From president at linux.org.au  Tue Sep 12 15:07:56 2017
From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:07:56 +1000
Subject: [Announce] Linux Australia has signed an MoU with WordPress
 Community Support, PBC to facilitate WordPress events in Australia
Message-ID: <b58be84c-a531-2824-82db-f38d8088e621@linux.org.au>

Hi everyone,

A quick update on an item that Linux Australia and WordPress Community
Support have been working on for a while. In previous updates, we've
flagged that we've been in discussions with WordPress Community Support
to enable the WordPress community in Australia to leverage some of the
facilities Linux Australia has, in order to grow WordPress and open
source more generally.

We're delighted to announce that a Memorandum of Understanding has now
been formally signed between the two organisations, outlining how this
will work. The specifics of course will be ironed out in due course, and
your feedback on execution is as always warmly welcomed.

In the interests of transparency and openness, the entire wording of the
MoU is given below - I've declined to attach the PDF version as it has
Josepha and mine signatures on.

The initial Responsible Persons appointed are long time community
members from the Aussie WordPress community - Dion Hulse and Dee Teal.

A huge thanks to both Andrea Middleton and Josepha Hayden of WordPress
Community Support for all their efforts to reach an excellent outcome.

With kind regards,

Kathy

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    Parties


Linux Australia, Inc.

ABN 56 987 117 479

PO BOX 4788, SYDNEY 2001

AUSTRALIA


and


WordPress Community Support, PBC

660 4th Street #119

San Francisco CA 94107
UNITED STATES


    1. Rationale


WordPress Foundation and Linux Australia wish to partner to facilitate
the growth of WordPress-related events in Australia.


    2. Objectives


Specifically, the two organisations wish to;


  *

    make it easier for members of the WordPress community in Australia
    to stage events

  *

    by providing event infrastructure, such as seed funding, banking
    access and event insurance

  *

    thus growing and strengthening the WordPress community in Australia

  *

    and facilitating additional growth, adoption and robustness of the
    WordPress platform

  *

    and facilitating additional awareness of the opensource basis of the
    WordPress platform, and opensource paradigms in general


    3. Roles and Responsibilities


Linux Australia will undertake to;


  *

    provide seed funding up to an amount approved by WordPress
    Foundation, to a nominated Responsible Person(s)

  *

    provide event insurance to the event being held by the Responsible
    Person(s)

  *

    provide bank account access to the Responsible Person(s)


WordPress Foundation will undertake to;


  *

    Provide periodic payments to Linux Australia covering the amount of
    seed funding

  *

    Notify Linux Australia of approved amounts, events and Responsible
    Persons


    



    4. Governance structure and reporting


The Responsible Officers for this MoU are;


  *

    Ms Katherine (Kathy) Reid,
    President, Linux Australia <president at linux.org.au
    <mailto:president at linux.org.au>>

  *

    Ms Josepha Haden,
    Community Wrangler, Automattic <josepha.haden at automattic.com
    <mailto:josepha.haden at automattic.com>>


Kathy and Josepha are the main points of contact for each organisation.


    5. Dissolution of MoU


This agreement may be dissolved at any time, by either party, for any
reason.



-- 
Kathy Reid
President
Linux Australia

0418 130 636

president at linux.org.au
http://linux.org.au

Linux Australia Inc
GPO Box 4788
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia

ABN 56 987 117 479 

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