Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Oversight Board Election Candidates 2017-2019 - Stage III Closed

[Laura Vargas]

Here you can read the current candidates statements:

(Translations to other languages welcome)

Devin Ulibarri

Devin Ulibarri is a musician and an educator who became interested in
free/libre software in 2014 during research for the Center for
Music-in-Education (Boston). Devin pursued research into the implications
for "software libre in education" which led him to believe that free/libre
software is best for teaching and learning. He was soon introduced to
SugarLabs, which both empowers teachers/learners with software freedom as
well as offers tools to exercise those freedoms in a community setting.

Since his introduction to the SugarLabs community, Devin has participated
heavily in the development of Music Blocks, a programming language for
music. Within the SugarLabs community, Devin offers conceptual
recommendations, design ideas, mockups, testing, minor patches, and
community involvement on GitHub and Sugar's IRC. In his local community,
Devin has represented Music Blocks software as a workshop lecturer
(Constructionism Conference in Thailand, Canopy of Somerville) as well as a
class instructor (YMCA Malden).

As an oversight board member, Devin would bring his insight as an
experienced classroom teacher, an artist, and a free/libre software
advocate. Devin has been described as "a very patient person", which he
hopes would be a contribution to the oversight board if elected.


Walter Bender

After a decade of working on Sugar, I am reflecting on how we engage
learners. We provide programming environments (e.g., Turtle and Music
Blocks) and mechanism for debugging, collaboration, expression, and
reflection. Our adherence to the principles of Free/Libre Software provides
scaffolding for personal expression through programming and for surfacing
personal responsibility, a sense of community, and unbounded expectations
of Sugar users turned Sugar developers.

Where have we fallen short? Edtech is become big business: selling Apps and
content is more lucrative and facile than the hard work of engaging teacher
and learners in authentic problem-solving. There is a strong temptation to
make things as simple as possible so as to reach the broadest possible
audience. But some things are inherently complex. Apps might be fun, but
the hard part of “hard fun” is in reaching towards complexity.

We are going where the learners are: Sugar as a Web app, on Android, or on
iOS, (Sugarizer) and, tracking the growth of the Maker Movement, we now
support Sugar on Raspbian. “It is said that the best way to learn something
is to teach it—and perhaps writing a teaching program is better still in
its insistence on forcing one to consider all possible misunderstandings
and mistakes.” — Seymour Papert

I have made mistakes, but as part of a learning community we will do
better.

“Homework is boring. Looking for bugs is fun.” —Ezequiel Pereira

Let's continue to provide the basis for some fun.


Sebastian Silva

The mission of the Sugar Labs Oversight Board is to ensure the community
has clarity of purpose and the means to attain its goals.

Sugar Labs needs to recognize that our community is *diverse*. Therefore,
there are diverse purposes that may be clear and at the same time opposed.

We should provide a *safe and neutral space* for dialogue on the technology
and education that underlies our projects. We need to approve and
enforce a *code
of conduct*.

Finally, the reason for Sugar Labs to exist under the SFC is to *facilitate
the flow of resources* to volunteers with valuable projects. We should
strive to open and fund open calls with funds for development,
infrastructure and end user products.
About Sebastian

Sebastian is father to two precious children that are being homeschooled in
collaboration with his dear wife and co-creator Laura Vargas.

As a child, Sebastian learned to program with Logo and soon outgrew it to
be charmed with Python and raise the flag of Free/Libre Software. He loves
writing Sugar Activities; His latest is a collaborative Python IDE
 that he hopes you'll love
too.

Currently he lives with his family in a cabin in the Amazon rainforest and
teaches Karate and videogame programming to the kids in the vicinity,
sustaining a lifestyle seeking harmony with nature and providing services
of software artisanship and systems gardening remotely.


Lionel Laské

Learn more about my background here
.


Like lot of you I've joined SugarLabs at the beginning of the OLPC project.
As cofounder of OLPC France grassroot , I've worked
hard to deploy it on the field and contribute to expand it both in term of
activities and in term of French content. Because the OLPC project and the
XO laptop was declining year after year, I've decided 5 years ago to launch
the Sugarizer  initiative. My objective was to write
a new page of Sugar history by expanding its compatibility to any 

[IAEP] Sugar Labs Oversight Board Election Candidates 2017-2019 - Stage III Closed

[Laura Vargas]

Dear Sugar Labs Community,

Membership and Elections Committee is happy to report we have 8 candidates
for the 4 seats available for the 2017-2019 Sugar Labs Oversight Board
Election.

Candidates who completed successfully their wiki submissions on time are:

1. Devin Ulibarri
2. Walter Bender
3. Sebastian Silva
4. Lionel Laské
5. Sameer Verma
6. Sean Daly
7. Adam Holt
8. Claudia Urrea

You can read candidates statements at: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/
Oversight_Board/2017-2019-candidates

Thank you all candidates for publishing your candidacies.



*Stage IV: Elections will take place on October 1-15, 2017. *
We thank in advance to Ignacio Rodríguez
 who will be in charge
 of all
the technical procedures with the assistance of Sugar Labs infrastructure
team: systems AT list.sugarlabs.org



*Remember September 27, 2017
is
the deadline for new memberships request to participate on 2017-2019
elections! *

Sincerely yours,


*Sugar Labs Membership and Elections Committee*
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