Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-11 Thread Sameer Verma
Approve. Sameer On May 6, 2016 4:49 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > At today's Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the motion > submitted by Sebastian Silva to allow the mentors participating in Google > Summer of Code to disperse the mentor stipend among

[IAEP] OLPC-SF May meeting NEXT WEEK 5/21

2016-05-11 Thread Aaron D Borden
Hello folks, OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting NEXT Saturday, May 21st, **not** our usual second Saturday, from 10AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835 Market Street, 5th floor, Room 597 (the fishbowl). Agenda - Meet and greet - Sugarizer - Discuss online community -

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Laura Vargas
2016-05-08 0:20 GMT+08:00 Adam Holt : > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Chris Leonard > wrote: > >> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Chris Leonard >> wrote: >> > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Adam Holt

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 13:03, Laura Vargas wrote: > Sorry I missed to explain this. By the date of the agreement (2012), the > Project agreed that, on the Effective Date, $1,887.44 (10% of the existing > Project Fund on the Effective Date), will be donated to Conservancy’s >

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Adam Holt
On May 11, 2016 11:19 AM, "Laura Vargas" wrote: > > 2016-05-08 0:20 GMT+08:00 Adam Holt : >> >> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Chris Leonard

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Laura Vargas wrote: > You are totally right Adam, I'm sorry I did not notice these were > cumulative values. Corrected table would look like this: > > > > Total Income 10% of Total Income > > > > 2015 $9.028,56 $902,86 > 2014 $49.622,18 $4.962,22 >

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Laura Vargas
You are totally right Adam, I'm sorry I did not notice these were cumulative values. Corrected table would look like this: Total Income 10% of Total Income 2015 $9.028,56 $902,86 2014 $49.622,18 $4.962,22 2013 $49.229,19 $4.922,92 2012 $208,26 $1.908,27 *Total* *$108.088,19* *$12.696,26*

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Laura Vargas
2016-05-12 0:56 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland : > > > On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Laura Vargas wrote: > >> You are totally right Adam, I'm sorry I did not notice these were >> cumulative values. Corrected table would look like this: >> >> >> >> Total Income 10% of

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Laura Vargas
2016-05-12 2:03 GMT+08:00 Chris Leonard : > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > > On 11 May 2016 at 13:03, Laura Vargas wrote: > >> > >> Sorry I missed to explain this. By the date of the agreement (2012),

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-11 Thread Sebastian Silva
El 11/05/16 a las 13:01, Dave Crossland escribió: > > So, the motion failed, with 3 votes for, 1 vote against, and 4 > abstains, and the funds will accrue into the general fund. That is a curious conclusion. The Governance does not mention how SLOBs votes are counted, but I would have assumed a

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-11 Thread Adam Holt
On May 7, 2016 3:33 PM, "Lionel Laské" wrote: > > Disagree. > > Thought I understand that 500$ is lot of money for some people, I think that GSoC is also a way for SugarLabs to raise money. Because we don't ask for an annual fee to member (like other association, for

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 11 May 2016 at 13:03, Laura Vargas wrote: >> >> Sorry I missed to explain this. By the date of the agreement (2012), the >> Project agreed that, on the Effective Date, $1,887.44 (10% of the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 13:53, Adam Holt wrote: > Personally I'd be in favor of splitting $500 GSoC payments between > organization and mentors-in-need ($250 each) particularly those mentors in > low-income countries (of those most demonstrably catalyzed by a $250 > Honorarium) if

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 14:05, Laura Vargas wrote: > there are ~US$65,000 available for planning/distributing among > activities/teams/projects etc. I think its essential that this be spent in ways that led directly to further income, to grow the project.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-11 Thread Sebastian Silva
El 11/05/16 a las 13:01, Dave Crossland escribió: > So, the motion failed, with 3 votes for, 1 vote against, and 4 > abstains, and the funds will accrue into the general fund. Here I found a precedent: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2009/Meeting_Log-2009-09-25 okay, that's

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Laura Vargas
2016-05-12 2:08 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland : > > On 11 May 2016 at 14:05, Laura Vargas wrote: > >> there are ~US$65,000 available for planning/distributing among >> activities/teams/projects etc. > > > I think its essential that this be spent in ways that led

[IAEP] SL member list/joining criterion

2016-05-11 Thread Adam Holt
Caryl, Sebastian, Samson & All, 1) Can you provide all a link to a current (or post-election) SL membership list, verified to be reasonably current? 2) How many active and nonactive/lapsed members does SL have exactly, and what info do we retain on each, in case they choose to donate/rejoin etc?

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-11 Thread Adam Holt
4 affirmative votes (majoruty of 7 seats) are required for all motions to pass. This was clarified when I joined SL Oversight Board at the end of 2009, and again exhaustively re-clarified at the beginning of this year. On May 11, 2016 2:24 PM, "Sebastian Silva" wrote:

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-11 Thread Sebastian Silva
El 11/05/16 a las 13:40, Adam Holt escribió: > This was clarified when I joined SL Oversight Board at the end of > 2009, and again exhaustively re-clarified at the beginning of this year. Can you point me to where this was "exhaustively re-clarified" ? Thanks!

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-11 Thread Adam Holt
On May 11, 2016 2:55 PM, "Sebastian Silva" wrote: > > El 11/05/16 a las 13:40, Adam Holt escribió: > > This was clarified when I joined SL Oversight Board at the end of > > 2009, and again exhaustively re-clarified at the beginning of this year. > Can you point me to