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In 2008, the then-president of LUV, Andrew Chalmers, co-signed a letter to [[Julia Gillard]], MP Deputy [[Prime Minister of Australia]] and [[Minister for Education (Australia)|Minister for Education]], requesting that the government advocates the use of free and open source software in schools, so that the $1000 of government funding aimed at buying a computer for each secondary school student will be spent more effectively.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Open source community pushes Canberra on school computer fund|url=https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/251554/open_source_community_pushes_canberra_school_computer_fund/|access-date=2021-06-04|website=ARN}}</ref> In 2008, LUV also participated in the [[Software Freedom Day|software freedom day]] and held local events; one of the local event organizers, Donna Benjamin, commented the event is a "Think Global, Act Local" celebration.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Australia gears up for Software Freedom Day 2008|url=https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australia-gears-up-for-software-freedom-day-2008-122159|access-date=2021-06-04|website=iTnews}}</ref>
In April 2021, [[Russell Coker]], a participant at LUV's mailing list, commented that the [[Bureau of Meteorology]] blocking text based [[web browsers]], such as [[Lynx (web browser)|lynx]] and [[w3m]], unnecessarily made it difficult for about half the people using braille readers to access the site. These text browsers would allow them to use text to speech engines to retrieve the site content, such as climate information and weather forecasts.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Varghese|first=Sam|title=iTWire - Sight-impaired people hit as BoM blocks some textmode browsers|url=https://itwire.com/climate/sight-impaired-people-hit-as-bom-blocks-some-textmode-browsers.html|access-date=2021-06-04|website=itwire.com|language=en-gb}}</ref>
LUV have been called "Australia's best known and most active open source community".<ref>{{Cite web|last=F2innovation|date=2005-11-10|title=Il Fisco francese passa ad OpenOffice|url=https://www.punto-informatico.it/il-fisco-francese-passa-ad-openoffice/|access-date=2021-06-04|website=Punto Informatico}}</ref>
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