From jwoithe at just42.net Mon Jul 2 15:58:05 2018 From: jwoithe at just42.net (Jonathan Woithe) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:28:05 +0930 Subject: [Grants] Grant request: Securing HealthHack's Digital Future In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180702055805.GE15168@marvin.atrad.com.au> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 05:51:28PM +1000, HealthHack Australia wrote: > Securing HealthHack's Digital Future I must admit that I hadn't heard of HealthHack until now. It sounds like an interesting and worthwhile project. > HealthHack is free to attend and we welcome everyone to participate, > especially those who genuinely want to use technology to help improve > health and medical research outcomes. We???re strictly not-for-profit, > volunteer-run and 100% open source. All solutions are shared openly and > freely (as in speech AND beer). We ensure all code is released under an OSI > approved licence after each hack. More information about who we are and > what we do is available at healthhack.com.au. The projects are certainly diverse. The "health hack stories" include a number of "what has happened since the event" sections which predictably reflect the often embrionic nature of the development immediately after the events. Can you provide any guide as to how many of the HealthHack developments over the five years of your existence have gone into production use or have been the catalyst for others which have? > We would also like to become an official sub-committee of LA which would > give us the level of control over our bookkeeping we require. It probably goes without saying, but this is a separate issue to that of grant funding. That is, either or both could happen independently AFAIK, with the merits of each being evaluated separately. > HealthHack has been around in various forms since 2013 and we have a fairly > large and diverse alumni scattered around Australia, however there are four > of us who have been involved with HealthHack for several years and oversee > the long-lived aspects of the group as a whole. It seems from the application that there has been a fairly significant rotation of personnel over the years, with a relatively small core of people providing continuity. Is this an accurate picture, or have I misread the situation? Does the majority of work within HealthHack fall to the core team, or do you receive significant assistance from others directly involved in the specific events around the country? Is it fair to conclude that the motivation behind the grant request is to fund infrastructure which is better suited to your organisational requirements compared to what you have been using in the past? How would the awarding of the grant to fund the suggested services improve the ability of HealthHack to deliver their future events? Regards jonathan From jwoithe at just42.net Mon Jul 2 16:16:16 2018 From: jwoithe at just42.net (Jonathan Woithe) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:46:16 +0930 Subject: [Grants] Australian Internet Community Planning - Proposal for Linux Australia support In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180702061616.GF15168@marvin.atrad.com.au> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Lyndsey Jackson wrote: > Dear Linux Grants team and Council Members, > > Please accept this attached email as a grant request to support > participation in an uncoming Australian Internet Community working group > forum. I'll post the text below for ease of reading and sharing, and a > nicely formatted pdf is attached. > : Thanks for this submission. Recent and ongoing events have clearly demonstrated the need for an effective and balanced voice to advocate for the needs of internet users in Australia. I am interested to know how the effectiveness of the proposed Australian Internet Community (AIC) will be guaranteed. Over recent times there have been a number of examples where detrimental policies relating to the internet have been enacted despite significant valid concerns being raised publicly by experts in the field. Is there any existing framework which AIC will be able to plug into, or will AIC have to develop those connections from scratch? Clearly it's early days for AIC, but I was wondering whether there were any ideas as to what sort of a group AIC is intended to be? Will it be actively involved in policy development so as to give an effective voice to the internet users of this country, or will it be limited to a reactionary role? Regards jonathan From jackson.lyndsey at gmail.com Mon Jul 2 16:47:09 2018 From: jackson.lyndsey at gmail.com (Lyndsey Jackson) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:17:09 +0930 Subject: [Grants] Australian Internet Community Planning - Proposal for Linux Australia support In-Reply-To: <20180702061616.GF15168@marvin.atrad.com.au> References: <20180702061616.GF15168@marvin.atrad.com.au> Message-ID: Hi Jonathan, Great question thank you, having only been EFA's chair since October I'm pretty new to the scene, but I am also in the Drupal community in the governance taskforce group so creating conditions that form effective governance and community action is something I prioritise. As the Chair tasked with looking into kickstarting this group Sandra Davey (in consultation) made a key and strategically important decision to start with the planning workshop in July rather than going full force to hold an AuIGF recreation. That gives us the opportunity to define and identify the frameworks, but importantly to have groups working together to build trust and buy in before we meet. The grant we are seeking covers the cost of sending a number of people who we think are important to add to this conversation. In disclosure we are proposing that my attendance is also covered in this, EFA is slowly rebuilding now but we haven't been in a position to spend funds due to deficits left by the previous board. I'm really looking forward to seeing what results from the July workshop. A priority that EFA has recognised is that policy development and the ability for effective voice is compromised currently as civil society organisations are overwhelmed with the volume, timing and resource requirements to develop and respond to policy. This affects Australian internet users, but it also has flow on effects when we can't be active in the wider Asia Pacific region and beyond. We just can't maintain effectiveness and voice without collaboration, and this means not only are groups reactionary, at times they are silent when they don't want to be. Ultimately the intent, and the structure will be determined by the conversation and ideas that the participants on July 19 formulate together and then share for feedback with the rest of the sector. How this gets shaped is a multistakeholder process. However I for one, being time poor and a volunteer (like many of us) only want to hang my hat on something meaningful and progressive. That outcome is not guaranteed, but the approach taken to date gives us a good opportunity to get there in my opinion. Thanks, Lyndsey On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 3:46 PM, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Lyndsey Jackson wrote: > > Dear Linux Grants team and Council Members, > > > > Please accept this attached email as a grant request to support > > participation in an uncoming Australian Internet Community working group > > forum. I'll post the text below for ease of reading and sharing, and a > > nicely formatted pdf is attached. > > : > > Thanks for this submission. Recent and ongoing events have clearly > demonstrated the need for an effective and balanced voice to advocate for > the needs of internet users in Australia. > > I am interested to know how the effectiveness of the proposed Australian > Internet Community (AIC) will be guaranteed. Over recent times there have > been a number of examples where detrimental policies relating to the > internet have been enacted despite significant valid concerns being raised > publicly by experts in the field. Is there any existing framework which > AIC > will be able to plug into, or will AIC have to develop those connections > from scratch? > > Clearly it's early days for AIC, but I was wondering whether there were any > ideas as to what sort of a group AIC is intended to be? Will it be > actively > involved in policy development so as to give an effective voice to the > internet users of this country, or will it be limited to a reactionary > role? > > Regards > jonathan > -- Lyndsey Jackson 0400 329 894 W: www.lyndseyjackson.com.au T: @ok_lyndsey LIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/lyndsey-jackson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sldavey68 at gmail.com Tue Jul 3 17:27:05 2018 From: sldavey68 at gmail.com (Sandra Davey) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 17:27:05 +1000 Subject: [Grants] Australian Internet Community Planning - Proposal for Linux Australia support In-Reply-To: References: <20180702061616.GF15168@marvin.atrad.com.au> Message-ID: Hi Jonathan and thanks Lyndsey, Appreciate your questions Jonathon and I concur with Lyndsey's comments. At this stage, and learning from the past, we've built a draft proposed plan that will be put forward at the workshop in Canberra. Critically, we've informed the plan with what we learned from the past and have sought to find ways to protect the model if indeed it does get up and gets the backing of the Community. The preferred model that will be put forward is based on IGF principles: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/about-igf-faqs Importantly, we've every intention of seeing the plan critiqued, discussed, debated and co-created to its next version. Our hope is a new co-created version will see a number of organisations and participants put their hand up to contribute in more active way, post the Workshop. In talking with a range of people and organisations over the past couple of months, there is wide-spread desire to see the rebirth of an internet governance framework for Australia. As such we've had a solid response from around 40 organisations who will participate in the workshop. As Lynsdey said, we're mindful to get a diverse mix and the people we have in mind for the grant, will bring just that. I'm happy to share with you more on how we've moved through this process, out intention regarding open, transparent collaboration and who has put their hand up to contribute to the workshop. Please don't hesitate to contact me on 0416 158 311. Kind regards Sandra Davey Chair, Australian Internet Community Forum On 2 July 2018 at 16:47, Lyndsey Jackson wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Great question thank you, having only been EFA's chair since October I'm > pretty new to the scene, but I am also in the Drupal community in the > governance taskforce group so creating conditions that form effective > governance and community action is something I prioritise. > > As the Chair tasked with looking into kickstarting this group Sandra Davey > (in consultation) made a key and strategically important decision to start > with the planning workshop in July rather than going full force to hold an > AuIGF recreation. That gives us the opportunity to define and identify the > frameworks, but importantly to have groups working together to build trust > and buy in before we meet. The grant we are seeking covers the cost of > sending a number of people who we think are important to add to this > conversation. In disclosure we are proposing that my attendance is also > covered in this, EFA is slowly rebuilding now but we haven't been in a > position to spend funds due to deficits left by the previous board. > > I'm really looking forward to seeing what results from the July workshop. > A priority that EFA has recognised is that policy development and the > ability for effective voice is compromised currently as civil society > organisations are overwhelmed with the volume, timing and resource > requirements to develop and respond to policy. This affects Australian > internet users, but it also has flow on effects when we can't be active in > the wider Asia Pacific region and beyond. We just can't maintain > effectiveness and voice without collaboration, and this means not only are > groups reactionary, at times they are silent when they don't want to be. > > Ultimately the intent, and the structure will be determined by the > conversation and ideas that the participants on July 19 formulate together > and then share for feedback with the rest of the sector. How this gets > shaped is a multistakeholder process. However I for one, being time poor > and a volunteer (like many of us) only want to hang my hat on something > meaningful and progressive. That outcome is not guaranteed, but the > approach taken to date gives us a good opportunity to get there in my > opinion. > > Thanks, > > Lyndsey > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 3:46 PM, Jonathan Woithe > wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Lyndsey Jackson wrote: >> > Dear Linux Grants team and Council Members, >> > >> > Please accept this attached email as a grant request to support >> > participation in an uncoming Australian Internet Community working group >> > forum. I'll post the text below for ease of reading and sharing, and a >> > nicely formatted pdf is attached. >> > : >> >> Thanks for this submission. Recent and ongoing events have clearly >> demonstrated the need for an effective and balanced voice to advocate for >> the needs of internet users in Australia. >> >> I am interested to know how the effectiveness of the proposed Australian >> Internet Community (AIC) will be guaranteed. Over recent times there have >> been a number of examples where detrimental policies relating to the >> internet have been enacted despite significant valid concerns being raised >> publicly by experts in the field. Is there any existing framework which >> AIC >> will be able to plug into, or will AIC have to develop those connections >> from scratch? >> >> Clearly it's early days for AIC, but I was wondering whether there were >> any >> ideas as to what sort of a group AIC is intended to be? Will it be >> actively >> involved in policy development so as to give an effective voice to the >> internet users of this country, or will it be limited to a reactionary >> role? >> >> Regards >> jonathan >> > > > > -- > > > Lyndsey Jackson > > 0400 329 894 > > W: www.lyndseyjackson.com.au > T: @ok_lyndsey > LIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/lyndsey-jackson > > -- Product Space w: www.theproductspace.com m: +61 416 158 311 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As such we've had a solid response from > around 40 organisations who will participate in the workshop. As Lynsdey > said, we're mindful to get a diverse mix and the people we have in mind for > the grant, will bring just that. Is it possible to disclose who might be funded to attend by the grant, or at least the organisations they represent? Regards jonathan From sldavey68 at gmail.com Wed Jul 4 19:06:06 2018 From: sldavey68 at gmail.com (Sandra Davey) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 19:06:06 +1000 Subject: [Grants] Australian Internet Community Planning - Proposal for Linux Australia support In-Reply-To: <20180704004430.GA24460@marvin.atrad.com.au> References: <20180702061616.GF15168@marvin.atrad.com.au> <20180704004430.GA24460@marvin.atrad.com.au> Message-ID: Of course. Lyndsey from EFA and 3 youth at igf ambassadors. They?re young bright policy enthusiasts who wouldn?t be able to get there without help. We?re keen on mentoring the next gen into this community. Lyndsey, did I miss someone? Cheers Sandy On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 at 10:44 am, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > Hi Sandra and Lyndsey > > Thanks for the additional information you have both provided in response to > my questions. > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:27:05PM +1000, Sandra Davey wrote: > > At this stage, and learning from the past, we've built a draft proposed > > plan ... The preferred model that will be put forward is based on IGF > > principles: > http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/about-igf-faqs > > This seems to be a good foundation to build on. > > > In talking with a range of people and organisations over the past couple > of > > months, there is wide-spread desire to see the rebirth of an internet > > governance framework for Australia. As such we've had a solid response > from > > around 40 organisations who will participate in the workshop. As Lynsdey > > said, we're mindful to get a diverse mix and the people we have in mind > for > > the grant, will bring just that. > > Is it possible to disclose who might be funded to attend by the grant, or > at > least the organisations they represent? > > Regards > jonathan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jackson.lyndsey at gmail.com Wed Jul 4 20:34:31 2018 From: jackson.lyndsey at gmail.com (Lyndsey Jackson) Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 20:04:31 +0930 Subject: [Grants] Australian Internet Community Planning - Proposal for Linux Australia support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5b3ca2bc.1c69fb81.af91f.92f5@mx.google.com> We also have an independent journalist with a depth of digital rights experience and connection to national and international digital civil society organisations that we think is crucial. I haven't had her confirmation so until then for privacy/consent I'd rather not share her name. However she doesn't work for an organisation that can support her participation and so it's important to have her costs covered; it's a barrier to participation if not.? Lyndsey -------- Original message --------From: Sandra Davey Date: 4/7/18 6:36 pm (GMT+09:30) To: Jonathan Woithe Cc: Lyndsey Jackson , council at linux.org.au, grants at lists.linux.org.au, Michelle Scott Tucker Subject: Re: [Grants] Australian Internet Community Planning - Proposal for Linux Australia support Of course. Lyndsey from EFA and 3 youth at igf ambassadors. They?re young bright policy enthusiasts who wouldn?t be able to get there without help. We?re keen on mentoring the next gen into this community. Lyndsey, did I miss someone? Cheers Sandy On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 at 10:44 am, Jonathan Woithe wrote: Hi Sandra and Lyndsey Thanks for the additional information you have both provided in response to my questions. On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:27:05PM +1000, Sandra Davey wrote: > At this stage, and learning from the past, we've built a draft proposed > plan ...? The preferred model that will be put forward is based on IGF > principles: http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/about-igf-faqs This seems to be a good foundation to build on. > In talking with a range of people and organisations over the past couple of > months, there is wide-spread desire to see the rebirth of an internet > governance framework for Australia. As such we've had a solid response from > around 40 organisations who will participate in the workshop. As Lynsdey > said, we're mindful to get a diverse mix and the people we have in mind for > the grant, will bring just that. Is it possible to disclose who might be funded to attend by the grant, or at least the organisations they represent? Regards ? jonathan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at healthhack.com.au Thu Jul 5 05:04:41 2018 From: info at healthhack.com.au (HealthHack Australia) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 05:04:41 +1000 Subject: [Grants] Grant request: Securing HealthHack's Digital Future In-Reply-To: <20180702055805.GE15168@marvin.atrad.com.au> References: <20180702055805.GE15168@marvin.atrad.com.au> Message-ID: On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 05:51:28PM +1000, HealthHack Australia wrote: > > Securing HealthHack's Digital Future > > I must admit that I hadn't heard of HealthHack until now. It sounds like > an > interesting and worthwhile project. > > Thanks! > > HealthHack is free to attend and we welcome everyone to participate, > > especially those who genuinely want to use technology to help improve > > health and medical research outcomes. We???re strictly not-for-profit, > > volunteer-run and 100% open source. All solutions are shared openly and > > freely (as in speech AND beer). We ensure all code is released under an > OSI > > approved licence after each hack. More information about who we are and > > what we do is available at healthhack.com.au. > > The projects are certainly diverse. The "health hack stories" include a > number of "what has happened since the event" sections which predictably > reflect the often embrionic nature of the development immediately after the > events. Can you provide any guide as to how many of the HealthHack > developments over the five years of your existence have gone into > production > use or have been the catalyst for others which have? > Producing things that last well beyond an event is a major challenge for all Hackathons, including ours. We?ve tried to address this issue by structuring our event around ?problem owners?; people from the health and medical research space who have a problem that needs solving, or an idea that needs a prototype. We work with the problem owners in the lead up to the event to help them refine their idea, and if their pitch attracts enough hackers they?ll sit with them over the weekend and help with the build. There are no prizes for winning at HealthHack anymore (well, we do give out medals) and we?re not about catalyzing start-ups or driving people towards getting seed funding. All we want to do is solve problems that actual researchers are facing, by building bridges between the IT and medical / health spaces. Our problem owners attend because there?s a very specific issue they need help with and, when the prototype is built, there?s an automatic incentive for them to use and maintain the code after the event. Probably our best examples are the additions to the Stemformatics ecosystem YuGene https://www.stemformatics.org/expressions/yugene and Multiview https://www.stemformatics.org/expressions/multi_view which were both initially developed at HealthHack events in Brisbane. Another similar project is MDBox http://www.mdbox.org/ which went on to receive a CBR Innovation Development grant worth $100 000 for prototype development and is still a work in progress. It?s worth noting though that not everything that gets built at a HealthHack event is an tool that?s expected to have wide use. For example, on one occasion we helped a researcher build a system to help them move ridiculous amounts of research data between collaborators. We?ve built prototypes whose primary use after the event is to generate results needed for grant applications to fund further work in related areas. While we do all we can to encourage the creation of code that will be used regularly in the future, we?re happy to work on anything that helps drive research, promotes open source code and strengthens the community. > > > We would also like to become an official sub-committee of LA which would > > give us the level of control over our bookkeeping we require. > > It probably goes without saying, but this is a separate issue to that of > grant funding. That is, either or both could happen independently AFAIK, > with the merits of each being evaluated separately. > Of course, we understand. It?s probably not the greatest move to mix the two subjects in one email but they?re linked in a (weak) fashion from our perspective due our need of an accounting platform. > > > HealthHack has been around in various forms since 2013 and we have a > fairly > > large and diverse alumni scattered around Australia, however there are > four > > of us who have been involved with HealthHack for several years and > oversee > > the long-lived aspects of the group as a whole. > > It seems from the application that there has been a fairly significant > rotation of personnel over the years, with a relatively small core of > people > providing continuity. Is this an accurate picture, or have I misread the > situation? Does the majority of work within HealthHack fall to the core > team, or do you receive significant assistance from others directly > involved > in the specific events around the country? > HealthHack began in Melbourne in 2013 with a small core of organisers and spread to other states as these people or others associated with the event moved around. In 2016, one of the winners from the 2015 hack in Brisbane ran an event in Canberra bringing the total to 5 cities. Each event is run by a small core of local organisers who?ll then recruit other volunteers from the community. Anyone who does a good job gets rewarded with more work! Most of our core organisers are past participants who?ve stayed on to help. Whether an event is held in any particular city depends on the availability of the core organisers, so not every city runs an event every year. The Brisbane team is currently the most active and will be the only city hosting an event this year. There are 5-6 core organisers in Brisbane who?ve been involved with the event either as organisers, mentors or participants since 2015 and another group of 7-10 volunteers who are helping with other aspects of the organisation of this years event. Things are similarly structured in Melbourne and Sydney, though we no longer have a core group of organisers in Canberra or Perth. > > Is it fair to conclude that the motivation behind the grant request is to > fund infrastructure which is better suited to your organisational > requirements compared to what you have been using in the past? How would > the awarding of the grant to fund the suggested services improve the > ability > of HealthHack to deliver their future events? > Almost. Some of the items we?re requesting money for are already up and running, but being funded out-of-pocket by our more dedicated volunteers. Some are services that we?ve been using the ?free? version of, but need the extra features of a paid service, and the remainder are things we would like to have. As an organisation we?re distributed across many cities so we rely heavily on online digital tools to function. HealthHack was founded by a group of IT consultants but many of our current volunteers are from non-technical backgrounds so we?ve iterated through several digital incarnations over the years. This includes attempts to host our own services but unfortunately, these systems invariably failed when the volunteers who?d built or been caring for them needed to move on from the project. Over time we?ve found that the best strategy is to use online services that don?t require us to have volunteers with specific technical skills and don?t require constant updates and maintenance. This year we have an extremely active team in Brisbane and we?re pushing to consolidate our digital platform so that next year there will be much better support for the HealthHack organising teams in other cities. And then we can do more of what we love doing (running the event), rather than spending time sticky taping free online tools together or trying to revive malfunctioning servers. > > Regards > jonathan > Thanks for your questions Jonathan! Regards, the HealthHack team. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at linux.org.au Fri Jul 6 19:35:48 2018 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 19:35:48 +1000 Subject: [Grants] Grant request: Securing HealthHack's Digital Future In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <565f48b3-a82a-11b9-1dee-ecd6a080b484@linux.org.au> Hi everyone, This request was considered in two parts at the Linux Australia Council meeting last night. HEALTHHACK GRANT FOR SERVICES We discussed several options related to this Grant Request, specifically around the issue that most of the services listed are not open source, and we want to encourage the use of open source technologies. We also noted that as a small operation, it is harder for HealthHack to use technologies that are open source - as they often require self-hosting. On balance we noted that HealthHack outcomes are open-source licensed and the general societal benefit of Health Hack. We approved this Grant Request to a value of approximately $2000, provided that a report on HealthHack outcomes is provided by end of December 2018. * MOTION BY Kathy Reid That Linux Australia Accepts the Grant Proposal from HealthHack submitted by HealthHack Australia + Seconded: Cameron + Motion: unanimously passed + If there are constraints to the motion passing (eg change in conditions, to the value of approximately $2,000, subject to HealthHack agreeing to submit a report on how the grant was used by 2018-12-31. HEALTHHACK BECOMING A SUBCOMMITEE OF LINUX AUSTRALIA Several aspects were discussed in relation to this Grant Request. We noted that HealthHack does not derive any financial return; that is, Linux Australia would be taking on the risk of the event without any return - unlike say Pycon AU or linux.conf.au where Linux Australia retains profits to provide seed funding and central services. We noted that the risk exposure of HealthHack will be low, as the event is only held in a small number of locations, and the financial exposure of the event is also low. We have approved this request, subject to the subcommittee being reviewed at appropriate intervals to ensure that the risk exposure of the event is not growing beyond what Linux Australia is comfortable with. + MOTION BY Kathy Read That Linux Australia invite HealthHack become subcommittee of LA: * Seconded: Cameron. * Motion passed unanimously * Conditions: HealthHack give us a yearly report after the event is run, and LA will review HeathHack status as a subcommittee, and a list of subcommittee members is received from HealthHack. ?This subcommittee is expected to revenue neutral. NEXT ACTIONS The next actions to move forward with this piece are; * Health Hack to provide a list of their Subcommittee members * Kathy and Russell to arrange financial induction for the Subcommittee members, after which Xero and Westpac access can be provided * Kathy and Russell to provide the Grant money into the bank account for HealthHack once induction complete * Kathy to flag with Admin Team in case there are any services we already provide that may be of use * HealthHack website footer to include phrasing to the effect 'HealthHack is run under the auspices of Linux Australia' with a link back to Linux Australia web site Kind regards, Kathy On 20/06/18 17:51, HealthHack Australia wrote: > > *Project name* > > > Securing HealthHack's Digital Future > > > *Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the > project* > > > The one sentence summary of this project is: We need to start paying > for the things we rely on. The slightly longer description is as follows. > > > Who we are: > > > HealthHack brings motivated people from diverse research, technology, > business and educational backgrounds together to solve important > problems in health care and medical research. Since 2013 we have > successfully run 13 hackathons in five cities, helping to solve more > than 75 problems. > > > At the center of our work are our ?problem owners?; experts from the > health and medical research community who are searching for solutions > to technical challenges. Before each event, we work with the problem > owners to help them to refine one challenge into a well defined > ??problem? that can be worked on in a hackathon format. Each problem > owner introduces their problem at the start of the event while hackers > form teams to solve them based on their interests, passions or the > skills they can offer. For the remaining time, each problem owner > works closely with their group, combining their experience with the > team?s expertise to develop inspiring solutions to important problems. > > > HealthHack is free to attend and we welcome everyone to participate, > especially those who genuinely want to use technology to help improve > health and medical research outcomes. We?re strictly not-for-profit, > volunteer-run and 100% open source. All solutions are shared openly > and freely (as in speech AND beer). We ensure all code is released > under an OSI approved licence after each hack. More information about > who we are and what we do is available at healthhack.com.au > . > > > Our Challenges: > > > We?re a 100% volunteer run, digital first organisation. We rely > heavily on online tools and systems to run the event and to share > knowledge and lessons learned in the past. We always try to use tools > that have free versions but over time we?ve started moving to paid > subscriptions as we?ve outgrown the freely available functionality. > We?ve experimented with self hosting services using several open > source systems but our dependence on volunteers means that we?ve > periodically lost access to the skills needed to continue managing our > digital castle. We've had more success subscribing to externally > managed systems that require less technical expertise to maintain. The > lack of ?funding for paid services (our current subscriptions are > being paid out-of-pocket by our dedicated volunteers) means we aren?t > able to access all the services we require. > > > HealthHack has always been held as under the Open Knowledge Australia > banner and so OKAU have graciously provided a bank account for > sponsorship deposits and read only access to their Xero instance so we > can track our state. We are extremely grateful to OKAU for their > support in this area but we are also constrained by the limitations of > the current setup. Specifically, we cannot raise or pay invoices or > reimburse volunteers for event related expenses ourselves. Instead we > must communicate via email with a third party who has the ability to > do this for us. > > > We aim to: > > > - take over payment of any critical services currently carried by our > wonderful volunteers (such as domain name registration fees). > > > - move and centralise all of our documentation including standard > operating practices, tools / templates, marketing / branding / website > assets into one place on Google Drive with appropriate permissions for > organisers. We want to make as much information publicly accessible as > possible, while still respecting and protecting personal and sensitive > information and data. > > > - implement a reliable and secure email service for HealthHack > organisers so that communication history is not lost as volunteers > come and go. > > > - improve the way we manage our website. We need to make it easier for > our volunteers to keep it up to date with relevant content. > > > - start using an online, teams-based password management service. > > > - improve our ability to communicate with our audience by moving to a > paid version of Mailchimp with SurveyMonkey integration. > > > - better manage our own presence in Xero and have the ability to > generate invoices and pay expenses. > > > *How the success of the project will be measured* > > > If the grant is funded we?ll create a more detailed list of technical > goals and accompanying delivery dates and post it on the LA mailing > list. We?ll use this document to assess our position throughout the > project. > > > *Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, > projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. > The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or > professional services* > > > The event itself usually costs around $10K per site which we?ve always > been able to fund using sponsorship but we?ve never had funding to pay > for the infrastructure that runs year round. Our long term plan is to > support all ongoing infrastructure costs by seeking increased > investment from our pool of sponsors. However, we also have an > immediate need to fund improvements to digital infrastructure as soon > as possible so that we can concentrate on delivering a successful > event in September. To make this happen we?re asking Linux Australia > to support us by providing $1,517.40 to pay for the following services > for the next two years: > > > Mailchimp: ?????????$200 (2 @ $100/yr) > > SurveyMonkey??? ???$116 (4 @ $29/mth) > > Squarespace: ???????$686.40 (24 @ $28.60/mth) > > Lastpass for teams: $232 (2 * 4 @ $29/user/yr) > > Gsuite: ????????????$240 (1 * 24 @ $10/user/mth) > > Domain hosting: ????$43 (2 @ $21.50/yr) > > > We would also like to become an official sub-committee of LA which > would give us the level of control over our bookkeeping we require. > > > We understand how scarce and valuable grant money is so we would like > to ask now that if LA is only able to fund part of the request we > would very much appreciate it if funding the entire suite of services > but for a shorter time could be considered. > > > * The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or > open culture contributions * > > > HealthHack has been around in various forms since 2013 and we have a > fairly large and diverse alumni scattered around Australia, however > there are four of us who have been involved with HealthHack for > several years and oversee the long-lived aspects of the group as a whole. > > > Dr Roisin McMahon > > > Roisin has a PhD in biochemistry, a passion for science, and more than > a decade of experience in biomedical research. She is a university > based research scientist who studies how bacteria cause disease and > searches for new drugs to treat them. Roisin is a versatile science > communicator and committed to championing better equity and diversity > in STEM. As a result,she was selected as a 2017 Science & Technology > Australia Superstar of STEM. She enjoys building and supporting > diverse and connected communities of scientists via roles as Deputy > Chair of the Australian Academy of Science?s Early and mid-Career > Researcher Forum Executive, convenor of the Brisbane node of the > STEMMinist Book Club and as an organiser for HealthHack. Roisin first > attended HealthHack in 2015; booked as a mentor for 4 hours, she > stayed for the whole weekend and has never looked back. In 2016-17, > she worked with problem owners to refine their projects. She co-led > the 2017 Brisbane event. ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? > > > Andrew Saul > > > Andrew is a data analyst for a large technology company that > specialises in machine monitoring. He has previously worked as a data > analyst in the video games and in digital advertising and app > development. Andrew has a passion for analytics and open data. As a > result he loves a good data heavy hackathon; the more open the better. > Andrew has led and participated in teams at previous GovHack and > HealthHack events. Andrew became an organiser of HealthHack Brisbane > in 2017 and is back again in 2018. He is an active member of data > community in Brisbane and has presented at a number of Meetups both > about his work and projects from hackathons his teams attended. ? > > > Dr Mike Imelfort > > > Mike has a PhD in Bioinformatics and works as a data scientist for a > biotech startup in the genome sequencing space. He's an open data and > Hackathon enthusiast and active member of the Brisbane tech community. > Mike is passionate about making technology available to diverse groups > of people. He?s produced a number of open source bioinformatics tools > (mainly GPL) which are available on github: > https://github.com/minillinim and https://github.com/ecogenomics. Mike > has been a local and