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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Actually, unpaid members classically tend to be more demanding than paid ones – it’s paradoxical but almost always true </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> linux-aus [mailto:linux-aus-bounces@lists.linux.org.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joshua Hesketh<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 7 January 2016 8:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> Linux Australia <linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Linux-aus] Inflection Point - A Strategic Plan for Linux Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hey all,<br><br>So there are a lot of different discussions going on in this list. It's very encouraging to see so many caring about the future of the organisation. There have been some really great and constructive points made. I'd like to see a discussion on the content continue, rather than getting stuck on the format*.<br><br>On the topic of membership I would like to highlight a few excerpts from the councils minutes on the 02/03/2013[0]:<br><br><br>Membership tiers<br>Discussion was held around whether Linux Australia needs different membership tiers, possibly with paid memberships. There is no current financial imperative to do this. Council was also mindful that if people pay money to be a member of Linux Australia they will have higher service expectations. The key reason for paid memberships would be to allow people who want to make more of a contribution to be able to do so. General consensus that paid membership tiers are not required at this stage. <br><br>MOTION moved by El Presidenté that we;<br>1. Have a single free membership tier<br>2. That memberships are expired/renewed annually via an online mechanism before 1st October in accordance with Clause 4(e) of the Constitution<br>Seconded by François, carried unanimously<br><br>It was noted that we need to ensure that we make memberships ‘inactive’ rather than removing them entirely in case membership data is completely lost. Are there privacy principles that need to be upheld. This may need to be researched in more depth. It was noted that this will require some MemberDB changes. <br><br>...<br><br>Mailing lists<br>It was agreed that there should be more correlation between MemberDB and the mailing list. Any new member gets subscribed to la-announce - they can unsubscribe and still be a member of LA. We need to ensure everyone is a member to start with and then can unsubscribe if they want to be. We discussed whether we should just have an la-members mailing list which is consistent with MemberDB, but this created more overhead. <br><br>It was agreed that we need a method to contact all members that is not mailman dependent, and that we need to audit the mailing list and ensure that every current member in MemberDB is on the announce mailing list, and ensure that all new members are subscribed to the announce mailing list, and that members may unsubscribe from mailing lists. <br><br><br><br>There were also a few sets of action items to see through the above decisions. These action items were largely blocked on missing features from memberdb (namely a method to contact all members and auto-expiry/renewal). Unfortunately for numerous reasons (that I won't get into now) these actions have not been completed.<br><br>I still stand by the decisions made back in 2013, however I believe the new 2016 council should reconfirm them.<br><br>There are plenty of other discussions that I have thoughts of and I may write more in due course. But for now, I must be off.<br><br>Keep in mind that nominations are open until Sunday. Presently we have no candidates for any of the office roles. (If you've been nominated and wish to stand, you must accept your nomination by logging into <a href="https://linux.org.au/membership/">https://linux.org.au/membership/</a> before you are a candidate).<br><br>Cheers,<br>Josh<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>