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

[dvalin at internode.on.net]

On 17.01.25 16:07, Leon Brooks via linux-aus wrote:

> On 16/1/25 12:12, Matt Cengia wrote:

> > In light of this report, what's stopping you, the reader (as opposed to

> > a specific addressee), putting your hand up to run, or help run, a

> > conference? In other words, is there anything that could convince you to

> > help? Some sort of support, mentorship etc?

Life progresses through stages, and focus shifts. At 70, retirement

does avail more time, but thirty years of *nix-only computing has moved

on to a self-designed rural off-grid owner-build, a city renovation and

sale, concurrent with a move.

Mentoring is now focussed on promoting energy transition and domestic

resilience in the face of +1.5°C at the end of 2023, +1.6°C last year,

and maybe +1.7°C this year if the La Niña isn't enough to trim that a

bit - maybe +2°C by 2030? (The first 2025 issue of ATA's Renew magazine

is at the printers, should be at newsagents in a couple of weeks. Look

for a 4 page article extolling the virtues of energy and water

self-sufficiency, especially when the grid threatens remote aircon throttling and

EV charging shutdown on hot days. In a bushfire, own water and power

means they don't cut off when most needed, and capacity and fittings

allow *filling* of firetrucks. Off-grid EV charging is easy too.)

Remote mentoring an ATV EV conversion is diverting, and

tempts me do do the same on the ride-on mower, to leave only the

chainsaw as fossil-fuelled, once an EV compact tractor reaches planet

Earth. (Then V2L should also allow an electric chainsaw.)

I do hope that Linux thrives despite the coming disruptions. That seems more substantial than conferences, but I've never been to a Linux one, I must admit.

Erik
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