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good afternoon everybody and welcome

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back for the 3 45 sydney time session

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which is what does linux australia do

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all year and i'm guessing the question

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after this when we're not at lca so i'm

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going to hand over to julian and sarah

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who's going to run this afternoon is a

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bit of an interactive session we won't

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be taking questions during the session

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but we will be taking questions

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afterwards over in the channels so if

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you haven't found the channels they're

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on the left hand side drop the channel

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button down and the one you want to

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search for is the linux australia

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discussion channel and that's where

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you'll find what's going on

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also called the big blue button room but

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uh you won't find that written on the

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screen which had me confused trivit so

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over to sarah and julian thank you

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hello

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welcome everyone

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uh i'm julian i was the secretary of

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linux australia in 2019-2020

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i was also part of the team for lca 2008

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and a couple of years on the linux user

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victoria committee as well

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and i'm sarah jermaine i'm the now

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ex-president of linux australia just

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retired um i've been on councils for

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eight years now and i hold the record

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sorry josh i now hold the record um and

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i've also organized several conferences

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several lcas um 2012 in ballarat 2016 in

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geelong and 2021 and 22 online

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all right so linux australia is the

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parent organization for

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linuxconfigurepikenau as well as a few

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other conferences events and user groups

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it handles the being a company items for

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these groups it turns out if you're

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running a large event

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venues expect to deal with the company

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av companies expect to deal with a

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company etc

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uh linux australia for these events is

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that company and it also provides

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continuity for those events so it's not

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a complete fresh start for every event

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our membership is the registered voting

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members those of you who have joined at

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links or gayu membership or

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previous

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uh urls

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through past systems but we do consider

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attendees at conferences our members of

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lugs the meet up groups

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we support the subcommittees we support

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as non-voting stakeholders all of you

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watching this talk are our stakeholders

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of linux australia

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so

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the history of lending australia is that

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in 1999 rusty hosted calu the conference

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for australian linux users in melbourne

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and it was bankrolled off his personal

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amex

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in 2001 the first linux confereu as we

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call it today was held in sydney and

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linux australia was credited to handle

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the profit that that event raised

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rusty gave a keynote at lca 2019 about

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lca history highly encouraged if you

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want to know more about that

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or to see rusty dressed in

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silly costumes

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more recently pike on a you

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are now very much a major second

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conference for linux australia started

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in 2010

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and in 2011

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more formal ownership with some of the

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lugs as slug was

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at least the process was started to wind

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slugging and other logs have gone

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the same way as well

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i wrote this diagram up this morning

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because apparently that's the sort of

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that we've had a lot of people come

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we've had 63 unit council members uh the

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of those i've had the pleasure to serve

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with three of them and

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have met the other two

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we do have change in membership but we

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also have some long-standing tenures and

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the same people for 20 years or more

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they can never get people to stay for

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so that australia has a really great

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people stayed longer be nice perhaps if

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we got more views

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it's hard to say which is better

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if you want to look at actual this data

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in readable form and not blur of pixels

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the information is available on the

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website we may put this rendering up

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we may not don't know

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all right so what does linux australia

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take it away

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thank you julian um so this image might

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be a little bit blurry there's a lot

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the council this year well sorry

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last year decided to go through and sort

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of document every single piece

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of the puzzle that we sort of cover

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um our community and what we do for

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various groups including the lugs and

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other subcommittees that we do have

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these tend to fall on the seven council

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members that are on council um there are

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subcommittees obviously so we've got

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firstly i'll take you through the

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governance piece now this is the piece

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that we have to do regardless um we have

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incorporated associations act so we have

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constitution we do all our annual

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everyone to see there's obviously some

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things that we don't share but

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fortnight um and we're bound by a

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another big piece is the finances um

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turn over about a million dollars a year

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over 270 000 so there has been a steep

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drop but that's because we have a lot

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uh at treasurer russell stewart he's a

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whiz with the numbers but he has to

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manage 19 australian bank accounts

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that he's probably interacting with 11

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or 12 budgets because we've got all

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all of those bank accounts and all of

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trying to manage all of those those

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permissions but we also physically spend

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a lot of hours at westpac um sorry

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our record at the moment is we've spent

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six hours in at the gold coast um trying

