Hola Gonzalo, In consequence to the matters as you describe them, what action plan does the board have to address them?
I wrote to the board in November offering to volunteer for election committee but got no response. Regards, Sebastian El 26/01/15 a las 14:57, Gonzalo Odiard escibió: > Hi Dan, > I suppose you are asking about Sugar Labs Oversight Board, right? > (I don't think OLPC had a elected board at any time of their history) > I am one of the members of the Oversight Board at the moment, > but this is only my personal opinion. > The number of volunteers proposed to integrate the board decreased > in the last years, and at the end of 2013, we had less volunteers > than seats to renew. At the end of 2014 we had even less. > To add another problem, the volunteer who ran the elections in previous years > is not available anymore. > I think this is a consequence of other changes in the community/ecosystem. > Right now funding of Sugar development as decreased and we still > didn't find a way to sustain the minimal operations. Our users (not the kids, > but the governments, fundations, etc) deploying Sugar, are used to a model > where OLPC sustained a big part of the development with the sell of he XOs. > That is not happening right now (OLPC continue selling XOs, but do not > sustain Sugar development), > but the "clients" do not see why pay for something they received by free. > > Gonzalo > > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Dan Tenason <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am following OLPC as part of a research paper on open source >> organizations. >> >> Going over the archives, it seems there has not been a board election in a >> couple of years. Has this affected the project in any way? >> >> -- >> Dan Tenason >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
