| <linuxboy> morning morgs | |
| <morgs> hey linuxboy | |
| <highvoltage> so, today's the big day? | |
| <Vhata> is it? | |
| <linuxboy> 15:50 < morgs> highvoltage: I'm considering applying for membership at the next communitycouncil meeting and I need a fan or two... | |
| <linuxboy> 15:51 < morgs> highvoltage: Please don't dress like one... | |
| <linuxboy> 15:51 < morgs> highvoltage: are you available tomorrow night? | |
| <linuxboy> ^^^ | |
| <linuxboy> 15:51 < morgs> March 20 2007, 18:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting | |
| <morgs> :-) | |
| <highvoltage> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda | |
| <morgs> ||Morgan Collett|morgs|MorganCollett|[WWW] morgan|March 19th|| | |
| <morgs> edubuntugirl: today is a big day | |
| <edubuntugirl> morgs: sure thing | |
| <finalbeta> Anyone here from South-Africa? I recently graduated and just had a job offering from IBM to go work on a help desk Sandton (apparently they need dutch/English personnel) . I was planning on working in a foreign country sooner or later, but was thinking more about keeping it western like the US/Canada. I know this is a weird/much to general question, but are there things you can tell me about the country, culture, industrial state. Try | |
| <finalbeta> ing to get a mental picture of it. | |
| <Vhata> we're all from South Africa | |
| <Vhata> "keeping it western"? | |
| <finalbeta> Western culture. | |
| <Vhata> and we live in huts and dance around fires every night? | |
| <Vhata> *chuckle* | |
| <finalbeta> Nor do they do that in china. | |
| <Vhata> you don't get much more western than Sandton, I promise oyu | |
| <finalbeta> Then I wonder why they need Dutch graduates to go sit in a help-desk. | |
| <Vhata> maybe they need people who can speak Dutch | |
| <highvoltage> ooh, happening here | |
| <finalbeta> Well, dutch is supposed to be very similar to South-African, We can understand another when speaking, not sure if that would be the same with writing. | |
| <Vhata> ja | |
| <Vhata> it's called Afrikaans | |
| <finalbeta> Ja ok dan, Afrikaans. | |
| <Vhata> Afrikaans is partially derived from Dutch | |
| <highvoltage> finalbeta: I've been to IBM in Sandton, it certainly looks like a nice working environment | |
| <highvoltage> finalbeta: although I didn't see any of the help desks there yet | |
| <finalbeta> Wikipedia sure is enlightening. | |
| <highvoltage> yup | |
| <morgs> finalbeta: Do you have specific questions about South Africa? | |
| <morgs> Perhaps IBM are planning to do europe support from here... | |
| <finalbeta> Nah, I guess I don't really know what I am looking for. just trying to get the feel of it. Don't really know what to expect. Will have to do some proper research. I know you don't live in huts, yet average life expectancy is 43years. So it can't be that western. Although there seems to be a great difference between rich and poor. | |
| <finalbeta> Which probably explains all of that. | |
| <morgs> That average is across a huge range of socio-economic conditions. Factors like HIV and crime affect the poor much more... | |
| <morgs> finalbeta: Are you from Belgium? | |
| <finalbeta> yep | |
| <finalbeta> I'm Flemish. | |
| <morgs> My sister studied music in Gent, and married a local. They live in Leuven... | |
| <finalbeta> What a small world. | |
| <Vhata> 40,075.16 km right round | |
| <morgs> Yes - and then I met Mark van den Borre at the Ubuntu summit in California, and he's also from Leuven... (No they don't know each other!) | |
| <finalbeta> mark is in #ubuntu-be, as I am. | |
| <finalbeta> I'm not affiliated with the .be loco team though. | |
| <Charl> night all :) | |
| <highvoltage> morgs: yay, now I can go to sleep :) | |
| <Vhata> what happened? | |
| <morgs> highvoltage: me too, thanks for your cheering! | |
| * morgs is a member | |
| <Vhata> did you win?! | |
| <highvoltage> any time! | |
| <linuxboy> what happened ? | |
| <Vhata> yay! | |
| <morgs> cha-ching! | |
| <linuxboy> a member? | |
| <Vhata> linuxboy: morgs is into the council | |
| <linuxboy> the council? | |
| <highvoltage> Vhata: not council, member | |
| <linuxboy> you're a jedi!!! | |
| <linuxboy> Jedis ++ | |
| * morgs goes to brush teeth | |
| <morgs> edubuntugirl: highvoltage ++ | |
| <highvoltage> edubuntugirl: morgs++ | |
| <morgs> 'night all | |
| <linuxboy> night morgs | |
| <highvoltage> goodnight! | |
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