Council Meeting 18th January 2023 – Minutes

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Joel Addison (President) Wil Brown (Vice-President) Clinton Roy (Secretary) Jonathan Woithe (Council) Neil Cox (Council) Russell Stuart (Treasurer) (Arrived at twenty past eight) Apologies  Not Present Lilac Kapul (Council)   Meeting opened at 20:04 AEDT by Joel  and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Clinton Roy   2. Log of correspondence 09/01/2023 Email from Dave Sparks Re: DrupalSouth 2023. They are keen to organise their next conference, and we have given them the standard starting points of budget requirements and account holders. A short response has been given, a longer response will be [...]

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Joel Addison (President) Wil Brown (Vice-President) Clinton Roy (Secretary) Russell Stuart (Treasurer) Jonathan Woithe (Council) Neil Cox (Council) Apologies  None   Not Present Lilac Kapul (Council)   Meeting opened at 20:08 AEDT by Joel  and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Clinton Roy   2. Log of correspondence Russell Coker - SPF issues with email coming via linux.org.au 3. Items for discussion 2023 Budget Discuss and modify as appropriate. Discussions covered employee assistance programs, making the SSC budget smaller (as it is mostly held online these days) and the budget of the bid [...]

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Joel Addison (President) Wil Brown (Vice-President) Clinton Roy (Secretary) Jonathan Woithe (Council) Neil Cox (Council) Lilac Kapul (Council) Russell Stuart (Treasurer) (arrived at 8:25) Apologies  None Not Present None Meeting opened at 20:05 AEDT by Clinton Roy and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Clinton Roy   2. Log of correspondence Several emails from members of the community around mailing list conduct on Monday. Given the nature of the events, there’s privacy concerns around naming the individuals.    3. Items for discussion Lilac asks about data trust, mails have been sent to them, [...]

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Joel Addison (President) Wil Brown (Vice-President) Russell Stuart (Treasurer) Jonathan Woithe (Council) Neil Cox (Council) Lilac Kapul (Council) Apologies  Clinton Roy (Secretary) Not Present None   Meeting opened at 20:10 AEDT by Joel and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Jonathan.   2. Log of correspondence 2022-11-26 Email: PyCon AU server exports email, Katie McLaughlin 2022-11-28 Email: Building a data trust for speech data from Linux Australia conferences, Kathy Reid 2022-12-05 Email:  LA List Censorship, Noel Butler (sent via Jonathan Woithe)   3. Items for discussion LA List Censorship, Noel Butler. In addition [...]

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Joel Addison (President) Wil Brown (Vice-President) Clinton Roy (Secretary) Russell Stuart (Treasurer) Jonathan Woithe (Council) Lilac Kapul (Council)   Apologies  None Not Present Neil Cox (Council)   Meeting opened at 20:15 AEDT by Joel and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Clinton Roy 2. Log of correspondence 2022-11-14 Kathy Reid Email - Grant application, draft letter of support for council consideration 2022-11-22  Katie McLaughlin Email - Ping admin team and council about PyCon AU server exports ASIC mail, 10 October, via Terry 3. Items for discussion Kathy Reid - Grant application, draft letter [...]

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Wil Brown (Vice-President) Clinton Roy (Secretary) Russell Stuart (Treasurer) Jonathan Woithe (Council) Neil Cox (Council) Apologies  - Joel Addison (President) Not Present - Lilac Kapul (Council)   Meeting opened at 20:02 AEDT by Wil Brown  and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Clinton Roy   2. Log of correspondence 2022-11-02 Email from Bret Busby regarding uceprotect 2022-11-02 Email from Bret Busby regarding Noel Butler, SpamAssasin, and uceprotect   3. Items for discussion Clarify uceprotect does not send out any .eml attachments causing further email list blocks. Uceprotect is an RBL. It does not [...]

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Joel Addison (President) Wil Brown (Vice-President) Russell Stuart (Treasurer) Jonathan Woithe (Council) Apologies  Clinton Roy (Secretary) Neil Cox (Council) Lilac Kapul (Council) Not Present - Meeting opened at 20:05 AEDT by Joel  and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Jonathan.   2. Log of correspondence 17th October, From Marcus Herstik, Subject: Request for information Minutes from committee and subcommittee meetings A copy of any emails that are meeting minutes Financial statements for 2021-22 and 22 YTD List of members including contact details for the purpose of contacting members 18th October, From Marcus Herstik, [...]

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Joel Addison (President) Wil Brown (Vice-President) Clinton Roy (Secretary) Russell Stuart (Treasurer) Jonathan Woithe (Council) Neil Cox (Council) Apologies none Not Present Lilac Kapul (Council) Meeting opened at 20:00 AEDT by Joel  and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Clinton 2. Log of correspondence Joomla Australia Subcommittee - Patrick Jackson Joomla Australia - Linux Australia Subcommittee - Proposal Submission Oct 2022.pdf 3. Items for discussion Dave Sparks, speaking on Drupal conference. 210 tickets sold, 50 are sponsors, 30 are speakers, expecting another 10/12 from various sponsors/speakers. Income in $45 speakers, $80 odd k [...]

1. Meeting overview and key information Present Joel Addison (President) Clinton Roy (Secretary) Russell Stuart (Treasurer) Jonathan Woithe (Council) Neil Cox (Council) Lilac Kapul (Council) Apologies  Wil Brown (Vice-President) Meeting opened at 19:33 AEDT by Joel  and quorum was achieved. Minutes taken by Clinton   2. Log of correspondence Request for funding from Kathy Reid, on behalf of Dawn Collett and Matt Cengia “In the background, Dawn has kindly reached out to some contacts about setting up a data trust, in an effort to clarify costs and the path forward. We are in a chicken and egg situation now - [...]