Let's do it, conveniently right by Alewife's Red Line subway stop:
I will help cater -- thanks so much for your devotion to the cause Caroline.
On 10/28/2010 11:30 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
Great idea! I can host parties at my new T Accessible house in
Arlington if that helps.
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Holt <h...@laptop.org
<mailto:h...@laptop.org>> wrote:
(1) In-person meetings in between Bostonian
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board members and
Sugar/OLPC Local Lab Boston, quasimonthly. Community is neither a
buzzword, nor a fantasy, with Sugar Labs' only 4 active board
members now living in Boston today. Community is the 132
volunteer members of http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc_boston
who want to particitepate in Sugar/OLPC but our promise withers,
when accomplished teachers and volunteers willing to pull their
weight, simply don't -- as too many of us are unintentionally
hiding behind our IRC koolaid, yep myself guilty as charged :) So
it's time to throw a few parties. And get over a couple of our
antisocial hangups, at all levels of our organizing. As our 130+
person high-energy http://olpcSF.org/summit this past weekend
proved far beyond a shadow of a doubt. As SF's own amazing
hackerspace (http://noisebridge.net) reminded us all late into the
night before. Sustainable volunteerism == bringing people
together in a physical space, even in Boston! Like others have
already done globally here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs . I made this happen last
week in San Francisco for almost 10 valiant-but-poor-volunteers,
by lining them up with other more well-off volunteers, using
peer2peer donations instead of bureaucratic budget molasses. Next
year we can do this for 20 volunteers instead of 10, if we bring
ourselves together. Meantime: I, Walter, Bernie and CJB (etc) can
do our Boston and Global community a gigantic favor if we Get Out
More right here at home :) Learning (i.e. healthy) communities
live or die based on the Rhythm their members create -- physical
bonds feed online bonds and vice versa. Let us begin now.
Progress beckons: Walter, Bernie & I will meet all together Thurs
(tomorrow) for the first time in about a year, to discuss our
breakthrough community catapult in SF, even before SF's Mayor
issued his proclamation:
http://blog.laptop.org/2010/10/22/october-23-is-olpc-day-in-sf/
(2) Democracy does NOT grow on trees, or in the back of stale
legalistic texts. It is the worst form of governance, if we
believe Churchill, and accordingly I and Sugar Labs' Oversight
Board have been negligent in not getting folks fired up about the
current election process, failing to bringing strong awareness
around precise key election dates, even understanding it
ourselves! I personally consider both to be constitutional duty:
the cleanest elections happen when we enable get-out-the-vote
mobilizations of all kind, enabling expression and reflection AKA
learning. Disturbing evidence I've uncovered in the past 24hrs is
that board members themselves I've spoken to privately remain
confused about nomination/election dates, confused about duration
of terms, confused about lame
duck/impeachment/replacement/re-invitation procedures for the
several absentee board members already gone. Pity our rank+file
volunteer just trying to get some work done, or get fired up about
our so-sweet possibilities! Now drowning in this
unadvertised/undecided election machinery-- No more! I suggest we
start with Informed Consent, meaning strong advance awareness of
all deadlines and voting times -- that we hopefully all together
agree to publicize very directly off:
http://google.com/search?q=sugar+labs+election
(3) One specific proposal around strengthening awareness of Sugar
Labs' election clearly, widely and far more passionately, with all
dates clearly layed out, right off the uniquely memorable page
above -- was advanced by Luke Faraone (administering the election)
earlier this evening. Walter Bender says he would agree to
support Luke's proposal to extend registration (welcoming quality
candidates & eligible voters both) until something like Nov 10th
23:59 EST, if the election itself was delayed until approximately
Nov 14-27, IF our broad community and board agrees this will all
deepen our Participative process, strengthen who we are,
illustrate our shared sacrifice -- and most importantly: waken our
family and friends to our cause. Yes, I'm paraphrasing, Walter
please speak for yourself :) In any case, for me
clearness-in-democracy is non-negotiable, as is our blessed
responsibility to stay young, Meaningfully open (Lovable too
please!) while at last growing up as a 2008-2012 organization, as
this election will now decide. I support Luke's above thoughtful
proposal and hope others will too, enhancing it ideally if you
can, but most important all speaking our consciences towards
deciding quickly and carefully, however we proceed.
(4) First kill all the lawyers (but please Shakespeare DO read our
"SFC by-laws" at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/SFC-SugarLabs_Agreement
and http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List carefully
before the light goes out :) And if a board meeting is needed to
finalize any electoral learning learning consensus(es) emerging
above, or similar/otherwise, please Walter/CJB schedule this very
quickly before I go offline most of Sat Oct 30 to Sun Nov 14 to
volunteer building http://blueTarpSchool.blogspot.com in Haiti.
(5) I Love Haiti, but can't promise
Sugar/OLPC/Realness/FabLab/Whatever Local Lab Port-au-Prince just
yet on this trip -- but I *will* do what I can to convince my
traveling companion (Tim Falconer, http://waveplace.com/news/blog
) rest you assured!!
(6) Fall in Love again, it won't hurt I promise... it might even
hopefully spur you to add your name here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010-2011-candidates
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