<div dir="ltr">Could I please have some clarification on this motion of the Face-To-Face Meeting 2014 and how this might work as it leaves me a bit more confused than usual:<br>"<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span>MOTION</span><span>
by Christopher Neugebauer that financial assistance programs
such as the Regional delegates Programme for LCA be moved to the
budget of the relevant conference to administer</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>SECONDED
</span><span>Hugh
Blemings</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>CARRIED
</span><span>unanimously<br>"<br><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Does this mean the LA will decide on a figure which will then be transferred as a budget item for that Year's LCA Committee to </span><span>then run it as a part of their planning and management of the event?</span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>OR<br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Does
the Year's LCA Committee decide how much of their Budget will be spent
on the program and then run it as a part of their planning and
management?<br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>OR is it something other than what I might be understanding it to be?<br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<br><span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>In
recent years there has been talk about seeking extra funding to ensure
more people can attend as costs of travel and accommodation have jumped
considerably especially when travel to/from countries overseas from the
candidates are considered. Would this aspect of budget amounts be better kept within the
capacity of LA to decide on a budgetary basis as well as candidate criteria and then
when the outlines are agreed pass that onto the Year LCA Committee to
manage?<br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Separate
from the above questions but still within the gamut of this post is the
question of the day-to-day management of the travel grants program. Generally
previous members tasked with management of the selection and evaluation
of candidates then the management of the travel and accommodation and
all the other little tasks have found it to be a very full on and
complex role and one that has burned out a number of people over the
years. </p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br>Could there be a group of non-Council/non-LCA Committee
members set up to fulfil these roles as an ongoing sub-Committee of
either LA or the relevant LCA? Thus expertise and skills would not be
learned and lost from one year to the next and there would always be a
group of people with relevant skills able to assist from year to year.
Overall management and responsibility would always be at the top level
but with appropriate direction and reporting the sub-Committee could
carry on with the task set out for them.<br></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span>Note:
Having been a recipient of this Program in the past I have a vested
interest in seeing it not only continue but develop to fulfil what I
believe to be a real need amongst the Linux/OpenSource community of this region.<br></span></p><br>-- <br>-- Ian<br><br>
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