1. Meeting overview and key information
Present
- Joel Addison (President)
- Wil Brown (Vice-President)
- Sae Ra Germaine (Council)
- Russell Stuart (Treasurer)
- Jonathan Woithe (Council)
- Neill Cox (Secretary)
Apologies
- None received
Not present
- Marcus Herstik (Council)
Meeting opened at 19:48 AEST by Joel and quorum was achieved.
Minutes taken by Jonathan and Neil.
2. Log of correspondence
- 20 Sep – Enquiry from Matthew Sherborne querying whether there will be a LA conference in 2024 – Jonathan responded 21 Sep
- 22 Sep – Fwd: [FOSS4G SoTM Oceania] Sponsorship update – Forwarded by Jonathan
- 22 Sep – Fwd: Your account has been updated – Forwarded by Russell from Westpac
- 1 Oct – Fwd: 2023 Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing User Conference Invitation and Sponsorship – Forwarded by Jonathan
- 2 Oct – Why was I not accepted as a member – Originally from Lauryn Westwood, sent to Josh Hesketh, council cc’d into his response
Lauryn has now been approved as a member.
- 7 Oct – Treasurer questions for Joel / Sae Ra – From Russell
- 9 Oct – Is it time to shut down the IWS LA Subcommittee? – From Russell, notifying IWS that the subcommittee has now been shut down.
- 9 Oct – Lodge Linux Australia Activity Statement July..September 2023
- 10 Oct – Change to auDA domain name rules – request to make submission under LA banner – from Kathy Reid
- 11 Oct – Your Job Listing has been approved. From Kirin van der Veer.
Despite the subject his job listing has not appeared. Joel will approve it shortly.
- 10 Oct – Announcing Everything Open 2024 and 2025 – Yay! (Note: the announcement went earlier, but this is the date the email to the council list was approved)
3. Items for discussion
- FOSS4G SoTM Oceania: LA is entitled to a complimentary ticket as part of our sponsorship. Offer this to Andrew Ruthven since he’s in Auckland. Jonathan to follow up.
- Pacific GIS: A brief discussion was held. The consensus was that there was little direct overlap with LA’s activities. Motion by Joel:
That LA sponsor 2023 Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing User Conference being held in Fiji.
Seconded by Sae Ra.
The motion failed, with 0 for, 4 against, 1 abstention.
Jonathan will communicate this to the Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council (PGRSC).
- Treasurer questions: Russell wanted to know what the EO2024 Treasurer situation was. It was agreed that for now Russell is acting Treasurer, and in that role he will arrange payment of a venue invoice which is due soon. Russell will ask Rob’s partner (Tharyn) if they might be interested to take this on since they are an accountant.
- Change to auDA domain name rules – request to make submission under LA banner
Kathy has got on to this promptly – auDA have only just released these changes. The consultation finishes on 30 October, which means there is one more council meeting before submissions are due. As a result the council will review the document suggested by Kathy before approving the submission. Joel will send Kathy an email to inform her of the plan.
4. Items for noting
- With daylight saving (DLS) now active, LA Council meetings will be shifted 30 minutes later (20:00 UT+1100). This is to make it easier for members in Queensland, which doesn’t do DLS.
5. Other business
I (Neill) managed to confuse the timezones for this meeting, which is probably why we didn’t get many responses from the subcommittees.
- Drupal subcommittee update
No update: Dave sent an apology. He will email an update tomorrow.
- Admin team update
No update: Steve sent an apology.
- Joomla subcommittee update
No response received to invitation.
- PyCon AU subcommittee update
The PyCon AU team are unable to attend in person. Richard Jones has supplied this update:
- Several venues in Melbourne have now been evaluated. The process continues.
- No team leadership for 2024 has been chosen yet.
- Still waiting to have the meeting with Joel to discuss changing the terms of the subcommittee.
- Flounder subcommittee update
No response received to invitation.
- LUV subcommittee update
No response received to invitation.
- WordPress subcommittee update
Wil indicated that there was nothing more to report. The next actions are expected in December 2023 when further event planning will be commenced.
