Re: [activities] Nomination: James Polley for President

On 17 March 2010 12:46, Jeff Waugh <[email protected]> wrote:
> <quote who="James Polley">
>
>> What I propose is that the newly elected committee should immediately
>> start investigating options for reinventing - everything from adopting a
>> new trading name to better reflect the goals of the current membership, to
>> completely winding up the organisation and handing all assets to LA, on
>> the understanding that they'll form a sub-committee charged with
>> continuing to hold monthly meetings along the lines of the existing SLUG
>> meetings.
>
> I think this is a great idea.
>
> In fact, it's two great ideas: 1) Dump the org and get Linux Australia to
> handle all that stuff (which comes with all kinds of administrative
> benefits), and 2) encourage wide (wild?) ideation about what we can do to
> further FLOSS -- and the FLOSS community -- in Sydney.
>
> Nice.

To provide some historical perspective, SLUG was incorporated years
before Linux Australia existed as a major force. Our incorporation
means that we must deal with a lot of tedious paperwork and
administration ourselves. I fully support centralising such
organisation into the hands of Linux Australia, if they'll have us.
It'll also save us a lot on duplicate costs, such as on public
liability insurance.

As a nice side effect, it'll mean more fun and less work for the
Committee, which should flow onto the rest of the community.

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