Let's wait and see the messaging before you condemn the new council. :-)<br>Silvia.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:47 PM, 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="im">On 7 February 2013 16:08, Joshua Hesketh <<a href="mailto:josh@nitrotech.org">josh@nitrotech.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> The council has already been in discussion of this matter since it was<br>
> first raised. We'll be announcing something very shortly, sorry for the<br>
> delay.<br>
<br>
</div>With a new council in place, I'd like to suggest that decisions like<br>
this be raised and debated in public on this list (or at least<br>
detailed in public, so that debate and suggestions for improvements is<br>
at least possible) rather than just reviewed by the council before a<br>
final decision or announcement.<br>
<br>
As per Josh's platform for president -- "Linux Australia is a<br>
community and volunteer run organisation. The council exists to<br>
facilitate and enable its members (that is, you guys) to do cool and<br>
amazing things."<br>
<br>
I don't think that philosophy has any hope of working if the council<br>
members are in a privileged position, where their ideas get first<br>
consideration and worse, where the council's ideas don't have to face<br>
the same standards and challenges that members' ideas do (ie, public<br>
scrutiny beforehand). With those habits, I don't see how we can expect<br>
anything other than what we see: members ideas and proposals fail way<br>
more often than the council's, they're therefore proposed less often<br>
and with less energy behind them, and the council ends up having to do<br>
everything...<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
aj<br>
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Anthony Towns <<a href="mailto:aj@erisian.com.au">aj@erisian.com.au</a>><br>
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