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

[Karl Goetz]

On 15/1/25 22:26, 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?
My thoughts:

- After looking at the finances (those that are available) there 
certainly doesn't seem to be a lot of budget to get paid organisers 
involved so the organising team will have to remain volunteers, in order 
to run the conference.

- People in our industry don't tend to have that sort of time

- So I see why we could be at this position.


As an unrelated aside (and this is an "I am nosy" question not a "I have 
time to run a conference" question):

Is there information provided to bid teams for LA run conferences which 
gives guidance from lessons learned in previous years or is each years 
team out on their own (possibly with access to the LCA ghosts?)?


thanks,

Karl.