[klug] Invitation to participate in discussion about a national Linux body

[Ben]

hey,
   I know there will be a few frowns but I can possibly
gain support through church's nationwide.
Dont knock the church's there are thousands and thousands of
people just ready for the change over to linux.
As far as I know alot of NZLUG meetings are in church halls etc etc,
I'm all for it.
I have thought of many ideas of how we can bring linux to the
NZ public in a way that will have people never looking back.
A Linux cafe would be a first in NZ and a franchise cafe
that can be basically charity based would have linux take off
like nothing short of an phonomona

ya think?
Any ideas?
            Ben

> Invitation to participate in discussion about a national Linux body
> =======================================================================
>
> Tue, 2 August 2005
>
> Recently, discussion has taken place in a number of forums around the
> creation of a national Linux body in New Zealand.
>
> We (the undersigned) envisage a national Linux organisation for New Zealand
> which would be very closely modelled on the successful Linux Australia. In
> particular, such an organisation would have the following broad goals:
>
>     * Support, resource and promote local LUGs[1]
>     * Provide national co-ordination services (speaker organisation,
>       etc)
>     * Provide web/email/mailing list hosting for LUGs where required
>     * Seek funding from corporates and other interested parties in order
>       to provide financial support to LUGs and individuals to foster
>       F/OSS[2] development efforts and support attendance at F/OSS
>       conferences.
>     * Partner with organisations like NZOSS[3] to advocate and educate
>       the community (and particularly the Government) on the benefits of
>       Linux and F/OSS.
>     * Partner with organisations like Linux AU to support and enhance
>       the LCA conference.
>     * Provide SIG[4] mailing lists and support services for NZ F/OSS
>       users
>
> The national organisation would not perform the functions of a LUG itself,
> instead it would:
>
>     * Provide a central location where users could be connected to their
>       local LUG
>     * Provide co-ordination and communication between individual LUGs
>     * Undertake national initiatives supported by all LUGs
>     * Aggregate LUG opinion and present a unified voice to the
>       Government and other industry groups.
>     * Support the formation of local LUGs in areas where they currently
>       do not exist.
>
> We believe that to be successful such a group must be separate to local
> LUGs but have strong relationships with each of the LUGs around the
> country.
>
> A mailing list has been setup at discuss at meta.net.nz; see
> https://secure.meta.net.nz/mailman/listinfo/discuss for details on how to
> subscribe.
>
> All interested parties are invited to join this list and participate in the
> discussion. In particular, we would like to see robust discussion of the
> above goals and also of the scope of the organisation:
>
>     * What should the name of the organisation be (LinuxNZ, NZ Linux)?
>     * Should the group seek to enhance an already existing group (eg
>       NZOSS)?
>     * Should it seek to support other Free Operating Systems (*BSD,
>       etc)?
>     * Should it seek to support F/OSS on other Operating Systems, eg
>       Mozilla / OpenOffice.org on Windows?
>     * How should the organisation be organised legally?
>     * What should the nature of the group's relationships with NZOSS and
>       Linux Australia be?
>
> Our intention is to solicit opinions until about 1 October 2005. At that
> point we would hope to be able to be in a position to put together a more
> formal proposal to refine the discussion. All going well it would be great
> to be able to hold the inaugural AGM of the new organisation during LCA'06
> in Dunedin in the final week of January 2006.
>
> We look forward to seeing you on the discussion list.
>
> Kind Regards
> --
> Craig Box <linux at dubculture.co.nz>
> Matt Brown <matt at mattb.net.nz>
> John McPherson <jrm21 at cs.waikato.ac.nz>
>
> Footnotes
>
>    1. Linux User Group(s)
>    2. Free and Open Source Software
>    3. NZ Open Source Society
>    4. Special Interest Group
>
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