Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, All I certainly appreciate the attention my email has received. However, I am disappointed that the responses do not reflect my main concern. I beleive Sugar and Sugar Labs will fade away if it continues to be perceived as the software that comes on an XO. I believe Sugar Labs and Sugar

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Dave Crossland
There is a IAEP thread "Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election" in early August that has more details about all this. First, I want to note that while an 'election committee' has been mentioned, Walter said in that earlier thread: I am of the opinion that SLOB does not have to approve individual

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Laura Vargas
+1 :D Very cool. 2016-12-01 18:41 GMT-05:00 Samson Goddy : > Yeah.. me too. I guess it time for the youths to run too. > > On 2 Dec 2016 12:39 a.m., "Ignacio Rodríguez" > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> If it's possible, I would like to apply to be part of

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Samson Goddy
Yeah.. me too. I guess it time for the youths to run too. On 2 Dec 2016 12:39 a.m., "Ignacio Rodríguez" wrote: > Hi! > > If it's possible, I would like to apply to be part of SLOBs this year :) > > 2016-12-01 19:45 GMT-03:00, Laura Vargas : > >

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Ignacio Rodríguez
Hi! If it's possible, I would like to apply to be part of SLOBs this year :) 2016-12-01 19:45 GMT-03:00, Laura Vargas : > Samson, > > Seems like you will be leading this year! > > Another option I see to save time would be to directly name the last 3 > candidates from last

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Laura Vargas
Samson, Seems like you will be leading this year! Another option I see to save time would be to directly name the last 3 candidates from last year's election. Not sure if this has ever been done before. Regards and let's hope this Christmas brings joy to everyone :D 2016-12-01 17:29

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Samson Goddy
I guess so On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Laura Vargas wrote: > > Quoting Dave: > > http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_dd38dc6aa11d1a98 says > "The top four candidates will serve 2 year terms and the next three will > serve 1 year terms" and here's the

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Laura Vargas
Quoting Dave: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_dd38dc6aa11d1a98 says "The top four candidates will serve 2 year terms and the next three will serve 1 year terms" and here's the ordered list: 1. Walter Bender 2. Lionel Laské 3. Adam Holt 4. Sameer Verma 5. Claudia Urrea 6. Tony

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
This year I am not on the election committee because I am very involved in setting up an OSSIE track for SCaLE. I don't know who is on the committee this time or what their time table is. It probably should be finalized at tomorrow's meeting. Caryl From:

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Laura Vargas
Caryl, I Agree with you, we should be patient. The academia certification system consumes a lot of time from people :P You lead last year election time table, Any news this year? Dave, I recall you also joined the Elections Committee early this year, I hope you still have time :D Regards and

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Caryl Bigenho
I agree with Dave, we should wait for Sameer's guidance in this process. Caryl From: IAEP on behalf of Laura Vargas Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2016 10:13:55 AM To: SLOBs; IAEP SugarLabs;

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Laura Vargas
Hi all! I am really interested in continue helping the community to shape it's vision for the following 10-15 years. I believe society in general, needs urgently to rescue respect for the voice of women and young girls, specially in free/libre-culture/software projects. That said I have found

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Dave Crossland
The discussion stopped because we are waiting for Sameer to publish the second episode of his video about the process of formally defining a vision, mission, goals, tasks and doing a swot analysis and so on. Sameer proposed and I think we all agreed that each of us throwing our own unilateral

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Walter Bender
I might quibble a bit with some of the wording but I am good with this. I'll work on another draft before tomorrow's meeting (19UTC on irc.freenode.net). regards. -walter On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > The December meetings is coming soon. At the