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["Justin R. Andrusk" <jandrusk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Short meeting. Is the typical duration about 30 minutes? Just curious.

Justin

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 08:30:06PM -0400, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
>  (08:01:23 PM) skellat: Alrighty. Ready and waiting for the start.
>  (08:01:49 PM) jacob: /here
>  (08:02:54 PM) Unit193: I'm here for a bit...
>  (08:07:50 PM) Cheri703: ok, so I have no idea if gilbert__ is
> around, but I guess I can sort of get things started
>  (08:09:06 PM) Cheri703: can anyone else who is here for the meeting
> pipe up so we can see who all is around?
>  (08:10:25 PM) ***BiosElement waves
>  (08:10:25 PM) Cheri703: hmm, ok
>  (08:10:32 PM) BiosElement: Real popular meeting
>  (08:10:39 PM) jacob: :P
>  (08:10:45 PM) jgould [~jgould@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> entered the room.
>  (08:11:38 PM) Cheri703: Well, first order of business was to sort
> of get a spot check on IF there are actually reloco leads, and if
> various areas are having ubuntu-hours and meetups and such
>  (08:12:06 PM) Cheri703: it looks like canthus13 and I are the only
> reloco leads here (if he's around), so I can't really ask any of the
> listed ones
>  (08:12:27 PM) Cheri703: Anyone who is here and in an area that does
> NOT have a lead/reloco happening?
>  (08:12:42 PM) jacob: maybe ping them over email, check up on things
> and whatnot
>  (08:12:55 PM) Cheri703: yeah, will do, just was hoping to catch
> them here :)
>  (08:13:55 PM) canthus13: I'm kind of around.
>  (08:14:31 PM) Cheri703: np
>  (08:14:33 PM) Cheri703: ok, moving on: Hopefully within the next
> month or so, there will be some changes coming to the website. Among
> the planned changes are making it more "newbie friendly" new to the
> LoCo at least. If anyone has any suggestions for the site, please
> send them to the list or to me directly, as I'm going to be working
> on it.
>  (08:15:39 PM) Cheri703: anyone have any thoughts/suggestions off
> the top of their head?
>  (08:15:52 PM) Cheri703: things you'd like to see added/removed/changed?
>  (08:16:23 PM) canthus13: Not really...
>  (08:16:27 PM) Cheri703: ok
>  (08:16:27 PM) ***canthus13 eyeballs the site.
>  (08:16:28 PM) skellat: We need to integrate the forum more easily
> into the site
>  (08:16:43 PM) Cheri703: thank you skellat, I knew there was
> something about forums that I wanted to mention...
>  (08:17:18 PM) canthus13: That would be nice.... of course, if more
> people frequent the forum, we'll get yelled at for being off-topic.
> :)
>  (08:17:30 PM) Cheri703: I want to solicit the list (and probably
> the forum) for someone to be a liaison between the list and the
> forum. Someone who can sort of update between the two, if that makes
> sense
>  (08:18:00 PM) Cheri703: even a "this week's new topics in the
> forum" email each week, or linking to the list archive or something
>  (08:18:06 PM) Cheri703: just to keep things on the radar for both groups
>  (08:18:11 PM) jacob: +1
>  (08:18:17 PM) skellat: For that we need more than just the
> openbox-desktop thread active
>  (08:18:20 PM) canthus13: The forum is pretty much dead.... I wonder
> if there is a way to pipe a weekly list digest to the forum,
> though...
>  (08:18:52 PM) Cheri703: anyone want to jump in and take the lead on
> figuring out options for that?
>  (08:18:52 PM) jacob: the forums used to have some really nice
> mailing-list <-> forum tunnel that would automatically crosspost,
> but that feature isn't returning soon
>  (08:19:18 PM) jacob: not at least until the vB4 upgrade
>  (08:19:21 PM) skellat: jacob: Why not?
>  (08:19:48 PM) Unit193: I have seen IRC bots that update from forum
> posts... (Not what we need though...)
>  (08:20:01 PM) jacob: skellat: software issues. it caused load
> problems, and I believe it's no longer maintained for vBulletin 3.
> would have to ask FC for details
>  (08:21:05 PM) skellat: I suggest we defer action on the forums
> while the question is put to The Forum Council about software
> capabilities
>  (08:21:28 PM) Cheri703: ok, skellat, would you take responsibility
> for asking the forum council?
>  (08:21:46 PM) skellat: Cheri703: Yes. I'll copy the High Council on
> my query.
>  (08:21:53 PM) Cheri703: ok, thanks
>  (08:22:46 PM) jacob: ping me if you don't get a response on it;
> i'll poke some people
>  (08:22:54 PM) skellat: jacob: Understood.
>  (08:22:57 PM) Cheri703: so that is pretty much all I had as far as
> specific items to cover tonight. Any questions, comments, thoughts,
> suggestions from anyone about the LoCo in general?
>  (08:23:22 PM) skellat: I will post the log to the forum, the list,
> and push a PDF down the podcast feed
>  (08:23:31 PM) Cheri703: great, thanks skellat
>  (08:23:54 PM) jacob: Cheri703: you mentioned redirecting some of
> the website to the wiki, anything for now? or hold on that a bit
>  (08:24:14 PM) Cheri703: jacob: we can discuss that at some point
> when gilbert__ is around, he had thoughts on that
>  (08:24:57 PM) Cheri703: I will give a quick update on the Mansfield
> ReLoCo: we have been having ubuntu hours every two weeks since
> January (pretty much), and we lately had a spike in attendance
> (thanks in large part to skrappjaw discovering us and bringing
> friends), and have had at least 5 people at the last several
> meetings, and more on occasion.
>  (08:24:58 PM) jacob: sounds good
>  (08:25:11 PM) jacob: good, good :)
>  (08:26:17 PM) Cheri703: ok, if no one else has anything to share? I
> think that's it...
>  (08:26:40 PM) jacob: and OLF news?
>  (08:27:00 PM) jacob: i think itsafork was working on heading that
> up before, just curious if there's anything new
>  (08:27:06 PM) Cheri703: I have no clue
>  (08:27:14 PM) jacob: hehe
>  (08:27:24 PM) Cheri703: I haven't spoken to itsafork for a
> while...I will make sure info gets posted to the list as we get
> updates
>  (08:28:21 PM) Cheri703: ok, meeting adjourned :)
> 
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