On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > Apparently we did not actually get all the votes necessary to approve a > motion to pay Devin a $500 stipend for his time taken away from his Day Job > to help with the Turtle Blocks workshops at the Constructionism Conference. > The motion was made and voted on at the 2015-12-07 meeting [1]. There were > only three votes cast. (I thought four had been cast.) There was no > objection raised at the time and Devin did take a week off from work to > attend the meetings and run the workshops. I'd like to reopen this motion > with the new board and take a vote. > > Motion: offer Devin U. an honorarium ($500) to compensate him since he > needed to take a week off from work to run two Turtle/Music Blocks workshops > at the Constructionism Conference. The funds would be allocated from the > Trip Advisor grant which are in support of promoting and advancing Turtle > Blocks around the world. >
Abstain. > Please respond ASAP, as I feel we need to clarify the situation and not > leave Devin hanging. > > Adam, in the future, it would be nice to get a heads up when you find > mistakes and not just catch them by noticing a change to a wiki page. > > Also, I need clarity regarding the Trip Advisor grant. I believe that the > oversight board has previously granted me approval to spend grant money on > workshops under the conditions that (1) I inform the committee of my plans > and (2) I don't exceed the budget. Apparently this is not the understanding > of some of you and not the understanding of the SFC. > > Motion: Walter, as PI of the Trip Advisor grant, will inform the SL > oversight board of his plans for workshops that fall under the guise > promotion of Turtle Blocks but otherwise has discretion in organizing and > funding these events, within the budget constraints of grant and the travel > guidelines of the SFC. > Aye. Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > Please take action on this ASAP as I am many months without reimbursement > for travel for several workshops. > > FWIW, the large proportion of the travel and expenses associated with the > workshops to date has been paid for by third parties. I've been able to > stretch the budget quite far. > > thank you for your attention. > > regards. > > -walter > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sugar Labs <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:45 AM > Subject: Sugar Labs page Oversight Board/Decisions has been changed by Holt > To: Walter <[email protected]> > > > Dear Walter, > > The Sugar Labs page Oversight Board/Decisions has been changed on > 8 April 2016 by Holt, see > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions for the current > revision. > > See > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Oversight_Board/Decisions&diff=next&oldid=97963 > to view this change. > > See > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Oversight_Board/Decisions&diff=0&oldid=97963 > for all changes since your last visit. > > Editor's summary: - > > Contact the editor: > mail: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:EmailUser/Holt > wiki: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Holt > > There will be no other notifications in case of further activity unless > you visit this page while logged in. You could also reset the > notification flags for all your watched pages on your watchlist. > > Your friendly Sugar Labs notification system > > -- > To change your email notification settings, visit > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:Preferences > > To change your watchlist settings, visit > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:EditWatchlist > > To delete the page from your watchlist, visit > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Oversight_Board/Decisions&action=unwatch > > Feedback and further assistance: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > > _______________________________________________ > SLOBs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
