Linux Australia is a community and volunteer-run organisation. We value[0] open technology, community, freedom, respect and diversity. In addition to the dedicated volunteers who help run events there are many skilled people behind the scenes hacking on, improving and working with infrastructure and policies.

We need your help.

To maintain the robust presence and variety of activities in which Linux Australia has an involvement, we’re calling for volunteers.

=== How does volunteering with Linux Australia help you? ===

There are a number of benefits associated with being involved with Linux Australia.

You get to apply your skills to a new field, and grow your existing skill base. This can be of benefit if you’re looking to build experience to put on your resume, or if you’re getting a little bored at work. The Council and volunteers running Subcommittees often endorse volunteers through mechanisms such as LinkedIn, or provide referrals - so volunteering with Linux Australia can be a career building move.  

You get to meet and work with a variety of new people; don’t be surprised if over time many of those people become life-long friends. We’re not going to lie to you; in every organisation there are going to be people that you clash with, but we’ve worked hard over the past few years to set cultural norms that encourage positive interaction and collaboration.

You will have the satisfaction of knowing that you’ve contributed to a community of over 3000 people in Australia passionate about Linux and Open Source.

=== What opportunities are there to get involved? ===
 
= Membership database =

Parallel to the web team is our membership database (memberdb). memberdb is an open source project ( https://launchpad.net/memberdb) which needs some updating. Primarily we would love help from a PHP hacker who could assist in implementing three new features.

 - Having memberships automatically expire.
 - Renew memberships and executing member functions through hashed URL's.
 - A way to bulk email/mailmerge to all of our members or a subset by status.

If this sounds like something you're able to help with we'd love to have a chat.

= Webteam =

 - The webteam is looking for new leadership. This involves helping manage and maintain our web services - primarily Drupal and Mediawiki. You would ensure that patches are applied and that the websites function as expected.

- If you enjoy writing content and structuring webpages your help could be invaluable in ensuring our public websites are up to date. For example, we would appreciate help adding news articles, re-arranging menus appropriately and maintaining our historical pages.

 - We would also appreciate help from people skilled or wanting to become skilled in Google Analytics to help ensure that website content decisions are data driven.

= Media team =

A call for help has gone out previously for this committee. If you think you'd like to help be an editor on our newsletter, assist with PR or deal with other media related enquires please shoot an email to media-cunTk1MwBs8iFSDQTTA3OBCuuivNXqWP@public.gmane.org.

= Admin and/or mirror team =
The admin team maintain all of our server and network infrastructure. If sysadmining is your thing and you have an evening a week or so to spare helping out please shoot admin-Xh+NVF5n0LINqqZFaT1CxQ@public.gmane.org or mirroring-cunTk1MwBs8iFSDQTTA3OBCuuivNXqWP@public.gmane.org an email.

= Other assistance =

It is our members that do cool things so if you think you have a cool idea, event, hackfest etc that aligns with our values[0] and would like to volunteer to help out in some way, please shoot an email to council-Xh+NVF5n0LINqqZFaT1CxQ@public.gmane.org.

Happy hacking,
Linux Australia Council

[0] http://linux.org.au/values

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could you please forward this to your mailing list?

The Australasian Open Source Developers Conference is one of the top conferences for developers in Asia Pacific. It's primarily focused on development with open source tools and development of open source software, and is now in its 10th year.

For the first time, the conference is crossing the ocean and is landing in Auckland, New Zealand, 21st - 23rd October 2013, at the lavish Langham Hotel. This makes it truly an international event to that is a must attend.

Covering everything from revision control to the latest software development methodologies and tools, OSDC cannot afford to be missed by anyone who uses open source development tools, or writes open source software.

Our focus this year is security, identity and privacy.

We need YOU as a presenter! Your pet project, what you’re currently working on, what you’d like to work on. You've got a great idea in your head, and and we would like you to speak about it at OSDC2013 Auckland. Perhaps someone has suggested that you submit a proposal because they're impressed with what you've been doing, or perhaps you've given talks at other conferences or events and you'd like to give one here. Perhaps you're a repeat speaker, or at least a repeat proposal-submitter and you want some hints on how to make it much more likely your talk will be accepted. Now you need to read Jacinta Richardson’s document on how to submit a presentation.

Your presentation should be either 30 or 45 minutes.

Visit www.osdc.org.nz for registration and information.

Best regards

The OSDC2013 team

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Hi everyone,
Minutes of Council Meeting Thursday 9th May are below,
As always your feedback, queries and comments are warmly welcomed.

Kind regards,
Kathy


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Council Minutes Thursday 09 May 2013

Present:

Mr Joshua ‘El Presidente’ Hesketh, Mr Josh Stewart, Ms Kathy Reid, Mr Clinton Roy, Mr Hugh Blemings

Apologies:

Mr Francois Marier, Ms Bianca Gibson

Quorum was achieved

Meeting opened at 1950hrs

1. Confirm accuracy of previous minutes and note any omissions or errata

MOVE that the minutes from 24 April are correct

MOTION MOVED by El Presidente, SECONDED by Kathy, passed with one abstention (Clinton)

2. Log of correspondence

• Membership - In the period since last meeting 24th April, there have been 5 applications for membership of LA. These have all been approved except from one applicant, who has yet to provide her last name as per the constitution. Membership stands at 2928 according to MemberDB.
  

