From president at linux.org.au Mon Feb 6 13:44:23 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 13:44:23 +1100 Subject: [Announce] Council face to face meeting - key outcomes Message-ID: Hi everyone, In a recent email [0] we flagged that the first Council meeting of the year was going to be a face to face meeting. That meeting was held the weekend just past, and as promised, we'd like to keep you informed of the key outcomes. The full minutes of the meeting will be released in due course, however the key take-aways are: * We started with a Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analysis of Linux Australia - and there will be few surprises here. We have a number of strengths in terms of our cash reserves, the experience and commitment of our volunteers and our strong events, but we have weaknesses in our marketing, comms and engagement. We have opportunities to do more reach out and strategic allocation of grants, but also face threats in terms of volunteer burnout. * A budget adjustment of an additional $AUD 35k has been made to our sponsorship / grants / donations allocation, from $15k to $50k, based on the strong profits of the organisation in recent years. This will be accompanied by a more structured grants program, which will weight some priority areas for Linux Australia, such as outreach to younger cohorts, services for older cohorts, and partnership with other organisations with overlapping or similar goals. Stay tuned for more information on the grants program. * We will be undertaking work to move our Membership platform to CiviCRM, after dicussions are held with the Admin Team on the implementation and hosting specifics. As part of this, the public facing website will be refreshed. As a precursor, Linux Australia will undertake some work to refresh our brand identity, via an open tender and selection process. More details to come on this tranche of work. * Linux Australia intends to partner with other like-minded organisations on campaigns and and initiatives of mutual interest - such as metadata retention. As part of face to face, we spent time analysing and categorising our stakeholder relationships, and we will be prioritising a small number of organisations initially. Our next step is to meet with these organisations and ensure our values, priorities and intended actions are aligned, and of course we'll keep you informed throughout the process. * We discussed how we increase the capacity and capability of our organisation, particularly in areas where we have some weaknesses, such as marketing and communications and legal advice, and will start to experiment with contracting out discrete pieces of work where we have capacity or capability gaps. We are also researching what short courses are available to Council to help increase our not-for-profit governance skills. * We also covered a significant amount of administrative ground, including banking signatory change overs, review and approval of event budgets for Joomla Day Sydney and linux.conf.au 2018, review of our operations manual and activities calendar, as well as identifying some policy gaps - namely privacy - which we'll seek to redress . As always, your feedbacks, comments and questions are warmly welcomed. Kind regards, Kathy, Cameron, Sae Ra, Russell, David, Josh and Hugh [0] http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2017-January/022941.html -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris.skene at gmail.com Tue Feb 14 10:07:19 2017 From: chris.skene at gmail.com (Christopher Skene) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:07:19 +1100 Subject: [Announce] DrupalGov conference, March 27th Message-ID: <16F94138-0E46-4EF0-AC55-90209B91054A@gmail.com> Hi Folks, DrupalGov, the Asia-Pacific?s ONLY public sector Drupal event, returns to Canberra in 2017 on the 27th of March. Join us at the QT Hotel in Canberra for over three tracks of speakers from the public and private sectors discussing how to deliver better public services using Drupal. There will be sessions on key topics such as govCMS and Drupal 8, case studies and panel discussions, plus a couple of great international keynotes. 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URL: From president at linux.org.au Thu Feb 16 22:01:59 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:01:59 +1100 Subject: [Announce] AUD $35, 000 available in the 2017 Linux Australia Grants Program Message-ID: <658f8fc2-2ecd-83ec-3cff-44cdc1c53c05@linux.org.au> Dear colleagues, Linux Australia is delighted to announce the availability of $AUD 35,000 for open source, open data, open government, open education, open hardware and open culture projects, as part of the organisation?s commitment to free and open source systems and communities in the region. This year, we have deliberately weighted some areas in which we strongly welcome grant applications. More information is available at: https://linux.org.au/projects/grants Please do share this with colleagues who may find it of interest, and feel free to contact the Linux Australia Council if you would like a private discussion. With kind regards, Kathy -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 From president at linux.org.au Sun Feb 26 14:35:59 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:35:59 +1100 Subject: [Announce] A joint statement from GovHack and Linux Australia Message-ID: <34bdec6b-be18-cd5f-7cf1-f8e468d295fd@linux.org.au> Dear GovHack and Linux Australia colleagues and friends, We'd like to thank you all for your wonderful support of GovHack - you?ve helped us grow over the years to become one of the biggest annual government open data competitions in the world. For 2016 we hit a record number of participants, locations, data sets and projects (see our achievements in our GovHack 2016 Review ). As GovHack has grown it has helped drive the release of open data by governments across Australia and New Zealand and demonstrated the potential of open data to benefit the community as witnessed by the amazing apps, websites, augmented and virtual reality projects that continue to push the boundaries of open data each year. GovHack and Linux Australia are proud to announce that GovHack's current scale, influence and strength of support make 2017 the right year to establish GovHack as an independent organisation whilst continuing to champion our shared spirit of openness, awesomeness and respect. Open source and open data are more important than ever, yet they mean nothing without your involvement, your ingenuity, your brilliance ? that?s why both GovHack and Linux Australia are determined to keep growing to enable more people to play a part of our respective communities. GovHack would like to thank Linux Australia for its sensational support as an auspicing body in 2016 and looks forward to working closely together in the future to continue to promote the tremendous benefits of open source and open data for Australia, New Zealand and the entire planet! GovHack and Linux Australia -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 and GovHack Richard Richard Tubb GovHack National Director 0437 633 111 / richard at govhack.org Li Do you do Awesome? Let's Connect! richtubb.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: