[Linux-aus] Goodbye AUUG, hello phoenix

[Michael Still]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> These are just the obvious ones. "Linux" does not represent them, but if you
> look around at the people on this list, and the topics covered at lca, you
> *will* see all of them. By being a "Linux" organisation, we're limiting our
> message substantially, and foolishly excluding people who have very similar
> goals to ours - and note: "Linux" limits us to the *non-growth* areas of the
> Open Source industry and community. Growth in Open Source these days is not
> in "Linux" but in enterprise Open Source applications, user experience, the
> web and embedded devices (for which the kernel is predominately Linux, yes).

Agreed. You haven't addressed whether those people should have events of 
their own though, instead of being shoe horned into LCA.

I do like the idea of changing LA's name.

Mikal