• Insurance policy renewals from HIMAN BHINDI at oamps

Hugh advised that the policies are ready to pay. Discussions currently in progress regarding specific inclusions and coverage limitations.

• Request from Open Food Web from KIRSTEN LARSEN and next actions
  (we postponed part #2 of her request at last meeting)

Discussion was held on whether we should fund development of open source software.

MOTION MOVED by El President that Linux Australia fund the Open Food Web project with a grant of $2000, SECONDED by Hugh, passed unanimously

• Sponsorship prospectus for GOVHACKAU from PIA WAUGH in response to our initial sponsorship enquiry

Discussion held around sponsorship prospectus, in particular the large amount. General agreement that it would be a positive association, and in line with values. General consensus that sponsoring a ‘Linux Australia’ prize would be of more value. General discussion around liking requirement of mashups to be released under an open source license.

MOTION MOVED by El Presidente that Linux Australia sponsors GovHackAU at the Gold $5k level total sponsorship, with a preference for the sponsorship to partly go towards a prize. This sponsorship denotes Linux Australia’s support for the open government movement.

SECONDED by Hugh, passed unanimously

• SLUG Subcommittee changes from TIM ANSELL

MOTION MOVED by El Presidente that Council accept the changes to SLUG’s Subcommittee, and additionally notes the fine efforts of Tim Ansell, Patrick Elliott-Brennan

SECONDED by Kathy, passed unanimously

• LA Privacy policy enquiry from PETER LAWLER (to linux-aus list, Secretary CC’d, brought to Council for further discussion)

Council noted thanks to Peter for bringing this to our attention, and it will be discussed in the context of broader policy and constitutional reviews at a later date.

• Grant request from ROBERT FELDMAN for Rails Girls Brisbane

General consensus that this is in line with Linux Australia’s values and diversity. Council noted that our Grant policy stipulates a two week feedback period. Given the timeframes, strong consensus for support for the event, lack of dissenting opinion on the linux-aus lists and strong merit of the application, Council decided to approved the grant request in the amount of $500.

MOTION MOVED by Clinton Roy to approve grant request for $500 SECONDED by Kathy, passed unanimously

• Drupal South request to become a Subcommittee from JOSH WAIHI

Council discussed the relationship between DrupalCon and Drupal South

DEFER to Council list for informed decision and discussion

• DrupalGov Canberra request to become a Subcommittee from CHRIS SKENE

DEFER to Council list for informed decision and discussion

3. Review of action items from previous meetings

(Refer Trello for action items and please update current status before meeting)

Shaun Nyquist - Clinton has liaised with Shaun regarding this request. Discussion around whether it is within Linux Australia’s remit to foster open source within south-east Asia. The need is not urgent. Noted that this request was sent to linux-aus list in late February.

DECISION to defer approval of grant request until current state of budget can be confirmed with Treasurer.

4. Items for discussion

• Call for Subcommittee Participation

El Presidente drafted one, has sought feedback.

ACTION: El Presidente to put on Google Docs

• LCA2013 wind up update

Wound up, no further action. Council noted that the conference returned a profit of approx $AUD46k

LCA2014 update

• Dates announced

• Papers committee is in progress

Noted that MeetUp is big in Perth and Brisbane

LCA2015 bid process

With El Presidente to action

2014 Rusty Wrench nominations

Deferred until later in the year

AUIGF update

ACTION: El Presidente to follow up via a phone call, will wait for a chat before putting a logo up

Sponsorship of accounting software

Concerns were raised about whether investing here would be useful to LA specifically.

DEFERRED for discussion with Francois.

Subcommittee Spiel for child events to have on their site

El Presidente to put on Google Drive

PyCon AU update

Schedule announced, progressing well

ZooKeepr hackfest to be held during PyCon AU’s sprints

Media subcommittee and Newsletter update

Kathy to reach out to Don Knowles re a LUG article

ACTION: Media Subcommittee to send out a deadline for articles to be submitted to media-Xh+NVF5n0LINqqZFaT1CxQ@public.gmane.org for the next newsletter

Noted that Twitter is becoming a strong engagement channel <at> linuxaustralia

TASLug elections

DEFERRED until official notification received from TASLug

5. Items for noting

• Nconnects invoice received for teleconf facilities

• Kennards storage - need to put under another credit card

Discussion around what is actually left in storage - and whether it’s worth keeping or whether it should be disposed of?

ACTION: Kathy to renew for a month or so and then chat with Peter / Donna to see whether it’s worth storing.

6. Other business

Meeting closed 2105hrs

-- Kathy Reid Secretary Linux Australia secretary-Xh+NVF5n0LINqqZFaT1CxQ@public.gmane.org http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479

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