[Sugar-devel] [background reading] Performance Culture

Hi I thought I'd share this thoughtful piece on 'performance culture' :) http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/04/10/performance-culture/ -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] Sugar's requirements?

Hi What are Sugar's requirements for system libraries? Python 2.7 and GTK+3 (and also still 2?) freedesktop.org or GNOME libraries like dbus, networkmanager? And, what hardware is required? Webcam? Microphone? Accelerometer? I read in the historical archives that it would not run on Windows

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

Hi Basically a "Member" is a "significant and sustained" contributor to Sugar Labs; Members can run for election to the Oversight Board, vote in the elections for the Oversight Board, and suggest referenda. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members Adam, I think the list is at

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

I'm new around here, and it's been interested to passively follow the discussion. Just to clarify... what is a member? I really want to contribute to this project, but I don't want to have to pay to work for free. :) On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:21:01 -0500 Dave Crossland d...@lab6.comwrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-12 2:08 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland : > > On 11 May 2016 at 14:05, Laura Vargas wrote: > >> there are ~US$65,000 available for planning/distributing among >> activities/teams/projects etc. > > > I think its essential that this be spent in ways that led

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

On May 11, 2016 2:55 PM, "Sebastian Silva" wrote: > > El 11/05/16 a las 13:40, Adam Holt escribió: > > This was clarified when I joined SL Oversight Board at the end of > > 2009, and again exhaustively re-clarified at the beginning of this year. > Can you point me to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

El 11/05/16 a las 13:40, Adam Holt escribió: > This was clarified when I joined SL Oversight Board at the end of > 2009, and again exhaustively re-clarified at the beginning of this year. Can you point me to where this was "exhaustively re-clarified" ? Thanks!

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

4 affirmative votes (majoruty of 7 seats) are required for all motions to pass. This was clarified when I joined SL Oversight Board at the end of 2009, and again exhaustively re-clarified at the beginning of this year. On May 11, 2016 2:24 PM, "Sebastian Silva" wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

On 11 May 2016 at 13:53, Adam Holt wrote: > Personally I'd be in favor of splitting $500 GSoC payments between > organization and mentors-in-need ($250 each) particularly those mentors in > low-income countries (of those most demonstrably catalyzed by a $250 > Honorarium) if

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

On May 7, 2016 3:33 PM, "Lionel Laské" wrote: > > Disagree. > > Thought I understand that 500$ is lot of money for some people, I think that GSoC is also a way for SugarLabs to raise money. Because we don't ask for an annual fee to member (like other association, for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

On 11 May 2016 at 13:03, Laura Vargas wrote: > Sorry I missed to explain this. By the date of the agreement (2012), the > Project agreed that, on the Effective Date, $1,887.44 (10% of the existing > Project Fund on the Effective Date), will be donated to Conservancy’s >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-12 0:56 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland : > > > On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Laura Vargas wrote: > >> You are totally right Adam, I'm sorry I did not notice these were >> cumulative values. Corrected table would look like this: >> >> >> >> Total Income 10% of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Laura Vargas wrote: > You are totally right Adam, I'm sorry I did not notice these were > cumulative values. Corrected table would look like this: > > > > Total Income 10% of Total Income > > > > 2015 $9.028,56 $902,86 > 2014 $49.622,18 $4.962,22 >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

You are totally right Adam, I'm sorry I did not notice these were cumulative values. Corrected table would look like this: Total Income 10% of Total Income 2015 $9.028,56 $902,86 2014 $49.622,18 $4.962,22 2013 $49.229,19 $4.922,92 2012 $208,26 $1.908,27 *Total* *$108.088,19* *$12.696,26*

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

Approve. Sameer On May 6, 2016 4:49 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > At today's Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the motion > submitted by Sebastian Silva to allow the mentors participating in Google > Summer of Code to disperse the mentor stipend among