<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/10/22 12:55 pm, Russell Stuart
via linux-aus wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:ccf85e08-4f18-c22b-3b56-6f3b636697bb@stuart.id.au">The
reason there is no LCA 2023 is no one put up a proposal to run it.
In fact no one put up a proposal to run LCA 2022 either.</blockquote>
<p>I feel I have to speak out here.</p>
<p>Russell, I'm not sure if you're aware, but there _WAS_ a proposal
for LCA 2022. James Iseppi and I and a team of other people put
one together. We submitted it in February 2021, although I'm just
going on memory here and I can find the emails if you want.</p>
<p>The LA Council summarily dismissed the bid. No conversation was
entered into. We were told it wasn't suitable.</p>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:ccf85e08-4f18-c22b-3b56-6f3b636697bb@stuart.id.au"> You
seem to be thinking this was a deliberate choice by LA. The
evidence in the public domain says otherwise - LA repeatedly asked
for bids to run LCA 2023 (and LCA 2022), and got none.
<br>
</blockquote>
<p>Well, Russell, I have to assume you weren't part of the team that
reviewed our bid when you make that statement. I have to assume
that the people that did review our bid did not tell you about
it. That or you're just forgetting our bid because it was deemed
unsuitable. Maybe you meant "LA [...] got no[ bids that it
accepted]." I don't know. Maybe you use "the public domain"
quite literally there, and are excluding our bid because we did
not announce it on the linux-aus list (which, AFAICS, is how the
LA Council wants these things to work).<br>
</p>
<p>I really don't want to hash over how we put the bid together,
working with ANU from the previous LCA 2021 Canberra bid. I'm
still pissed off at the way LA handled it. That annoyance colours
my judgement of how the LA Council has handled the announcement of
the Everything Open conference. So I'm trying to put those
feelings aside and work with what the LA Council has decided to
do. I'm happy to discuss our bid and what happened to it via
direct email, but I won't discuss it on the list.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Paul<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>