Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Kathy Reid <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathy@kathyreid.id.au" target="_blank">kathy@kathyreid.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As someone who voted *for* a name change (to Open Source Australia), the<br>
data has me convinced that the majority of the community who felt strongly<br>
enough to vote has spoken in favour of retaining the status quo.<br>
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In agreement with Brenda, David et al, let's move on and spend our energy<br>
and enthusiasm expanding the reach, influence and goals of Linux<br>
Australia.</blockquote><div> </div><div>+1</div><div>...and kudos to all of the committee for their integrity on the decision! </div><div><br></div><div>I voted to keep the name.</div><div>But lets not simply leave this hanging....some of the original arguments for a name change do have some merit.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I would like to highlight and see discussed a lot more the very excellent idea put forward by Jon (maddog) Hall very early on when the idea of a name change was first floated:</div><div>
<br></div><div><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">"<i>Have you thought about keeping the name but strengthening your byline of</i></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><i>"Representing Free Software and Open Source Communities"?</i></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">
<i><br></i><i>For example, you create a logo that has the Penguin feet and Linux Australia as you</i></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><i>have currently, but create a circle of the words "Representing Free Software and Open Source Communities"</i></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><i>and put that around the logo?</i>"</p><p></p><p></p><p style="margin:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Perhaps the logo idea needs work... :-)</font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But a strengthening of the LA byline should surely go a long way to addressing a significant portion of the reasons put forward for a change?</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rgds</font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">BW</font></p>
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