<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Russell Coker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell@coker.com.au" target="_blank">russell@coker.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">On Friday, 2 December 2016 7:46:18 AM AEDT Anthony Towns wrote:<br></span><span class="gmail-"><br>
> I kind of think that in practice that 95% of the reason LA is valuable<br>
> to anyone these days is that it helps people *run* events; and if so,<br>
> that isn't really valuable to that many people -- the pool of people<br>
> running open source related events in Australia (and maybe NZ) just<br>
> isn't that big.<br>
> Personally, I think of LA as an organisation run by/for open source<br>
> developers/admins/power users -- so, by and large, it doesn't make<br>
<br>
</span>I think the problem here is that LA was traditionally an organisation for such<br>
people, but the LA council is focused on running events etc.  This isn't a<br>
problem as such, changing the name to "council" with the aim of having lots of<br>
subcommittees was a good idea but it unfortunately didn't get followed<br>
through.<br>
<br>
We need subcommittees for things such as Linux advocacy.  I will consider<br>
volunteering for such a subcommittee.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was about to respond by pointing to <a href="https://github.com/linuxaustralia/constitution_and_policies/blob/master/subcommittee_policy_v2.md">https://github.com/linuxaustralia/constitution_and_policies/blob/master/subcommittee_policy_v2.md</a> - but on closer reading, that policy seems to be only for event subcommittees.<br><br><a href="https://github.com/linuxaustralia/constitution_and_policies/blob/master/subcommittee_policy_v1.md">https://github.com/linuxaustralia/constitution_and_policies/blob/master/subcommittee_policy_v1.md</a> still refers to sub-committees that exist "to facilitate LA's operations or" as "a project undertaken with the governance of the council"</div><div><br></div><div>Could a current council-member confirm that the "v1" policy is the policy that would apply to a Linux advocacy sub-committee?</div></div></div></div>