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<p>Hi Ian, <br>
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<p>Thanks for your email, and for your support. <br>
</p>
<p>In terms of whether the rebrand work will continue, this is
highly likely, however a new Council is free to make other
determinations. Certainly, if I'm re-elected, I will be pushing
forward with this. <br>
</p>
<p>We're still finalising some of the details of the rebrand, and
will share when we have a more finished product. <br>
</p>
<p>The rebrand seeks to reflect our evolving identify, which still
resonating with the long history we have as a community. <br>
</p>
<p>Kind regards, <br>
</p>
<p>Kathy<br>
</p>
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<div>Hello Kathy, I support your nomination, I think it
would be great for Linux Australia to have you in the
role again. <br>
I sincerely thank you for your passion and dedication to
LA that you have shown in the President's role and in
previous roles.<br>
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I must question this opening statement and seek your
clarification:<br>
"We've almost completed a rebrand of the organisation, the
outputs of which will then be applied to new web and
membership systems next year, if I'm re-elected."<br>
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Umm, please feel free to correct me but the work that has
been done so far will very likely continue with the new
Committee, whether you are on it or not. Yes?<br>
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Maybe you were suggesting that you would continue to push this
process forward if re-elected which I fully support. But that
isn't how it reads at present.<br>
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Good luck to you and all nominees for this election.<br>
<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 5 December 2017 at 12:33, Kathy Reid
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<p>Hi everyone, <br>
</p>
<p>I am nominating for President of Linux Australia in
2018. <br>
</p>
<p>Over 2017, I've been incredibly fortunate to have the
opportunity to lead a dedicated, professional, committed
and high-performing team in Council. As a team, we have
had rigourous debate on a number of issues internally,
but have strived to provide a united face as the
leadership of Linux Australia, supported incredibly by
several subcommittees.<br>
</p>
<p>We've delivered a number of key outcomes. <br>
</p>
<p>We've almost completed a rebrand of the organisation,
the outputs of which will then be applied to new web and
membership systems next year, if I'm re-elected. We've
breathed new life into our Grants Programme, which saw
around $AUD 35k distributed to multiple worthwhile
projects, including Womens Wednesday's at Ballarat
Hackerspace, sponsorship of diversity and inclusion
initiatives, such as VALA Tech Camp, and
cross-pollinating open source with other disciplines,
such as with bioinformatics - through STEMformatics.
We've provided behind-the-scenes support for a number of
events - although our involvement has largely been hands
off - ensuring infrastructure like bank accounts and
seed funding are in place. We've welcomed Linux Users
Victoria as a subcommittee, helping to reduce their
administrative overheads, and focus on what they do best
- bringing together the Linux and open source community
in Melbourne and surrounds. We've liaised and started to
build relationships with other relevant organisations in
Australia and abroad - such as through our WordPress MoU
- although there is much work still to do here. We've
also done the boring administrivia that ensures our
established processes run smoothly - in building a
pipeline for future <a href="http://linux.conf.au"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">linux.conf.au</a>
and ensuring we do forward budget planning, that we have
insurance coverage, that we're complying with Fair
Trading NSW law, and that our bills are paid on time.
We've also made strong efforts to communicate our
activities this year - providing space and opportunity
for feedback, criticism and dialogue. Thank you to those
who have taken that opportunity - while we may not have
always solved an issue, feedback helps us ensure we're
in alignment with the wishes of the Linux Australia
community. <br>
</p>
<p>We've had our challenges. <br>
</p>
<p>Striking the balance between freedom of expression, and
creating an environment where *all* open source
practitioners, developers and users feel welcomed
remains a challenge. Sometimes we get that balance
right, and sometimes we need to work harder to shift the
pendulum. While we have more diversity of genders
attending Linux Australia events, this is nowhere near
parity. And our community is overwhelmingly white -
which is not reflective of the diversity in Australia -
not just diversity of ethnicity - but diversity of
viewpoints, diversity of thinking, diversity of
approaches. Together we do better. We're also
challenged by capacity. A 7-person volunteer Council
puts in tens of hours per week just to "keep things
running" - one of the reasons that some of the goals for
this year have been delayed (web refresh and new member
database). We need to be realistic about what we can
achieve with an entirely voluntary leadership team, and
a revenue model that is based entirely on volunteer
efforts. We do not want to see burnout in our community
or in Council. <br>
</p>
<p>Why me? <br>
</p>
<p>It would be easy to say "well, no-one else is silly
enough to put up their hand", but this would insult
those whose steps I've followed - Hugh, and Josh, and
John, and James, and Stewart, and Jon, and Pia, and
Anand, and Terry. You shouldn't nominate me, or vote for
me because there's no one else. You should vote for me
because you have confidence in my ability to lead, and
you believe in the direction I want to take us in. If
there are others with other directions and visions -
great - we benefit from a diversity of strategies, and
the desire and drive to fulfill them. <br>
</p>
<p>Where to?</p>
<p>Next year, I would like to continue the momentum we've
built in 2017 - running the Grants Program again, and
continuing to refresh our aging systems. I would like us
to continue to foster relationships with other
technology organisations and identifying where we can
work jointly on issues that affect us, and effect
greater change. We need to review whether our name -
Linux Australia - effectively captures what we do now.
And we need to continue to incrementally improve our
operational processes, and make things easier for those
running events under our umbrella - through templates,
well documented procedures and so on. We also need to be
aware of the pipeline issue we face - we have fewer
younger and newer members, and we don't have strong
methods for attracting new members to our community.
Those who survive and thrive are those who can best
adapt to change, and we need to evolve. <br>
</p>
<p>Full disclosure of interests: <br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>I currently contract with Mycroft.AI, an open-source
company specialising in natural language processing
and artificial intelligence</li>
<li>I run my own microbusiness - <a
href="http://kathyreid.com.au" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">kathyreid.com.au</a>, where I
contract in web development and data visualisation<br>
</li>
<li>I sit on two committees with G21 - the Geelong
Regional Alliance (Education and Training and Economic
Development)</li>
<li>I hold a BA in Indonesian and security studies, a BS
in Information Systems and an MBA (Computing)<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Kind regards, <br>
</p>
<p>Kathy Reid<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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