<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Hey folks,<br></div><div><br></div><div>In light of this report, what's stopping you, the reader (as opposed to a specific addressee), putting your hand up to run, or help run, a conference? In other words, is there anything that could convince you to help? Some sort of support, mentorship etc?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'll go first: for me, my life (and career) is in a bit of flux currently, and I already have a volunteer role (as a scout leader) that takes up a fair chunk of my free time, so I currently don't have the capacity to take on more. I helped run PyConAU 2023 as their Inclusion and Welcoming coordinator, and that worked well because it was a relatively discrete role. For years, folks have suggested I should put in a bid to run an LCA, and I've no doubt I could do it from a skills perspective, but it's such a huge time commitment that it feels irresponsible to commit to given what I already have on my plate, and I'm not sure there's a good solution to reduce the commitment required by the director and core team for a conference of this size.<br></div><div><br></div><div>How about you, reader? What would need to change for *you* to say "yes" to being on the core team? Change is made by the folks who show up; wouldn't it be cool if that were you?<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, at 23:02, Andrew Ruthven via linux-aus wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Hey,<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2025-01-16 at 00:26 +1300, Simon Lyall via linux-aus wrote:<br></div><div>> From:<br></div><div>> > <a href="https://linux.org.au/about-us/annual-reports/">https://linux.org.au/about-us/annual-reports/</a><br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> Treasurer’s Report:<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> "Looking forward to next year, I expect the conferences will adjust to the<br></div><div>> new sponsorship conditions and return to making a profit. I hope the <br></div><div>> number of conferences we run will at least run steady, but at this stage I<br></div><div>> am not<br></div><div>> expecting EO/LCA will be run again. That's a shame as I've attended other <br></div><div>> developer conferences, and without a doubt LA's flagship is both the <br></div><div>> strongest technically and the cheapest to attend. There is no lack of<br></div><div>> speakers, or<br></div><div>> volunteers, or venues, or money. What we can't find is a team to run it"<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> Thoughts?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Certainly disappointing, and concerning. I first saw a comment about this on<br></div><div>the Fediverse today/yesterday. I'm surprised this hasn't been raised<br></div><div>earlier.<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div id="sig73645704"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature">Matt Cengia (pronouns: they/them/theirs)<br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>