[Linux-aus] clarifying membership criteria

[Russell Coker]

https://linux.org.au/

The above page has "Linux Australia is the peak body of Open Source 
communities in Australasia. Linux Australia represents Australasian users and 
developers of ..."

So that's either "Australia" or "Australiasia".

https://linux.org.au/membership/

The above page has a list of countries for address which appears to list every 
country in the world.

My recollection of Linux.conf.au practice was that all delegates had a 
membership of Linux Australia by default.

What exactly is the membership criteria?  The membership page seems to imply 
that people who are interested from any country can just join if they feel 
like it, is that correct?

Rick Moen (prominent American Linux user from California) was a member of LUV 
for decades.

Flounder has a number of members from outsize the main Australia and New 
Zealand target area just because we don't turn away anyone who has interesting 
things to say about FOSS and happens to join the Matrix room.  The only time 
we ask where someone is based is in the context of whether they are likely to 
be awake when we have a video meeting.

Do members of groups running under the LA umbrella become de facto LA members?


I think that anyone who can give us reason to believe that they are a real 
person not a bot or sock puppet should be allowed to join regardless of 
country.

I also think that members of groups running under LA should be considered non 
voting members if that's a thing we can do.  In the case of Flounder not 
everyone who has joined has felt inclined to mention their real name so 
obviously they can't be considered full members of LA because of that.

In any case I think that this needs to be made clear on the web site.  If it 
turns out that my interpretation of the web site is not correct then we can 
debate whether it can or should be changed once we are clear on what the 
situation is.

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