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to just make sure that we've got the

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right people authorizing the right

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accounts um you know

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physically there to sign for it set up

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customer accounts all that sort of thing

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help with a lot of the social media we

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manage all of the mailing lists all of

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the chat platforms so we've got uh the

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matrix channel and libero chat channels

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uh we also have rocket chat now for lca

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we manage all of the

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newsletters blogs websites annual

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reports communications policies

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we've got official media teams and we've

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also got an admin team and a mirror team

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next slide please

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just call out the admin team again they

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do

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as much work as we say as council does

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the admin team

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does a similar amount

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uh there is

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more infrastructure than you would

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believe behind this stuff

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and

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some of it's been cloud hosted and some

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of it's actually coming back from being

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cloud hosted

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because cloud hosting is not a magic way

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to be for it to be cheaper it turns out

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no definitely not that admin team to a

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tremendous work

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uh mirror team a little even more behind

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the scenes because this is the magic

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stuff that your free software depends on

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for distribution

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that has changed a little bit in recent

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years as cdns have become more widely

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distributed

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but having those solid mirrors in

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australia has been extremely helpful

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uh the next piece is around membership

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grants and awards uh so we have on

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on our register about five and a half

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thousand members

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which is a lot of people to make sure

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that we have um on our system and we can

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communicate with if we need to

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um we are running a civic crm instance

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on wordpress so it um we've since moved

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from memberdb if you'll remember

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memberdb

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um

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and

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it allows us to run things like our

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elections every year so linux australia

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funded a specific elections piece for

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civi crm and it's actually now used

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quite widely around the world and it's

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become um

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you know quite important piece for civic

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crm

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we also offer a grants program now the

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grants program each year we probably

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go about 15 to 25k a year um

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and this is all the profits that we've

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made from the conference go straight

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back into the community so if you've got

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a project that you want to um

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you know spin up

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we will provide funds to be able to

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um

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to support that we can also provide

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continuing funds if need be um and in

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the past we've also provided um tickets

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to go to various events so it might be

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lca it might be drupalcon it might be

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um drupalgov any of those sort of things

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so we've also got some awards and we've

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got the rusty wrench which um is usually

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given out every year and it's um

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for people that um are in line with our

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values and it's named after rusty

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russell

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we've also got some other awards that we

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do give out every once in a while and

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it's our community awards so last year

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we gave the community award to the

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covert safe team

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for their advocacy work

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to make sure that the code was made

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public for the covert safe app

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we also have things like we have to

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maintain membership policies we also

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provide community uh sponsorships as

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well so we have some organizations that

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um approach us for scholarships

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uh so for example um there is a library

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organization called vala and we provide

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um

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uh diversity scholarships to allow for

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librarians to attend uh vala's tech camp

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uh we also provide scholarships to be

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able to attend

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um the net thing internet governance

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forum that happens every year and this

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forum specifically um we make sure that

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the scholarships don't just go to free

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tickets but it actually goes to things

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like child care

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food for the day

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travel all that sort of thing to make

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sure that people can get access

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to these wonderful conferences

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fix please

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and the next one is it kind of goes into

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two pieces there's outreach and advocacy

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um and in outreach

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uh we have a lot of subcommittees so we

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have open source australia drupal joomla

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australia uh the admin team the mirror

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team linux uses victoria we have a media

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and comms team

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we also have um a lot of

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groups that are in the peripheral as

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well so we've got like groups like

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humbug in queensland that use our

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infrastructure so we need to actually

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maintain a lot of those subcommittees

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and liaise with them

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and work with them to

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make their experiences and their

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interactions with their community

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easier to do

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so for example with i just realized

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we've missed out the wordpress community

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but we look after all of their meetup

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accounts for example so we pay for all

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of that

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um so all they have to do is just run

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the event they don't have to think about

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the administrative side

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to that the new thing that's come along

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is the employee assistance program

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um which is um it might be some people

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might be familiar there's a lot of

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organizations that have it it's actually

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a support program for volunteers

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um and it will be actually made widely

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available to all of our volunteers

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across linux australia and its

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subcommittees so if there's any issues

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that you might have

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um or if you're going through some stuff

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you can call up this

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unbiased

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group and they'll leave everything

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anonymous and you can call them and get

