Council
The executive council is elected democratically by the organisation membership annually, and therefore changes year to year. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in furthering the goals and objectives of the organisation.
The executive council for 2012 is:
- John Ferlito (president)
- Mike Carden (vice-president)
- Joshua Hesketh (treasurer)
- Peter Lieverdink (secretary)
- James Polley
- Clinton Roy
- Bianca Gibson
Previous committee members and details can be found on the Linux Australia website http://linux.org.au/About/Council
Notable former committee members include Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell (Samba), and Paul "Rusty" Russell (Linux Kernel, notably Netfilter and the 2.6 modules rewrite), Pia Waugh (Software Freedom International), Jonathan Oxer (Australia's Geekiest Man).
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