Re: [IAEP] A pending donation to Sugar Labs

2017-09-25 Thread Dave Crossland
Awesome!! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] yet another motion regarding Samson's travel

2017-09-25 Thread James Cameron
Community is already so fractured into separate mailing lists, that adding yet another one seems wrong. My preference would be for the board to discuss some decisions in private, as is their right as a board, and use different means to ensure that members are kept informed. On Mon, Sep 25, 2017

[IAEP] A pending donation to Sugar Labs

2017-09-25 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear Friends, I am a Sugar Labs volunteer and an employee of a company called CSRA Inc., my employer has a program rewarding the non-profits for which employees volunteer with cash rewards based on hours of volunteer service. The program is called "Dollars for Doers", and employees may earn up

Re: [IAEP] how Samson can buy a flight to GSoC today before it's too late

2017-09-25 Thread Samson Goddy
On Sep 25, 2017 2:23 PM, "Adam Holt" wrote: Samson, Flying Emirates Airlines with a 4 hour layover in Dubai on your way to the US to save Sugar Labs $500+ will not block your entry into the US. Sugar Labs should not even suggest that we would block participants from the Middle

[IAEP] how Samson can buy a flight to GSoC today before it's too late

2017-09-25 Thread Adam Holt
Samson, Flying Emirates Airlines with a 4 hour layover in Dubai on your way to the US to save Sugar Labs $500+ will not block your entry into the US. Sugar Labs should not even suggest that we would block participants from the Middle East, even in passing, or as a joke that spending 4 hours in

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] yet another motion regarding Samson's travel

2017-09-25 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 25/09/17 07:12, Walter Bender wrote: > remedy the situation by creating a new email list, shadow-slobs, which > could be subscribed to by any community member who is interested in > these sorts of topics +1 Except the name of the list should be */sugar-discuss/* and so nothing Sugar-related

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] yet another motion regarding Samson's travel

2017-09-25 Thread Ignacio Rodríguez
+1 from me. Please lets get his flight ASAP. Time is essential ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] yet another motion regarding Samson's travel

2017-09-25 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Martin Dengler wrote: > How many votes would it take to change the tagline of IAEP to “It’s An > Education Project (not a travel agency!)”? > I feel your pain. The volume of email relating to process issues of late has been

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] yet another motion regarding Samson's travel

2017-09-25 Thread Samson Goddy
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Ryan Cunningham < levantamos.para.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > El sept 25, 2017, a las 00:01, Ryan Cunningham < > levantamos.para.u...@gmail.com> escribió: > > Correction: > > My opinion is that Sugar Labs shouldn't approve trips not having to do > with official

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] yet another motion regarding Samson's travel

2017-09-25 Thread Samson Goddy
Martin Dengler, i am sorry to be bringing this sad news to iaep list. FYI, adam suggested it and put it himself not me. On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 4:14 AM, Adam Holt wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Lionel Laské > wrote: > >> >> -1 for this

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] yet another motion regarding Samson's travel

2017-09-25 Thread Ryan Cunningham
> El sept 25, 2017, a las 00:01, Ryan Cunningham > escribió: Correction: > My opinion is that Sugar Labs shouldn't approve trips not having to do with > official business of Sugar Labs; the Software Freedom Conservancy; One Laptop > per Child; an OLPC client

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] yet another motion regarding Samson's travel

2017-09-25 Thread Ryan Cunningham
My opinion is that Sugar Labs shouldn't approve trips not having to do with official business of Sugar Labs; the Software Freedom Conservancy; One Laptop per Child; an OLPC client organization; Google Inc. (only for Sugar Labs' participation in the Google Code-In and Google Summer of Code); the

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] yet another motion regarding Samson's travel

2017-09-25 Thread Martin Dengler
How many votes would it take to change the tagline of IAEP to “It’s An Education Project (not a travel agency!)”? Martin (Not directed at Caryl personally - this whole thread comes off as pretty far from SL’s mission to this observer. It should be internal IMHO.) > On 24 Sep 2017, at 23:39,