tailored for Libraries? We've got interested parties, although a lot of features are similar to cyber cafe computer terminal features. Regards, Martin -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/l

Re: Ubuntu for Libraries

2008-11-18 Thread Martin Owens
old a certain amount of someone's files. I know places that do this, it might not work for libraries though. Regards, Martin Owens On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 15:43 -0500, Jacob Peddicord wrote: > Can't think of a version off of the top of my head, but there might be > something ou

Re: Sarcasm and making fun of other projects in loco team lists

2009-01-08 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Fabian, > I deeply resent any sarcasm and bad mouthing of other operating systems > and Linux distributions, particularly any references to them like > Micro$oft. I strongly believe that's against our CoC and it sets the > mood for other non-constructive comments and trolls. Our LoCo has been

Re: Sarcasm and making fun of other projects in loco team lists

2009-01-08 Thread Martin Owens
> If an argument against a software project or corporation is founded on > facts, logic, and void of emotion, I tend to pay attention. If the > argument starts off with "Why [brand X] sucks", I lose interest quickly. > Then again, there are those who are both informed and tactful, yet argue > to a

Re: Getting into politics?

2009-01-17 Thread Martin Owens
FLOSS solutions, and ours locking itself into the > proprietary world even more. Though, unless you have a better government than the UK, I seriously doubt a petition will get enough attention. Modern politics is far too arrogant to take notice of politely reminding them of your views. I'd get the m

Re: [ubuntu-us] Geaorgia LoCo Contact Change

2009-01-17 Thread Martin Owens
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 US Gearogia team! > > Congrats Jon! We expect great things from you :-) Regular reports and

Re: [ubuntu-us] Geaorgia LoCo Contact Change

2009-01-17 Thread Martin Owens
> Dang! Chris got off easy in Florida! See, your just not thinking evil enough. I have my second in command make cakes. And then I say: "Let them eat cake, and take cds!" -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: SD Contact

2009-01-18 Thread Martin Owens
Hi Michael, > I took over the South Dakota team a little while back and have been > working hard to bring it back to life. Great to hear! Hopefully we'll see you around and about. Do share with us your ideas, as I'm sure others have done in the past. I'm trying to encourage LoCos to talk more bet

Re: FW: SD Contact

2009-01-18 Thread Martin Owens
This is probably something that tools could help with. To be an official LoCo, you have to be doing monthly meetings as well as other events. If launchpad or some other tool has event management capabilities, it'd be very easy to see a heartbeat and see which teams need help. It'd also be easier

Re: LoCo Council Call Meeting Notes

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Owens
ll. This is great to see Jono, thanks for getting involved and posting the results. I'm feeling positive already about what we can achieve with greater communication and more collaboration. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https:/

Re: #ubuntu-locoteams

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Owens
> > How about we get that channel pumping? Lets make it a kick-ass place in > > which to share LoCo knowledge, best practises and all the great things > > our community is doing. :) You can use pidgin to connect to the freenode irc server. It's not strait forward, but it is pre-installed. Regar

Re: LoCo Docs Day - 12th Feb 2009

2009-02-03 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 14:02 -0500, Jan Husar wrote: > Hi Jono, > > would be good to announce it in advance, not in 10days > > I thought you are a manager, doesn't seems so Passive aggressive much Mr Husar? 10 days isn't much time for a physical meet up event, but this is an online event involvin

Re: Ubuntu Training in the USA

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Owens
> Maybe the US option is not usable in our region. It's not usable in the American underclass either. We've been doing Ubuntu classes for over a year (although nothing like the scale you have in Pakistan) We're just trying to scrabble over misconceptions, governmental and corporate opposition (ne

Re: Ubuntu Training in the USA

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Owens
Bret, > I'm not sure, but this sounds like enterprise level training. > Possibly the forerunner for Ubuntu Certifications. There is certainly > a "comfort zone" for mid-size to large companies who won't adopt > anything that they can't get employees who are classroom trained, or > better yet cert

