Re: Announcing Everything Open - Conference 2023
Marcus Herstik via linux-aus <[email protected]>
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Hi Adam, I was alluding to this fact. One wonders if the council remember? Regards, Marcus Herstik > On 15 Oct 2022, at 8:40 pm, Adam Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >> I wonder if the organisation should be called “Open Source Australia” >> instead - which would have to be put to a formal vote, require change >> of name of incorporation etc. If this is truly how the organisation >> wants to go then it should do it properly rather than via stealth. Or >> maybe I’m just reading too much into it? > > FYI this was discussed back in 2017: > > http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2017-December/thread.html > > It ended up in a formal vote, and the majority of the membership voted > against a name change. > > I think a lot of Linux users liked the fact that the Linux name was so > strongly associated with supporting open source (having so many open > source conferences funded by an organisation so strongly tied to Linux) > so they wanted to keep the name and all the goodwill it brought to > Linux. > > Cheers, > Adam. > _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to [email protected]