<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>Dear community,</div><div><br></div><div>We are seeking feedback from members of the Linux Users Victoria (LUV) and Linux Victoria (LV) communities on the current state of each organisation. For noting, Linux Users Victoria has been a subcommittee of Linux Australia for several years, but in recent times has stopped responding to our requests for updates as are expected from all subcommittees.</div><div><br></div><div>It is currently not clear to the Linux Australia Council whether these are the same organisation, given not all of the membership appear not to know of a name change, nor has Linux Australia been officially notified of a name change.</div><div><br></div><div>Over the past year we have seen concerning behaviour, which have prompted several threads both publicly and privately to LA Council from concerned community members:</div><div>* The members of the LUV member mailing list were copied to a third party mailing system, purporting to be a replacement announcement list for Linux Victoria.</div><div>* The luv.asn.au domain lapse due to the LUV team being unable to access the domain, followed by domain contacts being changed to be the Linux Victoria president email address.</div><div>* Unclear elections for LUV/Linux Victoria - the LA Council was told elections had occurred, however many LUV members reported not knowing there were any elections.</div><div><br></div><div>We would welcome any feedback to be sent to us at <a href="mailto:council@linux.org.au">council@linux.org.au</a> or via a reply to this thread if you are happy for it to be public. I would ask that you do this by Sunday 19 July, after which the LA Council will review and decide what the next steps to take should be.</div><div><br></div><div id="sig143926544"><div class="signature">Kind regards,</div><div class="signature"><br></div><div class="signature">Joel Addison</div><div class="signature"><br></div><div class="signature">President</div><div class="signature">Linux Australia</div><div class="signature"><br></div><div class="signature">president@linux.org.au </div><div class="signature">http://linux.org.au </div><div class="signature"><br></div><div class="signature">Linux Australia Inc</div><div class="signature">GPO Box 4788</div><div class="signature">Sydney NSW 2001</div><div class="signature">Australia</div><div class="signature"><br></div><div class="signature">Limited Liability (NSW) Y2998126</div><div class="signature">ABN 56 987 117 479</div><div class="signature">ARBN 618 108 544</div></div><div><br></div></body></html>