Re: First organizational Ubuntu-hn meeting at IRC

2009-02-13 Thread Martin Owens
Where is ubuntu-hn? On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 17:51 -0600, Elvira Martínez wrote: > > > Hello, > > I would like to > confirme we will have > our first Ubuntu-hn > organizational meeting > at IRC channel on > Thursday February 19 at > 9PM (UTC -6) under the > channel #ubuntu-hn > Freenode > > W

Those aluminium stickers

2009-03-11 Thread Martin Owens
Hey all, As requested by Rubén R (huayra) on my blog: http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/zareason-makers-of-swag There is an interest in getting lots made specifically for providing LoCos a better price. So we'd need interest in buying 10,000 at least. That's about $0.22 each (estimated),

Re: Those aluminium stickers

2009-03-12 Thread Martin Owens
p woensdag 11-03-2009 om 16:54 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Martin > Owens: > > There is an interest in getting lots made specifically for providing > > LoCos a better price. So we'd need interest in buying 10,000 at least. > > > > That's about $0.22 each (esti

None Locale, Language Teams

2009-03-16 Thread Martin Owens
ese groups? what are for and how do they marry up with the geographic setup of LoCos so far? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Planet Issue..

2009-03-16 Thread Martin Owens
with wordpress blogs. Regards, Martin Owens On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 09:24 -0400, Og Maciel wrote: > Hi Efrain, > > > 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.

Re: Ubuntu-Honduras Begins to work

2009-03-21 Thread Martin Owens
Congratulations Ubuntu Honduras LoCo! Getting the first Event over and out is the hardest, but then you have too do the meetings and plan your activity... Best Regards, Martin Owens On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 15:12 -0600, Diego Turcios wrote: > Hi > At the beginnig of the year, here in Hondur

Teaching FOSS Principles

2009-03-23 Thread Martin Owens
erstanding-foss.pdf The SVG files are available and so the whole thing can be translated into locale languages. http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/foss-understanding-foss-visual-guide/ Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.c

Re: Can we get 9.04 CDs and somd ads?

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Owens
For adverts/posters etc, you best bet is to go to spread ubuntu: http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ There you will find plenty of resources to use to edit your own posters and adverts. Regards, Martin On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 21:34 +0900, JiHui Choi wrote: > Hello. > > We(Korean Team) have plans t

Re: Can we get 9.04 CDs and somd ads?

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Owens
t; try browsing that one for a bit of inspiration. Are you encouraging people to add their media to the spread ubuntu website? It's designed to allow us to collab our media. http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ But we need source files to make good derivative works. SVGs for preference for p

LoCoRST, Project Support

2009-04-11 Thread Martin Owens
being successful if there is enough of a need out there. It's mostly done, it just needs moving over from pyxmpp to xmpppy and the ssh tunneling cleared up and it should be able to go into beta. https://launchpad.net/locoremotesupport Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts m

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-27 Thread Martin Owens
> > Some confusion maybe seen from the naming, but I see no real issue. The > team members who wish too can look at and work with more specific Ubuntu > issues and act as a conduit between the teams of both distributions to > make things better. Many teams work in this way and I see no real > com

Educational Topics

2009-04-28 Thread Martin Owens
st Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Those aluminium stickers

2009-05-03 Thread Martin Owens
they are popular enough. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 14:21 +0200, Rubén Romero y Cordero wrote: > Hei there, > > Martin it would be really nice if you could share a wiki page, google > spreadsheet or the like with interested people. > > Under the Jaunty party

Re: LoCo Governance - How is your LoCo-team organised?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Owens
rectify or at least record what they learned from an event. But I won't have a comity of people pointing fingers, wasting time. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

UDS: LoCo Eventing

2009-05-26 Thread Martin Owens
work going on in the teams-db world, data is going to be removed from the wiki and we’re going to have a website which will hopefully handle the team information in a much more cohesive way. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: Ubucon Central America

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Owens
Well done guys! I love hearing about all the awesome work going on. Funny enough I was editing all the central american countries together in inkscape today, Mexico is a part of central america right? what about cuba? Regards, Martin On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 19:30 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: > Comm

