Re: Governance New Thread!

Hi I'll just add to the "no legals" chorus as it is a waste of time for such a small gathering and it creates a huge management issue that I would doubt anyone really wants to deal with, especially considering the Loco may even lose its "official" recognition. So with regards to various things st

Funding question

Hi everyone, I am just wondering, if anyone has tried to gain funding through their local city council. I have been involved in the fundraising for schools and other non-profits, liasing with the local city councils. I am just wondering if there is any objections if I go and try to check out this

me and the loco

Hi all, Rather than try to find the right place in the thread/s to put this post I thought it easiest to start a new thread. As a bit of background, I started using ubuntu back in the days of warty - when you wouldn't tell your Debian purist friends that had even tried it. I have been hanging ar

Re: me and the loco

Dave, Thanks for a great post, while reading other posts today & agreeing with bits & pieces I am left with questions, after reading this I'm left with questions but the bulk are answered & now think our challenge is to find our identity & forge our goals. Perhaps we need a place for a brai

Re: Funding question

In order to receive funding you would almost certainly need to be an incorporated club/association. Ubuntu-au is not such an entity. Such an entity requires registration of the organisation along with reporting of financials each year plus a formal committee etc. Not something I would hope we w

Re: Funding question

Hi Benjamin On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 00:58 -0800, benchen70 wrote: > Hang on, I forgot to ask one question: are we allowed to fundraise on > behalf of the community, or are there specified people for this kind > of job? Or do we not funsraise at all? I mean, do we fundraise for the > social events

Packaging for Debian & Ubuntu

Hi folks, I thought i'd ask a technical question here to give us a bit of relief from the leadership structure and all that. :-) I have previously maintained my own software repository for my Debian systems, but it fell into disuse. When i came back to re-visit the question, i found that the ba

Re: Packaging for Debian & Ubuntu

Hi Paul, On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 20:44 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Hi folks, > > I thought i'd ask a technical question here to give us a bit of relief > from the leadership structure and all that. :-) > > I have previously maintained my own software repository for my Debian > systems, but it fell

Re: Packaging for Debian & Ubuntu

On 8 March 2010 22:00, Dave Hall wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 20:44 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I thought i'd ask a technical question here to give us a bit of relief > > from the leadership structure and all that. :-) > > > > I have previously maintained my own

Re: Packaging for Debian & Ubuntu

Karl Bowden wrote: On 8 March 2010 22:00, Dave Hall > wrote: ... > Is this a reasonable list? Is there a product that fits the bill? Firstly, thanks to Dave & Karl for their suggestions. I played with reprepro for a few minutes and it seems to do the jo

Re: Packaging for Debian & Ubuntu

On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:49 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Karl Bowden wrote: > > On 8 March 2010 22:00, Dave Hall wrote: > > I can't help with the build side of things, all my package > > building > > isn't automated. > What do you use for your package building? I have bee

Re: Funding question

Hi guys, thanks for your reply. I had some experience with councils, having helped in fundraising for events and activities for schools and some non-profits. I am not too familiar with the structure of the whole ubuntu community, but now that I know that we are not an incorporated entity, that cle

Re: Governance New Thread!

Melissa, We can get Public Liability Insurance through Linux Australia !!! How does that work ? How are we affiliated with them? This is an example of valuable information that could be a topic for an Ubuntu-au council meeting. (if there was one to be created) I agree that going down an inco

Re: Governance New Thread!

I have to say that going down the path of forming an incorporated body is "NOT" the way this should go! Lets keep it real and review the basic function of the role of the Loco before re inventing the wheel. Also (not researched) but one would think that if an incorporated body did exist then you w

Re: Governance New Thread!

On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 08:51 +1000, Andrew Gaydon wrote: > Melissa, > > We can get Public Liability Insurance through Linux Australia !!! > How does that work ? How are we affiliated with them? Linux Australia can organise to extend their PLI to events that they sponsor. >From the front page o

Increasing Ubuntu-AU visibility.

Hi everyone. I hope I'm not about to step on any toes with this post, it is not my intent but I shall apologise profusely now before I start. In my waking hours last night I had a think about yesterdays various discussions, especially the governance discussions. Now I'm not going to suggest that

Re: Increasing Ubuntu-AU visibility.

Michael, Thanks for your post. No you haven't stepped on my toes. It is what this group needs, some frank & honest discussion. Every single point you make is very valid. I believe (& hope) that everybody involved with ubuntu-au have similar motivations to promote the use of Ubuntu throughout Aust

Re: Increasing Ubuntu-AU visibility.

Hi Andrew. Thanks for replying and thanks for your kind comments. I am enthusiastic but I am also patient, I see this as a long haul type scenario. Michael (k3lt01) -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

We are all on the same side

As the dust settles from yesterdays robust discussions. If I may remind everybody about the various codes of conducts that we all have agreed to adhere to. Membership Code of Conduct http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct Leadership Code of Conduct http://www.ubuntu.com/community/leadership-con

A new post responding to post "Increasing Ubuntu-AU visibility"

Hi all, I am posting this thread in response to the "Increasing Ubuntu-AU visibility" thread, but I think this needs a separate thread, because I think what I am about to suggest will generate some very irrelevant responses to the original thread. So sorry about the confusion. and sorry, I am abo

Re: A new post responding to post "Increasing Ubuntu-AU visibility"

Hi Ben I'm in the same situation as you so I understand where you are coming from. I believe your response is very relevant to my thread. Cheers. Michael (k3lt01) -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au