<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 14/05/10 18:06, Andre Mangan wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTimANkBGUkwz1XiPC5G9LrgvHV74kftW_4N2wDCQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Context-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> ... That is one of the failings of having only one person for contact for the whole of Australia.  There really should be several. </blockquote> That's actually a good suggestion.  I tried to start something like that here:     <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/ContactUs/UnofficialLocalContacts">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/ContactUs/UnofficialLocalContacts</a> It's looking pretty empty at the moment. <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTimANkBGUkwz1XiPC5G9LrgvHV74kftW_4N2wDCQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">The concept of meritocracy is a literary fantasy and on par with many esoteric doctrines designed to establish superiority over the ignorant.  Please abandon this concept.  It has no right to exist and the way it has been used in the Ubuntu community smacks of autocracy in disguise. </blockquote> Like it or not, meritocracy is the way the Free Software development community works (and by extension, a lot of the rest of the Free Software community).  Being dismissive of it will not help you gain favour with the LoCo council, and there is no way it will ever be abandoned as a practice. <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTimANkBGUkwz1XiPC5G9LrgvHV74kftW_4N2wDCQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">I was quite embarrassed by your letter to the LoCo Council.  To me it seemed dismissive and untruthful. Again, in your post below, I read of matters totally foreign to me.   Either I have not been paying attention or your inventive skills are finely honed. </blockquote> Andre, the time for finger-pointing and name-calling has passed.  Now is the time to show your strength by 1) getting over it, and 2) doing something positive to make it better. Regards, Paul </body> </html>