ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 7, Issue 12

Chris Jones chrisjones at comcen.com.au
Tue Sep 19 11:39:48 BST 2006


Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting stickers too. Can't wait.

Chris Jones


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>    1. Another sticker update (Melissa Draper)
>    2. Meeting tonight (Melissa Draper)
>    3. Re: Meeting tonight (David Symons)
>    4. Re: Another sticker update (Melissa Draper)
>    5. Re: Another sticker update (Dale)
>    6. Re: Another sticker update (TigerWolf -)
>    7. Re: Another sticker update (Melissa Draper)
>    8. Meeting summary - 19th September 2006 (Melissa Draper)
>    9. Re: Meeting summary - 19th September 2006 (Matthew Vermeulen)
>   10. Re: Meeting summary - 19th September 2006 (Jeff Waugh)
>   11. Re: Meeting summary - 19th September 2006 (Pete Brown)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:04:49 +1000
> From: Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com>
> Subject: Another sticker update
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <450D0FB1.3080608 at meldraweb.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I sent an email to the sticker provider on friday asking for
> information. They have replied saying that I *should* get them by thursday.
> 
> I don't know what the hold up has been, but they are definately coming,
> so don't fret!
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely
> Melissa Draper
> 
> http://www.meldraweb.com
> 
> Phone: 0404 595 395
> 
> P.O Box 1412
> Lavington, NSW 2641
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:54:59 +1000
> From: Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com>
> Subject: Meeting tonight
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <450DFC73.4000203 at meldraweb.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> We've fallen off the track a bit with meetings lately, and
> understandably so with SFD in the air.
> 
> However, that's past us now.
> 
> I've added an agenda item for discussing who where and how successful
> regarding sfd. Add more if you can think of them.
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely
> Melissa Draper
> 
> http://www.meldraweb.com
> 
> Phone: 0404 595 395
> 
> P.O Box 1412
> Lavington, NSW 2641
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:36:33 +1000
> From: "David Symons" <ubuntu at liberatedcomputing.net>
> Subject: Re: Meeting tonight
> To: "Ubuntu Australia" <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID:
> 	<6f1a4380609171936w3bdb8601r10f5ba3698dcd49c at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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> On 9/18/06, Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com> wrote:
> > I've added an agenda item for discussing who where and how successful
> > regarding sfd. Add more if you can think of them.
> 
> I've added two:
> 
> 1. Chris Deigan (ctd) has successfully registered ubuntu.org.au (Onya
> Chris!). Should we use this as our main address when pointing people
> to the team page?
> 
> 2. The Documentation section of http://www.ubuntu.com.au/ is stagnant.
>  What thoughts are there on what to do about it?  I'd suggest moving
> the valuable content to the wiki and taking it off the site.
> 
> Feel free to discuss these here onlist as well.
> 
> Cheers, Dave.
> -- 
> David Symons
> http://launchpad.net/people/bimberi
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:59:17 +1000
> From: Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com>
> Subject: Re: Another sticker update
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <450E1995.6000605 at meldraweb.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Melissa Draper wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I sent an email to the sticker provider on friday asking for
> > information. They have replied saying that I *should* get them by thursday.
> >
> > I don't know what the hold up has been, but they are definately coming,
> > so don't fret!
> >
> >   
> Email just arrived:
> 
> "Powered By Ubuntu Linux stickers shipped out today. You should receive
> them on Wednesday or Thursday."
> 
> Woot!
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely
> Melissa Draper
> 
> http://www.meldraweb.com
> 
> Phone: 0404 595 395
> 
> P.O Box 1412
> Lavington, NSW 2641
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:09:34 +0930
> From: Dale <quail.linux at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Another sticker update
> To: "Melissa Draper" <melissa at meldraweb.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID:
> 	<9b3004970609172239y44463e16jf3e3b0bea3f090d2 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Hi Melissa,
> 
> That is great to hear :-)
> 
> Regards
> Dale
> 
> On 9/18/06, Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com> wrote:
> > Melissa Draper wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I sent an email to the sticker provider on friday asking for
> > > information. They have replied saying that I *should* get them by thursday.
> > >
> > > I don't know what the hold up has been, but they are definately coming,
> > > so don't fret!
> > >
> > >
> > Email just arrived:
> >
> > "Powered By Ubuntu Linux stickers shipped out today. You should receive
> > them on Wednesday or Thursday."
> >
> > Woot!
