On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > Satellit (Tom Gilliard) has submitted a request to have the Sugar > Creation Kit become an official Sugar Labs project and consequently be > listed on the sidebar of the wiki (See email below). Could we discuss > this proposal by email (since we are unlikely to find a time to meet > as a group over the next few weeks due to conflicting travel > schedules?
Since I'm not wearing a SLOBs hat, I'm not going to vote here. :) One thing that is orthagonal to the original question but that should probably be checked anyway is - since Sugar on a Stick is an official Fedora Spin - how the Fedora trademark guidelines apply. --Sebastian > regards. > > -walter > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Thomas C Gilliard <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:53 AM > Subject: IAEP Digest, Vol 28, Issue 18 Consider > the, SugarCreationKit DVD a Project? > To: Walter Bender <[email protected]> > > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:09:37 -0700 > From: Thomas C Gilliard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 28, Issue 18 Consider the > SugarCreationKit DVD a Project? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >> >> ---------- MOTION ----------- >> >> First, the short version: >> >> 1. If your project helps SL, is all freely licensed, and has a wiki page >> with certain info on it, you can apply for project status by emailing >> slobs/iaep your wiki page URL and saying "here's our project page, >> please raise a motion to make us a project." >> > > > Question re Sugar Creation Kit DVD: > http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarCreationKit-123.iso > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit > > -This is really a compilation of SL Content on a DVD > where does such a project fit in this spectrum of Projects? > It probably would have qualified under the previous Project Category: > "wiki pages bearing the [[Category:Project]] tag predating this proposal." > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Project > > It would be nice to get a left sidebar listing for the DVD.iso and move > it's location to Downloads from Tgillard > > Tom Gilliard > satellit > > A related situation exists for the ASLOxo.iso with .xo files for Drag > Drop Installs: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Soas_V4/ASLOxo_Activity_Test_Table > http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/ASLOxo-3ss.iso > (This may depend on the .xo file format remaining one of the ways > Activities are distributed) > > >> 2. If SLOBs passes the motion (4 votes of +1), you are a project. This >> gets you a sidebar listing, do-it-yourself infrastructure access, and >> permission to call yourselves a SL project. >> >> 3. Projects are obligated to update their project page and email that >> project page URL to the list during the last month of each Sugar release >> cycle. That's it. >> >> 4. If a project doesn't do this (SLOBs will check), its project status >> is revoked, and it loses the sidebar listing and the ability to call >> itself a SL project. Projects who have their status revoked may reapply, >> see (1). >> >> Now, the fine print: >> >> Being a SL project means you get (1) listed in the sidebar, (2) full use >> of SL infrastructure's resources (though projects must do the >> administrative work themselves, they'll get machine access) if the >> project isn't already using them, and (3) permission to refer to >> yourselves as a SL project (you can request TM usage separately). >> >> Being a SL project does NOT mean that (1) SL teams are obligated to >> fulfil all your requests, or that (2) SLOBs or SL teams can tell you >> what to do, or that (3) anyone else will step up and make your project >> happen - people working on a project still need to step up and drive and >> do all the work. >> >> The only thing SLOBs can do is remove "SL Project" status, which (1) >> removes a project from the sidebar and (2) the project not being able to >> refer to itself as a "SL project" any more. (Infrastructure privileges >> shouldn't be removed except in cases of gross misconduct.) >> >> SL projects must: >> * work towards the mission of SL in some way, >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs#Mission >> * contain only code and content released under approved licenses, >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trademark#Approved_licenses >> >> To request status as a SL project, create a project wiki page that >> contains (at minimum) the following information, and submit it to SLOBs >> as an agenda item ("here is our project wiki page, can we be a project?") >> >> (these are directly from the version of >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines as of this >> writing) >> >> * Who the new project would serve and who will lead the project >> * What the goals and scope of the new project would be >> * When the project can be considered a success >> * Where the project will lead and where it will fit into Sugar Labs >> * Why the idea warrants the creation of a new project within Sugar Labs >> * How the project will benefit Sugar Labs and the Sugar ecosystem >> * The number of active contributors >> * The state of the project compared to its goals >> * Documentation of how the project is working for the community >> * The current method of governing the project >> * A schedule and plan to achieve remaining goals and milestones >> >> This then becomes a motion that needs 4 SLOBs +1s to pass, just like any >> other motion. >> >> The only obligation of a project is to submit a status report, in the >> form of emailing iaep a link toan updated project wiki page with >> up-to-date answers to all the same above questions, during the last >> month of each sugar release cycle. One week after each Sugar release >> cycle, SLOBs will check which projects have fulfilled that obligation, >> renew the project status of all projects that have, and revoke project >> status of all projects that haven't. Projects that haven't can simply >> reapply. >> >> ------------ >> >> How reasonable does this sound to everyone? Amendments? Changes? If you >> want to make substantial edits, please throw this on a wiki page and >> send us all the link. ;) >> >> --Mel >> >> > > > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