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support through them they also offer

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things like

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job

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advice if you want to go for a new job

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so they'll even go through your resume

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for you so it offers a huge amount of

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stuff

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the other thing is that we obviously

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look after the code of conduct as well

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so when you came to this conference um

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you signed up to the code of conduct and

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if there's any issues that may come up

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during the conference it gets escalated

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to council

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um there's sorry julian i was just going

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to say it

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in our larger events there's often an

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event code of conduct group

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where

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they have issues or they further

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escalation is desired council can then

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handle from there

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and that also applies to cases where

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with an events code of conduct

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if an incident was to happen with an

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organizer of an event as well

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and so on the other side we do

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some advocacy work unfortunately we

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don't do as much as we would like to

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obviously given the rest of the stuff

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that we actually we also do

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but we also partner with organizations

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like digital rights watch uh we

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partnered with sula dreyfus last year in

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signing um the

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the letter to ask for the code to be

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made public

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um and we have done some public

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responses in the past as well um it

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really depends on um volunteer effort

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when it comes to this sort of piece so

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if you um

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would like support in putting together

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public responses or

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you know government responses to

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anything please do ask us

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for any help whatsoever because

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we will put our

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support behind it

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uh next slide please

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and the last piece is our events now

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this is probably our biggest piece even

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though the rest seems

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quite big in itself um we have all our

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event liaisons um this year has been a

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lot easier because obviously there's a

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few council members on um

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the lca event we've got some members on

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pycon as well and we've got some

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other council members in different areas

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so event liaisons we just make sure that

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everything's okay um we also send linux

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australia representatives to the

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conferences so we can act as a support

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for the core teams

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the other thing that we do is we um with

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all these events that we run so we run

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lca pike on a you drupal south joomla

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day word camp health hack

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um if you're actually interested in

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running one please do get in contact

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with us because

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we are

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interested in supporting more

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communities as well

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we used to previously also support

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govhack

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and it's actually a bit of a success

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story for us in the way that

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govhack grew to such an extent that they

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were able to go out and form their own

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organization as well so we actually

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provided um the infrastructure to start

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with as they were growing up

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um

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we also i also wanted to call out um

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that we've got a ghosts um

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community which

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um is all of the organization uh

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organizers from conferences past

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and all these people provide their

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advice their wisdom

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they're

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just doing things absolutely wrong kind

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of situa wisdom for us

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and

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they're just a good helping hand at all

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of these conferences so you'll look in

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the regio desk for example it's not just

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the core team or the volunteers

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responding to things it's actually those

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who have turned up to conferences in the

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past or run a conference in the past

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and you know it's just a lovely

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community and we'd like to help keep

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that going

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might go to the next slide please

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so what can you get from linux australia

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okay

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julian

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yeah so

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as you mentioned if you've got

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a conference you would like to see an

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event you would like to see ideally that

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you would like to help make happen but

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if you think there's a community out

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there within linux australia's general

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open source

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uh community

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category

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uh

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do contact council to see

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if it makes sense and it might not

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but we do have those contacts we've got

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those people we know

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who have run events who might be willing

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to give you advice who might

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have connections to related groups

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because

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maybe your event isn't quite big enough

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to justify pulling off

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but

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maybe we can collect two or three of

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00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:09,600
those groups and have an event

575
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,840
as a trial

576
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,280
uh this also

577
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,720
could then become an ongoing

578
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,840
subcommittee as

579
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,840
some of our events are

580
00:21:18,159 --> 00:21:21,440
and

581
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:23,840
yeah

582
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,960
um i think the other thing to sorry

583
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,880
congratulations

584
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,480
historically these have been in-person

585
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,520
events

586
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,039
we

587
00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,200
would absolutely

588
00:21:31,039 --> 00:21:35,440
be open to

589
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,880
certainly giving assistance and pointers

590
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,960
and helpers on

591
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,960
virtual events

592
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:43,039
as you may have seen if you watched

593
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:45,520
ryan's talk yesterday there is a

594
00:21:43,039 --> 00:21:46,480
surprisingly large amount behind pulling

595
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,159
off

596
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,200
uh lca

597
00:21:48,159 --> 00:21:52,480
and

598
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,360
pycon using that the venulis system it

