[Linux-aus] [Announce] 2024-2025 Annual report and Draft AGM Agenda

[Andrew Ruthven]

Hey,

On Thu, 2025-01-16 at 00:26 +1300, Simon Lyall via linux-aus wrote:
> From:
> > https://linux.org.au/about-us/annual-reports/
> 
> Treasurer’s Report:
> 
> "Looking forward to next year, I expect the conferences will adjust to the
> new sponsorship conditions and return to making a profit. I hope the 
> number of conferences we run will at least run steady, but at this stage I
> am not
> expecting EO/LCA will be run again. That's a shame as I've attended other 
> developer conferences, and without a doubt LA's flagship is both the 
> strongest technically and the cheapest to attend. There is no lack of
> speakers, or
> volunteers, or venues, or money. What we can't find is a team to run it"
> 
> Thoughts?

Certainly disappointing, and concerning. I first saw a comment about this on
the Fediverse today/yesterday. I'm surprised this hasn't been raised
earlier.

Looking back in the mail archives for linux-aus@ and announce@ I see nothing
that indicates there is a lack of teams submitting proposals. But, I'm also
surprised that the only call for proposals for running these conferences is
from April 2023[0]. And that was asking for proposals for the '24 and '25
conferences, no mention of '26.

Surely some follow ups, prompts, etc, would be in order?

[0] https://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/announce/2023-April/000355.html

Hoping folks have a good in-person conference next week, sadly I won't be
there,
Andrew

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