[Linux-aus] Nominations and their spiels for the LA election

[Julien Goodwin]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:12:48PM +1100, Lindsay Holmwood arranged a set of bits into the following:
> Hey all,
> 
> First off, I think AJ's proposal is a great idea.
> 
> On 1/2/07, Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> >    - each LUG of 50 members or more shall be entitled to ask LA to invite
> >      an Australian free software hacker to give a presentation at one
> >      of their meetings once a year
> >
> >    - each LUG of 150 members or more shall be entitled to ask LA
> >      to invite an international free software hacker to give a
> >      presentation at one of their meetings once a year
> >
> 
> What sort of membership would that be - financial or mailing list?
> 
> SLUG is one of the larger (largest?) LUGs in Australia, and even we
> don't have 150 financial members. I doubt that other LUGs would have
> numbers approaching that.
> 
> Financial membership numbers have stayed fairly constant over the last
> few years, though even with an LCA in our city, I don't expect us to
> reach 150 members anytime in the next few years.
> 
> I'm all for it if the barrier of entry is lowered for the smaller LUGs.
> 
> We already source speakers from outside SLUG (both interstate and
> international), but this sort of LA initiative would be really useful
> to smaller LUGs in capital cities and regional locations.
> 
> Maybe an Australian LUG survey would be a initiative worth pursued by
> the new LA committee (or even a subcommittee)? There are all manner of
> interesting questions LUGs can be asked, with the responses analysed
> to provide better interaction between LA and the LUGs (like or
> building on AJ's proposal).

The numbers for LUV (which doesn't have the financial distinction), as
defined by our charter are 1536 members (note that's somewhat inflated
due to recent list changes). In terms of people showing up to meetings
IIRC we normally break 40, and I think we broke 70 at least once in
2006. Over the year there were almost certainly more then 200 different
people who've shown up to meetings.

Thanks,
Julien
Secretary, Linux Users of Victoria
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