[Linux-aus] Candidacy support statement - President

[Mark Foster]

On 11/01/2016 8:21 p.m., Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 03:17:00PM +1100, Hugh Blemings wrote:
>> On 11/01/2016 14:51, Mark Foster wrote:
>>> Are we seriously at the stage where we're challenging people who're
>>> putting their hands up to take a not-insigificant role in LA,
>>> because they use a mixed-software-stack for a variety of reasons?
>> Given that long standing friendship and association I don't view his
>> email as a challenge in anything other than a good and constructive way :)
> Yeah, that's how it was intended. (In any event, he's the only nominee
> for that position and will be automatically elected; so he's already
> tied to that crucible and presumably watching the seconds tick by; one,
> by one, by one...)

Thanks for that final element of clarification, and for the spirit in 
which my (perhaps slightly exasperated, needlessly as it turns out) 
response was handled (by all responders).

I do enjoy the way the members of this mailing list generally conduct 
themselves. Long may it continue.

Good luck to Hugh!

(my first distro was RedHat 5.2, so I am a relative newbie when compared 
to some of you lot... !)

Mark.