dammit - too many good people nominating for positions - voting is going to be *hard*. On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:41, Anthony Towns wrote: > Okay, since I couldn't sucker anyone else^W^W^Wconvince anyone more > capable from Brisbane to stick their hand up, I'll nominate myself for > an ordinary committee member position. > > I've been involved (to some extent or other) in the Linux community since > '95 or so, and in the Debian community particularly since '98, writing > useful bits of software, and otherwise trying to make sure Debian doesn't > suck any more than it has to. I've been on the linux.conf.au papers ctte > each year since Anand invited me to join the Sydney papers ctte in 2001, > and was one of the organisers for the 2002 conference in Brisbane, which > I assume actually happened and came off okay, even if I can't seem to > remember it. > > By far the most successful activity Linux Australia's undertaken is > the promotion and continuation of Linux.Conf.Au over the past few > years. LA's mostly kept a fairly light hand on l.c.a's, aiming mostly > to ensure that the hosting LUG knows what it's doing, and dealing with > some financial details from year to year, with all the actual work > (organising, preparing, promotion, fielding media questions, dealing > with the problems that come up) left up to the hosting LUG. I think Linux > Australia should aim to stick to this level of involvement: find things > that have worked for some LUG/s and promote them so they work nationally, > provide support and encouragement where it's sustainable, useful and > wanted, but otherwise let the LUGs do what they like. I think LA's job > is assisting with projects that are already supported by LUGs and other > .au Linux communities, and trying to encourage small local trial projects > that can be built up into bigger projects in an evolutionary fashion. > > I think LA can best achieve this by being continuously involved with > all the Australian LUGs, and I think that involvement is best achieved > by having a representative from each state on the ctte, who can promote > and report on activities their LUG's undertaking, and pass on the word of > other states' activities back down to the local level and maybe encourage > some state rivalry. I think there's plenty of nifty projects that have > happened in other states, and I'd love to make sure that the good ones > can get repeated in Queensland. I think LA is the perfect organisation > to make that sort of coordination possible. > > I'm also eager to see more business and government take up and involvement > in Linux and I think LA, along with the l.c.a organisers and AUUG, are > playing a great role in that area, so long as that involvement builds on > the strength of our existing community, and that while we're rocketing > off towards the stars, we don't rip our roots out of the ground. > > (Hrm. This seems to be missing something. Oh, I know -- energy! But that's > easily fixed! Just add exclamation marks! Vote for me!!! GO ON!!! YOU > KNOW YOU WANT TO!!!!! ;) > > Cheers, > a "I'm excited!" j -- Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.org.au> Linux Australia Inc
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