IRC "gathering" this Sunday at 9pm (and Texas Linux Fest)

[Marc Randolph]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Brandon Tomlinson <thebwt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Belinda Lopez <belinda.lopez at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not sure if this message from Robbie Williamson got through or not so I'm resending.
>>> It would probably be easiest if the Loco team joined with Canonical to help at their booth.
>>> Anyone want to help get a banner printed for the TX Loco Team?  I can help with funds.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> Belinda
>>>
>>> From: Robbie Williamson <robbie.williamson at canonical.com>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Just wanted to mention that Canonical will have a booth at TXL, with a
>>> vertical pop-up banner (see attached), as well as:
>>>   * Ubuntu Desktop CDs - 300
>>>   * Ubuntu Server CDs - 100
>>>   * Kubuntu CDs - 100
>>>   * Ubuntu pens - 250
>>>   * Mixed Ubuntu sticker sheets -  500
>>>   * Black Circle Of Friends pin badges - 300
>>> We are more than willing...actually prefer, community people to stop by
>>> and even work the booth (if you want).  However, if you wish to have a
>>> separate Ubuntu Texas Team booth...we won't stop you!  :)
>>>
>
> yea, I talked with Robbie on Irc the other day, and discussed this. It does
> seem rather pointless to be seperate, and he also said he has no one else
> manning the ubuntu booth. He also has a ton of materials for booth stuff.
> There is no reason not to join up :D.

Howdy all,

First off, thanks to all the enthusiastic people that have volunteered
to help out at the Ubuntu booth at Texas Linux Fest (TLF).  Everyone
attending, be sure to bring your GPG fingerprints to exchange!

A few people had a nice discussion over lunch time today on IRC,
mostly about TLF, but of course a few other topics were batted about.
You can find the IRC log and a list of proposals for further
discussion at the link below.  Feel free to read it over and
comment/reply back here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TexasTeam/ToolBox/Updates/2010-03-25

As usual, the intent of the IRC meeting wasn't to come to any
conclusions, but to bounce some ideas around in rapid-fire fashion.  I
think that was accomplished :-)  While it might be nice to have our
own booth, as with the mailing list, no-one had strong objections to
sharing Canonical's booth this time around as a learning experience
and see how it works out.  If it doesn't, we'll consider getting a
booth next time.

One thing we didn't manage to touch on at all was the possibility of a
Texas banner.  If someone wants to take that up, I'm willing help with
funds, as are others.

With only two more weekends before TLF, it was floated to have an IRC
get together this Sunday, March 28th, as well as April 4th.  Both at
9pm.  If Sunday's at 9pm aren't a good time for people, please reply
and let's see if a better time can be found for the majority!  Topic's
can extend beyond TLF, and maybe we don't need to even label these as
"meetings"... more like gathering times when a fair number of people
are likely to be online and we can dream about fun stuff to do.

   Marc