On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Daniel Jitnah <djitnah@greenwareit.com.au> wrote:
On 25/08/13 15:47, Russell Coker wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Shane Deering <spdeering@dodo.com.au> wrote:
Is the person/people pushing to kill off LUV basing that decision on meeting attendance? Because as far as I'm concerned the meetings are a Melbourne thing, not Victorian.
No-one wants to kill anything off.
We will have the same meetings in the same location and run the same mailing lists.
What we want to do is to avoid duplication of effort and expense between LUV and LA and allow LUV volunteers to concentrate their efforts on unique local tasks that will provide a direct benefit to Linux users in Victoria.
Notice that we could also achieve the same outcome by entering into a discussion in our own right with LA with a view exploring how we could share resources and not duplicate efforts.
There is no possibility for avoiding duplicate insurance without becoming an LA subcommittee.
The desire to be more effective and efficient is a different issue, as the actual existence of an organisation. It does not require LUV to dis-incorporate for it to be more efficient. !!!
More-ever, fundamentally, the notion that LUV will still exist after dis-incorporation is untrue. The activities that are currently carried out by LUV may still carry on, organised by a branch of LA. But there will be no LUV. Its the fundamental definition of LUV's existence that it is an incorporated body.
Most members of LUV would disagree with that. I expect that most members consider the existance of LUV to be determined by the mailing lists running and the meetings being held.
The very existence of a body should be not put into question as a consequence of its desire to be more efficient, specially when its has not been demonstrated that it is unable to survive as it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniting_church Now you're just being silly. There is a lot of precedent for non-profit organisations with similar goals merging for mutual benefit. The above URL gives one example. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/