The proposal has been passed with an overwhelming victory: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/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/ _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
