Great idea! I can host parties at my new T Accessible house in Arlington if that helps.
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > (1) In-person meetings in between Bostonian > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board members and Sugar/OLPC Local > Lab Boston, quasimonthly. Community is neither a buzzword, nor a fantasy, > with Sugar Labs' only 4 active board members now living in Boston today. > Community is the 132 volunteer members of > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc_boston who want to particitepate in > Sugar/OLPC but our promise withers, when accomplished teachers and > volunteers willing to pull their weight, simply don't -- as too many of us > are unintentionally hiding behind our IRC koolaid, yep myself guilty as > charged :) So it's time to throw a few parties. And get over a couple of > our antisocial hangups, at all levels of our organizing. As our 130+ person > high-energy http://olpcSF.org/summit this past weekend proved far beyond a > shadow of a doubt. As SF's own amazing hackerspace ( > http://noisebridge.net) reminded us all late into the night before. > Sustainable volunteerism == bringing people together in a physical space, > even in Boston! Like others have already done globally here: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs . I made this happen last week in > San Francisco for almost 10 valiant-but-poor-volunteers, by lining them up > with other more well-off volunteers, using peer2peer donations instead of > bureaucratic budget molasses. Next year we can do this for 20 volunteers > instead of 10, if we bring ourselves together. Meantime: I, Walter, Bernie > and CJB (etc) can do our Boston and Global community a gigantic favor if we > Get Out More right here at home :) Learning (i.e. healthy) communities live > or die based on the Rhythm their members create -- physical bonds feed > online bonds and vice versa. Let us begin now. Progress beckons: Walter, > Bernie & I will meet all together Thurs (tomorrow) for the first time in > about a year, to discuss our breakthrough community catapult in SF, even > before SF's Mayor issued his proclamation: > http://blog.laptop.org/2010/10/22/october-23-is-olpc-day-in-sf/ > > (2) Democracy does NOT grow on trees, or in the back of stale legalistic > texts. It is the worst form of governance, if we believe Churchill, and > accordingly I and Sugar Labs' Oversight Board have been negligent in not > getting folks fired up about the current election process, failing to > bringing strong awareness around precise key election dates, even > understanding it ourselves! I personally consider both to be constitutional > duty: the cleanest elections happen when we enable get-out-the-vote > mobilizations of all kind, enabling expression and reflection AKA learning. > Disturbing evidence I've uncovered in the past 24hrs is that board members > themselves I've spoken to privately remain confused about > nomination/election dates, confused about duration of terms, confused about > lame duck/impeachment/replacement/re-invitation procedures for the several > absentee board members already gone. Pity our rank+file volunteer just > trying to get some work done, or get fired up about our so-sweet > possibilities! Now drowning in this unadvertised/undecided election > machinery-- No more! I suggest we start with Informed Consent, meaning > strong advance awareness of all deadlines and voting times -- that we > hopefully all together agree to publicize very directly off: > > http://google.com/search?q=sugar+labs+election > > (3) One specific proposal around strengthening awareness of Sugar Labs' > election clearly, widely and far more passionately, with all dates clearly > layed out, right off the uniquely memorable page above -- was advanced by > Luke Faraone (administering the election) earlier this evening. Walter > Bender says he would agree to support Luke's proposal to extend registration > (welcoming quality candidates & eligible voters both) until something like > Nov 10th 23:59 EST, if the election itself was delayed until approximately > Nov 14-27, IF our broad community and board agrees this will all deepen our > Participative process, strengthen who we are, illustrate our shared > sacrifice -- and most importantly: waken our family and friends to our > cause. Yes, I'm paraphrasing, Walter please speak for yourself :) In any > case, for me clearness-in-democracy is non-negotiable, as is our blessed > responsibility to stay young, Meaningfully open (Lovable too please!) while > at last growing up as a 2008-2012 organization, as this election will now > decide. I support Luke's above thoughtful proposal and hope others will > too, enhancing it ideally if you can, but most important all speaking our > consciences towards deciding quickly and carefully, however we proceed. > > (4) First kill all the lawyers (but please Shakespeare DO read our "SFC > by-laws" at > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/SFC-SugarLabs_Agreement and > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List carefully before the > light goes out :) And if a board meeting is needed to finalize any > electoral learning learning consensus(es) emerging above, or > similar/otherwise, please Walter/CJB schedule this very quickly before I go > offline most of Sat Oct 30 to Sun Nov 14 to volunteer building > http://blueTarpSchool.blogspot.com in Haiti. > > (5) I Love Haiti, but can't promise Sugar/OLPC/Realness/FabLab/Whatever > Local Lab Port-au-Prince just yet on this trip -- but I *will* do what I can > to convince my traveling companion (Tim Falconer, > http://waveplace.com/news/blog ) rest you assured!! > > (6) Fall in Love again, it won't hurt I promise... it might even hopefully > spur you to add your name here: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010-2011-candidates > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [email protected] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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