national organiser for HealthHack > (http://healthhack.com.au) and served as the lead national organiser > for HealthHack 2016 which was held in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, > Perth and Canberra. Mike also contributes to the IWS-Hackathon > project, a sub-committee of Linux Australia, which is dedicated to > building open source STEM teaching resources based around an automated > garden watering platform. Mike recently stepped down as the President > of the the Kimberley Park P&C Association but is still managing the > digital services used by that organisation. > > > Gareth Moores > > > Gareth has been volunteering with HealthHack since 2015. Gareth become > technical lead for HealthHack in 2017 and has returned for 2018. > Gareth has worked as system administrator and lead developer for a > national radio station. Gareth has participated in teams at previous > HealthHack and GovHack events. Gareth also volunteers with the > Developers, Developers, Developersconference and with Rosies: Friends > on the Street. > > > Gareth Moores will be responsible for this project and will be > providing a detailed report on the outcomes of our infrastructure > regeneration project as well as how it helped (or hindered) us in > running the actual event this year. > > > We thank the committee and greater community for the opportunity to > make this request and we welcome anyand all feedback. > > Sincerely, > > The HealthHack org team. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grants mailing list > Grants at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/grants -- 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... 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NEXT ACTION: Kathy to work with Lyndsey to arrange transfer of funds Kind regards, Kathy + Grant submission received from Australian Internet Community ? planning a way forward - Lyndsey Jackson & Sandra Davey # MOTION BY Hugh Bemings That Linux Australia Accepts the Grant Proposal from HealthHack submitted by HealthHack Australia * Seconded: Cameron * Motion unanimously passed, Sae Ra abstained due to Directorship of Internet Australia * Amount: $3,500, a report to be given to LA after the event. # Kath to advise Aus Internet Community of outcome. On 25/06/18 13:12, Lyndsey Jackson wrote: > That was a really terrible subject line! Apologies :) > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Lyndsey Jackson > > wrote: > > Dear Linux Grants team and Council Members,? > > Please accept this attached email as a grant request to support > participation in an uncoming Australian Internet Community working > group forum. I'll post the text below for ease of reading and > sharing, and a nicely formatted pdf is attached.? > > Thank you for your conisderation and the opportunity your grants > program provides to our commmunities.? > > I am submitting as part of Electronic Frontiers Australia as we > are contributing to getting this group up and running. For > additional inquiries I have cc'd Chair Sandra Davey or Michelle > Scott Tucker who can answer any specific and grant related questions.? > > Thanks for your consideration.? > > > Lyndsey > > > > -- > > > Lyndsey Jackson > > 0400 329 894 > > W:?www.lyndseyjackson.com.au > T:?@ok_lyndsey > LIn:?https://au.linkedin.com/in/lyndsey-jackson > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grants mailing list > Grants at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/grants -- 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 sldavey68 at gmail.com Sat Jul 7 08:47:47 2018 From: sldavey68 at gmail.com (Sandra Davey) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 08:47:47 +1000 Subject: [Grants] Australian Internet Community Planning - Proposal for Linux Australia support In-Reply-To: <81fa880d-55ea-36da-8697-6702c208aa3e@linux.org.au> References: <81fa880d-55ea-36da-8697-6702c208aa3e@linux.org.au> Message-ID: Good morning, On behalf of the Australian Internet Community Forum, thank you. We appreciate the consideration you gave to our application and are delighted the funding will allow the participation of those we mention previously. We're grateful of the funding allocation, many thanks. Sandra Chair, On 6 July 2018 at 20:25, Linux Australia President wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This Grant Request was considered at last night's Council meeting. There > were several reasons for and against this Grant Request discussed, > including alignment with Linux Australia vision and mission, and the > inflection point that is now present in the state of Australia's internet > governance, and the cost of the Grant. In general though, the Council was > in favour of supporting additional representation at this forum, given its > likely important to future internet infrastructure and policy decision > making. > > Grant is approved, and a report is requested after the event. > > NEXT ACTION: Kathy to work with Lyndsey to arrange transfer of funds > > Kind regards, Kathy > > > > - > > Grant submission received from Australian Internet Community ? > planning a way forward - Lyndsey Jackson & Sandra Davey > - > > MOTION BY Hugh Bemings That Linux Australia Accepts the Grant > Proposal from HealthHack submitted by HealthHack Australia > - > > Seconded: Cameron > - > > Motion unanimously passed, Sae Ra abstained due to > Directorship of Internet Australia > - > > Amount: $3,500, a report to be given to LA after the event. > - > > Kath to advise Aus Internet Community of outcome. > > > On 25/06/18 13:12, Lyndsey Jackson wrote: > > That was a really terrible subject line! Apologies :) > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Lyndsey Jackson < > jackson.lyndsey at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Linux Grants team and Council Members, >> >> Please accept this attached email as a grant request to support >> participation in an uncoming Australian Internet Community working group >> forum. I'll post the text below for ease of reading and sharing, and a >> nicely formatted pdf is attached. >> >> Thank you for your conisderation and the opportunity your grants program >> provides to our commmunities. >> >> I am submitting as part of Electronic Frontiers Australia as we are >> contributing to getting this group up and running. For additional inquiries >> I have cc'd Chair Sandra Davey or Michelle Scott Tucker who can answer any >> specific and grant related questions. >> >> Thanks for your consideration. >> >> >> Lyndsey >> >> >> >> -- > > > Lyndsey Jackson > > 0400 329 894 > > W: www.lyndseyjackson.com.au > T: @ok_lyndsey > LIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/lyndsey-jackson > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grants mailing listGrants at lists.linux.org.auhttp://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/grants > > -- > Kathy Reid > President > Linux Australia > > 0418 130 636 > president at linux.org.auhttp://linux.org.au > > Linux Australia Inc > GPO Box 4788 > Sydney NSW 2001 > Australia > > ABN 56 987 117 479 > > -- Product Space w: www.theproductspace.com m: +61 416 158 311 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at healthhack.com.au Sat Jul 7 13:19:54 2018 From: info at healthhack.com.au (HealthHack Australia) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 13:19:54 +1000 Subject: [Grants] Grant request: Securing HealthHack's Digital Future In-Reply-To: <565f48b3-a82a-11b9-1dee-ecd6a080b484@linux.org.au> References: <565f48b3-a82a-11b9-1dee-ecd6a080b484@linux.org.au> Message-ID: This is fantastic news. Thank-you from everyone on the HealthHack team! Gareth Moores On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 7:35 PM, Linux Australia President < president at linux.org.au> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This request was considered in two parts at the Linux Australia Council > meeting last night. > > HEALTHHACK GRANT FOR SERVICES > > We discussed several options