Council Meeting Tuesday 8th September 2020 – Minutes

Council Meeting Tuesday 8th September 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 1931 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 Youtube to council@ on 26 Aug 2020: Notification of copyright claim on LCA2015 conference opening by UMG (Universal Music Group) for “I Lived”. Follow up from Ryan Verner (30 Aug 2020) suggests we provide a google account to which he can [...]

2021-01-15T09:54:21+11:00September 8th, 2020|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 25th August 2020 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Jonathan Woithe Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Lisa Sands Apologies  Benno Rice Joel Addison   Meeting opened at 1933 AEST by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Log of correspondence Grant application from Ben Minerds: Hosting and services for Software Freedom Day and Free Software Melbourne meetups. Received 23 Aug 2020. Community consultation closes 6 Sep 2020. To be discussed at Council meeting on 8 Sep 2020. AI: Jonathan to respond, pointing out the option of an LA subcommittee Participation certificate question around pycon. AI: Jonathan [...]

2021-01-14T13:49:19+11:00August 25th, 2020|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

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: , , |
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