<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>x2. Chris's organisational finesse and ongoing enthusiasm makes him a great candidate. I realize LA's public awareness is something of big focus, but Chris appears to have important views and ideas on other LA matters which I'd argue are pretty important too.</div><div><br></div><div></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr">This is a message of support for Chris, for any position he runs for. He absolutely worked his butt off to provide two of the most successful conferences I have ever attended. He's organised, careful, enthusiastic, clever and compassionate. You couldn't wish for a better worker or leader. If you vote for Chris, Things Will Gets Done.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Chris Neugebauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisjrn@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:chrisjrn@gmail.com">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" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">This is addressing both Peter and Mark's concerns in the same<br> response, as they basically said the same thing.<br><div class="im"><br> On 17 November 2013 00:38, Peter Lawler <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@bleeter.id.au" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:linux-aus@bleeter.id.au">linux-aus@bleeter.id.au</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > *Seriously, though. Your email talks about the great stuff you've done with<br> > LA folks and the PyCon work you've done, but you've not talked about looking<br> > outwards. Could you write a little about what you think you could do for LA<br> > in raising general public awareness things about LA, inc FLOSS etc.<br> <br></div>I personally don't have a strong view on how LA can better engage with<br> the general public on issues the membership sees as important. This is<br> notwithstanding the fact that there are plenty of opportunities for<br> the LA council to advocate, or engage professional advocates on<br> important FOSS-related issues.<br> <br> The various grants the council has given Brendan Scott, for instance,<br> have been a great example of LA funding public policy work relevant to<br> FOSS.<br> <br> On a related note, I would be keen for council to facilitate, and<br> provide any resources necessary to a public advocacy subcommittee. I'm<br> not sure what form such a subcommittee would take, but I'd be happy to<br> talk to any interested members to figure out the role. The LA council<br> works best when it enables the community to do things, and this would<br> be a prime example of just that.<br> <br> The role I do have a view on, and one that LA and its programmes have<br> been very good at in the past, is outreach to people who are on the<br> periphery of the community, or people who might not be aware of<br> opportunities in the FOSS community. Getting community members to<br> sprints and events is a surprisingly strong source of outreach, and in<br> my experience, grateful recipients of help turn out to be the<br> strongest of advocates. We should do more of that.<br><div class="im HOEnZb"><br> --Chris<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> --<br> --Christopher Neugebauer<br> <br> Jabber: <a href="mailto:chrisjrn@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:chrisjrn@gmail.com">chrisjrn@gmail.com</a> -- IRC: chrisjrn on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a> --<br> AIM: chrisjrn157 -- MSN: <a href="mailto:chris@neugebauer.id.au" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:chris@neugebauer.id.au">chris@neugebauer.id.au</a> -- WWW:<br> <a href="http://chris.neugebauer.id.au" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://chris.neugebauer.id.au">http://chris.neugebauer.id.au</a> -- Twitter/Identi.ca: @chrisjrn<br> <br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br> linux-aus mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a><br> <a href="http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus">http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>--------------------------------------------------<br>Tennessee Leeuwenburg<br><a href="http://myownhat.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://myownhat.blogspot.com/">http://myownhat.blogspot.com/</a><br> "Don't believe everything you think"</div><br>_______________________________________________<br>linux-aus mailing list<br>linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au<br>http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>