A couple of time over the last several weeks, there have been some high level discussions about Sugar Labs technical issues. The most recent one has been about differing needs of distributors and core developers.
If we factor in the current size and expected growth rate of the sugar ecosystem, it makes sense to start a sugar Labs engineering Steering committee to set and communicate technical policy decisions. Basically, I would expect that they operate the same way as the over sight board. Be there to make decision when necessary, but mainly stay our of the way. I don't believe that Slobs has met for a few months. I have sent monthly budgets and asked for approval of the monthly expenditures by email vote. Other than that, the community is almost completely self directing. I would envision that the technical steering committee would have a similar role. The purpose of the steering committee would be to insure that the different groups in the Sugar ecosystem have a voice in technical decisions. To prevent adding too much administrative overhead, I would like to suggest that the steering committee be established by appointing 6 represenatives. Deployment Hardware Vendor Distribution 2 core developers Activity As the project grows, the selection method and size of the steering committee will change to reflect the communities needs. david _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel