[Linux-aus] Inflection Point - A Strategic Plan for Linux Australia

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

I posted a new thread with a restructuring suggestion, but have had no
replies. Given the volume of discussion in general, I am suprised I didn't
even get at least some criticism! :) Here it is repreated on-thread.

I made the following suggestion to Kathy directly. She liked the
suggestion, and suggested I send it to the wider list.


It might help to provide an additional section at the end as follows:

Recommendations.

(1) Recommendations to be ratified at the AGM by vote
  (a) Change to mission statements
  (b) Other high-level scope and vision statement changes

(2) Recommendations to be provided to the new committee for consideration
  (c) Consideration of paid memberships
  (d) MemberDB changes
  (e) Other items at the level of initiatives or projects


This might make the list of major things to be agreed simpler to ratify,
since any contentious items from the second list won't hold up the overall
agreement. It also provides a nice piece of handover to the next committee.


On 7 January 2016 at 13:28, Steven Ellis <steven.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't help but echo some of Hugh and Silvia's comments, and yet I
> feel for Anthony's  position.
>
> We went through all of this organising LCA 2015, and had to be
> pragmatic in balancing the capability across the team to enable
> everyone to contribute. Tools like Trello looked awesome, but raised
> the entry level too high, and horde for email scared everyone, so
> Google docs/email was the solution...
>
> Moving forward I agree we need Open Source alternatives and whatever
> shape Linux Australia takes in the future it can participate in making
> these changes happen, but right now we need to put best foot forward.
>
> NZOSS is going through a similar inflection point and I hope to
> provide some feedback at the LA AGM in Feb.
>
> Kathy - huge thank you for the work in putting this together and
> generating "robust debate"
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7 Jan 2016 1:58 AM, "Anthony Towns" <aj at erisian.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 07:18:38PM +1100, Hugh Blemings wrote:
> >> > But for these same people working out the process to contribute via a
> >> > git
> >> > repository, when coupled with the inevitable pressures of day to day
> >> > life,
> >> > will quickly see their desire to be involved fall into the too hard
> >> > basket.
> >>
> >> Committing the document to a git repository is pretty trivial these
> days:
> >>
> >>  https://help.github.com/articles/editing-files-in-your-repository/
> >>
> >> An open source advocacy organisation should be advocating open source
> >> approaches, not dismissing them as too hard for normal people.
> >
> > Github is not much more open source than Google docs. But in any case...
> > this bike shedding about which tool to use is really not constructive and
> > should be taken off this thread.
> >
> > It's when discussions are side tracked like this that progress is
> stopped.
> > Let's please stop falling in this trap.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Silvia.
> >
> >
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