#ubuntu-ke 2011-01-07
<cong06> yo!
<ebel> yo!
<ebel> what's up?
<cong06> not much.
<cong06> you?
<ebel> Ah not much
<cong06> dude. I was just chilling in a channel for work, and some guy pops in... invites me to his channel
<cong06> and makes me an op there.
<cong06> it was bizare
<ebel> hehehee
<ebel> well people can make channels all the time :)
<cong06> now I'm an op in irc://lightirc.com/#jackerz
<cong06> *irc.lightirc.com
<cong06> that's true...
<cong06> so, ebel, tell me about yourself. How long ago did you start using ubuntu?
<ebel> I've been using ubuntu for about 5 years now
<ebel> How about yourself?
<cong06> I think the first installation was 6.10...
<cong06> but the first installation on a serious computer, for an extended period of time would have been 7.04
<cong06> so maybe 3-4 years
<cong06> no, actually, I think i got the versions wrong
<cong06> it was 7.10 and 8.04
<cong06> so 2-3
<cong06> 5 years ago... that's pretty early on in Ubuntu's history
<cong06> I mean it's not that old, is it?
<cong06> LTS wasn't released until 6.06 iirc
<ebel> First release was 4.10, so 2004
<ebel> I started around 5.10 or 6.06-ish
<ebel> I've also been involved with the LoCo stuff since about 2007 or so
<ebel> I'm the Point of Contact for the Ireland LoCo
<cong06> I can't remember what LoCo stands for...
<ebel> Local Communitye
<ebel> *Community
<cong06> ah. ok.
<cong06> I just figured out that if I search "ubuntu loco" it might give good results :P
<cong06> so you live in Ireland?
<ebel> heheh
<ebel> Yeah I live in Ireland.
<ebel> I've been to Kenay twice, in 2006 & 2008
<ebel> Hence why I'm on this channel :)
<cong06> ;)
<cong06> well, then I guess we're both a bunch of foreigners.
<cong06> I'm from the US
<cong06> but I'm working in Kenya right now
<ebel> Ah OK :)
<ebel> Where abouts?
<cong06> in the US? Pennsylvania. in Kenya? Kimende
<ebel> I was usually in Mombasa (& other coast places shortly, Malindi/Lamu)
<cong06> do you know Kimende? it's right before Kijabe
<cong06> on the way to Naivasha
<cong06> (from Nairobi)
<cong06> I've been to Mombasa, but not really for too long... I hope to travel back there sometime this year
<ebel> Ah Gotcha :)
<ebel> I was with Camara, an Irish NGO that sets up Ubuntu Computers in schools
<cong06> oh, that's kinda what I'm doing!
<cong06> though we're just using ubuntu cause it's free. we're trying to use computers to allow communication between schools
<cong06> so that students can learn from each other
<cong06> our primary objective is fighting against the conflict in 2007
<ebel> thought that was in 2008?
<cong06> yeah, you're right. I always think of the election in 2007
<cong06> but the conflict was really 08
<ebel> Camara uses ubuntu and FLOSS to prevent lock in.
<ebel> No point helping people get started on computers if they have to keep buying new MS software every few years! :)
<ebel> (and it's free :) )
<cong06> yeah, that is an issue.
<ebel> also we could customise the installer
<cong06> I messed around with that some
<ebel> To make it easy to install ubuntu on a few hunderd machines in parallel :)
<cong06> but I'm trying to keep everything simple
<ebel> yeah.
<ebel> Simple is good.
<ebel> Cause you're not going to be there forever!
<ebel> And when it breaks....
<cong06> exactly.
#ubuntu-ke 2011-01-18
<zacck> anyone here?
#ubuntu-ke 2011-01-19
<kensta87> hi miano
<kensta87> how are you
<kensta87> ebel
<kensta87> hi
<kensta87> all
<ebel> yo
<ebel> sorry busy
<kensta87> waz uip
<kensta87> okl
#ubuntu-ke 2011-01-22
<kensta87> hi
<kensta87> anybody
<kensta87> au revoir
#ubuntu-ke 2012-01-17
<mwai_kibaki> grantbow: Hi, how are you?
<mwai_kibaki> as president, i want to speak to the ppl of kenya who use ubuntu
#ubuntu-ke 2013-01-29
<zendox> niajw
<zendox> niaje
#ubuntu-ke 2013-01-30
<zendox> hello
<zendox> hey grant nice so are u going to the dev summit?
<grantbow> hi zendox
<grantbow> everyone can attend online
<grantbow> I will be there physically since Oakland is on the BART line and relatively easy to get to from anywhere in the SF Bay Area.
<zendox> what channel
<zendox> will it be online
<grantbow> yes, lots are online from last time and there are ways to participate from anywhere. Briefly it goes like this...
<grantbow> each room has an IRC channel and a live audio feed.
<zendox> nice
<grantbow> so you can type in the channel and it will appear on the screen in the room
<grantbow> remote people can't see the slides but it's a good way to participate
<grantbow> in the rooms are two projection screens - one for IRC, one for slides
<grantbow> they use etherpad lite for not taking too
<grantbow> so the slides are often the etherpad lite notes
<grantbow> there are multiple write-ups describing this setup and I can find them for you and anyone else who wants to participate
<grantbow> I have sent them to the ubuntu-us-ca email list before
<zendox> oh
<grantbow> feel free to subscribe to the California Local Community email list :-)
<zendox> you know i think the audio streams is better
<zendox> i shall do that
<grantbow> indeed, but they are not until May 6-9.
<grantbow> there are also youtube videos of past sessions
<grantbow> some of the working sessions and all the keynotes go into youtube at...
<zendox> wait aren't the audio streams live?
<grantbow> http://www.youtube.com/user/ubuntudevelopers
<grantbow> the youtube postings are delayed
<grantbow> the audio streams are live
<grantbow> it takes awhile to edit the video
<grantbow> though the keynotes get posted quickly on the first day
<grantbow> I gave a talk in May, 2012 that is online at UDS in that youtube channel :-)
<zendox> thats cool
<zendox> whats the  link to your talk
<grantbow> the others in the channel are more interesting often. I'll find the link.
<zendox> ok
<grantbow> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAU0iUM_aQU
<grantbow> I start speaking about 12 minutes in
<grantbow> actually 13
<grantbow> through 18 minutes
<grantbow> five minutes is not a lot of time
<grantbow> any I should have given that talk to a different audience
<grantbow> s/any/and/
<grantbow> so how is mfarm going zendox?
<grantbow> have there been any more Ubuntu Hours formally or informally at ihub?
<zendox> not really they kind of died out when you went out
<zendox> mfarm
<zendox> haven't checked up on them for  a while
<zendox> hanging with bernard now
<grantbow> really? How is my fellow Mentor doing? Say hello from me!
<grantbow> you are still on here, right? http://mfarm.co.ke/team

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