Council Meeting Tuesday 11th August 2020 – Minutes

Council Meeting Tuesday 11th August 2020 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Jonathan Woithe Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Joel Addison Benno Rice Apologies Lisa Sands   Meeting opened at 1932 AEST by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Event Review Drupal Admin Team Pycon LCA 2020 LCA 2021 LCA 2022 3. Log of correspondence Points about online conferences, sent by Miles Goodhew to council@ on 30 July 2020 for our information. From: Agileware Support; Subject:  SUP-20808 : linux.org.au - Other bots and nasty stuff poking the website; Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 09:39:00 +1000 (AEST).  Just letting [...]

2021-01-14T13:48:02+11:00August 11th, 2020|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 28th July 2020 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Jonathan Woithe Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Lisa Sands Joel Addison Benno Rice   Apologies None   Meeting opened at 1926 AEST by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Log of correspondence <Redacted> requested sponsorship prospectus for LCA2021 via council@ on 23 July 2020. Sae Ra will respond 3. Items for discussion HUMBUG - Request for VM on Proxmox Motion to approve,  by Sae Ra, seconded Jonthan Passed with two abstentions 4. Items for noting None 5. Other business  LCA update <details redacted> Pycon <details redacted> [...]

2021-01-14T13:46:32+11:00July 28th, 2020|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 14th July 2020 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Jonathan Woithe Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Lisa Sands Benno Rice Joel Addison   Apologies None   Meeting opened at 1933 AEST by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Event Review Drupal Admin Team Pycon LCA 2020 LCA 2021 LCA 2022 3. Log of correspondence From Kathy Reid to council@ on 6 July 2020: advising that she will not be able to assist with Council elections or the preparation of the LA Annual Report in 2020. From Anchor to council@ on 7 July 2020: taslug.org.au domain [...]

2021-01-14T13:44:06+11:00July 14th, 2020|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 30th June 2020 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Jonathan Woithe Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Lisa Sands Joel Addison Apologies  Benno Rice   Meeting opened at 1931 AEST by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Log of correspondence Kathryn Tyree confirmed that Kohacon will be proceeding as a hybrid conference (email to JW on 23 Jun 2020, forwarded to council@ on 24 Jun 2020). See below Kathy had contacted about a post to linux-aus that hadn’t come through, in the end it was sitting in an outbox. 3. Items for discussion With Kohacon now [...]

2021-01-07T21:07:52+11:00June 30th, 2020|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 16th June 2020 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Jonathan Woithe Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Joel Addison Apologies  Lisa Sands   Meeting opened at 1934 AEST by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Log of correspondence Taslug.org.au domain renewal, due by 7 Aug 2020. Admin team on it. Web enquiry from Rob Tihanyi about LineageOS installation. JW responded, no further action needed. Slug.org.au domain: will automatically renew for 2 years on 28 June 2020 using Visa-1149. Admin team on it. IBM interested in continuing on for 2021 (et al.). Also interested in <possible future [...]

2021-01-07T21:06:41+11:00June 16th, 2020|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Grants Program 2020 now open

On behalf of Linux Australia Council, I would like to announce the opening of the 2020 grants program. A total of $AUD 35,000 is available to fund open source and open hardware projects which will benefit our community. In light of the situation brought about by COVID-19, we would especially encourage applications for projects which provide technological assistance to get through this time.  For example, funding could be requested to improve documentation or the user experience of open source video conferencing software, making it more accessible to those who are not technically minded.  Other related activities include development of web [...]

Council Meeting Tuesday 2nd June 2020 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Jonathan Woithe Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Lisa Sands Joel Addison Benno Rice   Apologies None   Meeting opened at 1932 AEST by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Event Review Drupal Admin Team Pycon LCA 2020 LCA 2021 LCA 2022 3. Log of correspondence Message from David Williams, “[LACTTE] Hoping for your feedback re a potential grant request and if it is appropriate, relevant, viable, etc.” 28th May Jonathan responded on list, that stands for now. 4. Items for discussion Conf webdev team CoC email [...]

2021-01-07T21:05:00+11:00June 2nd, 2020|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 19th May 2020 – Minutes

Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Jonathan Woithe Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Lisa Sands Joel Addison   Apologies  Benno Rice   Meeting opened at 1932 AEST by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien.   2. Log of correspondence From:  Anchor, Subject: 90 Day Renewal Reminder 2020-08-07, Date:    Sun, 10 May 2020 03:50:13 +0000, Body: taslug.org.au expires in 90 days Being sorted by Steve who will expense. From: Agileware, Subject: New Invoice, due 13/06/2020, Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 10:00:32 +1000, Body: CiviCRM support invoice $2310.00. Motion to pay the support bill by [...]

2021-01-07T21:03:26+11:00May 19th, 2020|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Linux Australia Community Update & LCA2021 Information

Dear All, Wow, suffice to say this isn’t something that I thought I would need to send. But then again, is anything we are currently doing “Business As Usual”? This is about the time that we start our full planning mode for linux.conf.au, assemble our Session Selection Committee, announce our Grants program and our subcommittees start making their announcements. But this year is a little different. You may have already seen that the PyCon AU subcommittee has announced PyConline AU for 2020 and everything is underway to deliver this to our community. Which brings me to an update for you [...]

2020-05-06T17:42:09+10:00May 6th, 2020|Categories: General Updates, Linux Australia|Tags: , , , , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 5th May 2020 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Jonathan Woithe Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Lisa Sands Joel Addison Benno Rice Apologies None   Meeting opened at 1933 AEST by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien.   2. Event Review Drupal Admin Team Pycon LCA 2020 LCA 2021 3. Log of correspondence From Anchor Systems: renewal of slug.org.au due by 28 June 2020. Admin team has this in hand. From: Agileware, New Invoice, due 30/05/2020, Amount Due: $275.00, linux.org.au hosting. Agreed to just pay. Also agreed the upcoming support invoice will be paid. From Michael [...]

2021-01-07T21:01:59+11:00May 5th, 2020|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |
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