Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I don't will reply about your interpretation of our communication, looks like will not change with anything I can say. We are trying to make something different this time, we started a survey already sent to people responsible on deployments, to get more information, and we are organizing a face

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
If the current governing documents don't allow mid-term replacements due to someone resigning or shortages, that might be something worth amending them to include. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: We run elections at the end of each year. If we have

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Laura Vargas
I'm really sorry I didn't understood well your intructions at that time... Now, my name is on the list ;D According to your logic, we should run elections when we have enough candidates. How many additional candidates do we need? 2015-03-10 11:23 GMT-05:00 Gonzalo Odiard

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Walter Bender
Sebastian, The election was discussed in public SLOB meetings. We made public decisions with opportunity for public input. If you want to ask the board to revisit its decisions, that is fine. Please try to be concrete in your proposal. regards. -walter On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:31 PM,

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
Personally I would be more interested in why groups/organizations don't use Sugar than what existing deployments are looking for to continue using it. In order for Sugar to become more than a niche product it is going to have to accommodate a wider population. The XO/Sugar/Schoolserver

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Walter Bender
We run elections at the end of each year. If we have fewer candidates than slots to fill, we don't run the election. We'll run another election at the end of 2015. Regards. -walter On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Laura Vargas la...@somosazucar.org wrote: I'm really sorry I didn't understood

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Walter Bender
Laura, No election was held because no new candidates stepped forward. If you were interested in a board seat, why did you not run a board position when we solicited candidates? We'll open up for candidates again at the end of 2015. regards. -walter On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Laura

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Hi Sebastian, In this specific case, we will keep the replies from the deployments confidential and release a general inform with conclusions without naming the deployment involved. There are a reason for that, and anybody involved in negotiation with countries will understand. Every time than a

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Laura Vargas
Hi Gonzalo, Regarding the Sugar Labs Board, if no elections are going to me be made, how do you justify not to rotate the board members with long time active volunteers? specially those who have shown interest, like I have Thanks and I really hope (for the sake of the kids) we can run a

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I suppose a committee will be integrated by more than one member, we need more volunteers. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: If Sebastian becomes the Elections Committee which is fine with me, how do we avoid a more-than-Clintonesque conflict-of-interest with

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks Caryl !! That is what we need, volunteers. Gonzalo On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All For heaven's sake! No wonder we are always stalled. If it will help, I'll do the election. It can't be that much work. I have no conflicts of

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Laura Vargas
Adam, To your conflict of interest concern and with all the love to my husband, I can only respond that I believe I have enough skills and merit by myself. Best wishes, Laura V 2015-03-10 13:31 GMT-05:00 Sebastian Silva sebast...@fuentelibre.org: Well, It's 2015 and we are all hackers here.

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All For heaven's sake! No wonder we are always stalled. If it will help, I'll do the election. It can't be that much work. I have no conflicts of interest. What would I need to do? Caryl From: la...@somosazucar.org Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:54:09 -0500 To: sebast...@fuentelibre.org CC:

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

2015-03-10 Thread Sebastian Silva
Forgot to mention, we also need to get access to memb...@sugarlabs.org, since I suspect new membership applications have gone stale for a long time now. (see [1]) [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Applying_for_membership El 10/03/15 a las 15:05, Sebastian Silva escibiĆ³: Hi