Re: [Sugar-devel] SLOB meeting notes 2020-12-23

[Walter Bender]

Perhaps it was not clear in the minutes but I plan to sort through the
books over the holidays and report back at the next board meeting.

On Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 4:54 PM Martin Guy  wrote:

> On 23/12/2020, Walter Bender  wrote:
> > MISSION
> > Sugar Labs® is a volunteer-driven member project of
> > Software Freedom Conservancy, a nonprofit corporation.
>
> Nice words, but what I see from down here is that the leading
> developers are the paid ones (who not only do the work they're paid to
> do but also shoulder other duties such as board membership. mentoring
> and being a generous knowledge base)
>
> If that also seems to others to be the reality that we have, that
> suggests an alternative view, to consciously use SL's funds to fund
> development, with openness about what it pays to whom to do what, and
> the developer's duty to itemize in public the hours spent on each
> assigned task, and the progress made as a result, since that seems to
> be a more effective path than simply wailing "We need more
> volunteers!"
>
> To this end, drawing a line under the past financial accounting,
> taking stock and relaunching it with greater transparency might be one
> way to help SL achieve its technical goals, as well as encouraging
> more and more generous donations when current or potential donors can
> see how cost-effective their funds are.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> Season's greetings
>
>  M
>
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Re: [Sugar-devel] SLOB meeting notes 2020-12-23

[Martin Guy]

On 23/12/2020, Walter Bender  wrote:
> MISSION
> Sugar Labs® is a volunteer-driven member project of
> Software Freedom Conservancy, a nonprofit corporation.

Nice words, but what I see from down here is that the leading
developers are the paid ones (who not only do the work they're paid to
do but also shoulder other duties such as board membership. mentoring
and being a generous knowledge base)

If that also seems to others to be the reality that we have, that
suggests an alternative view, to consciously use SL's funds to fund
development, with openness about what it pays to whom to do what, and
the developer's duty to itemize in public the hours spent on each
assigned task, and the progress made as a result, since that seems to
be a more effective path than simply wailing "We need more
volunteers!"

To this end, drawing a line under the past financial accounting,
taking stock and relaunching it with greater transparency might be one
way to help SL achieve its technical goals, as well as encouraging
more and more generous donations when current or potential donors can
see how cost-effective their funds are.

Just my 2 cents...

Season's greetings

 M
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[Sugar-devel] SLOB meeting notes 2020-12-23

[Walter Bender]

== Meeting Minutes ==

Date: 2020-12-23

=== Role Call ===

Present:
Walter Bender
Jui Pradhan
Peace Ojemeh
Claudia Urrea
Ibiam Chihurumnaya

Community:
Samson Goody

Absent:
Lionel Laské

=== Report from project representative (Conservancy liaison) ===
We need a new representative to replace Devin.
Claudia will assume this duty.

Treasurer...
Walter (temporary)
Alex?

Secretary
Walter

=== Report from Ombudsman ===
Nothing from Pattie

=== Finance Report ===
Walter to prepare a report for the next meeting.

Report from Ibiam about his contract to manage activities.

=== Google Code-in Replacement Discussion ===

Samson will take the lead and will organize a separate series of
meetings with the goal 4-6 orgs in Q4 2021.

=== Sugar Labs Mission/Goals Discussion ===
What is our mission?

MISSION
Sugar Labs® is a volunteer-driven member project of Software Freedom
Conservancy, a nonprofit corporation. Originally part of the One
Laptop Per Child project, Sugar Labs coordinates volunteers around the
world who are passionate about providing educational opportunities to
children through the Sugar Learning Platform. Sugar Labs® is supported
by donations and is seeking funding to accelerate development.

callaurrea
Sugar Labs produces, distributes, and supports the use of the Sugar
learning platform, a free software system that is freely available to
anyone who wants to use or extend it.

Claudia: Mission in the context of remote learning??? Small things we
can delivar... as oppose to being too ambitious to get anything done.

Claudia: periodic events... maybe every month an event??? Things that
are more scaffolded... respond to need.

Claudia: We mentor kids and get them to do something concrete.

Claudia: driven by something that is relevant... something we can commit to.

Walter: learning software and a learning community

What are our goals?

A place for people to learn about FOSS and great tools.

Sugar support for the existing OLPC deployments.
Sugarizer support for schools that use mobile technology.
Music Blocks for schools in Japan, kids in Peru, music teachers.

Do we want to concern ourselves with deployment?
If so, we need to be professional about it.

Do we want to use an OKR model?
Support on RPi, Sugar on a Stick on Ubuntu, Fedora, Trisquel

Jui: What is our Social Media story?
Samson reviewed the history. He will share the strategy doc.
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube...

=== Communication Channels ===
How do we want to communicate? IRC, Matrix, JITSI, Slack, all of the above?

Samson and Claudia recommend:
https://discord.com/

650 kids used discord with Claudia's project.
Samson uses it with GNOME.

To be discussed next time.

=== Time and Place of Next Meeting ===
2021 January 06 (Wednesday) at 19:30 UTC

https://meet.jit.si/sugarlabs

Next time: bring to the table ideas for monthly project.

=== Closing ===

regards.

-walter

-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
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