On 2016-11-30 15:26, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 November 2016 1:47:47 PM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: *That Linux Users of Victoria apply to become a subcommittee of Linux Australia and conditional upon acceptance, wind up the present Victorian association as per rule 76 and section 133 of the Act and transfer all members and assets to the newly formed subcommittee of Linux Australia.* Are there any details (or at least a reasonable summary) of this proposal available anywhere? and a rationale for why it has been proposed?
what are the arguments for and against?
IMHO there is no good argument against. As far as I am concerned, becoming a subcommittee is a non-issue. We should have done it already. Years ago. A bigger issue I see concerning LUV is that the November Special General Meeting was adjourned due to lack of quorum. I couldn't go myself because I was sick. It seems to me in recent years that people are losing interest in LUV - for various reasons. Can anything be done to rectify this? I know that one of the arguments (that I didn't believe) previously mentioned against becoming a subcommittee was along the lines of "the LA committee of the future may not be interested in doing what is best for LUV" and that "we may lose the culture of LUV that makes it attractive" - but in actual fact that it seems to me that this is already happening right now. When people don't show up to important meetings to have their say. When it is hard to get nominated committee members (let alone electing committee members). It has been been months(?) since this subcommittee has been proposed again, yet the first serious discussion I see was from yesterday. Does this mean everyone now agrees with it and there is no need to discuss it? Or maybe people have lost interest?