<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Greetings all! especially the new folks who have joined us lately. </SPAN></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">This is a somewhat random collection of thoughts so here goes:</SPAN></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> - Props to Lyz for the putting together the IRC Ops course. </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- I noticed Myriam is on the list for the next Community Council meeting; Mon, 03 Sept 2007 at </SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><IMG src="cid:6FD39F2F-8992-475D-AA4A-74792EE7CB8F@local"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=3&year=2007&hour=13&min=0&sec=0&p1=0"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> 13:00</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> UTC in #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net see for more info <A href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda</A> (That's a holiday for us in the States. Are you going to be able to make that meeting Myriam? need support?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- The next UDS will be in Boston, 29 October - 2 November; <A href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Boston">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Boston</A> (I highly recommend attending these events if are you able and interested. They are not conferences but intensive working sessions for the next release. See the wiki for more info and a link to the Launchpad blueprints. I have a room reservation but will have to see how work commitments turn out before I can commit to exact dates.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Next UW IRC meeting - ?? I'm proposing 9 September at 1300 UTC</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Dinda</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>