related to this Grant Request, specifically > around the issue that most of the services listed are not open source, and > we want to encourage the use of open source technologies. We also noted > that as a small operation, it is harder for HealthHack to use technologies > that are open source - as they often require self-hosting. On balance we > noted that HealthHack outcomes are open-source licensed and the general > societal benefit of Health Hack. > > We approved this Grant Request to a value of approximately $2000, provided > that a report on HealthHack outcomes is provided by end of December 2018. > > - > > MOTION BY Kathy Reid That Linux Australia Accepts the Grant Proposal > from HealthHack submitted by HealthHack Australia > - > > Seconded: Cameron > - > > Motion: unanimously passed > - > > If there are constraints to the motion passing (eg change in > conditions, to the value of approximately $2,000, subject to HealthHack > agreeing to submit a report on how the grant was used by 2018-12-31. > > > HEALTHHACK BECOMING A SUBCOMMITEE OF LINUX AUSTRALIA > > Several aspects were discussed in relation to this Grant Request. We noted > that HealthHack does not derive any financial return; that is, Linux > Australia would be taking on the risk of the event without any return - > unlike say Pycon AU or linux.conf.au where Linux Australia retains > profits to provide seed funding and central services. We noted that the > risk exposure of HealthHack will be low, as the event is only held in a > small number of locations, and the financial exposure of the event is also > low. > > We have approved this request, subject to the subcommittee being reviewed > at appropriate intervals to ensure that the risk exposure of the event is > not growing beyond what Linux Australia is comfortable with. > > > - > > MOTION BY Kathy Read That Linux Australia invite HealthHack > become subcommittee of LA: > - > > Seconded: Cameron. > - > > Motion passed unanimously > - > > Conditions: HealthHack give us a yearly report after the > event is run, and LA will review HeathHack status as a subcommittee, and a > list of subcommittee members is received from HealthHack. This > subcommittee is expected to revenue neutral. > > > NEXT ACTIONS > > The next actions to move forward with this piece are; > > - Health Hack to provide a list of their Subcommittee members > - Kathy and Russell to arrange financial induction for the > Subcommittee members, after which Xero and Westpac access can be provided > - Kathy and Russell to provide the Grant money into the bank account > for HealthHack once induction complete > - Kathy to flag with Admin Team in case there are any services we > already provide that may be of use > - HealthHack website footer to include phrasing to the effect > 'HealthHack is run under the auspices of Linux Australia' with a link back > to Linux Australia web site > > Kind regards, > > Kathy > > On 20/06/18 17:51, HealthHack Australia wrote: > > *Project name* > > Securing HealthHack's Digital Future > > *Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project* > > The one sentence summary of this project is: We need to start paying for > the things we rely on. The slightly longer description is as follows. > > Who we are: > > HealthHack brings motivated people from diverse research, technology, > business and educational backgrounds together to solve important problems > in health care and medical research. Since 2013 we have successfully run 13 > hackathons in five cities, helping to solve more than 75 problems. > > At the center of our work are our ?problem owners?; experts from the > health and medical research community who are searching for solutions to > technical challenges. Before each event, we work with the problem owners to > help them to refine one challenge into a well defined ?problem? that can > be worked on in a hackathon format. Each problem owner introduces their > problem at the start of the event while hackers form teams to solve them > based on their interests, passions or the skills they can offer. For the > remaining time, each problem owner works closely with their group, > combining their experience with the team?s expertise to develop inspiring > solutions to important problems. > > HealthHack is free to attend and we welcome everyone to participate, > especially those who genuinely want to use technology to help improve > health and medical research outcomes. We?re strictly not-for-profit, > volunteer-run and 100% open source. All solutions are shared openly and > freely (as in speech AND beer). We ensure all code is released under an OSI > approved licence after each hack. More information about who we are and > what we do is available at healthhack.com.au. > > Our Challenges: > > We?re a 100% volunteer run, digital first organisation. We rely heavily on > online tools and systems to run the event and to share knowledge and > lessons learned in the past. We always try to use tools that have free > versions but over time we?ve started moving to paid subscriptions as we?ve > outgrown the freely available functionality. We?ve experimented with self > hosting services using several open source systems but our dependence on > volunteers means that we?ve periodically lost access to the skills needed > to continue managing our digital castle. We've had more success subscribing > to externally managed systems that require less technical expertise to > maintain. The lack of funding for paid services (our current subscriptions > are being paid out-of-pocket by our dedicated volunteers) means we aren?t > able to access all the services we require. > > HealthHack has always been held as under the Open Knowledge Australia > banner and so OKAU have graciously provided a bank account for sponsorship > deposits and read only access to their Xero instance so we can track our > state. We are extremely grateful to OKAU for their support in this area but > we are also constrained by the limitations of the current setup. > Specifically, we cannot raise or pay invoices or reimburse volunteers for > event related expenses ourselves. Instead we must communicate via email > with a third party who has the ability to do this for us. > > We aim to: > > - take over payment of any critical services currently carried by our > wonderful volunteers (such as domain name registration fees). > > - move and centralise all of our documentation including standard > operating practices, tools / templates, marketing / branding / website > assets into one place on Google Drive with appropriate permissions for > organisers. We want to make as much information publicly accessible as > possible, while still respecting and protecting personal and sensitive > information and data. > > - implement a reliable and secure email service for HealthHack organisers > so that communication history is not lost as volunteers come and go. > > - improve the way we manage our website. We need to make it easier for our > volunteers to keep it up to date with relevant content. > > - start using an online, teams-based password management service. > > - improve our ability to communicate with our audience by moving to a paid > version of Mailchimp with SurveyMonkey integration. > > - better manage our own presence in Xero and have the ability to generate > invoices and pay expenses. > > *How the success of the project will be measured* > > If the grant is funded we?ll create a more detailed list of technical > goals and accompanying delivery dates and post it on the LA mailing list. > We?ll use this document to assess our position throughout the project. > > *Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, > projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The > cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional > services* > > The event itself usually costs around $10K per site which we?ve always > been able to fund using sponsorship but we?ve never had funding