On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:07:32PM +1030, Michael Davies wrote: > > Just what we need - *another* organisation in the FOSS space in Australia > > trying to be the voice to the outside world! :-( I wonder if we should stop worrying about this and maybe start treating it as a feature instead of a bug. I mean, as long as we don't end up balkanizing or trying to compete with each other for members, then there's no big problem here. And on the upside, if LA or AUUG go insane, or get sued out of existance, the other organisations can keep on going and talking to each other and whatnot without any major problems. (Although, keeping the number down so it's obvious which organisations any particular person wants to join, and so there aren't too many of them that it gets confusing is a win, naturally) On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:44:38PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Mmmm. I really hope that such a group would be part of, or at the very > least, strongly affiliated with Linux Australia. Well, the way LA "sub groups" work at the moment is as (almost) entirely independent operations anyway -- see the LCA organising ctte and the LUGs, etc. So having a new organisation, even one that's incorporated isn't really different -- if the new organisation wants to make use of LA's insurance, or funds, or servers, or incorporation, or whatever, it's easy to work with LA and do that; and if you change your mind later and want to have your own membership, or bank account, or fees, or whatever, it's easier to do that if you're already a separate organisation. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we could. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004
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