[IAEP] [Sugar-news] Election status update

[Sascha Silbe]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 02:20:43AM -0400, DancesWithCars wrote:

> Then a frozen membership list, first before a call
> for elections.
Please don't spread FUD.

This has been discussed over a month ago:

From: Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:59:33 -0400
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To: IAEP SugarLabs <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
      Sugar Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
Subject: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Membership proposal


There has been a reminder two weeks later:

From: Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 18:48:38 -0400
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To: IAEP SugarLabs <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
      Sugar Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
      Community Support Volunteers <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>,
      Marketing <marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org>
Subject: [IAEP] REMINDER: Sugar Labs Membership deadline Sept. 6


Eligibility for membership status and it's impact has been made quite 
clear:

> If you're worried about whether you qualify; if you're subscribed to 
> one of
> the mailing lists receiving this email, you probably should be on the 
> SL
> Members List.

> As a Sugar Labs member, you will get the oppertunity to vote in 
> elections
> determining the project's governance, such as the upcoming Oversight
> Board<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board> 2009-2001
> Election 
> <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2009-2010-candidates>

It has been set as a topic for the IRC channel (#sugar on Freenode) for 
about a month. Also there was a call to put oneself on the membership 
list in the context of the election as early as 2009-08-05 [1] (i.e. 
almost two months ago) at a minimum (haven't tried at all to find 
anything even older).

While it could have been announced more clearly (e.g. by sending out an 
_election_ reminder noting the membership status deadline), this is 
_very_ far from "first before a call for elections".


[1] 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Current_Events/Archive/2009-08-05#Help_wanted

CU Sascha

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