Okay, sounds good. <br>I'll think of something for an informal conference. <br>Mark<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Mark Walker</b> <<a href="mailto:johnmark@johnmark.org">
johnmark@johnmark.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hey there,<br><br>Well, I always intended it to be a very casual gathering - a sort of
<br>bar camp for Ubuntu people.<br><br>Why don't you just go with the topic(s) that consume your time these<br>days? If it's more on the advocacy side of things, then that's fine.<br><br>Ultimately, there will be large chunks of the conference that won't
<br>be decided until we get there.<br><br>-JM<br><br><br>On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Ubuntu California Team (Mark Nielsen)<br>wrote:<br><br>> Heya!<br>> There is only 2 or 3 weeks left, how much can we get done in that
<br>> time?<br>><br>> What seems to be a common theme amoung the people I talk to is the<br>> ability for Ubuntu to be user-friendly, installation is easy, and<br>> it needs to work with their hardware. Updates are easy and work all
<br>> the time. Also, their website is slick and the Linux distro is<br>> slick. People love the fact Xwindows comes up and you can connect<br>> to the internet while you are installing. Very cool.<br>><br>> Complaints is that hardware doesn't work sometimes but works in
<br>> other Linux Distros.<br>><br>> I would like to work on promtoing Ubuntu and developing documents<br>> for it and doing presentations at companies.<br>><br>> Mark<br>><br>><br>> On 7/28/06, John Mark Walker <
<a href="mailto:johnmark@johnmark.org">johnmark@johnmark.org</a>> wrote: Hello<br>> there,<br>><br>> I apologize for taking so long to get this thing going. Travel and<br>> switching jobs put this on the back burner.
<br>><br>> However, I'm happy to tell you that we're proceeding full steam<br>> ahead. What I'd like to do is get the ball rolling on what sort of<br>> topics should be under discussion. I have a short list of things from
<br>> the mailing list, but I want to hear from those that have subscribed.<br>><br>> How much of an emphasis should be on developers?<br>><br>> In keeping with the Ubuntu principle of "Linux for Human Beings" I
<br>> think a major part of the focus should be on building a better<br>> desktop.<br>><br>> And finally, an issue that hits close to home - I never could get my<br>> T42 laptop to suspend and wake up properly, so I'd like at least a
<br>> couple of sessions on power management.<br>><br>> What do you guys think? I look forward to your feedback. Let's get<br>> some stuff on the wiki.<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> John Mark<br>> _______________________________________________
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