i work in des monies I'd be game for that <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Mike Moum <<a href="mailto:mike.moum@gmail.com">mike.moum@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Jared, Are there any meeting rooms at DMACC that we could possibly use for a local users group. What neighborhood of the Des Moines area do you live in? I can provide you with transportation if need be. It would be nice if all the DSM people could get together, maybe at a coffee shop or bookstore. What do people think? Mike <div><div></div><div class="h5"> Jared Brees wrote: > I'm in the Des Moines area (West Des Moines); currently I'm attending > DMACC (Urban Campus), so any work for that will take priority... > > My transportation is fairly limited (no vehicle of my own), but I can > easily lurk on IRC; are we talking the one on Freenode or Ubuntu? > (Server/chaornnel?) > > My strengths would probably lie in hardware and/or troubleshooting. > However, the relative level of my Google-Fu is probably higher than > either of those. (That is, given the "average" hardware, > troubleshooting, and Google-Fu gurus, the difference in my skill/their > skill is probably greater for Google-Fu than either the hardware or > troubleshooting.) I'm not sure about that, but in my experience so > far, it seems to be the case. > > I would consider myself a newbie at writing scripts, but I do have > some experience with that; I can usually do it, it just takes a long > time. (I think others could spit out code much faster, but then again, > I don't have any reference point.) I can do XHTML, CSS, Bash, Perl, > whatever that variant of C# it is that's used by the Arduino IDE, and > JavaScript. (That list was in order of my skill from most efficient to > least efficient.) > > I have an updated version (I updated it) of one of the Ubuntu flyers; > I didn't post it anywhere since I didn't know how the licensing works > for that. The original one is here: > "<a href="http://doc.ubuntu.com/%7Emarketing/spreadubuntu/DIY%20Material/DIY-at-home/Posters,%20Filip%20Dominec%20&%20Jenda%20Van%C4%8Dura/Poster-en.png" target="_blank">http://doc.ubuntu.com/~marketing/spreadubuntu/DIY%20Material/DIY-at-home/Posters,%20Filip%20Dominec%20&%20Jenda%20Van%C4%8Dura/Poster-en.png</a> </div></div>> <<a href="http://doc.ubuntu.com/%7Emarketing/spreadubuntu/DIY%20Material/DIY-at-home/Posters,%20Filip%20Dominec%20&%20Jenda%20Van%C4%8Dura/Poster-en.png" target="_blank">http://doc.ubuntu.com/%7Emarketing/spreadubuntu/DIY%20Material/DIY-at-home/Posters,%20Filip%20Dominec%20&%20Jenda%20Van%C4%8Dura/Poster-en.png</a>>" <div class="im">> > Let's keep going with this nice little "cyber-AED shock" (I mean, > "recent mailing list activity indicating interest"). > > Jared Brees / > computer_freak_8 > </div>-- ------------ Mike and Dede Moum Des Moines, Iowa Visit the Baha'i World at <a href="http://www.bahai.org" target="_blank">www.bahai.org</a> Visit the US Baha'i website at <a href="http://www.us.bahai.org" target="_blank">www.us.bahai.org</a> -- Ubuntu-US-IA mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-US-IA@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-US-IA@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ia" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ia</a> </blockquote></div>