Wanna get involved but it very quiet in this forum

[spmccann]

Hi

Decided to check out the forums and noticed its very quiet in here. Am I missing something or do I need a secret handshake. Normally Linux forums are buzzing. I joined the facebook thingy as well.

I've been using Ubuntu on and off for about a year now. Have started to ditch my windows xp partition. I'm not an expert in Linux by any means but am interested in getting involved.
My backround in computing is the dark side ( MCSE) :) and eight year's of battling with ms server os's. So go easy on me ok.

I get the Ubuntu community ethos and think it would be cool to contribute but I'm not sure where to start. I can't program.

Offski to get ready to ring in the new year. Have a Great New Year

Sean

[Hightide]

HI Guys

its very quiet here.

give us a shout!!:)

[Mean-Machine]

Hello and welcome!

...some of us are still alive :lolflag:

[Hightide]

Hi
hello to you too

what's the crack.

just found out about Ireland LoCo

:lolflag:

[spmccann]

My God,some responses. Good to see that. I've been persuading (not nagging) some people(work colleagues ) to give Ubuntu a go.On the basis that nearly everything worked out of the box so to speak on the IBM think pad t42 and my home brew PC . I actually more surprised that my home brew pc worked as its a bit of a mish mash of components. Although I have to thank Mr John Toomey for his excellent Ubuntu advocacy in persuading me to give it ago in the first place.

At home I've been using kino to capture edit and render some home videos. That was a bit of a challenge but learned quite a bit about how firewire talks to the os and devices as files. Getting the cam corder to talk over firewire was the main challenge. However the editor is lot easier to use once it gets up and running. Unlike pinnacle or ulead it didn't bomb out halfway through rendering. I was looking at adobe premiere but its a bit costly for something I only would use three/four times a year.

[harce]

allright?

I got loads of other stuff to do but still would like to help out a bit, I also hope to become the first polish speaking ubuntero in this group :]

[Mean-Machine]

Welcome harce!

Guys, I hope you all know about our IRC channel: #ubuntu-ie on irc.freenode.net

see you there ):P

[Hightide]

Thats great Mean Machine


regards
:)

[K-Vaughan]

allright?

I got loads of other stuff to do but still would like to help out a bit, I also hope to become the first polish speaking ubuntero in this group :]

Tak? Powodzenia,

[spmccann]

Ok, so i've been test driving ubuntu on the lenovo t61, so I've been off this forum for a while and reinstalling everything and its dog. Once I get the wireless working I'll be happy. Apart from that its rocks.

Look forward to seeing u guys on IRC

[happy_tux]

Hey spmccann another good video program is MANDVD.
Have a look at it... Real easy for compiling videos onto dvd.

Mandvd (http://getdeb.net/app/ManDVD)

Slán
Derek

[Helios1276]

Hey guys, just recently ( hours lol) joined the linux/ubuntu thing and am at the "whats that?..thats not right!..hang on a second!" stage as im faar from technically savvy. great to see an irish group, i'm in galway myself so any galway linux masters out there , ill make the tea..you make this thing not break?

[spmccann]

Happy_TUX thanks for that :)
I'll give it a whirl


Hi Helios1276 welcome to the forum.

[Azrayal]

Hi guys,

Still floating about, havent been here in a while.. must try attend the next meeting.

[Mean-Machine]

Wanna get involved?

Now is your chance :guitar:

If you haven't read the last email on the ubunu-ie mailing list, here it is again:


Ubuntu 8.04 release is very near and we've decided to have a Hardy Release
Party in Dublin.
We need you to help us make it happen.

We're meeting up on Saturday, the 29th of March at 11am
Location: Camara Workshop in Thomas Street.

Hardy Release Party https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/HardyReleaseParty
Camara http://camara.ie/contact/index.php


Hope to see you there!

[spmccann]

I would have been there if I wasn't dying with the Flu

GGRRRR Flu