[Linux-aus] Feedback requested: Linux Users Victoria vs Linux Victoria

[Russell Coker]

On Sunday, 12 July 2026 14:04:38 AEST Andrew Pam via linux-aus wrote:
> On 12/7/26 13:45, Linux Australia President via linux-aus wrote:
> > It is currently not clear to the Linux Australia Council whether these
> > are the same organisation, given not all of the membership appear not
> > to know of a name change, nor has Linux Australia been officially
> > notified of a name change.
> 
> As a member of LUV, to the best of my knowledge Linux Victoria is an
> additional name for the organisation and there is only one
> organisation.

The Linux Victoria elections were not announced on the luv.asn.au mailing 
lists (which Alexar was always capable of sending email to).  Therefore LUV 
members were not invited to the meetings unless they had decided to sign up 
for Linux Victoria.

The previous discussions on these lists show that there are more than a few 
people who are LUV members who are not members of Linux Victoria and were not 
aware of what it was doing.

> Members who meet in person have continued to do so, but
> it appears there are many members on the old mailing list who are not up
> to date; this is not surprising, as the list was not functioning
> correctly until very recently and while I was previously the primary
> list moderator, the software kept kicking me out and eventually I

The software was however working well enough for the Linux Victoria people who 
wanted to argue about whether unsolicited bulk email (UBE) is spam.

https://www.luv.asn.au/

Linux Victoria has been transitioning to become a separate organisation to LUV 
over the course of years.  If you look at the LUV web site (which I have 
recently restored to functionality) the last event listed is from 2024.  That 
seems to be when Linux Victoria cut ties to LUV.

I've attached an archive of the web page Alexar put on the LUV web site to 
redirect people to Linux Victoria over a year ago.  When he did that he made a 
commitment to keep the Matrix server etc running which he broke by not 
renewing the domain.

I don't think it would be in anyone's best interests to try and reunite Linux 
Victoria and LUV at this stage.

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