[Linux-aus] Minutes of Council Face to Face, 8-9th March 2014, Hobart, Tasmania
Joshua Hesketh
josh at nitrotech.org
Wed Apr 9 20:23:09 EST 2014
Hi Bianca,
Thanks for your feedback :-). Please see inline.
Cheers,
Josh
On 09/04/14 20:14, Bianca Gibson wrote:
> On 8 April 2014 23:04, Linux Australia Secretary
> <secretary at linux.org.au <mailto:secretary at linux.org.au>> wrote:
>
> Joshua welcomed all members of Council and thanked them for giving
> up their time for the weekend, and also thanked the members of
> Council for their service on Council.
>
>
> I also thank you all.
>
> *
>
> Undertake more outreach to university students
>
>
> Definitely an area for improvement.
>
>
>
> *
>
> Better document roles and responsibilities of Council members
> to aid succession planning
>
>
> That would be useful, particularly for bringing in more people. I
> think OCM would be hard to document because so much of it is doing
> whatever needs doing and the time can go up and down a lot. I
> sometimes did very little and did heaps on some of my uni breaks.
>
>
>
> *
>
> Become more involved in lobbying activities such as
> submissions to the TPP.
>
>
> I'd like to see more of that. Since council only sometimes has the
> expertise, it may be good for council to organise community members to
> lobby, rather than doing it themselves. Similar to how we did the TPP
> submission, but preferably nudged along quicker.
>
>
>
> *
>
> Undertake succession planning for Council 2015
>
>
> We've been really weak on this in the past.
>
>
>
> Council revisited the question of whether Linux Australia should
> charge for membership, and how frequently we should do expiry.
>
>
> By my reading council's main interest is to drive members to take an
> active interest and participate more? Is it also intended to be a
> substantial revenue stream?
> If charging more than a small, token amount I strongly recommend there
> be a student discount. I'd also like to see pensioner and low income
> discount.
If it wasn't clear in the minutes, while the council discussed the
options it was decided that the membership model would not change (ie no
fees will be introduced).
>
>
>
> The concept of LA's relevance over time was discussed.
>
>
> I think we will continue to be relevant.
> Conferences are the main thing we do.
> I've heard some people questioning the value of attending conferences
> with easy access to information online. However, I think if you asked
> people 'what is LCA to you?', 'what is pycon au to you?' a lot of the
> responses would revolve around people, community, networking,
> socialising. That can't be replaced with online content.
> Since our events are very community oriented I think they are much
> less likely to become irrelevant than most tech conferences.
> I do look forward to the content, but it's the people that get me
> really excited about the conference.
>
>
>
> Council discussed whether our values are relevant.
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
> Comment was made around whether 'privacy' should be added to the
> values given the rise of concerns around surveillance and data
> collection.
>
>
> Hm, maybe.
>
>
>
> Council discussed whether we should just move a motion to put the
> Code of Conduct in place for mailing lists, as it provides a clear
> path forward for mailing list conduct.
>
>
> I think there should be some policy around mailing list conduct shown
> to all list members. We also need to iron out the internal procedures
> for dealing with incidents, we're not good at it.
>
>
>
> Council discussed at length whether the Mailing List Policy should
> have a clause stating that off list communications should remain
> private.
>
>
> I think off list communications in response to or relating to content
> on the mailing list are within scope.
>
>
>
> Council considered whether there should be community Moderators
> for the mailing lists, and whether the Moderators would have to be
> members of Council.
>
>
> Moderators need to be trusted community members (as judged by
> council), but I see no need for them to be council members.
>
>
>
> MOTION by Joshua Hesketh that
>
> a new mailing list be created called policies at linux.org.au
> <mailto:policies at linux.org.au>
>
> to which policy discussions may be referred.
>
> SECONDED by Christopher Neugebauer
>
> CARRIED unanimously
>
>
> Please publicise this wider and more clearly than in the middle of
> giant long minutes.
>
Correct, this is the motion, we haven't fully prepared the list for use
(although it does exist and I see no reason for people not to
subscribe). Once we have finished our list code-of-conduct we'll put
this list into fuller use.
>
> MOTIONby Christopher Neugebauer that financial assistance programs
> such as the Regional delegates Programme for LCA be moved to the
> budget of the relevant conference to administer
>
> SECONDED Hugh Blemings
>
> CARRIED unanimously
>
>
> The RDP was renamed to Linux Australia travel grants.
> I'm glad this has been moved, I found myself considering the grants to
> be part of the conf budget in my head when it wasn't in the books.
>
>
>
>
> It is likely that there will be submissions called for in regard to...
>
>
> Council should be open to, and make it clear that they are open to,
> collaborating with community members to make submissions or lobby in
> other ways around relevant causes.
>
> Thanks for all your work council, you're awesome!
>
> Cheers,
> Bianca
>
>
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