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely
> > Melissa Draper
> >
> > http://www.meldraweb.com
> >
> > Phone: 0404 595 395
> >
> > P.O Box 1412
> > Lavington, NSW 2641
> >
> >
> > --
> > ubuntu-au mailing list
> > ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> [WWW] http://southernvaleslug.org/
> [IRC] #southern-vales.lug on irc.freenode.net
> "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of
>  thinking we were at when we created them"
>  Albert Einstein
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:39:51 +0930
> From: "TigerWolf -" <hiddentiger at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Another sticker update
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID:
> 	<610115060609180009y11a9b802iee56aed13257bfcb at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> If nobody else wants to - i could do the SA distribution?
> 
> On 9/18/06, Dale <quail.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Melissa,
> >
> > That is great to hear :-)
> >
> > Regards
> > Dale
> >
> > On 9/18/06, Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com> wrote:
> > > Melissa Draper wrote:
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I sent an email to the sticker provider on friday asking for
> > > > information. They have replied saying that I *should* get them by
> > thursday.
> > > >
> > > > I don't know what the hold up has been, but they are definately
> > coming,
> > > > so don't fret!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Email just arrived:
> > >
> > > "Powered By Ubuntu Linux stickers shipped out today. You should receive
> > > them on Wednesday or Thursday."
> > >
> > > Woot!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sincerely
> > > Melissa Draper
> > >
> > > http://www.meldraweb.com
> > >
> > > Phone: 0404 595 395
> > >
> > > P.O Box 1412
> > > Lavington, NSW 2641
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ubuntu-au mailing list
> > > ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > [WWW] http://southernvaleslug.org/
> > [IRC] #southern-vales.lug on irc.freenode.net
> > "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of
> > thinking we were at when we created them"
> > Albert Einstein
> >
> > --
> > ubuntu-au mailing list
> > ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
> >
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:52:22 +1000
> From: Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com>
> Subject: Re: Another sticker update
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <450E5036.9040607 at meldraweb.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> TigerWolf - wrote:
> > If nobody else wants to - i could do the SA distribution?
> *** There will not be multiple distribution points ***
> 
> Please refer to to the reply I sent last time people started clambering
> to complicate things.
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2006-September/000621.html
> 
> Maintaining multiple distribution points will only make more work.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that System76 only organises *one distribution point per
> country* - even their own country - to keep the process simple. 1
> address to promote, rather than 10 ... 1 address to keep stocked, rather
> than 10 etc.
> 
> I'm trying hard to keep this nice, but: Please, do not ask again.
> 
> Exceptions to this are the SFD'06 organisers, and people who email me a
> detailed reason why they need a significantly larger quantity of
> stickers. This needs to be more than 'I go to a LUG' or 'I know lots of
> people'.
> 
> *** SFD organisers, if you collected addresses for stickers, could you
> please send me a count of how many, and your address to send them to.
> Thanks. ***
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely
> Melissa Draper
> 
> http://www.meldraweb.com
> 
> Phone: 0404 595 395
> 
> P.O Box 1412
> Lavington, NSW 2641
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:54:44 +1000
> From: Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com>
> Subject: Meeting summary - 19th September 2006
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <450FA244.9090800 at meldraweb.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Last night's meeting was by far the most productive one in quite a
> while. We had the pleasure of the presence of members of the NZ LoCo
> team and the Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon.
> 
> A summary of this meeting follows.
> 
> Mentoring a fellow LoCo
> -----------------------
>     * Our LoCo is going to be involved in mentoring a fellow loco, the
> NZ team. They are joining us today to have their input on the SFD topic :)
>           o While we had the presence of the NZ team, there was lots of
> discussion occurring and the SFD topic didnt touched by them. A meeting
> for NZ set for tomorrow (19th at 9am UTC)
>           o MelissaDraper (elkbuntu) will be the main point of contact,
> a 2IC needs to be appointed
> 
> SFD Wrap-up
> -----------
>     * What happened where and how successfully - MelissaDraper elkbuntu
>           o 1000 dapper cds in Melbourne
>           o 200 cds at Canberra at the previous week's substitute SFD
> 
> The status of Edgy Eft
> ----------------------
>     * How is Ubuntu progressing with Eft? Where is help needed? What
> release parties are people planning? - PaulSchulz pschulz01
>           o Resident devs Fujitsu and ajmitch filled us in
> 
> ubuntu.org.au
> -------------
>     * Should we use this as our main address when pointing people to the
> team page? - DavidSymons bimberi
>     * The Documentation section of [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com.au/ is
> stagnant. What thoughts are there on what to do about it? I'd suggest
> moving the valuable content to the wiki and taking it off the site. --
> DavidSymons bimberi
>           o It was decided to use .org.au
>           o Documentation will be moved to the wiki so that more people
> can work on it
> 
> As usual, you can see the log etc via the wiki.
