Chris, I think your strategy for reaching consensus on this issue is a good one, but somewhat at odds with our rules of governance. According to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance#Decision_Panels I think we should be the Oversight Board is responsible for convening a Decision Panel.
"The Oversight Board will selecting members for the Decision Panel... A Decision Panel will solicit community input, discuss (in private if they deem it necessary), reach a conclusion internally, and produce a report documenting their conclusion. (Anyone may submit advice to a Decision Panel.) The Oversight Board will review and ratify Decision Panel reports. Perhaps your survey of SLOBs should be in regard to whether a decision panel should be formed: Yes, No, We should discuss it further. In any case, I think we should meet on Friday of next week. regards. -walter On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Chris Ball <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an > > "official" answer on this. Soon. > > > > Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs > > distributes a Sugar-centric GNU/Linux distribution? > > Martin Dengler has persuaded me that having SLOBs vote on this issue > could help us move forward, even though there obviously isn't > community consensus on it yet. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of > having SLOBs vote on community-wide disagreements, but I have a plan > for that, which I'll explain in a moment. > > First, I'd need to know what the specific questions (with yes/no > answers) that people are interested in a vote on at the SLOBs > meeting next week would be. Some things I've read that might > be those questions go something like: > > "Should Sugar Labs be a Linux distributor, rather than just an > upstream producing Sugar releases?" > > "Should SL be neutral about distributions containing Sugar, and > refuse to endorse one over another?" > > "Should 'Sugar on a Stick' be a phrase that SL asks its community > to avoid using unless they refer to the SoaS-Fedora distribution?" > > To avoid forcing a vote on questions that shouldn't be answered by > SLOBs, I propose that the answers for each vote should be: > > * Yes > * No > * We should talk about this question more before voting on it > * We shouldn't vote on this question for some reason (e.g. ambiguity > in the question, or wanting to abstain) > > To add a question to the list (I'm not going to add any of them > myself), please add to the bullet points at: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Oversight_Board/Minutes#Friday_18_Sept_2009_-_14:00_UTC > > If you don't like the idea of this becoming a SLOBs vote, it would be > useful to say that too. > > Thanks, > > - Chris, wearing SLOB hat. > -- > Chris Ball <[email protected]> > One Laptop Per Child > _______________________________________________ > SLOBs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
