Minutes from Meeting about Ubuntu Monthly Meeting - September 2017 Convened at 2017-09-26 18:52:03.052693 by chesedo in #ubuntu-za on freenode Minutes ======= [18:52:03] STARTED (chesedo) [18:52:22] TOPIC: Welcoming and Introduction (chesedo) [18:53:51] AGREED: All happy with agenda (chesedo) [18:54:03] TOPIC: Review minutes of previous meeting (chesedo) [18:55:00] TOPIC: Events (chesedo) [19:05:26] AGREED: No other events to add (chesedo) [19:06:46] TOPIC: Miscellaneous (chesedo) [19:10:50] TOPIC: Next meeting (chesedo) [19:10:57] AGREED: Next meeting is 24 October 2017 @ 20:30 (chesedo) [19:11:24] TOPIC: Elect chairperson for next meeting (chesedo) [19:15:36] AGREED: paddatrapper to chair next meeting (chesedo) [19:16:19] ENDED (chesedo) Present ======= * Gustav H Meyer (inetpro) * Kyle Robbertze (paddatrapper) * Pieter Engelbrecht (chesedo) * Paul Romano (londoner) Raw Log ======= [18:52:03] Maaz: start meeting about Ubuntu Monthly Meeting - September 2017 [18:52:03] * Maaz gets out his memo-pad and cracks his knuckles [18:52:22] Maaz: topic Welcoming and Introduction [18:52:22] Current Topic: Welcoming and Introduction [18:52:22] Welcome all and thank you for joining in on our monthly meeting [18:52:22] As usual, our bot maaz does the minutes, so please introduce yourself to it using `Maaz: I am ` eg. [18:52:22] Maaz: I am Pieter Engelbrecht [18:52:22] chesedo: Righto [18:52:31] Maaz: I am Gustav H Meyer [18:52:31] inetpro: Done [18:52:34] Maaz: I am Paul Romano [18:52:34] londoner: Okay [18:52:38] Today's agenda is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZATeam/Meetings/20170926 [18:53:14] londoner: nice to see you here as well [18:53:29] i'll skip over the regular content since we are all regular... that ok with all? [18:53:29] hi all. thanks inetpro [18:53:49] chesedo: +1 [18:53:51] Maaz: agreed All happy with agenda [18:53:51] Agreed: All happy with agenda [18:54:03] Maaz: topic Review minutes of previous meeting [18:54:03] Current Topic: Review minutes of previous meeting [18:54:03] previous meeting minutes is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZATeam/Meetings/20170822 [18:54:09] just for a refresher [18:54:30] londoner: will you be needing any next step help? [18:54:44] Maaz: I am Kyle Robbertze [18:54:44] paddatrapper: Alrighty [18:54:49] ...trello, mailing list, etc... [18:55:00] Maaz: topic Events [18:55:00] Current Topic: Events [18:55:09] upcoming events for the next month are: [18:55:09] - PyCon ZA 2017: 5th and 6th October 2017 (Cape Town) -> https://za.pycon.org/ [18:55:29] Eish don't remind me... So much to organise before then [18:55:36] paddatrapper: you were at debconf iirc? [18:55:42] chesedo: yup [18:55:42] I opened a Launchpad account in May and, after waiting for 4 months, earlier this month finally got approved as an Ubuntu Wiki editor. [18:55:57] londoner: wow [18:56:17] paddatrapper: wow keeping busy... how was it? [18:56:37] londoner: are you part of the wiki team? [18:56:50] I maintain the official Full Circle Magazine article index at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/FullIssueIndex - also in spreadsheet format at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UgDCiTyVRrG5cRFSgOLmY-bEOaZ0TQwf83j7RFCUybg [18:56:59] chesedo: it was good fun. Getting there and back was a mission, but lots of interesting talks and discussions [18:57:27] Debian packages are over 95% reproducible! [18:57:31] ah cool, i have not read that in ages [18:57:45] londoner: that is nice to know [18:57:55] paddatrapper: reproducible? [18:58:42] chesedo: so the binary built in the archive can be rebuilt on another machine with the same environment and be bit for bit identical [18:58:55] i see the full circle mag still has the py section [18:59:13] https://reproducible-builds.org/ [19:00:39] paddatrapper: that is interesting, i though that machine languages might differ between machines... [19:00:56] or is that covered by the "same environment"? [19:01:13] chesedo: yup. Needs to be the same architecture [19:01:29] ah righto [19:01:58] i am not aware of other events for the year [19:02:03] are any of you? [19:02:03] But seeing as the Debian build infrastructure builds for all supported architectures, it isn't that much if an issue [19:02:12] * inetpro should try to make an effort to print the Full Circle Magazine for coffee table reading in the office [19:02:39] Nope. Wikimania happening in CT next year is the next one I know of [19:03:08] inetpro: that might be a lot of ink (colour wise) [19:03:27] but a great distraction [19:03:42] chesedo: true, that there's always nice content in there and we can't keep it to ourselves [19:03:53] info is there to be shared [19:03:57] :-) [19:04:20] i remember saving each one years ago for the gimp content it had [19:04:24] s/that there's/but there's/ [19:05:01] inetpro: how big is your office in head counts? [19:05:26] Maaz: agreed No other events to add [19:05:26] Agreed: No other events to add [19:05:53] we have four in the office but a few other IT guys and users who come and go [19:06:46] Maaz: topic Miscellaneous [19:06:46] Current Topic: Miscellaneous [19:07:01] if anyone has any misc topics... [19:07:30] chesedo: but you're right... maybe too much ink needed [19:07:37] * chesedo now wonders if it is possible to get a copied subscription [19:08:34] or maybe a print shop will work out cheaper... and better looking... [19:08:39] would be nice if we could just do cheap printing and selling locally to cover the printing costs [19:09:30] i think posting would be the biggest/killer issue here in SA [19:09:59] but yeah... [19:10:05] * chesedo sighs [19:10:50] Maaz: topic Next meeting [19:10:50] Current Topic: Next meeting [19:10:57] Maaz: agreed Next meeting is 24 October 2017 @ 20:30 [19:10:57] Agreed: Next meeting is 24 October 2017 @ 20:30 [19:11:24] Maaz: topic Elect chairperson for next meeting [19:11:24] Current Topic: Elect chairperson for next meeting [19:11:55] paddatrapper: are you still on for the next chair? [19:12:35] +1 for paddatrapper, if he's available [19:13:35] * chesedo has an exam on that and the next day [19:14:48] chesedo: he said last time, "I _should_ be free" [19:15:22] ok, i'll put him on for now... can change if need be [19:15:31] Sorry, yes I am [19:15:36] Maaz: agreed paddatrapper to chair next meeting [19:15:36] Agreed: paddatrapper to chair next meeting [19:15:46] awesome, ty paddatrapper [19:16:11] and thank you all for having joined in [19:16:19] Maaz: end meeting