From president at linux.org.au Mon Feb 5 13:11:30 2018 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:11:30 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Voting now open in Women in Open Source Awards - Red Hat Message-ID: <0742da89-36ec-e4bc-f20d-7547a5a4359e@linux.org.au> https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source ^ You might see some familiar names :-) -- 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 Thu Feb 15 13:11:20 2018 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:11:20 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Fwd: [LACTTE] Linux Journal Community Advisory Board In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47a04f70-bcd8-85f2-0621-a19ec703a2ff@linux.org.au> FYI - if anyone from a LUG would like to be involved, please let me know. Best, K. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [LACTTE] Linux Journal Community Advisory Board Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:36:53 -0600 From: Mark Irgang To: council at linux.org.au I?m writing on behalf of Linux Journal. We want your help. We have formed a Community Advisory Board and would be very interested in having one representative from your LUG sit on our board. We want to make sure the community?s voice is strong within the pages of Linux Journal. What would be required of you? Nothing formal. Our editors will communicate with the board on a monthly basis to ask for editorial suggestions and guidance. More importantly, you?ll have the ear of our editors-- the issues you discuss at your LUG meetings can be brought to the editors whenever you see fit (e.g. hot topics, news, big ideas, technical concerns, you name it). What we need from you to get started: If you?re up for this, we?d love the name and email address of one member representative from your group, as well as your group?s name and URL. We?d like permission to publish these names within the pages of our magazine and on our web site (email address naturally will stay private). We?re looking to have this board set up by the end of February. Please let me know if you?d be interested in participating. Thanks much, Mark C. Irgang Associate Publisher Linux Journal -- The Original Magazine of the Linux Community? ? www.linuxjournal.com PO Box 170127 Austin, TX 78717 Phone: 713-344-1956 X111 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I think that it has been great that governments around the world have embraced very positive principles around Open Government [2], but their implementation has fallen short due to a lack of understanding of what makes Open Communities work effectively. Selection of the term ?open? (as in ?open source?, ?open data?, ?open government? ...) is a bit of a marketing blunder. It focuses on ?what? (free software) and distracts us from the more important questions of ?how? and ?why?. Governments have been publishing "open" datasets but not considering the more important aspects of collaboration and project sustainability. I propose that Linux Australia submit an open letter recommending that the Australian government recognise the limitations of current government collaboration initiatives. We should provide practical guidance on how government should address collaboration in the upcoming Open Government National Action Plan. If others believe this is worth pursuing, I'm prepared put in a significant amount of the work required to get such a proposal written. (I have quite a bit of material which I can draw upon already). Questions: * What's involved in getting buy-in/approval to write something on behalf of Linux Australia? * What process has been used in the past to collaboratively craft responses from Linux Australia? * I suspect it would be valuable to collect signatures from multiple organisations and individuals in order to add weight to the open letter. Any suggestions on ways to achieve this? * Anyone else interested in helping crafting such as response? Who am I? For those who don't know me, I've been involved in the geospatial open source community for over a decade. Of note, a few years ago I co-authored [3] an open letter on behalf of open source community which resulted in us successfully defending geospatial open standards. [1] https://mailchi.mp/73feb7beca31/developing-australias-next-open-government-national-action-plan-2018-1107129?e=0429b6534e [2] https://www.opengovpartnership.org/open-government-declaration [3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/03/2229245/gis-community-blocks-esris-geospatial-open-standard-rest-api -- Cameron Shorter Technology Demystifier, Learnosity Open Technologies Consultant M +61 (0) 419 142 254 From cameron.shorter at gmail.com Wed Feb 21 09:13:28 2018 From: cameron.shorter at gmail.com (Cameron Shorter) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:13:28 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Helping the Australian Government learn how to collaborate better In-Reply-To: <80F16FCD-26DC-4255-ADBE-45504D524AAE@carbis.com.au> References: <80F16FCD-26DC-4255-ADBE-45504D524AAE@carbis.com.au> Message-ID: <4aff4f18-00aa-bff7-9717-28747ac3a35b@gmail.com> Thanks