Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-07-01 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Dave You need to distinguish between encouraging members to propose actions to be taken by the Board and a motion made at a Board meeting by a member of the Board, seconded and put to a vote of the Board members. Tony ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-07-01 Thread Tony Anderson
Dave We got it. In the future, we will take greater care to cross-post votes by email (hopefully rare since the meeting itself is public). Tony On 07/01/2016 12:57 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: On 1 July 2016 at 05:45, Tony Anderson wrote: You need to distinguish

Re: [IAEP] Yoruba I18n

2016-07-01 Thread David Ally
Thank you to members of the oversight board! translating Sugar into Yoruba for those of us working in technology in Education in Nigeria should be a delightful thing and help us to push for many intervention agencies in Nigeria to contribute to IAEP to translate to other indigenous languages. I

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 July 2016 at 05:45, Tony Anderson wrote: > > You need to distinguish between encouraging members to propose actions to be > taken by the Board and a motion made at a Board meeting by a member of the > Board, seconded and put to a vote of the Board members. I got it :)

Re: [IAEP] Voting on GPLv3 motion

2016-07-01 Thread Sam Parkinson
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, Dave This is what I have been able to find regarding the GPLv3 motion. At today's Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the motion submitted by Sebastian Silva to finalize the transition from

Re: [IAEP] Voting on GPLv3 motion

2016-07-01 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Sam This was in response to Dave Crossland's concern that the Board is acting in secret. The motion passed with 6 votes in favor and one abstention. Tony On 07/01/2016 11:55 AM, Sam Parkinson wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi,

[IAEP] Renewal of domain name

2016-07-01 Thread Tony Anderson
According to Walter (email of May 10 posted to SLOBs, IAEP, and Sugar-devel). Motion to pay for laboratoriosazucar.org domain Did not think we needed a motion since it was already a done deal. We should talk with Bernie about this over the weekend: how

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] A Better Idea...

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 July 2016 at 07:06, Tony Anderson wrote: > > We got it. In the future, we will take greater care to cross-post votes by > email (hopefully rare since the meeting itself is public). I've heard that before, and this seems proven sure to fail. But I don't think I can

[IAEP] TCM reporting

2016-07-01 Thread Chris Leonard
All, I wanted to inform the SLOB that I will NOT be invoicing SugarLabs/SFC for the month of May or June under the TCM agreement, although I will be posting some detail of the work I have been performing in the Translation Community Manager position. It has always been my desire to be able to

[IAEP] Simplified Motion to create and define the position of Sugar Labs Finance Manager

2016-07-01 Thread Adam Holt
Based on Tony Anderson and Caryl Bigenho's work especially -- thank you Caryl for working for so many months with so many others (including many hours by telephone today with me alone) to write this up -- and thanks to many others who've contributed behind the scenes: The Sugar Labs Oversight

Re: [IAEP] Simplified Motion to create and define the position of Sugar Labs Finance Manager

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Congratulations to Caryl and Adam for finally getting the Finance Manager position approved! :) Hooray!! :D On 1 July 2016 at 14:10, Adam Holt wrote: > PS this is very hard work (and I am not yet sure how to determine SL's exact > balance on April 1st 2016) but an early

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] minutes from 3 June 2016 oversight board meeting

2016-07-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jun 3, 2016 6:19 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > I am certain to yet again be accused of making an ad hominem attack, but I have to say that I was extremely disappointed in the lack of preparedness for this meeting. Several community members had been working on motions,