Congrats for the new Board.. great Team and thanks for the update Patricia Escauriza Butterworth Gerente de Innovación www.paraguayeduca.org
On Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 12:50 AM Claudia Urrea <[email protected] wrote: > Thanks, Walter. > > Congratulations to the new members! Looking forward to working together in > 2019. > > Happy holidays! > > Claudia > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 8:24 AM Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I hope everyone is well. We are in a seasonal transition -- winter has >> begun in the north and summer in the south. I wanted to convey holiday >> greetings to everyone in the community and also to provide some updates: >> >> * We have a new oversight board. Welcome to James Cameron, Alex Perez, >> and Devin Ulibarri. Lionel Laske and I were reelected to our seats. Claudia >> Urrea and Samson Goddy will be completing their two-year terms in 2019. I >> think we have a very strong group, with demonstrable dedication to Sugar >> Labs and its mission and I look forward to having a very productive (and >> fun) year. >> >> * Many thanks to Adam, Sameer, and Ignacio, all three of whom have >> dedicated many years of effort to the project and the community. Your >> contributions are appreciated. >> >> * James will be taking over for me as chair of the oversight board >> meetings -- he runs a much better meeting than I do and I think it will be >> a change for the better in terms of making us a more efficient >> organization, able to make more thoughtful decisions more quickly. >> >> * James will also be replacing Adam as the Sugar Labs liaison to the >> Software Freedom Conservancy. I know he will offer a level of >> professionalism that will hopefully lead to clear and timely communication >> between our organizations. >> >> A few heads up: >> >> * Devin and I head to Japan to run some Music Blocks workshops in early >> January as part of an ongoing effort to reach elementary schools throughout >> the country. It has been going really well so far and I have high hopes >> that this little bit of Sugar will be used and enjoyed widely. >> >> * Rahul Bothra is helping to organize a new set of landing pages for >> Google Summer of Code. I anticipate that Sugar Labs will be applying again >> this year and we are striving to be more organized than in years past. >> >> * The winners of the Google Code-in contest will be announce in two weeks >> by Google. We had some fantastic contributions this year. Thank you for all >> the help with organizing (Ibiam), mentoring, and participation. >> >> Make sure to spend some time with family over these short (or long) days. >> >> regards. >> >> -walter >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> <http://www.sugarlabs.org> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lista olpc-Sur >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur >> > > > -- > Claudia Urrea, PhD > OLPCA > _______________________________________________ > SLOBs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs >
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