On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Daniel Jitnah <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/08/13 15:47, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Shane Deering <[email protected]> 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/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
