Thank you for the information. It is interesting to study how projects evolve and devolve over time.
Dan Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:39 PM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard <godi...@sugarlabs.org>: >There are two different problems: > >Why people don't want or don't care be a candidate? >Right now, there are only one candidate [1], not enough to fill the seats we >need change. > >The second point is related to what you say about your proposal. > >Reading again the log from 2014-10-07 [2] >the last action proposed was contact you with Luke. >I think Walter couldn't contact Luke, and nothing moved after that, >in part because we was dumped with GCI work. > >I don't see newer logs/minutes here [3], >but the links to latest meetings are here: >Nov: http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2014-11-04 >Dec: http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2014-12-02 >Jan: http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2015-01-13 >http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2015-01-14 > >Gonzalo > >[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2014-2015-candidates >[2] http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2014-10-07 >[3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes > > >On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Sebastian Silva < sebast...@fuentelibre.org >> wrote: >>Hola Gonzalo, >> >>In consequence to the matters as you describe them, what action plan >>does the board have to address them? >> >>I wrote to the board in November offering to volunteer for election >>committee but got no response. >> >>Regards, >>Sebastian >> >> >> >>El 26/01/15 a las 14:57, Gonzalo Odiard escibió: >>> Hi Dan, >>> I suppose you are asking about Sugar Labs Oversight Board, right? >>> (I don't think OLPC had a elected board at any time of their history) >>> I am one of the members of the Oversight Board at the moment, >>> but this is only my personal opinion. >>> The number of volunteers proposed to integrate the board decreased >>> in the last years, and at the end of 2013, we had less volunteers >>> than seats to renew. At the end of 2014 we had even less. >>> To add another problem, the volunteer who ran the elections in previous >>> years >>> is not available anymore. >>> I think this is a consequence of other changes in the community/ecosystem. >>> Right now funding of Sugar development as decreased and we still >>> didn't find a way to sustain the minimal operations. Our users (not the >>> kids, >>> but the governments, fundations, etc) deploying Sugar, are used to a model >>> where OLPC sustained a big part of the development with the sell of he XOs. >>> That is not happening right now (OLPC continue selling XOs, but do not >>> sustain Sugar development), >>> but the "clients" do not see why pay for something they received by free. >>> >>> Gonzalo >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Dan Tenason < dan.tena...@mail.ru > wrote: >>>> I am following OLPC as part of a research paper on open source >>>> organizations. >>>> >>>> Going over the archives, it seems there has not been a board election in a >>>> couple of years. Has this affected the project in any way? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dan Tenason >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >>> >> > > > >-- >Gonzalo Odiard > >SugarLabs - Software for children learning >_______________________________________________ >IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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