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    Hi everyone, <br>
    Please find attached my office bearer report for 2013 in open doc
    format (plain text below). <br>
    Comments, questions and concerns warmly welcomed. <br>
    Kind regards,<br>
    Kathy<br>
    <br>
    <br>
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Sans';color:#f1c232;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">2013
        Linux Australia Office-bearer report: Secretary</span></h1>
    <br>
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Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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        style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Executive
        summary</span></h2>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">2013
        was a busy year for Council. Key achievements included the
        two-year selection of linux.conf.au host cities, the production
        of the Member Survey 2013 and the allocation of several valuable
        grants and sponsorships. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">In
        addition the day-to-day running of Linux Australia proceeded
        without issue; due in large part to the excellent foundations
        laid by previous Councils. In particular, meetings were
        effective and well run, with minutes promptly published. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Unfortunately,
        a number of inflammatory posts on the mailing list consumed
        administrative time through response activities; such effort
        could be better directed more constructively. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Meetings</span></h2>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">During
        2013, 24 Council teleconferences were held. Quorum was achieved
        at each of them, and minutes were produced and made public
        generally within a week of the conference occurring. Action
        items were generally tracked well. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
        annual face to face meeting was held in early March in Melbourne
        and was particularly useful in identifying stakeholders,
        exploring our strategic environment and identifying priorities
        for the year. Council also did Media training at this time. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Membership</span></h2>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">On
        1 January 2013 Linux Australia had 3405 members.</span></p>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">As
        at 12 December 2013, Linux Australia had 3046 members. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Yearly
        renewal has not been implemented, and future Councils may wish
        to strongly consider prioritising this.</span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
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        A significant number of members have invalid email addresses in
        MemberDB, as identified by the recent survey. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
        Survey and the voting in the 2014 Council election has caused a
        large number of members to initiate password recovery. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
        Membership Survey highlighted a number of key themes for
        strategic input into the priorities of future Councils including
        the need for services more targeted to students and younger
        members of the community, and likewise for the large segment of
        the membership base that is retired and of senior years. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Media
        and communications</span></h2>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">There
        were two key activities around media and communications -
        increasing the use of Twitter as a social media channel and
        producing a newsletter with community assistance. Twitter
        followers grew from 350 in March and are currently sitting at
        around 620. An inaugural newsletter was published in April but
        insufficient content could be sourced for a second one. Future
        efforts to publish a regular newsletter would benefit from
        greater community involvement. The need to undertake additional
        future marketing activities was a key theme of the Member
        Survey. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><img
      src="cid:part1.03030400.04040109@linux.org.au" height="283px;"
      width="624px;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">@linuxaustralia
        Twitter follower count</span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><img
      src="cid:part2.07080205.07020405@linux.org.au" height="476px;"
      width="624px;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">@linuxAustralia
        key posts on Twitter shown by high rate of retweet and reply</span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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        style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Handling
        of correspondence</span></h2>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Linux
        Australia handled a large volume of correspondence this year,
        including requests for termination of membership, requests for
        work experience, enquiries from like organisations such as LUV
        and OSIA, enquiries from campaigns and related movements (TPPA,
        EFA etc) and again a small volume of support requests. All
        correspondence was tracked via minutes and responded to. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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      style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Council
        handled 2 formal complaints this year in accordance with the
        constitution. </span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span>
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        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Kathy
        Reid</span></p>
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        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Secretary</span></p>
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        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Linux
        Australia</span></p>
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        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">December
        2013</span></p>
    <br>
    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><a
      href="mailto:secretary@linux.org.au" style="text-decoration:none;"><span
        style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">secretary@linux.org.au</span></a><span
      style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
Sans';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Kathy Reid
Secretary
Linux Australia

<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:secretary@linux.org.au">secretary@linux.org.au</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux.org.au">http://linux.org.au</a>



Linux Australia Inc
GPO Box 4788
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia

ABN 56 987 117 479
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