We are victorious yes..:), but this is for LA. We still are lacking a more united overall (worlwide) community representation to the OLPC board of directors.
Rafael Ortiz On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Sebastian Silva <[email protected]>wrote: > The proposal has been passed with an overwhelming victory: > > > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_b21b2c0fdce694ad<http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/%7Eandru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_b21b2c0fdce694ad> > > Yama has his first meeting in a few minutes with Rodrigo Arboleda, in > full representation of OLPC-Sur. > > We are discussing further steps to community consolidation and > participation. Input is welcome. > > Congratulations Yama, we welcome your initiative and put our full > support behind you. > > Sebastian > > 2009/1/14 Sebastian Silva <[email protected]>: > > Fellow Grassroots Volunteers: > > > > A vote is going on *right now* regarding the following proposal, which > > I human-translated because I think its important. Also, some of you > > may be subscribers at OLPC-Sur and thus have received a ballot. I'll > > quote Yama on that one: > > > > "Please vote! If you haven't voted because you disagree, vote negative! > > > > If you think it does not correspond you, whether because you don't > > want to hear from OLPC anymore, or > > are a foreigner, or don't live in Latinamerica, plese, vote > "abstention"!" > > > > The ballot has a subject that says: > > "CIVS Poll now available for voting: Definir OLPC Latinoamérica" > > Make sure it didnt go into your junk mail if you're subscribed. > > > > Here's the proposal: > > > > "To present a united front before Nicholas Negroponte and Rodrigo > > Arboleda to achieve the participation of the OLPC Latin America > > Community in decisions affecting the work of OLPC in Latinamerica." > > > > "A clear position in favor of Free Software as an integral and > > exclusive part of this educational project." > > > > "I personally commit to support this position in the community, > > locally, nationally, in the Sur list, and other forums." > > > > "Provisionally, and until we the community can decide for an > > alternative, but in no event past the 28th of february of 2009, I > > support Yamandú Ploskonka acting as representative of the OLPC Latin > > America community for these ends. This nomination and other positions > > hereby indicated must be confirmed by majority vote of the latin > > american community at the Sur list." > > > > I urge you to vote. Let's not be monkeys. > > > > Sebastian > > > -- > Sebastian Silva > Laboratorios FuenteLibre > http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/ > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang >
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