to pay for > the infrastructure that runs year round. Our long term plan is to support > all ongoing infrastructure costs by seeking increased investment from our > pool of sponsors. However, we also have an immediate need to fund > improvements to digital infrastructure as soon as possible so that we can > concentrate on delivering a successful event in September. To make this > happen we?re asking Linux Australia to support us by providing $1,517.40 to > pay for the following services for the next two years: > > Mailchimp: $200 (2 @ $100/yr) > > SurveyMonkey $116 (4 @ $29/mth) > > Squarespace: $686.40 (24 @ $28.60/mth) > > Lastpass for teams: $232 (2 * 4 @ $29/user/yr) > > Gsuite: $240 (1 * 24 @ $10/user/mth) > > Domain hosting: $43 (2 @ $21.50/yr) > > We would also like to become an official sub-committee of LA which would > give us the level of control over our bookkeeping we require. > > We understand how scarce and valuable grant money is so we would like to > ask now that if LA is only able to fund part of the request we would very > much appreciate it if funding the entire suite of services but for a > shorter time could be considered. > > * The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open > culture contributions * > > HealthHack has been around in various forms since 2013 and we have a > fairly large and diverse alumni scattered around Australia, however there > are four of us who have been involved with HealthHack for several years and > oversee the long-lived aspects of the group as a whole. > > Dr Roisin McMahon > > Roisin has a PhD in biochemistry, a passion for science, and more than a > decade of experience in biomedical research. She is a university based > research scientist who studies how bacteria cause disease and searches for > new drugs to treat them. Roisin is a versatile science communicator and > committed to championing better equity and diversity in STEM. As a > result,she was selected as a 2017 Science & Technology Australia Superstar > of STEM. She enjoys building and supporting diverse and connected > communities of scientists via roles as Deputy Chair of the Australian > Academy of Science?s Early and mid-Career Researcher Forum Executive, > convenor of the Brisbane node of the STEMMinist Book Club and as an > organiser for HealthHack. Roisin first attended HealthHack in 2015; booked > as a mentor for 4 hours, she stayed for the whole weekend and has never > looked back. In 2016-17, she worked with problem owners to refine their > projects. She co-led the 2017 Brisbane event. > > Andrew Saul > > Andrew is a data analyst for a large technology company that specialises > in machine monitoring. He has previously worked as a data analyst in the > video games and in digital advertising and app development. Andrew has a > passion for analytics and open data. As a result he loves a good data heavy > hackathon; the more open the better. Andrew has led and participated in > teams at previous GovHack and HealthHack events. Andrew became an organiser > of HealthHack Brisbane in 2017 and is back again in 2018. He is an active > member of data community in Brisbane and has presented at a number of > Meetups both about his work and projects from hackathons his teams > attended. > > Dr Mike Imelfort > > Mike has a PhD in Bioinformatics and works as a data scientist for a > biotech startup in the genome sequencing space. He's an open data and > Hackathon enthusiast and active member of the Brisbane tech community. Mike > is passionate about making technology available to diverse groups of > people. He?s produced a number of open source bioinformatics tools (mainly > GPL) which are available on github: https://github.com/minillinim and > https://github.com/ecogenomics. Mike has been a local and national > organiser for HealthHack (http://healthhack.com.au) and served as the > lead national organiser for HealthHack 2016 which was held in Brisbane, > Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Canberra. Mike also contributes to the > IWS-Hackathon project, a sub-committee of Linux Australia, which is > dedicated to building open source STEM teaching resources based around an > automated garden watering platform. Mike recently stepped down as the > President of the the Kimberley Park P&C Association but is still managing > the digital services used by that organisation. > > Gareth Moores > > Gareth has been volunteering with HealthHack since 2015. Gareth become > technical lead for HealthHack in 2017 and has returned for 2018. Gareth has > worked as system administrator and lead developer for a national radio > station. Gareth has participated in teams at previous HealthHack and > GovHack events. Gareth also volunteers with the Developers, Developers, > Developers conference and with Rosies: Friends on the Street. > > Gareth Moores will be responsible for this project and will be providing a > detailed report on the outcomes of our infrastructure regeneration project > as well as how it helped (or hindered) us in running the actual event this > year. > > We thank the committee and greater community for the opportunity to make > this request and we welcome any and all feedback. > > Sincerely, > > The HealthHack org team. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grants mailing listGrants at lists.linux.org.auhttp://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/grants > > -- > Kathy Reid > President > Linux Australia > > 0418 130 636 > president at linux.org.auhttp://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 president at linux.org.au Tue Jul 17 17:38:45 2018 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:38:45 +1000 Subject: [Grants] [LACTTE] Grant Subject Matter In-Reply-To: <839307600.2618512.1529989210106@mail.yahoo.com> References: <839307600.2618512.1529989210106.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <839307600.2618512.1529989210106@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <796bb2b2-4f67-0438-f622-03c804e118a2@linux.org.au> Hi Manny, thanks for reaching out to us. Our Grants Program is available for open source projects of all kinds, as long as there is a strong correlation with open source, open culture, open data etc, and the impact of the project to the community is clear. You must be a Linux Australia member to apply for a Grant. We don't have a maximum amount for Grants, however in considering the amount of a Grant Request we consider the impact the project outcomes will have over time. Further information on our Grants Program is available at; https://linux.org.au/projects/grants Kind regards, Kathy On 26/06/18 15:00, Manny Diaz wrote: > Hi, > > I have a project for the Australian trucking industry which aims to > address fitness to drive (thus addressing fatigue which is a leading > cause of accidents involving heavy vehicles, and thus in the end > making Australian roads a little safer) and while the Australian > Trucking Association is willing to promote our solution to its members > nationwide, we do not have funding. I was wondering then if I can > apply for a Linux Australia grant. In this context, may I please know: > > 1. If the grant is open for open source projects of all kinds (even if > Linux is not used, because our backend will run in a cloud service)-- > we are making the project open source and even benefit from community > contribution on code development. > > 2. What is the maximum amount available for every project. > > If you are interested, I produced a one-minute video pitch which you > can access here for a brief background on what the project > is:?http://bit.ly/fatiguehack > > Thanks and regards, > Manny > > > > _______________________________________________ > committee mailing list > committee at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/committee > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to > committee-unsubscribe at lists.linux.org.au -- 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: