<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Chris Neugebauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisjrn@gmail.com" target="_blank">chrisjrn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:29, Noel Butler <<a href="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net">noel.butler@ausics.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Indeed, people can't expect to have all the cakes in the shop - pick the one<br>
> you want, then leave the others for someone else to claim.<br>
><br>
> IOW, if the name is changed, you really have forfeited the right to keep<br>
> exclusive to yourself the name " Linux Australia "<br>
><br>
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</div>Why not? I would imagine that maintaining a group under the<br>
newly-named organisation for the advocacy of Linux issues would be a<br>
perfectly sensible course of action. This is how the current LA is<br>
managing its many interests across the Open Technology spectrum: There<br>
are groups, under the auspices of LA that runs a Drupal Conference, a<br>
Python Conference, and several Linux user groups. All of them speak<br>
for different groups of people, and maintain their own identity that<br>
is entirely separate from LA.<br>
<br>
Do you expect PyCon Australia to give up its rights to the name "PyCon<br>
Australia" simply because it's run by an umbrella organisation with a<br>
different name? Your conclusion is, quite frankly, absurd.<br>
<br>
There is absolutely no reason why a newly-named Open Tech umbrella<br>
organisation (currently known as "Linux Australia" with a possible<br>
name change) couldn't keep "Linux Australia" as an advocacy group.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Even if you ignore <a href="http://linux.conf.au">linux.conf.au</a>, LA already has two linux advocacy sub-committees - one targeting the Sydney area and another Newcastle. Approving a request to spin up another subcommittee to do something similar on a national level would (I imagine, speaking with my council member hat firmly locked in the closet) be a no-brainer.</div>
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