Thanks, Walter. Congratulations to the new members! Looking forward to working together in 2019.
Happy holidays! Claudia On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 8:24 AM Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hope everyone is well. We are in a seasonal transition -- winter has > begun in the north and summer in the south. I wanted to convey holiday > greetings to everyone in the community and also to provide some updates: > > * We have a new oversight board. Welcome to James Cameron, Alex Perez, and > Devin Ulibarri. Lionel Laske and I were reelected to our seats. Claudia > Urrea and Samson Goddy will be completing their two-year terms in 2019. I > think we have a very strong group, with demonstrable dedication to Sugar > Labs and its mission and I look forward to having a very productive (and > fun) year. > > * Many thanks to Adam, Sameer, and Ignacio, all three of whom have > dedicated many years of effort to the project and the community. Your > contributions are appreciated. > > * James will be taking over for me as chair of the oversight board > meetings -- he runs a much better meeting than I do and I think it will be > a change for the better in terms of making us a more efficient > organization, able to make more thoughtful decisions more quickly. > > * James will also be replacing Adam as the Sugar Labs liaison to the > Software Freedom Conservancy. I know he will offer a level of > professionalism that will hopefully lead to clear and timely communication > between our organizations. > > A few heads up: > > * Devin and I head to Japan to run some Music Blocks workshops in early > January as part of an ongoing effort to reach elementary schools throughout > the country. It has been going really well so far and I have high hopes > that this little bit of Sugar will be used and enjoyed widely. > > * Rahul Bothra is helping to organize a new set of landing pages for > Google Summer of Code. I anticipate that Sugar Labs will be applying again > this year and we are striving to be more organized than in years past. > > * The winners of the Google Code-in contest will be announce in two weeks > by Google. We had some fantastic contributions this year. Thank you for all > the help with organizing (Ibiam), mentoring, and participation. > > Make sure to spend some time with family over these short (or long) days. > > regards. > > -walter > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > <http://www.sugarlabs.org> > _______________________________________________ > Lista olpc-Sur > olpc-...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur > -- Claudia Urrea, PhD OLPCA
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