Re: LEADERSHIP and a ROADMAP

2010-04-11 Thread Andrew Gaydon
Carey & Michael, I will reply to both of you. As per wiki, there is NO such thing as a 'State based LoCo', there is a 'State Community Council' if there is sufficient 'Local LoCo' representatives to form one. A 'State representative' is then appointed/elected to the ACC. The role of the ACC is

Re: LEADERSHIP and a ROADMAP

2010-04-11 Thread Tony "H.G" Candito
Wow, that post is probably the most productive thing I've ever seen come out of this team. You're right about the whole "People don't need their hands held" attitude. I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen the same leadership (err, person) use that same responsibility shift for years now

Re: LEADERSHIP and a ROADMAP

2010-04-11 Thread Cary Bielenberg
Michael, Your question about regional areas is a curly one, In Qld we have a few regional areas Toowoomba, Rockhampton & Townsville that might have enough users to setup a LoCo, I guess we should focus on state based loCo's in the 1st instance so as not to disadvantage remote users. my

Re: LEADERSHIP and a ROADMAP

2010-04-11 Thread Michael
Hi Andrew, and everyone else who wishes to take part in this discussion. I see you have put alot of thought into this and I applaud your initiative in bringing this matter to the forefront again. I don't have many comments to make at this time but the ones I do have to make will probably ruffle a

Re: LEADERSHIP and a ROADMAP

2010-04-11 Thread Scott Evans
A very well presented post.. I will contribute to this one I have read all of the links ... -- Scott Evans signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Legality of Linux Mint codecs (was linux mint)

2010-04-11 Thread Martin Visser
Robert, I pretty much agree with your observations. I guess I take the pragmatic approach. I think most people would concur though, that the information contained in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats is little more than a nod and a wink to the laws that exist (which the Ubuntu co

LEADERSHIP and a ROADMAP

2010-04-11 Thread AndrewG
LEADERSHIP and a ROADMAP Prologue: 25th March, Melissa Draper (our team contact) was sent an email outlining some of the following in detail. I am still awaiting a reply (maybe she is on holidays), thus my reason for a public post to the Ubuntu-au community. (I wish that she had replied so we cou

Re: Legality of Linux Mint codecs (was linux mint)

2010-04-11 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 12:02 +1000, Martin Visser wrote: > Barry, > > > I am guessing you mean patents rather patterns. That said, I think you > will find that those patents have not been enforced. They may have > some standing, but I don't think any non-licence holder of media > codecs and has be

Re: Legality of Linux Mint codecs (was linux mint)

2010-04-11 Thread Martin Visser
Barry, I am guessing you mean patents rather patterns. That said, I think you will find that those patents have not been enforced. They may have some standing, but I don't think any non-licence holder of media codecs and has been subject to legal proceedings in Australia (at least publically). (A

Re: Comments visible to authenticated users only on ubuntu.org.au

2010-04-11 Thread James Beake
No. Haven't heard anything from the webmaster yet. J On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:26 AM, AndrewG wrote: > Hi James, > > Has there been any developments on this issue? > > Andrew. > > On Mar 27, 10:45 am, James Beake wrote: > > I wanted to put link here to a comment I made on ubuntu.org.au to draw

Re: Comments visible to authenticated users only on ubuntu.org.au

2010-04-11 Thread AndrewG
Hi James, Has there been any developments on this issue? Andrew. On Mar 27, 10:45 am, James Beake wrote: > I wanted to put link here to a comment I made on ubuntu.org.au to draw it o > the attention of the Brisbane community but as far as I can tell the website > only shows comments to logged i