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Re: [LACTTE] Re: [Linux-aus] About a User Conference (was...)
Anthony Towns wrote:
Michael Still wrote:
Funding.
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I am requesting $xxx seed funding from Linux Australia, and the same
amount from AUUG. The reasoning here is to spread the risk of the
event, and maximise the benefits to the community and both groups.
I'm somewhat worried that having three groups (you, LA, AUUG) trying to
run a single conference isn't that great an idea. :-/ OCG 05, eg, has
explicitly minimal involvement from LCA and LA, and what little
involvement there was seems to have pretty quickly resulted in chaos...
Which is a fair enough comment. I do think that both organizations have
more to learn about cooperation here (I can think of examples of strife
caused by either side), but I think things are improving.
I guess what I'm really saying here is that I think cooperation is good,
and that should be encouraged. I am happy enough for the event to
operate as a sub committee of LA, but I do think it needs a "hands off"
style of management similar to LCA.
The point with wanting my involvement for two of the event is that I
think it takes a couple of years for an event to get enough of a "feel"
to be easy to hand off to other people.
Chain of command.
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I would report to both Linux Australia and AUUG, but would have sole
delegated control of the event. Subsequent events would be negotiated
between myself, Linux Australia and AUUG if this event is a success.
Liability cover would be arranged through Linux Australia's event
insurance.
The way of doing it under the LA banner would be to act as a
subcommittee (of one person, possibly) of LA, acting in LA's name and in
accord with any directions that might come from the LA committee. That's
officially the way LCA works -- the idea is that the LA ctte shouldn't
be giving m/any directions because the subctte knows what it's doing.
Having a joint ctte works by having representatives appointed by each
organisation, so you'd have a couple of people from AUUG and a couple of
people from LA, with LA/AUUG being able to direct how they vote on any
particular issue.
I hadn't thought of that.
Having just one person on the ctte, having to answer to two different
groups on how you spend money doesn't seem like a great idea. We could
just run it as a grant -- ie, you ask for money up front, then run it
yourself -- but there'll be continuing costs that you probably can't
estimate well enough up front which probably makes that impossible.
Ok. I like the tweak. We could do something like have a committee of x
people from LA, x people from AUUG, and me. Would that handle your concerns?
Mikal
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Linux.conf.au 2005 -- Quite like an excellent Linux and Open Source
conference. http://lca2005.linux.org.au