> 
> Next meeting will be held on the 2nd of October. I hope to see you all
> then :)
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely
> Melissa Draper
> 
> http://www.meldraweb.com
> 
> Phone: 0404 595 395
> 
> P.O Box 1412
> Lavington, NSW 2641
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:04:03 +0800
> From: "Matthew Vermeulen" <mattvermeulen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Meeting summary - 19th September 2006
> To: "Melissa Draper" <melissa at meldraweb.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID:
> 	<950c7d180609190104o498c3ea2p9af917cacb0b4f1b at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> On 9/19/06, Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com> wrote:
> >
> > As usual, you can see the log etc via the wiki.
> >
> > Next meeting will be held on the 2nd of October. I hope to see you all
> > then :)
> 
> 
>  Thanks for doing the logs, I know I usually do them, and I'm being very
> slack. Due to school work, etc, I won't be attending the next meeting
> (actually, I'll be on holidays ;) ), and with exams a few weeks after that,
> I doubt I'll be attending meetings or very active in the team until
> mid-November, at which point I'll suddenly be very active (school holidays).
> 
> It's great to see that we had a good meeting. Keep up the good work
> everyone!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Matthew Vermeulen (MatthewV)
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> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:11:52 +1000
> From: Jeff Waugh <jdub at perkypants.org>
> Subject: Re: Meeting summary - 19th September 2006
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20060919081152.GF5068 at stanley>
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> 
> <quote who="Melissa Draper">
> 
> >     * What happened where and how successfully - MelissaDraper elkbuntu
> >           o 1000 dapper cds in Melbourne
> >           o 200 cds at Canberra at the previous week's substitute SFD
> 
> Probably around 200 in Sydney. Medium-touch handouts, due to the nature of
> the event. Would be interested to know if the Melbourne ones were high touch
> or not. It's hard to hand out 1000 CDs in a valuable way.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> -- 
> linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia           http://lca2007.linux.org.au/
>  
>    "I think we agnostics need a term for a holy war too. I feel all left
>                             out." - George Lebl
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:23:24 +1000
> From: Pete Brown <pete at geekbuilt.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Meeting summary - 19th September 2006
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <200609191823.30972.pete at geekbuilt.com.au>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 17:54, Melissa Draper wrote:
> > Greetings,
> 
> nifty
> thanks melissa
> i had a meeting last night so i couldn't be there.
> my schedule should ease up a bit soon so i will try and make the next meeting.
> 
> >
> > Last night's meeting was by far the most productive one in quite a
> > while. We had the pleasure of the presence of members of the NZ LoCo
> > team and the Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon.
> >
> > A summary of this meeting follows.
> >
> > Mentoring a fellow LoCo
> > -----------------------
> >     * Our LoCo is going to be involved in mentoring a fellow loco, the
> > NZ team. They are joining us today to have their input on the SFD topic :)
> >           o While we had the presence of the NZ team, there was lots of
> > discussion occurring and the SFD topic didnt touched by them. A meeting
> > for NZ set for tomorrow (19th at 9am UTC)
> >           o MelissaDraper (elkbuntu) will be the main point of contact,
> > a 2IC needs to be appointed
> >
> > SFD Wrap-up
> > -----------
> >     * What happened where and how successfully - MelissaDraper elkbuntu
> >           o 1000 dapper cds in Melbourne
> >           o 200 cds at Canberra at the previous week's substitute SFD
> >
> > The status of Edgy Eft
> > ----------------------
> >     * How is Ubuntu progressing with Eft? Where is help needed? What
> > release parties are people planning? - PaulSchulz pschulz01
> >           o Resident devs Fujitsu and ajmitch filled us in
> >
> > ubuntu.org.au
> > -------------
> >     * Should we use this as our main address when pointing people to the
> > team page? - DavidSymons bimberi
> >     * The Documentation section of [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com.au/ is
> > stagnant. What thoughts are there on what to do about it? I'd suggest
> > moving the valuable content to the wiki and taking it off the site. --
> > DavidSymons bimberi
> >           o It was decided to use .org.au
> >           o Documentation will be moved to the wiki so that more people
> > can work on it
> >
> > As usual, you can see the log etc via the wiki.
> >
> > Next meeting will be held on the 2nd of October. I hope to see you all
> > then :)
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely
> > Melissa Draper
> >
> > http://www.meldraweb.com
> >
> > Phone: 0404 595 395
> >
> > P.O Box 1412
> > Lavington, NSW 2641
> 
> -- 
> Peter Brown
> Partner
> GeekBuilt Systems
> P   07 3122 0400
> M   0422 210 756
> E   pete at geekbuilt.com.au
> W   http://geekbuilt.com.au
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