<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 14:02, John Ferlito <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnf@inodes.org">johnf@inodes.org</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Some suggestions:</div><div class="gmail_quote"> </div><div><div>> Review existing policy: / Grants policy (especially as applied to travel)</div></div><div><br></div><div>I think the purpose of grants is to promote/advance Linux/FOSS in Australia, and grant requests should say something about awarding the grant will do that. (I've always considered that implicit, but I don't think it's currently explicitly said anywhere)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think travel grants are a good idea; the only drawback is travel is often expensive so the benefit should be proportional. Spending a couple of hundred dollars to get a good talk at a reasonably well attended Aussie LUG (30-50 people?) is probably about right; while spending $2000 so someone can fly to a European conference probably isn't. OTOH, $2500 to have a core developer fly to an overseas conference, present, learn, and come back and give a summary talk at a couple of LUGs might be good value for money.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Travel's something of a challenge in .au -- both getting people based in different states together, and mixing with the international crowd. LCA makes it a lot better already, but doing more is probably useful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the past, requests for sponsorship to attend overseas conferences haven't made any headway ttbomk. There's been at least one request for local travel that's been granted, which was Melissa Draper giving a talk at CLUG [0], [1].</div>
<div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2007-June/015680.html">http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2007-June/015680.html</a></div><div>[1] <a href="http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2007-June/015658.html">http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2007-June/015658.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Of course, there's other ways of promoting stuff than just giving money to people who ask for it. Could be interesting to have a prize for the best LUG talk in 2011, or for the LUG who hosts the most talks in 2011 or similar (as judged based on video uploaded to <a href="http://mirror.linux.org.au">mirror.linux.org.au</a> of course ;).</div>
<div><br></div><div>> Meeting the financials AGM requirement: move AGM(?), close the financial year at a different time(?)</div><div><br></div><div>LCA is effectively LA's AGM as far as "annual in person meeting" goes. Presenting financial reports and inducting new members at LCA seems like a pretty sensible thing to do. And we already moved the financial year once (from Jul-Jun) to meet the constitutional requirements, fwiw. </div>
<div><br></div><div>That said, I don't think it should be much of a challenge to keep the records sufficiently up to date to present the past calendar year's info by around the third week in Jan. Presenting quarterly updates to linux-aus might be a good start. (Mark used to present them weekly to the committee while he was treasurer, I believe)</div>
<div><br></div><div>(It's currently almost three months since last year ended; that financials haven't been presented yet means there's definitely problems other than the timing of the FY versus the AGM. Might be good to fix those first...)</div>
<div><br></div><div>> Improving the Ghosts event</div><div><br></div><div>Might want to talk about that on the lca-ghosts list (and possibly check it's up to date with new batches of ghosts) too.</div><div><br></div>
<div><div>> New policy documents:</div></div><div><br></div><div>Have all these been posted to linux-aus already? URLs?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>aj</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Anthony Towns <<a href="mailto:aj@erisian.com.au">aj@erisian.com.au</a>><br>