599
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,360
looks

600
00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:56,640
slick and wonderful and automated

601
00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:59,440
and there's a lot more automation than

602
00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,240
there was 15 years ago last time i had

603
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,080
to

604
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:05,440
deal with it but

605
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:07,440
it's still a tremendous amount of work

606
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,159
but maybe sitting on zoom for a day it's

607
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,960
not

608
00:22:08,159 --> 00:22:12,559
a wonderful experience by comparison

609
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,240
but it might get you started and we can

610
00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:15,919
help with that

611
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,000
i think the other thing to add to that

612
00:22:15,919 --> 00:22:20,559
is we've also just started up the open

613
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,720
source australia subcommittee um we've

614
00:22:20,559 --> 00:22:23,440
had a lot of groups in the past approach

615
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,840
us

616
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,600
um they're a little bit funny because

617
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,120
they said to us all but we're not we

618
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,520
don't have anything to do with linux but

619
00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:34,880
we've got heaps to do with open source

620
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:36,720
um so what we've actually done is start

621
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,280
up the open source australia

622
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,640
subcommittee so that if there is an

623
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,480
issue with the linkage with linux

624
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,480
australia you'll still get the benefits

625
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,559
that linux australia can provide but

626
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,840
open source australia can provide

627
00:22:46,559 --> 00:22:49,600
um

628
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,760
that same support

629
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,159
the other thing is that i just wanted to

630
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:56,799
do a shout out to all of the previous

631
00:22:54,159 --> 00:22:59,679
organizers and the current organizers of

632
00:22:56,799 --> 00:23:02,880
lca and all of the events that we do run

633
00:22:59,679 --> 00:23:04,559
there is so many hours of work that goes

634
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,039
into running these events even running

635
00:23:04,559 --> 00:23:08,880
an online event it's not easy

636
00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:10,320
it makes us nervous when tickets are

637
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:13,039
bought last minute

638
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:15,200
because we're worried about the numbers

639
00:23:13,039 --> 00:23:16,400
but it's

640
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,480
you

641
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,799
you turning up to these conferences help

642
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,559
linux australia keep going forward and

643
00:23:20,799 --> 00:23:23,760
it helps us provide these grants

644
00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:25,280
programs

645
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,039
and so

646
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:29,760
having these people organize these

647
00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:32,320
conferences is you know a lot of hours

648
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:35,880
work and dedication so we do thank

649
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,880
the conference organizers

650
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:41,679
next slide

651
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:43,919
so as mentioned earlier

652
00:23:41,679 --> 00:23:47,440
for around linux strays roommate we will

653
00:23:43,919 --> 00:23:49,600
absolutely endorse advocacy if there are

654
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:51,200
uh issues and such

655
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,640
to

656
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,480
where linux australia's voice can be

657
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:57,279
helpful

658
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,159
in the past linux australia has

659
00:23:57,279 --> 00:23:59,679
um

660
00:23:58,159 --> 00:24:00,720
used that voice quite

661
00:23:59,679 --> 00:24:02,000
widely

662
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,840
more recently we've tried to be a bit

663
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,600
more selective and

664
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,679
there are

665
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:10,000
uh

666
00:24:07,679 --> 00:24:12,000
issues that

667
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,679
everyone on linux australia council is

668
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,000
completely behind that we know our

669
00:24:13,679 --> 00:24:18,720
membership is completely behind

670
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:21,679
but they're not within our remit and

671
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:23,440
we have learnt from experience that

672
00:24:21,679 --> 00:24:24,960
as true as it might be as much as we

673
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,960
want to endorse

674
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:30,000
it's not actually helpful

675
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,520
either in the specific situation or

676
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,360
for linux australia using our voice

677
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,600
later on for

678
00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:37,440
issues much closer to our

679
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,080
areas

680
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:43,120
so we do try and keep the advocacy

681
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,120
clearly related

682
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,559
definitely

683
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,240
and now

684
00:24:48,559 --> 00:24:54,080
so i can take this [ __ ]

685
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:55,440
so how can you help linux australia so

686
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,600
slide please

687
00:24:55,440 --> 00:25:01,200
what um

688
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:03,360
as we mentioned we are um well we may

689
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:06,640
not have ventured we're a 100 volunteer

