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. A number of people who haven't previously been involved in running LUV have opposed this change. They could volunteer to help run LUV. They could also volunteer to donate some extra funds to cover the duplicate insurance and to extend the current duplicate insurance to cover volunteers (as opposed to getting ALL insurance including volunteers for free from LA). I'd rather save the money that's being spent on duplicate insurance and other needless things and spend it on regional mini-confs and other things that will provide a direct benefit to Linux users in Victoria. I'd also like to not have the LUV committee bothering about administrative issues and instead focussing on how to provide services to the Linux community. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/