<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 15:49, Anthony Towns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aj@erisian.com.au" target="_blank">aj@erisian.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 15:32, Russell Stuart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell-linuxaus@stuart.id.au" target="_blank">russell-linuxaus@stuart.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 15:43 +1100, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:<br>
> To my recollection, LA has donated $10K every year since 2007 to the<br>
> LCA charity. There was no discussion on this - it was purely a<br>
> committee decision.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><div> I'll have a dig and see if I can find some of the documentation on the various ones.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, 2006. I'll quote my email to the committee list after the conference dinner (Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:06:37 +1300)</div>
<div><br></div><div><div> A (signed) John Lions book was aucitioned off at LCA, for the purposes</div><div> of founding a chair at UNSW in his honour; Jon, Pia, Stewart and myself</div><div> had a little chat at the dinner, and decided that it would be a good idea</div>
<div> to have LA provide matching funds for the cause, up to $10k -- which is</div><div> what the auction turned out to reach. Those funds combined will then be</div><div> matched by Usenix (for $40k in total, plus some change).</div>
<div><br></div><div> <a href="http://lists.ethernal.org/pipermail/lca06-announce/2006-January/000002.html" target="_blank">http://lists.ethernal.org/pipermail/lca06-announce/2006-January/000002.html</a></div><div><br></div>
<div> We'll have a formal vote on it RSN, probably by proxy vote over email;</div>
<div> I just wanted to make sure y'all found out about it ASAP given we've</div><div> already essentially committed ourselves without everyone being there.</div></div><div><br></div><div>The lca06-announce link is sadly now broken.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Technically, that wasn't the actual charity for the conference that year -- that charity was <a href="http://www.youthline.co.nz">www.youthline.co.nz</a>, which was where proceeds from the raffle for the t-shirt went to (as opposed to the auction of the Lions book).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't remember anything much about the 2007 charity (which was a penguin habitat in Sydney, I think?), and can't seem to find anything written down about it either. I don't see any evidence it had $10k from Linux Australia.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For 2008, there wasn't a big auction at the dinner, and there was a bunch of confusion about what was going on with the donations. Donna had been under the impression there was going to be $10k from Linux Australia, but that hadn't actually been clear to everyone, and it was still up in the air in July 2009 [0]. Eventually things got more or less settled, and LA made a $10k donation in late 2009.</div>
<div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="http://wiki.linux.org.au/Ctte/MeetingNotes20090723" target="_blank">http://wiki.linux.org.au/Ctte/MeetingNotes20090723</a></div><div><br></div><div>For 2009, the charity was the Tassie Devil / shave Bdale thing; that included a consortium bid and a lot of donations, and $10k in matching funds from LA. cf [1]</div>
<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/22814-lca2009-of-beards-and-saving-the-tasmanian-devil" target="_blank">http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/22814-lca2009-of-beards-and-saving-the-tasmanian-devil</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>For 2010, the charity was the Life Flight rescue helicopter. I thought this had a $10k LA contribution, but I'm not sure, and presume it would have gone via the NZ bank accounts too.</div><div>
<br></div><div>For 2011, my recollection from the dinner was LA was doing $5k for the flood appeal, and $5k for the charity that was planned prior to the flood, the Glenleighden School at Fig Tree Pocket in Brisbane.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>aj</div>
</div><br>-- <br>Anthony Towns <<a href="mailto:aj@erisian.com.au" target="_blank">aj@erisian.com.au</a>><br>