[Linux-aus] Announcing Everything Open - Conference 2023

[Marcus Herstik]

Hi Adam,
I was alluding to this fact. 
One wonders if the council remember?

Regards,
Marcus Herstik

> On 15 Oct 2022, at 8:40 pm, Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> I wonder if the organisation should be called “Open Source Australia”
>> instead - which would have to be put to a formal vote, require change
>> of name of incorporation etc. If this is truly how the organisation
>> wants to go then it should do it properly rather than via stealth. Or
>> maybe I’m just reading too much into it?
> 
> FYI this was discussed back in 2017:
> 
> http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2017-December/thread.html
> 
> It ended up in a formal vote, and the majority of the membership voted
> against a name change.
> 
> I think a lot of Linux users liked the fact that the Linux name was so
> strongly associated with supporting open source (having so many open
> source conferences funded by an organisation so strongly tied to Linux)
> so they wanted to keep the name and all the goodwill it brought to
> Linux.
> 
> Cheers,
> Adam.
>