Luke, Will be great to have you on board, and great to have some help gathering support. I'm currently collating a draft for a response, and am hoping to have a straw man to collaborate around by the end of this weekend. At the moment I'm working in a Google Doc (to allow for easy collection of review comments). But if someone knows something better to use before we start collaborating, then I'm ready to switch. Cheers, Cameron On 20/2/18 10:31 am, Luke Carbis wrote: > Putting my hand up to help. Any past proposals or responses to > government that have been submitted by Linux Australia would go a long > way, should this idea get buy-in / approval. > > I?m confident I could collect a decent amount of signatures from the > Australian WordPress community. > > I have experience with submitting /petitions/?to the government in the > past (read in parliament), which was extremely difficult and > impossible to do digitally (actual papers must be submitted with hand > written signatures, all sorts of rules about how many signatures per > page, where on the page they can be written, etc.), but I?m not sure > if that would apply here? > > > ? Luke Carbis > > >> On 20 Feb 2018, at 8:38 am, Cameron Shorter via linux-aus >> > >> wrote: >> >> The Australian Government has asked [1] for ideas for their next Open >> Government National Action Plan. I think we need to respond and call >> on government agencies to learn how to collaborate more effectively, >> and to learn from our methodologies within the Open Source community. >> >> I think that it has been great that governments around the world have >> embraced very positive principles around Open Government [2], but >> their implementation has fallen short due to a lack of understanding >> of what makes Open Communities work effectively. >> >> Selection of the term ?open? (as in ?open source?, ?open data?, ?open >> government? ...) is a bit of a marketing blunder. It focuses on >> ?what? (free software) and distracts us from the more important >> questions of ?how? and ?why?. Governments have been publishing "open" >> datasets but not considering the more important aspects of >> collaboration and project sustainability. >> >> I propose that Linux Australia submit an open letter recommending >> that the Australian government recognise the limitations of current >> government collaboration initiatives. We should provide practical >> guidance on how government should address collaboration in the >> upcoming Open Government National Action Plan. >> >> If others believe this is worth pursuing, I'm prepared put in a >> significant amount of the work required to get such a proposal >> written. (I have quite a bit of material which I can draw upon already). >> >> Questions: >> >> * What's involved in getting buy-in/approval to write something on >> behalf of Linux Australia? >> >> * What process has been used in the past to collaboratively craft >> responses from Linux Australia? >> >> * I suspect it would be valuable to collect signatures from multiple >> organisations and individuals in order to add weight to the open >> letter. Any suggestions on ways to achieve this? >> >> * Anyone else interested in helping crafting such as response? >> >> Who am I? >> >> For those who don't know me, I've been involved in the geospatial >> open source community for over a decade. Of note, a few years ago I >> co-authored [3] an open letter on behalf of open source community >> which resulted in us successfully defending geospatial open standards. >> >> [1] >> https://mailchi.mp/73feb7beca31/developing-australias-next-open-government-national-action-plan-2018-1107129?e=0429b6534e >> >> [2] https://www.opengovpartnership.org/open-government-declaration >> >> [3] >> https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/03/2229245/gis-community-blocks-esris-geospatial-open-standard-rest-api >> >> -- >> Cameron Shorter >> Technology Demystifier, Learnosity >> Open Technologies Consultant >> >> M +61 (0) 419 142 254 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-aus mailing list >> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au >> http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to >> linux-aus-unsubscribe at lists.linux.org.au > -- Cameron Shorter Technology Demystifier, Learnosity Open Technologies Consultant M +61 (0) 419 142 254 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cameron.shorter at gmail.com Mon Feb 26 07:08:01 2018 From: cameron.shorter at gmail.com (Cameron Shorter) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 07:08:01 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Explaining how the Digital Transformation Agency can learn collaboration from Open Source Message-ID: <588faebd-01f4-acde-024e-b55c2b1615ed@gmail.com> Hi folks, I'm looking for reviews, and then signatures, for an Open Letter requesting the Australian Government should learn how to collaborate as effectively as Open Source. If you can help with the review, then please ask me for edit access. The Open Letter is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit# Warm regards, Cameron On 20/2/18 9:38 am, Cameron Shorter wrote: > The Australian Government has asked [1] for ideas for their next Open > Government National Action Plan. I think we need to respond and call > on government agencies to learn how to collaborate more effectively, > and to learn from our methodologies within the Open Source community. > > I think that it has been great that governments around the world have > embraced very positive principles around Open Government [2], but > their implementation has fallen short due to a lack of understanding > of what makes Open Communities work effectively. > > Selection of the term ?open? (as in ?open source?, ?open data?, ?open > government? ...) is a bit of a marketing blunder. It focuses on ?what? > (free software) and distracts us from the more important questions of > ?how? and ?why?. Governments have been publishing "open" datasets but > not considering the more important aspects of collaboration and > project sustainability. > > I propose that Linux Australia submit an open letter recommending that > the Australian government recognise the limitations of current > government collaboration initiatives. We should provide practical > guidance on how government should address collaboration in the > upcoming Open Government National Action Plan. > > If others believe this is worth pursuing, I'm prepared put in a > significant amount of the work required to get such a proposal > written. (I have quite a bit of material which I can draw upon already). > > Questions: > > * What's involved in getting buy-in/approval to write something on > behalf of Linux Australia? > > * What process has been used in the past to collaboratively craft > responses from Linux Australia? > > * I suspect it would be valuable to collect signatures from multiple > organisations and individuals in order to add weight to the open > letter. Any suggestions on ways to achieve this? > > * Anyone else interested in helping crafting such as response? > > Who am I? > > For those who don't know me, I've been involved in the geospatial open > source community for over a decade. Of note, a few years ago I > co-authored [3] an open letter on behalf of open source community > which resulted in us successfully defending geospatial open standards. > > [1] > https://mailchi.mp/73feb7beca31/developing-australias-next-open-government-national-action-plan-2018-1107129?e=0429b6534e > > > [2] https://www.opengovpartnership.org/open-government-declaration > > [3] > https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/03/2229245/gis-community-blocks-esris-geospatial-open-standard-rest-api > > -- Cameron Shorter Technology Demystifier, Learnosity Open Technologies Consultant M +61 (0) 419 142 254 From president at linux.org.au Mon Feb 26 11:15:09 2018 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:15:09 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Explaining how the Digital Transformation Agency can learn collaboration from Open Source In-Reply-To: <588faebd-01f4-acde-024e-b55c2b1615ed@gmail.com> References: <588faebd-01f4-acde-024e-b55c2b1615ed@gmail.com> Message-ID: <7c28a2ea-ec8e-eb45-0b4b-18d4db4cc88e@linux.org.au> Hi Cameron, thanks for posting this to the linux-aus list. What's the trigger for the Open Letter? Is it in response to a review, call for feedback, off the back of a major issue etc? Kind regards, Kathy On 26/02/18 07:08, Cameron Shorter via linux-aus wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for reviews, and then signatures, for an Open Letter > requesting the Australian Government should learn how to collaborate > as effectively as Open Source. > > If you can help with the review, then please ask me for edit access. > > The Open Letter is here: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jNdh4_A_cIpaHqLRFOgpvAY3JSo0Ueraam39UHFOGHs/edit# > > > Warm regards, Cameron > > > On 20/2/18 9:38 am, Cameron Shorter wrote: >> The Australian Government has asked [1] for ideas for their next Open >> Government National Action Plan. I think we need to respond and call >> on government agencies to learn how to collaborate more effectively, >> and to learn from our methodologies within the Open Source community. >> >> I think that it has been great that governments around the world have >> embraced very positive principles around Open Government [2], but >> their implementation has fallen short due to a lack of understanding >> of what makes Open Communities work effectively. >> >> Selection of the term ?open? (as in ?open source?, ?open data?, ?open >> government? ...) is a bit of a marketing blunder. It focuses on >> ?what? (free software) and distracts us from the more important >> questions of ?how? and ?why?. Governments have been publishing "open" >> datasets but not considering the more important aspects of >> collaboration and project sustainability. >> >> I propose that Linux Australia submit an open letter recommending >> that the Australian government recognise the limitations of current >> government collaboration initiatives. We should provide practical >> guidance on how government should address collaboration in the >> upcoming Open Government National Action Plan. >> >> If others