From president at linux.org.au Mon Feb 6 13:44:23 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 13:44:23 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Council face to face meeting - key outcomes Message-ID: Hi everyone, In a recent email [0] we flagged that the first Council meeting of the year was going to be a face to face meeting. That meeting was held the weekend just past, and as promised, we'd like to keep you informed of the key outcomes. The full minutes of the meeting will be released in due course, however the key take-aways are: * We started with a Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analysis of Linux Australia - and there will be few surprises here. We have a number of strengths in terms of our cash reserves, the experience and commitment of our volunteers and our strong events, but we have weaknesses in our marketing, comms and engagement. We have opportunities to do more reach out and strategic allocation of grants, but also face threats in terms of volunteer burnout. * A budget adjustment of an additional $AUD 35k has been made to our sponsorship / grants / donations allocation, from $15k to $50k, based on the strong profits of the organisation in recent years. This will be accompanied by a more structured grants program, which will weight some priority areas for Linux Australia, such as outreach to younger cohorts, services for older cohorts, and partnership with other organisations with overlapping or similar goals. Stay tuned for more information on the grants program. * We will be undertaking work to move our Membership platform to CiviCRM, after dicussions are held with the Admin Team on the implementation and hosting specifics. As part of this, the public facing website will be refreshed. As a precursor, Linux Australia will undertake some work to refresh our brand identity, via an open tender and selection process. More details to come on this tranche of work. * Linux Australia intends to partner with other like-minded organisations on campaigns and and initiatives of mutual interest - such as metadata retention. As part of face to face, we spent time analysing and categorising our stakeholder relationships, and we will be prioritising a small number of organisations initially. Our next step is to meet with these organisations and ensure our values, priorities and intended actions are aligned, and of course we'll keep you informed throughout the process. * We discussed how we increase the capacity and capability of our organisation, particularly in areas where we have some weaknesses, such as marketing and communications and legal advice, and will start to experiment with contracting out discrete pieces of work where we have capacity or capability gaps. We are also researching what short courses are available to Council to help increase our not-for-profit governance skills. * We also covered a significant amount of administrative ground, including banking signatory change overs, review and approval of event budgets for Joomla Day Sydney and linux.conf.au 2018, review of our operations manual and activities calendar, as well as identifying some policy gaps - namely privacy - which we'll seek to redress . As always, your feedbacks, comments and questions are warmly welcomed. Kind regards, Kathy, Cameron, Sae Ra, Russell, David, Josh and Hugh [0] http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2017-January/022941.html -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From chris.skene at gmail.com Tue Feb 14 10:07:19 2017 From: chris.skene at gmail.com (Christopher Skene) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:07:19 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] DrupalGov conference, March 27th Message-ID: <16F94138-0E46-4EF0-AC55-90209B91054A@gmail.com> Hi Folks, DrupalGov, the Asia-Pacific?s ONLY public sector Drupal event, returns to Canberra in 2017 on the 27th of March. Join us at the QT Hotel in Canberra for over three tracks of speakers from the public and private sectors discussing how to deliver better public services using Drupal. There will be sessions on key topics such as govCMS and Drupal 8, case studies and panel discussions, plus a couple of great international keynotes. Some of this years highlights: 30 sessions across four rooms Keynotes from Catherine McNally (Phase2) and Larry Garfield (Platform.sh) Networking drinks Continous coffee Oxide Interactive Sprint lounge from 8pm to 1am Tickets are available for $110, and as in previous years we expect to sell out prior to the event. More information, sessions, and tickets are available from http://drupalgov.org/events/drupalgov-canberra-2017 . We hope to see you there, Chris Skene on behalf of the DrupalGov team (apologies for cross posting) ? chris at xtfer.com chris.skene at gmail.com +61 (0)422 969 899 @xtfer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From craige at mcwhirter.com.au Wed Feb 15 11:25:10 2017 From: craige at mcwhirter.com.au (Craige McWhirter) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:25:10 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Digitising vinyl records In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20170215002510.tnq55tjwpx6i3klt@archer.mcwhirter.io> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 18:51:13 +1100, Mike Carden wrote: > Fast forward to 2017. > I have a small collection of vinyl records that I'd like to listen to. > Where can I buy a reasonably good turntable with decent speed control, a > pretty good cartridge and stylus and a roughly OK calibrated > counterweight? I have no idea if it measures up to these requirements (I'd be pleasantly surprised) but I just picked up a Digitech GE-4081 from Jaycar two weeks ago to replace my old turntable. It has a few minor quirks that I miss from my much older turntable but apart from minor quibbles, it's certainly been more than fit for my purpose at least. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kathy at kathyreid.id.au Thu Feb 16 03:09:35 2017 From: kathy at kathyreid.id.au (Kathy Reid) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 03:09:35 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Voting now open in the Red Hat Women in Open Source award Message-ID: <4435e6a2-ca09-8922-cde3-4894cda6e54d@kathyreid.id.au> https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source -- -- Kathy Reid email: kathy at kathyreid.id.au mobile: 0418 130 636 twitter: @kathyreid From president at linux.org.au Thu Feb 16 22:01:59 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:01:59 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] AUD $35, 000 available in the 2017 Linux Australia Grants Program Message-ID: <658f8fc2-2ecd-83ec-3cff-44cdc1c53c05@linux.org.au> Dear colleagues, Linux Australia is delighted to announce the availability of $AUD 35,000 for open source, open data, open government, open education, open hardware and open culture projects, as part of the organisation?s commitment to free and open source systems and communities in the region. This year, we have deliberately weighted some areas in which we strongly welcome grant applications. More information is available at: https://linux.org.au/projects/grants Please do share this with colleagues who may find it of interest, and feel free to contact the Linux Australia Council if you would like a private discussion. With kind regards, Kathy -- 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 From president at linux.org.au Tue Feb 21 11:19:04 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:19:04 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] A few quick updates on LA's activities Message-ID: <3c93590f-6663-096d-984b-e56f9207c7e4@linux.org.au> Hi everyone, A quick note just to keep you all updated with LA's activities - minutes of our meetings will be published in due course. LCA2019 formally awarded linux.conf.au 2019 has been formally awarded to $city, after Bid Inspections were recently carried out. Many thanks to Josh Stewart and Hugh Blemings for their efforts here, especially as Antarctica is so cold this time of year ;-) Bids for linux.conf.au 2020 will open around June-July of this year, so if you'd like linux.conf.au in your city then start to think about putting a bid together. LCA2018 Ghosts in early April Bruce Crawley, James Polley and the LCA2018 team will be convening Ghosts in Sydney in early April to learn from the wisdom of previous linux.conf.au teams. Linux Users Victoria is accepted as a Linux Australia Subcommittee Linux Users of Victoria recently voted to disincorporate, and to form as an LA Subcommittee. LA have voted to accept LUV as a Subcommittee. There is still some administrivia to work through, however we expect to be welcoming Andrew Pam and his team as a Subcommittee in due course - a warm welcome to you all. Linux Australia auspicing WordCamp Brisbane 2017 We're delighted to be auspicing WordCamp Brisbane this year, which will be in July-ish [0]. Big thanks to Dion Hulse and the team for what's shaping up to be another great WordCamp event. We're also in conversations with WordCamp.org around how Linux Australia can better support WordPress Meetups in Australia. Stay tuned. Membership platform, rebrand etc. We're going to do our brand refresh before we do the Membership Platform refresh to reduce rework. Stay tuned, or if you'd like to be involved let us know. Grant Applications received: 0 We are yet to receive any Grant Applications in the 2017 Grant Program [1]. There's $AUD 35k sitting on the table. Don't leave it there. Get the word out. Seriously. How often do we hear "there's no money in open source", or "no one will fund us to do X". In particular, have a look at our priority / weighted projects and see if they appeal to you or your colleagues. I don't want this $35k sitting in the bank account earning paltry interest. Put it to work doing Good Things. Kind regards, Kathy [0] https://2017.brisbane.wordcamp.org/ [1] https://linux.org.au/projects/grants -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As GovHack has grown it has helped drive the release of open data by governments across Australia and New Zealand and demonstrated the potential of open data to benefit the community as witnessed by the amazing apps, websites, augmented and virtual reality projects that continue to push the boundaries of open data each year. GovHack and Linux Australia are proud to announce that GovHack's current scale, influence and strength of support make 2017 the right year to establish GovHack as an independent organisation whilst continuing to champion our shared spirit of openness, awesomeness and respect. Open source and open data are more important than ever, yet they mean nothing without your involvement, your ingenuity, your brilliance ? that?s why both GovHack and Linux Australia are determined to keep growing to enable more people to play a part of our respective communities. GovHack would like to thank Linux Australia for its sensational support as an auspicing body in 2016 and looks forward to working closely together in the future to continue to promote the tremendous benefits of open source and open data for Australia, New Zealand and the entire planet! GovHack and Linux Australia -- 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 and GovHack Richard Richard Tubb GovHack National Director 0437 633 111 / richard at govhack.org Li Do you do Awesome? Let's Connect! richtubb.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: