Council Meeting Tuesday 17th December 2019 – Minutes

Council Meeting Tuesday 17th December 2019 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Joshua Hesketh Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Clinton Roy Jonathan Woithe Miles Goodhew Apologies  None   Meeting opened at 1932 AEDT by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Log of correspondence None 3. Items for discussion Council position documents migration to Markdown (and subsequent changes) Rusty Wrenchers? (11-ish noms) After council has largely voted Julien will contact rusty-wrench@lists list, and the members individually with a top-3 and preference. Sign off on Audited Accounts One cut off text in first round has been fixed. Approved. Need <insurers> [...]

2021-01-03T21:17:27+11:00December 17th, 2019|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Proposed Constitutional Change to add Statement of Objectives into Constitution

Dear LA Members, Over recent years a number of conference sponsors have indicated that it would be easier for them to support our activities if Linux Australia were a registered charity. As Linux Australia’s role has always been to educate people about open source, the day-to-day running of the organisation won’t change if Linux Australia were to become a registered charity. Furthermore, the Linux Australia Council has sought advice from our Auditor and Accountant; both advised that becoming a charity would have no material effect on how Linux Australia is run. For these reasons (and in light of the benefits), [...]

2019-12-12T08:06:31+11:00December 12th, 2019|Categories: Elections, Linux Australia|

Call for Nominations for 2020 Linux Australia Council

Dear Linux Australia Community, Pursuant to clause (15) of the Linux Australia constitution we hereby declare an election open and call for nominations to the Linux Australia Council for the term January 2020 to January 2021. All office bearer and ordinary committee member positions are open for election. Nominations will open from 00:00am (AEDT) 10 December 2019 and run until 11:59pm (AEDT) 24 December 2019 Voting will open 00:00am (AEDT) 25 December 2019 and run until 11:59pm (AEDT) 12 January 2020 Results will be announced during the AGM at linux.conf.au 2020 (Gold Coast, QLD) on 13 January Results will be [...]

2019-12-16T09:12:47+11:00December 12th, 2019|Categories: Elections, Linux Australia|Tags: , , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 3rd December 2019 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Clinton Roy Jonathan Woithe Apologies Joshua Hesketh Miles Goodhew   Meeting opened at 1932 AEDT by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Event Review WordCamp Sydney/Port Macquarie 2019 Drupal South Hobart Pycon AU 2020 Tech Team LCA 2020 LCA 2021 3. Log of correspondence None 4. Items for discussion Establishment of a privacy@ LA address to make it easier for people to contact LA on privacy-related matters. It should be directed to president@ and secretary@ and be archived on LA servers [...]

2021-01-03T21:15:59+11:00December 3rd, 2019|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Call for Rusty Wrench Award nominations

Hi everyone, The Rusty Wrench Award is Australia's highest honour for community contributions to the Open Source movement in the country. It was eponymously named after luminary Rusty Russell, one of Australia's most prominent contributors and community members, founder of linux.conf.au (as CALU, in 1999), and the inaugural recipient of the award. The Rusty Wrench Award is an award inaugurated by Jeff Waugh to recognise outstanding service to the Australian and New Zealand Free and Open Source Software community. Please send your nomination to council at linux.org.au with the subject line "Rusty Wrench Nomination: NAME OF NOMINEE", and include a [...]

2019-12-01T12:17:14+11:00December 1st, 2019|Categories: Linux Australia, Rusty Wrench|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 19th November 2019 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Joshua Hesketh Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Clinton Roy Jonathan Woithe Miles Goodhew   Apologies  None   Meeting opened at 1931 AEDT by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Log of correspondence Gnome foundation donation in progress, they want a media release. Still waiting on an invoice. We have signed the “Secure the Internet” letter 3. Items for discussion AI: Subcommittees (v3 doc; Web page; wind-up et. al.) (M0les) Sae Ra expects draft by tomorrow. Web page /windup, we do list a bunch of possibly dead [...]

2021-01-03T21:14:00+11:00November 19th, 2019|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 5th November 2019 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Joshua Hesketh Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Jonathan Woithe Miles Goodhew Apologies Clinton Roy   Meeting opened at 1931 AEDT by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Event Review WordCamp Sydney/Port Macquarie Drupal South Hobart Pycon AU 2020 Tech Team LCA 2020 3. Log of correspondence Motion on list for GNOME legal defence Sae Ra to contact directly to see about transfer. 4. Items for discussion Kill AWS? Josh thinks it’s on his todo list to clean up. Grant application from Dr Matahar, Development of autopilot [...]

2021-01-03T21:12:31+11:00November 5th, 2019|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 22nd October 2019 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Joshua Hesketh Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Jonathan Woithe Miles Goodhew   Apologies  Clinton Roy   Meeting opened at 1932 AEDT by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Log of correspondence None 3. Items for discussion LCA 2020 update 5. Items for noting Julien will be travelling during our next meeting, should still be able to attend, but would appreciate someone standing up as backup if can’t do minutes or has to leave early. Grant application submitted: Dr Mohammad, Gravity Challenge. Community consultation period is underway. [...]

2021-01-03T21:10:40+11:00October 22nd, 2019|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 8th October 2019 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Sae Ra Germaine Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Clinton Roy Jonathan Woithe Miles Goodhew Apologies Joshua Hesketh   Meeting opened at 1931 AEDT by Sae Ra and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Event Review WordCamp Sydney/Port Macquarie 2019 Drupal South Hobart Tech Team LCA 2020 3. Log of correspondence None 4. Items for discussion F2F AI updates. Sae Ra Respond to NetThing Done, invoice pending. Respond to Vala Done, also NAKd sponsoring at a lower rate. Send call for Rusty Wrench nominations (drafted) Hopefully sent today Josh <All Done> Russell: Prep [...]

2021-01-03T21:08:34+11:00October 8th, 2019|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |

Council Meeting Tuesday 10th September 2019 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Joshua Hesketh Julien Goodwin Russell Stuart Clinton Roy Jonathan Woithe Miles Goodhew Apologies Sae Ra Germaine   Meeting opened at 1930 AEST by Julien and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Julien. 2. Event Review WordCamp Sydney/Port Macquarie 2019 Drupal South Hobart Tech Team LCA 2020 3. Log of correspondence None 4. Items for discussion Pycon AU 20/21 has updated budget.  Need to consider it, and approve subcommittee status if OK. Other than assuming ticket sales in Adelaide will be the same as Sydney seems reasonable. Russell moves motion to approve the Pycon [...]

2021-01-03T21:05:53+11:00September 10th, 2019|Categories: Council Meetings, Linux Australia|Tags: , , |
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