Re: [IAEP] 2016-2018 Oversight Board

[Dan Tenason]

>Tuesday, December 29, 2015 10:59 PM +08:00 from Laura Vargas 
>:
>
>
>d
>Hello everybody / Hola a todos
>
>Hope all the holiday wishes come with many blessings for the big Sugar family. 
>
>2015 was a great year, many exciting releases! I would like to congratulate 
>and thank you all.
>
>I'm glad we have enthusiastic candidates for the upcoming elections.  It 
>surely is of our best interest to have good quality software in the hands and 
>heads of our little ones, therefore I believe during the  2016-2018 period SL 
>should center it's energy on QUALITY.
>Quality of process, functionalities, documentation,etc.
>
>So talking about Quality, one of the first things I would like to underline is 
>that there currently is a deep organizational conflict since there is an 
>Executive Director also serving as an Oversight Board member. I believe this 
>situation is unhealthy and must be avoided if possible.
How does Mr Bender having two roles causes quality problems for Sugar and Sugar 
Labs? How would Mr Bender's absence from the Board while retaining the title of 
Executive Directory improve the situation for the various stakeholders?

This is effectively a statement of no confidence in Mr. Bender's Leadership. 
Until one has the data to support the proposal, it is going to to be hard to 
make such an emotionally charged change. There is a reason the board is 
colloquially know as "Friends of Walter."

Dan

>From our wiki:
>"The Executive Director (ED) is responsible for the day to day operations of 
>the foundation and reports directly to the  Oversight Board ..."
>
>'The current Executive Director is  Walter Bender , elected by the during the  
>2008-09-19 board meeting ." 
>
>I propose we ask Walter to withdraw his candidacy for the 2016-2018 Board and 
>continue serving as Executive Director for Sugar Labs.
>
>Best regards. -- 
>Laura V.
>I SomosAZUCAR.Org
>
>Identi.ca/Skype acaire
>IRC kaametza
>
>Happy Learning!
>
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Re: [IAEP] 2016-2018 Oversight Board

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:59:03PM +0800, Laura Vargas wrote:
> ... a deep organizational conflict since there is an Executive
> Director also serving as an Oversight Board member. I believe this
> situation is unhealthy and must be avoided if possible.

I disagree.  This is handled as a conflict of interest; Walter
excludes himself from votes concerning him.

The new board will be responsible for making any new decision about
this.

--

Disclosure: I'm not a member of Sugar Labs, by my choice, because of a
conflict of interest; my pay is from an organisation that benefits
from the Sugar software.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.netrek.org/
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[IAEP] Tony Anderson's platform, running for Sugar Labs Oversight Board

[Adam Holt]

Very encouraging to see Sugaristas' Long Term Support discussions of any
kind: how to innovate sustaining old hardware with new software, how to
balance hacker contributors' critical motivations with 3rd world educators'
excruciating economics, how to think about Server-Sugar interactions
evolving online and off(*). Etc...with so many earnest constituencies of
this cathartic 21st century movement sometimes working at cross purposes
for literally no reason at all ~ it's time for our 3 cups of tea (or beers
below ;)

Say it ain't so, Joe??  Those of us who've spent thousands of dollars on
computation in our lives (likely 90+ % of all Sugar Labs Members) cannot
transplant our tech-privilege to the world's most resource-starved human
beings, fighting for a chance to learn, Try As We Mightily Did.  Instead,
Humanity needs to face our edutechno-treadmill resourcing question together
-- technorich/edupoor alongside technopoor/edurich alongside
committed-to-the-end support volunteers of every kind in between.  A
prescriptive "Sugar Deployment Guide" may never fly (but please don't
dismiss author James Simmons trying!)  There will Certainly always be
plentiful "Sugar Learning Guidance/Fieldback" we ignore at our peril, but
statistical approaches arrive incrementally in the face of all our
challenges, as Walter outlined a year ago:
https://olpcau.atlassian.net/wiki/display/XOS/Meeting+Background+-+Current+Status#comment-28966940

NOT easy when the $50-device-movement advocating
de-facto-disposable-phablets and de-facto-disposable-OS's across the
developing world, is willfully insulting almost every kid's
environmental/constructionist/journalistic intelligence.  With the
shallowest digital distractions posing as education surging into the
developing world riding hog over Net Neutrality and 2015's Millenium
Development Goals, can we avoid facing / coexisting with advertising
industry edutainment much longer?  And if so how, purposefully??  (a
counterexample is India, where "Facebook Free Basics" has barely made
inroads despite vast promotions we're told, FWIW).  Which bring us to
Tony's vision of the urgencies standing before us in 2016:

   https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform

As we enter the Sugar/OLPC Movement's 2nd decade now (3 decades shapes a
generation?) sincere thanks Tony for nudging our tech-bro cultural
assumptions, trying to reboot a field dominated by women (teachers of all
kind are majority female in most countries) clearly needing a profound
rethink, from Negroponte's helicopter saturation-marketing dream where we
all began...that is until the League of Women Voters helps us out issuing
an official "Making Democracy Work" voter education card for Sugar Labs'
Jan 17-23 Election anyway??  (Reminder: sign up to vote/participate @
https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members !)

