What is TUHSI? It's The Unix Heritage Society Inc., a
not-for-profit association incorporated in Victoria, Australia on 22 April 2026,
registration number A0128836T, Australian Business Number 47 295 586 494. It is a recognized charity, registered on 4 May 2026. It provides a legal framework to deal
with donations made to The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS) and to ensure that they are spent
furthering the TUHS objectives.
That's easy to write here, because I spent much of today writing it up in preparation for
publication. It's surprisingly difficult. When it's done and the committee accepts it,
I'll move it to the TUHS site, but currently it's easier to write it here.
And in that connection, we need to hold an Annual General Meeting (AGM)
by the end of November. We've decided on 21 November, and so we need an agenda. That's
bureaucratese. Can Google Gemini help?
Yes. And it came up with a number of
things that I hadn't thought of. Do they apply to us? Off to read the Rules. Some do, some
don't. One that I didn't expect is that all committee positions must be declared vacant
before the AGM, and then elected. That will almost certainly be the same people, but we
need to follow the procedure.
And then I discovered that we have to hold 4 committee meetings per year. The Rules
distinguish between the committee and the membership, though for us it's the same. So some
time before November we need to hold a committee meeting.
Somehow all of this doesn't make much sense any more. 25 years ago AUUG did have multiple committee meetings, and
they were expensive, having people flown in from all over the country and requiring
overnight accommodation. But that was before the days of online video conferencing (which
the Rules allow), and we had already established that we (TUHSI) would communicate by email,
something that we could have done in AUUG as well, but about the quality and quantity of
which I continually complained. So what do we do with our committee meetings? Establish an
agenda and agree to accept the content of our email? Somehow we're living between two
worlds. It's still work.
Spent more time today with TUHSI activities, without achieving
very much. We really need to get this description up, but it's much more painful
than I thought. And how do we report the minutes of the committee meetings? Currently it
looks like establishing people present, apologies and missing people, and accepting our
email correspondence. So that would involve at least analysing the email. I need to get my
head around how to do this.
An answer from VicRoads to
Monday's resolution request. It appears to have been pieced together from related
boilerplate, including multiple cases:
We trust that our reply provides you with the information on how to proceed.
Thank you again for contacting VicRoads, we trust this information has addressed your enquiry.
Thank you again for contacting VicRoads, we trust this information has addressed your enquiry.
The most important part is:
NOTE: Please do not reply to this email as the mailbox is unattended.
In other words, every time I need a written response, I need to go through this
rigmarole.
The content itself looks dubious. It starts by repeating what I had stated
Thank you for your email about applying for a registration concession on your vehicle. We trust that our reply provides you with the information on how to proceed.
If you have a valid concession, you (or your spouse or domestic partner) may be able to get a discount on your vehicle registration. A concession card can only be used for one private use vehicle per registered operator only.
If your spouse has a concession card, you can apply to your vehicle as the spouse as long as the spouse has no concession on a car in their name.
Each time it is due to renewal with 2 cards assigned you will need to attend a call centre to adjust which card is noted in the system and assigned to the car. As when the other is paid it will be removed from being eligible to pay online with the discount.
It may be easier to transfer the vehicle your spouse has their concession card attached to into their name/ Vicroads record. Payment would not need to be adjusted each registration period with alternative concession cards.
If you have a myVicRoads account you can now submit your Registration Concession to VicRoads online.
Alternatively you can attend a Customer Service Centre in person to have your concession details sighted and applied to the registration.
For more information on how to have your concession card applied please use the following link https://go.vic.gov.au/r2hHgv
Somehow this doesn't make sense. Why does it need to be changed every time? My guess is
that this is the understanding of the person who answered. Yes, maybe it would be easier to
“attend a call centre”, but they first suggest that it is necessary (why?), and then say
that I can do it online. And in the past we have been able to do it by long and painful
phone call. And is there a difference between call centre and Customer Service Centre?
And if that wasn't contradictory enough, it continues:
After confirming the details provided in your enquiry, we have successfully been able to upgrade your myVicRoads account.
You will now be able to see your licence under the 'Licences and Learner Permits' section of your account. This will display your current licence status, demerit points and more. You will also be able to access your myLearners App and begin logging your hours.
What do driver licenses, and especially ”myLearners”, have to do with this matter?
So what do I do now? First, calm down a bit. Then I suppose I can try to access the web
site, if it's feeling cooperative today. They didn't even address the login issue.
What a pain!