Re: Ubucon Central America

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Owens
> Mexico is North America, together with Canada and the US. OK Mexico is big enough to click from the world view... > what about cuba? > Cuba is part of the caribbean countries. Would it make sense to combine the Caribbean Countries and Central America for expediency sake? > Despite

Re: Ubucon Central America

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 23:03 -0400, Chuck Frain wrote: > Perhaps Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island should be combined > for expediency sake while you're condensing things. Well yes, they will be, it'll be in something called "North America" and you'll have to drill down to get to "The Uni

Government Service Initatives

2009-06-23 Thread Martin Owens
2. Website: http://www.serve.gov/ 3. Ideas: http://www.serve.gov/toolkits/general/index.asp Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: UDS follow up - Improving Conference Pack

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Jono, On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 17:06 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: > On 06/20/2009 07:21 AM, Adi Roiban wrote: > > In this case maybe we can make a list of things that we would like to > > see in the conference pack and make a big order of stickers/pins/etc for > > all locos or for group of locos. > >

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 10:59 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently I have been talking to Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome > publishers of The Official Ubuntu Book > All in all a pretty sweet deal, methinks. Enjoy! Thanks for organising and pushing for this Jono, a sweet deal

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:22 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: > Because not every team is in LP. this will be easier when the LoCo > Directory is online. :-) I thought that a launchpad team, properly organised was a requirement for official recognition. Perhaps it's worth going that route and fixing team

Re: Loco team contact change in Ubuntu-bo

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 20:25 +0100, Dave Walker wrote: > There are really a few ways this could be cleanly implemented, not > necessarily meaning the LoCo team leader is the Launchpad admin. Perhaps > we should discuss this at the next LoCo meeting, which we should have > soon. :) There isn't alway

Re: Ubuntu LoCo Team Lists?

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:30 -0700, Michael S. Mason wrote: > > Hello, my name is Michael Mason. I am interested in getting my group > added to the official 'Ubuntu LoCo Team/Group List?' Hey Michael, So are you wanting to set up an Ubuntu Local Community group within your existing LUG? What loc

Request for Comment: Launchpad LoCo Tools

2009-07-30 Thread Martin Owens
code it up. * Get launchpad devs to deploy it in their next round. Thoughts? Please add to fridge Fri 7th August 22:00 GMT, #ubuntu-meeting if you know how or have access to a central google calendar. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:19 +0200, Jonathan Hitchcock wrote: > Firstly, the Ubuntu-ZA loco team had a meeting on IRC this morning, > and we came out very much in favour of automatically redirecting South > African users to #ubuntu-za. We have built up the channel and the > community around it, and

Re: LoCo Directory Update

2009-08-17 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Jono, Fantastic, the quicker it's out the quicker 2.0 can come :-) I'm waiting for the xml out so I can so some funky svg maps based on it. Hows life Jono, you've been all quiet in the loco realm. Martin, On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 19:14 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: > Hi All, > > Just a quick updat

Mozilla Serivce Week

2009-08-20 Thread Martin Owens
some knowledge and training on unix-like operating systems. Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Free Art of Community book for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-08-20 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 16:48 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > Recently I announced > (http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/19/the-art-of-community-now-available/) my > brand spanking new book The Art of Community > (http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/) and so far the reception has been

Re: Help promoting Ubuntu Global Jam

2009-09-20 Thread Martin Owens
We shouldn't be questioning the license decision of authors, but more fixing the lack of attribution. Don't forget that attribution is "as specified" by the author. Which means that if I say that you must link to a certain website and place my email address, then that's what must be done to attrib

Re: SoSLUG Ubuntu Global Jam in East of England

2009-09-20 Thread Martin Owens
cation of archive]" Other than that, I can't imagine what needs to be disclaimed as it should be expected to be a public forum, much like sending a letter to a newspaper and having the same kind of disclaimer. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists

Ubuntu MA Jams

2009-10-04 Thread Martin Owens
to confirm bugs and other activities. 359 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA. Wednesday, 6pm-8:30pm. Best Regards, Martin Owens http://www.ubuntu-massachusetts.com/ -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: A Global Ubuntu Release party

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Alex, The video idea is interesting, even if the videos were not streamed but just regular edited videos. I'm going to see if I can get our new guy with the camera to come to our party and shoot some people, maybe ask them what they're looking forward to in the new release. Martin, On Tue,

Re: ShipIt label translations

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 14:14 -0400, Chuck Frain wrote: > If you want to take it down this road, how much of the source is even > on the disc itself? Well, all of it is accessible from the CD when booted. apt-get source blah. It's also notable that Mark himself used "Free Software" in his recent

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-10-20 Thread Martin Owens
ddit > link: http://www.reddit.com/tb/9w23y/ original > link: > http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20091020050110241). > If you're in support of this idea, just pass on any simple actions you come > across to the list. There's also this nifty

Re: ShipIt Changes

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hello Mike, Jane via Jono, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 15:58 -0500, Michael Lustfield wrote: > Canonical is the company that owns Ubuntu and funds all Ubuntu > operations (we all know this). Er, perhaps it's because I have an economists vision of 'funds' but a volunteers time is funding, contributions

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hey John, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 10:46 -0500, John Vilsack wrote: > It saddens me because Ubuntu is a dominant product that could be so > much more if the grassroots movement would allow itself to have > direction. But after years of infighting in politics and other open > source products, I didn

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Fwd: [FSF] Why is free software important to you? Submit your response to our new video campaign!

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hey DPic, Would you like to do a group video at the next meeting? We could add it to our blogs and such. Post about it to the rest of the Ubuntu community. Martin, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 23:03 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > Just thought this was a good idea that Ubuntu LoCo's could get in on >

Re: Shipping Karmic CDs for LoCo teams

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 15:23 -0500, John Abbott wrote: > Dolev, > I'm curious about your program for distribution among the poor. > How do these "poor" have access to computers? If each is expecting a > CD then each must have a computer to install it on. I'm trying to get > my head around this

Re: Shipping Karmic CDs for LoCo teams

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Mauricio, On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 23:48 -0300, Mauricio Peñaloza S. wrote: > It's very important do not loose the real objective of Ubuntu, is to be > an alternative as an operative system. We must spent more time teaching > how to use the Ubuntu system. The effort used delivering the CD's is a

Re: Top things to do after installing Karmic

2009-10-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 23:52 +0100, Przemek Kulczycki wrote: > 2009/10/29 Daniel Chen : > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Danny Piccirillo > > wrote: > >> I put a lot of time into this post and i was wondering if you could give me > >> your feedback: Top things to do after installing Ubuntu 9.10

Re: Top things to do after installing Karmic

2009-10-30 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:45 +0100, Przemek Kulczycki wrote: > 2009/10/30 Martin Owens : > > ffmpeg might have support for wmv9 by now, downloading w32codecs is just > > as illegal (and the same illigal) as downloading the fluendo codecs. > > Copyright infringement. > >

Re: T-shirts & nits

2009-11-07 Thread Martin Owens
The best thing to do is to contact the trademark people at Canonical as commercial use doesn't fall under the remit of the Community Council's use on the trademark. As far as I know and I am not a lawyer. Martin, On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 02:47 +0200, Ddorda wrote: > Hello. > In our LoCo we've decid

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Can Ubuntu reach over 16, 000 anime lovers in April?

2009-11-24 Thread Martin Owens
event. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 20:12 -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > We, the Ubuntu MA LoCo are organizing a booth at the upcoming 2010 > Anime Boston convention and need support-- Please spread the word! > > > http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/11/can

Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing

2009-12-07 Thread Martin Owens
Is it useful to set up a qa-fest? local event to help people get alpha testing set up and running? Martin, On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 13:36 -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > It's already time for Alpha 1, can you believe it? Fire up zsync! > The Testing team (part of the QA Team) is reaching out to the >

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