Or if we wait too long time for that (yes Christoph Derndorfer's hair is
long enough, if he wants to write us an LWV-style comparative voting guide,
reviving OLPCNews.com for just 1 month) it might be best to move/rename
Tony's above official-looking top-level [[Platform]] page.  Connecting it
some other way to https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Tony37 (unless Tony
you're truly vying to become Sugar Labs' new Executive Director, now that
the E.D. role's Bottomless Beer Tab executive privilege
turtles-upon-turtles-all-the-way-down has been leaked to all :-)

(*) Our Wedn Dec 30th call, even if way too early for Free Beer at 9:30AM
NYC Time (we'll stick to Free Education this time, sorry) is open to all
who want to think about *Sugarizer.org running from online and offline
school servers* especially.  Thanks to special guest Lionel Laske, the
original creator Sugarizer.  Open agenda @ http://tinyurl.com/xsceminutes
-- hope to see you there!!
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Re: [IAEP] 2016-2018 Oversight Board

[Nick Doiron]

Can we avoid using these lists to tell people how to vote, except via
candidate statements. It'll be much more constructive.

The list of voting members is public. You can find your friends there.

PS don't reply to me/everyone about this as I'm not voting and muting the
rest of this thread.

Nick Doiron
On Dec 30, 2015 12:31 AM, "Dan Tenason"  wrote:

>
>
>
> Tuesday, December 29, 2015 10:59 PM +08:00 from Laura Vargas <
> la...@somosazucar.org>:
>
>
> d
> Hello everybody / Hola a todos
>
> Hope all the holiday wishes come with many blessings for the big Sugar
> family.
>
> 2015 was a great year, many exciting releases! I would like to
> congratulate and thank you all.
>
> I'm glad we have enthusiastic candidates for the upcoming elections. It
> surely is of our best interest to have good quality software in the hands
> and heads of our little ones, therefore I believe during the 2016-2018
> period SL should center it's energy on QUALITY.
>
> Quality of process, functionalities, documentation,etc.
>
>
> So talking about Quality, one of the first things I would like to
> underline is that there currently is a deep organizational conflict since
> there is an Executive Director also serving as an Oversight Board member. I
> believe this situation is unhealthy and must be avoided if possible.
>
>
> How does Mr Bender having two roles causes quality problems for Sugar and
> Sugar Labs? How would Mr Bender's absence from the Board while retaining
> the title of Executive Directory improve the situation for the various
> stakeholders?
>
> This is effectively a statement of no confidence in Mr. Bender's
> Leadership. Until one has the data to support the proposal, it is going to
> to be hard to make such an emotionally charged change. There is a reason
> the board is colloquially know as "Friends of Walter."
>
> Dan
>
> From our wiki:
>
> "The Executive Director (ED) is responsible for the day to day operations
> of the foundation and reports directly to the Oversight Board
> ..."
>
> 'The current Executive Director is Walter Bender
> , elected by the during the 
> 2008-09-19
> board meeting
> ."
>
>
> I propose we ask Walter to withdraw his candidacy for the 2016-2018 Board
> and continue serving as Executive Director for Sugar Labs.
>
>
> Best regards.
> --
> Laura V.
> I SomosAZUCAR.Org
>
> Identi.ca/Skype acaire
> IRC kaametza
>
> Happy Learning!
>
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Re: [IAEP] 2016-2018 Oversight Board

[Dan Tenason]

 Wednesday, December 30, 2015 3:10 AM +05:30 from Nick Doiron < 
ndoi...@mapmeld.com >:
>
>Can we avoid using these lists to tell people how to vote, except via 
>candidate statements. It'll be much more constructive.
>The list of voting members is public. You can find your friends there.
+1 Learning is most effective when communication flows from the top down and 
discussions are divided into groups of like minded individuals.  Wait, that 
doesn't seem right.

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[IAEP] 2016-2018 Oversight Board

[Laura Vargas]

Hello everybody / Hola a todos

Hope all the holiday wishes come with many blessings for the big Sugar
family.

2015 was a great year, many exciting releases! I would like to congratulate
and thank you all.

I'm glad we have enthusiastic candidates for the upcoming elections. It
surely is of our best interest to have good quality software in the hands
and heads of our little ones, therefore I believe during the 2016-2018
period SL should center it's energy on QUALITY.

Quality of process, functionalities, documentation,etc.


So talking about Quality, one of the first things I would like to underline
is that there currently is a deep organizational conflict since there is an
Executive Director also serving as an Oversight Board member. I believe
this situation is unhealthy and must be avoided if possible.



>From our wiki:

"The Executive Director (ED) is responsible for the day to day operations
of the foundation and reports directly to the Oversight Board
..."

'The current Executive Director is Walter Bender
, elected by the during the
2008-09-19
board meeting
."


I propose we ask Walter to withdraw his candidacy for the 2016-2018 Board
and continue serving as Executive Director for Sugar Labs.


Best regards.
-- 
Laura V.
I SomosAZUCAR.Org

Identi.ca/Skype acaire
IRC kaametza

Happy Learning!
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