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<p>Hi everyone, <br>
</p>
<p>A quick update on an item that Linux Australia and WordPress
Community Support have been working on for a while. In previous
updates, we've flagged that we've been in discussions with
WordPress Community Support to enable the WordPress community in
Australia to leverage some of the facilities Linux Australia has,
in order to grow WordPress and open source more generally. <br>
</p>
<p>We're delighted to announce that a Memorandum of Understanding
has now been formally signed between the two organisations,
outlining how this will work. The specifics of course will be
ironed out in due course, and your feedback on execution is as
always warmly welcomed. <br>
</p>
<p>In the interests of transparency and openness, the entire wording
of the MoU is given below - I've declined to attach the PDF
version as it has Josepha and mine signatures on. <br>
</p>
<p>The initial Responsible Persons appointed are long time community
members from the Aussie WordPress community - Dion Hulse and Dee
Teal.</p>
<p>A huge thanks to both Andrea Middleton and Josepha Hayden of
WordPress Community Support for all their efforts to reach an
excellent outcome. <br>
</p>
<p>With kind regards, <br>
</p>
<p>Kathy<br>
</p>
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56 987 117 479</span></p>
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BOX 4788, SYDNEY 2001 </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
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Community Support, PBC</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">660
4th Street #119</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">San
Francisco CA 94107</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">UNITED
STATES</span></p>
<br>
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style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">1.
Rationale</span></h2>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">WordPress
Foundation and Linux Australia wish to partner to facilitate the
growth of WordPress-related events in Australia.</span></p>
<br>
<h2 dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">2.
Objectives</span></h2>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Specifically,
the two organisations wish to;</span></p>
<br>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">make
it easier for members of the WordPress community in
Australia to stage events</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">by
providing event infrastructure, such as seed funding,
banking access and event insurance</span></p>
</li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">thus
growing and strengthening the WordPress community in
Australia</span></p>
</li>
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Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">and
facilitating additional growth, adoption and robustness of
the WordPress platform</span></p>
</li>
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Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">and
facilitating additional awareness of the opensource basis of
the WordPress platform, and opensource paradigms in general</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<h2 dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">3.
Roles and Responsibilities</span></h2>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Linux
Australia will undertake to;</span></p>
<br>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">provide
seed funding up to an amount approved by WordPress
Foundation, to a nominated Responsible Person(s)</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">provide
event insurance to the event being held by the Responsible
Person(s)</span></p>
</li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">provide
bank account access to the Responsible Person(s)</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">WordPress
Foundation will undertake to;</span></p>
<br>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Provide
periodic payments to Linux Australia covering the amount of
seed funding</span></p>
</li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Notify
Linux Australia of approved amounts, events and Responsible
Persons</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Droid
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style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">4.
Governance structure and reporting</span></h2>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
Responsible Officers for this MoU are;</span></p>
<br>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ms
Katherine (Kathy) Reid, </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><br
class="kix-line-break">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">President,
Linux Australia <</span><a
href="mailto:president@linux.org.au"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">president@linux.org.au</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><br
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<br class="kix-line-break">
</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ms
Josepha Haden, </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><br
class="kix-line-break">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Community
Wrangler, Automattic <</span><a
href="mailto:josepha.haden@automattic.com"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">josepha.haden@automattic.com</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">>
</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Kathy
and Josepha are the main points of contact for each
organisation.</span></p>
<br>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">5.
Dissolution of MoU</span></h2>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This
agreement may be dissolved at any time, by either party, for any
reason.</span></p>
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Kathy Reid
President
Linux Australia
0418 130 636
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:president@linux.org.au">president@linux.org.au</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux.org.au">http://linux.org.au</a>
Linux Australia Inc
GPO Box 4788
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
ABN 56 987 117 479 </pre>
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