690
00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:09,440
run organization we don't um pay for any

691
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:12,559
of our roles um we're just doing it out

692
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:15,279
of the pure love of open source and

693
00:25:12,559 --> 00:25:18,080
linux australia so what we would love

694
00:25:15,279 --> 00:25:20,320
for you to do is advocate with us

695
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,960
run an event if you're interested and

696
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:25,120
we're happy to support any event that is

697
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:27,120
in line with our values

698
00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:29,600
join one of our subcommittees as so many

699
00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:31,840
subcommittees that would love some help

700
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,159
with especially in media and com so if

701
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:35,200
you're good with the words please do

702
00:25:34,159 --> 00:25:38,720
shout out

703
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:41,760
um join council so each year we do a

704
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:45,600
call for nominations and

705
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:46,799
we'd love to have you on council

706
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,400
encourage

707
00:25:46,799 --> 00:25:50,640
application and use of our grants

708
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,240
program each year that money is

709
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,080
allocated and it doesn't go anywhere

710
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,559
else but the grants program

711
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,320
and not many people apply to be honest

712
00:25:56,559 --> 00:26:00,159
so and russell's going to hate me for

713
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,360
this please do apply so we can give out

714
00:26:00,159 --> 00:26:03,520
all the monies

715
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:05,279
um because we do work hard for that

716
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,679
money and we

717
00:26:05,279 --> 00:26:08,880
probably should call out

718
00:26:07,679 --> 00:26:11,840
uh

719
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,840
the grants program

720
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:17,600
it's a bit

721
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:19,200
deliberately open-ended it can be

722
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,559
you have free software you wish to

723
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,400
develop

724
00:26:20,559 --> 00:26:25,120
you have an event you wish to run you

725
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,720
have an event you are running through a

726
00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:28,880
different auspice

727
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,120
and would like some assistance

728
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,120
uh

729
00:26:31,279 --> 00:26:34,159
major sponsorships are generally had it

730
00:26:32,799 --> 00:26:35,760
differently but

731
00:26:34,159 --> 00:26:38,320
still the same sort of

732
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,320
concepts

733
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,320
you

734
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:46,480
wish to

735
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:48,240
go to an event run by a different group

736
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,520
eight would be

737
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,840
in the before times it would be a

738
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,720
perfectly valid grant request if you are

739
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,880
a

740
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,480
python developer just getting started on

741
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,640
core python

742
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,159
to ask for a grant to attend python us

743
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,279
for example

744
00:27:00,159 --> 00:27:03,360
because

745
00:27:01,279 --> 00:27:05,120
that will clearly enhance the free

746
00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:07,360
software community and the linux

747
00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:08,080
australia community in general

748
00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:09,600
so

749
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:12,960
we don't

750
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:15,200
have specific examples but

751
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,960
if you can make a reasonable claim that

752
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,320
this will help the linux australia

753
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,320
community

754
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,919
then yes we will seriously consider the

755
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,840
money

756
00:27:21,919 --> 00:27:26,240
uh to be to be

757
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:30,000
for that to be a good use of our money

758
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:31,679
so i can provide two examples one was um

759
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,520
software freedom day asked for some

760
00:27:31,679 --> 00:27:35,760
sponsorship money to

761
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:38,799
run the event last year so we've um

762
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,799
sponsored that another group has

763
00:27:38,799 --> 00:27:43,279
approached us to provide pizza for the

764
00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:45,039
year for their their user group and you

765
00:27:43,279 --> 00:27:47,200
know we're more than happy if it brings

766
00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:49,440
people together we will do that and

767
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,440
we've also sponsored the revival of some

768
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,520
projects that may have gone by the

769
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,919
wayside and developers have left

770
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:59,679
so we will we provided

771
00:27:55,919 --> 00:28:01,679
funding to be able to revive the website

772
00:27:59,679 --> 00:28:03,440
do some jazzing up of the documentation

773
00:28:01,679 --> 00:28:05,679
and bring bring that community back to

774
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,440
life again um so it's actually quite

775
00:28:05,679 --> 00:28:09,200
nice to see that that's going to a

776
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,080
diverse range of

777
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,080
um

778
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,679
causes as well

779
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,600
um the other thing that we would love

