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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/7/22 8:52 pm, Kathy Reid via
linux-aus wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:34731b98-6e72-551f-88fd-cebe89fa4ef7@kathyreid.id.au">I
can't possibly imagine what the hold up might be with so many
dedicated volunteers helping Joel ...
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<p>Sarcasm? Kathy, I don't know what's going on there but you're
sounding very aggressive about this. I don't think you should be
attacking us.<br>
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<p>We haven't even seen an announcement that LCA 2023 needed
volunteers. There hasn't even been an announcement that there was
a bid, or a team, or that it was even on. I really have no idea,
therefore, how you expect the Open Source community in Australia
to have deduced that they needed to volunteer for anything, much
less that it was Joel that they should be applying to. <br>
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<p>I totally understand your frustration. Volunteers are hard to
come by. It hasn't helped that we've had a pandemic that has sent
us away from our regular in-person meetings - which is where we
get those communities and friendship networks that can be drawn on
to put together a team to run something like LCA. As someone who
was on the team to run LCA 2021 - before Linux Australia decided
that it would run LCA 2021 itself - and who was on a team who put
a bid in to run LCA in 2022, I totally get how hard it is to get
people to really commit to the full work of the LCA committee. I
was on the LCA 2013 team, so I know how hard that work can be.</p>
<p>But ... I'm with Andrew here. Joel said he'd make an
announcement, we're just waiting for it. I'm with Simon here.
Joel did not ask for volunteers on 13th June; he made it sound
like he had everything in hand.</p>
<p>If Joel needs volunteers, Joel has only to ask the community. He
can do that in public - on the LA email list for example. He can
do that in private. He can do it any way he wants to.</p>
<p>But I think you do the charity and community spirit of the Open
Source community in Australia a disservice by upbraiding it on not
volunteering to help an LCA we haven't heard of and have not been
asked to help on.</p>
<p>Hope this helps,</p>
<p>Paul<br>
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