Linux Australia addresses burnout syndrome

Posted by VISITOR on Feb 7, 2006 6:50 AM EDT
ZDNet Australia; By Renai LeMay
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Australia's peak Linux body will informally separate some of its governance and executive functions in a move to relieve some of the pressure on its voluntary leadership.

"One of the first things we've got to sort out is our actual organisational structure, which was a bit of a painful topic last time we spoke," Linux Australia's Jon Oxer told ZDNet Australia last week in the wake of his re-election as the body's president.

Oxer was referring to the organisation's internal debate in 2005 about its future. At the time Oxer said in a public e-mail that Linux Australia was at a dangerous "teenager stage of development" where its voluntary committee had to be refreshed annually as executive members got burnt out by an overload of work.

But in 2006 the Melbourne developer is more optimistic about Linux Australia's future.

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