780
00:28:13,679 --> 00:28:17,760
for is volunteers to help out with media

781
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,240
as i said comms government responses and

782
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,760
the session selection committee um so

783
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,919
the session selection committee is the

784
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:28,240
committee that decides on what talks you

785
00:28:23,919 --> 00:28:31,120
attend um at lca and they do an amazing

786
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,320
job each year um there's about 30 people

787
00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:34,880
that are on the session selection

788
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:37,520
committee but we could do it more um

789
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:40,000
because there is lots of sessions to

790
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,600
to go through a review but it's a

791
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,240
rewarding experience because you get to

792
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:46,720
see talks like this one i mean

793
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:49,120
um there's other talks that you know

794
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,720
they've gone through and we we talk

795
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,039
through it all and we review it it goes

796
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:55,679
wonderfully

797
00:28:53,039 --> 00:28:58,240
all right next slide please

798
00:28:55,679 --> 00:28:59,679
excellent

799
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,120
think we have

800
00:28:59,679 --> 00:29:03,039
somehow run off the end of things

801
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,240
slightly quicker than we

802
00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:07,440
had hoped

803
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:09,760
uh as we said we will take talks

804
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,480
uh take questions take discussion in the

805
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:15,039
post talk discussion video room

806
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,880
if you don't wish to speak there is text

807
00:29:15,039 --> 00:29:18,399
chat in that room you can ask questions

808
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,039
on text

809
00:29:18,399 --> 00:29:22,159
i expect a few of our other

810
00:29:21,039 --> 00:29:24,480
uh current

811
00:29:22,159 --> 00:29:26,799
and former council members will

812
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:29,600
be in that room as well and probably

813
00:29:26,799 --> 00:29:31,760
some story time i suspect

814
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,600
story time is always fun

815
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,600
so we will see you all in that room

816
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,200
thank you

817
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,880
excellent thank you sarah and julian i

818
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,279
think the old outage is that adage is

819
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,360
that it takes a village to raise a child

820
00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:45,279
and in this case it takes a community to

821
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,440
run a conference so thank you for all

822
00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:49,039
your hard work and dedication

823
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,799
i couldn't get to the agm yesterday i

824
00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:52,880
was too busy wrangling speakers so

825
00:29:50,799 --> 00:29:54,480
congratulations on your times on the

826
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,600
panel and congratulations to the new

827
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,760
incumbents

828
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,200
whoever you are i will meet you soon and

829
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,799
looking forward to seeing all of the

830
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,559
people signing up

831
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:03,600
having been involved in community stuff

832
00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:05,600
before

833
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,360
when i was asked to wrangle yeah i can

834
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,600
do that i've done that before when i was

835
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:12,080
asked to emcee okay this is going to

836
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,600
step back into my brain but deep in the

837
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,440
dark past i actually did some public

838
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,679
speaking wrangling and

839
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,600
tell me believe me that when you run

840
00:30:17,679 --> 00:30:21,520
carols by candlelight and you're the guy

841
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:24,480
driving the car with santa in the front

842
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:26,480
seat and the kids find you

843
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,320
and then climb onto your boot onto your

844
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,279
roof and onto your bonnet and start

845
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,720
thumping

846
00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:31,760
worse than the worst hailstorm in

847
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,600
canberra

848
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,200
you're a little panicked about what

849
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,200
happens if one of these falls under the

850
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,320
wheel of the car i'm driving to get

851
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:42,720
santa to backstage before he's announced

852
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,640
and rudolf finishes so that was a very

853
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:46,000
stressful carols by candlelight a lot of

854
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,840
years ago

855
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,799
and then when i got home the person i

856
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:52,960
entrusted my camera to said oh no i left

857
00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:55,279
that there for you to pick up so back to

858
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,039
the park i went to find my camera still

859
00:30:55,279 --> 00:30:59,200
sitting on the

860
00:30:57,039 --> 00:31:00,559
verge of the park where carol's work

861
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,559
can't slide have been held but enough of

862
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my war stories thank you so much for

863
00:31:02,559 --> 00:31:08,159
your time looking forward to chatting

864
00:31:04,399 --> 00:31:10,320
with everybody over in the big blue room

865
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talk to you soon bye for now

866
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see ya