believe this is worth pursuing, I'm prepared put in a >> significant amount of the work required to get such a proposal >> written. (I have quite a bit of material which I can draw upon already). >> >> Questions: >> >> * What's involved in getting buy-in/approval to write something on >> behalf of Linux Australia? >> >> * What process has been used in the past to collaboratively craft >> responses from Linux Australia? >> >> * I suspect it would be valuable to collect signatures from multiple >> organisations and individuals in order to add weight to the open >> letter. Any suggestions on ways to achieve this? >> >> * Anyone else interested in helping crafting such as response? >> >> Who am I? >> >> For those who don't know me, I've been involved in the geospatial >> open source community for over a decade. Of note, a few years ago I >> co-authored [3] an open letter on behalf of open source community >> which resulted in us successfully defending geospatial open standards. >> >> [1] >> https://mailchi.mp/73feb7beca31/developing-australias-next-open-government-national-action-plan-2018-1107129?e=0429b6534e >> >> >> [2] https://www.opengovpartnership.org/open-government-declaration >> >> [3] >> https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/03/2229245/gis-community-blocks-esris-geospatial-open-standard-rest-api >> >> -- 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 cameron.shorter at gmail.com Tue Feb 27 14:38:22 2018 From: cameron.shorter at gmail.com (Cameron Shorter) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:38:22 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Helping the Australian Government learn how to collaborate better In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9a255c2c-7bfa-d82d-8f18-88bef7ee356f@gmail.com> Hi Kathy, The Digital Transformation Agency has asked for civic participation for their Open Government National Action Plan: https://mailchi.mp/73feb7beca31/developing-australias-next-open-government-national-action-plan-2018-1107129?e=0429b6534e This open letter aims to be a very compelling statement about how to be more effective at Open Government. Warm regards, Cameron On Mon Feb 26 11:15:09 AEDT 2018, president at linux.org.au wrote: Hi Cameron, thanks for posting this to the linux-aus list. What's the trigger for the Open Letter? Is it in response to a review, call for feedback, off the back of a major issue etc? Kind regards, Kathy On 20/2/18 9:38 am, Cameron Shorter wrote: > The Australian Government has asked [1] for ideas for their next Open > Government National Action Plan. I think we need to respond and call > on government agencies to learn how to collaborate more effectively, > and to learn from our methodologies within the Open Source community. > > I think that it has been great that governments around the world have > embraced very positive principles around Open Government [2], but > their implementation has fallen short due to a lack of understanding > of what makes Open Communities work effectively. > > Selection of the term ?open? (as in ?open source?, ?open data?, ?open > government? ...) is a bit of a marketing blunder. It focuses on ?what? > (free software) and distracts us from the more important questions of > ?how? and ?why?. Governments have been publishing "open" datasets but > not considering the more important aspects of collaboration and > project sustainability. > > I propose that Linux Australia submit an open letter recommending that > the Australian government recognise the limitations of current > government collaboration initiatives. We should provide practical > guidance on how government should address collaboration in the > upcoming Open Government National Action Plan. > > If others believe this is worth pursuing, I'm prepared put in a > significant amount of the work required to get such a proposal > written. (I have quite a bit of material which I can draw upon already). > > Questions: > > * What's involved in getting buy-in/approval to write something on > behalf of Linux Australia? > > * What process has been used in the past to collaboratively craft > responses from Linux Australia? > > * I suspect it would be valuable to collect signatures from multiple > organisations and individuals in order to add weight to the open > letter. Any suggestions on ways to achieve this? > > * Anyone else interested in helping crafting such as response? > > Who am I? > > For those who don't know me, I've been involved in the geospatial open > source community for over a decade. Of note, a few years ago I > co-authored [3] an open letter on behalf of open source community > which resulted in us successfully defending geospatial open standards. > > [1] > https://mailchi.mp/73feb7beca31/developing-australias-next-open-government-national-action-plan-2018-1107129?e=0429b6534e > > [2] https://www.opengovpartnership.org/open-government-declaration > > [3] > https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/03/2229245/gis-community-blocks-esris-geospatial-open-standard-rest-api > -- Cameron Shorter Technology Demystifier, Learnosity Open Technologies Consultant M +61 (0) 419 142 254