[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu South African Local Community

Tue Apr 10 17:51:01 UTC 2012

Dear Nico

I like your ideas, but in particular the "week later". As in SA the 27
April and the 1 May is a Public Holiday, so some of us will take the long
weekend of.

So this is just a reminder to all prospective people that would be willing
to attend that the release I think which is 26 will coincide when many are
away. i.e. don't set expectations or confirm, only then to drop out.

The weekend for the 5/6 May should be good in PTA.

Kind Regards

Leon

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>   1. Re:  Precise release party, what do you want to do?
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> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:15:35 +0200
> From: "Nico Michael(iBurst)" <nick.michael at ptaisp.co.za>
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Precise release party, what do you want to
>        do?
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> Hi there
>
> I do this in Pretoria twice a year and it works well for us
>
> 1. What we do is meet a a restaurant that has separate rooms , we
> reserve one for us
> The food is good , and the talk is good
> 2. What you need to do is get volunteers to download all the files
>
> 3. I supply rolls of mains cables to power up the laptops and encourage
> the chaps to bring external drives and memory sticks (thumb drives)
> we have good chats swap files eat good food
>
> 4. This time we have decided to make the Pretoria part a week late
> This is to guarantee we have all the files on time I have learned never
> to trust our Ubuntu friends and make it a week late
>
> 5. I also send invites to other Linux lists so I get to people not
> reached by this list
>
> Kind regards
>
> Nico Michael
> (Sent from ptaisp.co.za)
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>
> On 04/04/2012 14:09, Henk Joubert wrote:
> > I've set up an event for the Cape Town area
> >
> > Loco event <http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-za/1665/detail/>
> > Facebook event so we can get a rough idea of how many people are
> > attending <https://www.facebook.com/events/329037227156204/>
> >
> > Game demos should be fun. I will install a few of the humble bundle
> > games on my laptop to bring to the event.
> >
> > On 16 March 2012 21:35, maia grotepass <maiatoday at gmail.com
> > <mailto:maiatoday at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello ubuntu-za people
> >
> >     It's almost time for the Precise Pangolin release party.
> >
> >     What does everybody want to do?
> >
> >     There have been some ideas on the IRC channel and in the monthly
> >     meetings. We were thinking about having some game demos and having
> >     some demos for new people. Also we thought it would be fun if
> >     people brought along someone that is new and hasn't been to an
> >     ubuntu event before.
> >
> >     This is just to get things going for all the regions.
> >     There is an event on loco.ubuntu.com <http://loco.ubuntu.com> to
> >     which we can add our party listings.
> >     http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/global/1598/detail/
> >
> >     Also here is the release schedule
> >     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseSchedule
> >
> >     And here is a handy guide to organising a Release party in your area
> >     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/RunningReleaseParty
> >
> >     It counts even if you are only 2 people. I helps if you take pics
> >     and blog so we can add to our monthly report. It doesn't matter if
> >     you haven't organised a party before. keep it simple, pick a
> >     venue, pick a date and time let people know about it.
> >
> >     shout if you need any help.
> >
> >     any suggestions for venue/time/date for CapeTown-Stellenbosch area?
> >
> >     Maia
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> >
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> > Henk Joubert
> > BSc Computer Science (Hons) | University of Cape Town 2012
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> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:11:36 +0200
> From: Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com>
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Nautilus "open with"
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> How does this assignment of application to files work? At one stage I
> did an "Open with" Calibre of a .pdf file and (I presume" left the
> "Always use..." box ticked. . Since then, every time I click on a .pdf
> file Calibre grabs it - this despite my trying to reassign them to the
> document viewer. I have a similar problem with bash script files - it
> has decided that AbiWord is the correct application to open them when
> I click on them and select "Open with". Gedit - my preferred
> application does not even appear as an option despite my going to "Use
> other application" and selecting it.
>
> I am not sure when these problems started, but they have been going on
> for some time. I have been running 10.04 since it was released and the
> problem was certainly not there from the beginning. It has really
> become a nuisance since calibre started grabbing all the .pdf fines -
> my Calibre library is beginning to have lots of strange "eBooks" in it
> that I am not likely to ever load onto my reader!
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Kind Regards

Leon

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