[Linux-aus] Notice of Linux Australia 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM)

[Joel Addison]

Hi everyone,

Given the updates to the model constitution that NSW made last year, as well as other discussions around the constitution on this list and elsewhere over the past few months, the LA Council has discussed briefly what changes would be needed, and decided that it will perform a review and work on this during 2023. It was deemed too close to the AGM to properly conduct a review and propose changes at the end of last year, which is why we are not taking any constitutional changes to the AGM this month. Once the review is underway I expect an announcement will be made.

Thanks,

Joel Addison
Linux Australia President

> On 11 Jan 2023, at 9:20 am, Sae Ra Germaine via linux-aus <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Craige,
> 
> Apologies I have to clarify, there isn't anything formalised in the way of a constitutional review, but given the recent discussions on the mailing list it may be prudent to do so and I would suspect that others may be thinking the same way. Because changes to the constitution requires more thought (and more notice before an AGM) I was suggesting that a review of any changes to the constitution happen after this one as we are running out of time.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Sae Ra
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 at 10:17, Craige McWhirter via linux-aus <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au <mailto:linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au>> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 09:20:50 +1100, Sae Ra Germaine wrote:
> >    Hi Craige,
> 
> Hi Sae Ra :-)
> 
> >    Thank you for putting this suggestion forward but to make this happen
> >    would require a Constitutional change as the term President etc are
> >    named titles/terms used in the Constitution
> >    (https://linux.org.au/about-us/constitution/ <https://linux.org.au/about-us/constitution/>).
> 
> Noted. Thank you.
> 
> >    If this is something the community would like to see (maybe it's a
> >    "discussion" at the AGM rather than a Motion) then I would recommend this
> >    be added to the review of the constitution (to be conducted after this
> >    AGM) which can be voted on at another AGM/SGM.
> 
> I'm significantly behind on LA email, so thank you for getting me up to speed
> there - I was unaware of the constitutional review and a proposed future AGM/SGM.
> 
> >    Would this be a valid way forward for you?
> 
> I think so. I believe it's worth having the discussion at the AGM to test
> community sentiment despite previous low attendance rates, as I'd rather not
> drag changing the titles to Convenor and Co-Convenor into a constitutional
> review if there's no community support for it.
> 
> Should there be second for it, it would be good to have it discussed at the AGM
> and the sentiment conveyed back to the community, so I know whether to include
> it in the review.
> 
> So I would still like a motion but I'd now amend it to:
> 
> MOTION by Craige McWhirter that after discussion of the merits of changing
> titles from President / Vice President to Convenor / Co-Convenor that the
> meeting chair tests the meeting for consensus that the suggested change is
> worth including in the contistutional review, falling back to a vote if
> consensus is blocked.
> 
> If the consensus is that it's worth including in the review, than I'll run with
> that through the review process.
> 
> Thanks :-)
> 
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> Craige McWhirter
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