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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>
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style="font-size:21px;font-family:'Droid
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Linux Australia Office-bearer report: Secretary</span></h1>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:'Droid
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summary</span></h2>
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<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;">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
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<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>
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<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>
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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>
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<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;">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>
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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>
<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>
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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>
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<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>
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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>
<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>
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<p dir="ltr"
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>
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<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>
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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>
<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
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>
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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="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>
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<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>
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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><img
src="cid:part1.03030400.04040109@linux.org.au" height="283px;"
width="624px;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
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<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;">@linuxaustralia
Twitter follower count</span></p>
<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><img
src="cid:part2.07080205.07020405@linux.org.au" height="476px;"
width="624px;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Droid
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<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;">@linuxAustralia
key posts on Twitter shown by high rate of retweet and reply</span></p>
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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;">Handling
of correspondence</span></h2>
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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>
<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;">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>
<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;">Council
handled 2 formal complaints this year in accordance with the
constitution. </span></p>
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<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;">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>
<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;">Linux
Australia</span></p>
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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;">December
2013</span></p>
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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><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
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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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