[Linux-aus] Linux, Open-Source and the young-people.

[Joshua Hesketh]

Indeed that's a great start.

Additionally you could propose to the council to become a subcommittee
charged with evangelising to and selecting young-people to visit
conferences. The subcommittee policies are here
http://www.linux.org.au/policies/sub-committee but if you have an idea
of how to formalise and action such a plan it'd be great to hear about it.

As I pointed out in my candidacy spiel[0] I see the council existing to
enable the members to do things. This is one of those awesome things
that the council could enable you to do if you - or others - were keen
to run with it. I'd love to have a chat to you at LCA if you're interested?

Cheers,
Josh

[0] http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2013-January/020336.html

On 23/01/13 19:16, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> That sounds perfect! You might consider making a special kind of grant
> request that takes these goals into account. Start looking here:
> https://www.linux.org.au/projects/grants .
>
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:38 PM, David Lyon (Hackerpads)
> <david.lyon at hackerpads.com <mailto:david.lyon at hackerpads.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 23.01.2013 01:59, James Polley wrote:
>
>     >
>     >
>     (http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/announce/2012-December/000148.html
>     > [6]) and the followup announcing the start of the voting
>     >
>     >
>     (http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/announce/2013-January/000149.html
>     > [7]), both of which had a link to
>     >
>     >
>     https://www.linux.org.au/membership/index.php?page=view-election&id=19
>     > [8]
>
>     Correct.
>
>     I'm personally not complaining because at that time I wasn't a member
>     so
>     was ineligible to apply.
>
>     If the committee want to put on some of the idea's discussed here I'd
>     be
>     happy to assist in that.
>
>     In all honesty, Brazil isn't as good as USA, Japan or Germany to send
>     people
>     as there are some relevant security issues particular to there that
>     deserve
>     discussing first - then see.
>
>     If I was to suggest anything, it would be to:
>
>       a) assign a sponsorship budget for the year
>
>       b) choose appropriate conferences in i) Europe ii) Asia iii) USA
>
>       c) work on what needs to be done to get under 25yr delegates
>          to talks at the decided events.
>
>       d) work on a support structure to allow it to be a small group
>     rather
>          than just individuals. Often its safer to have a few friendly
>          faces about than just throw young people at a strange city
>          with languages they may not know and expect them to find things.
>
>          With enough notice, people can book things such as leave if they
>          have permanent (unrelated) employment.
>
>     Realistically, in a first year of an outward looking viewpoint as
>     this,
>     even only organizing one trip to one conference would be an
>     achievement.
>
>     For a range of reasons that I won't elaborate on here, Europe and Asia
>     are the best destinations with less complications than other regions.
>
>     David
>
>
>
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