[IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs weekly update, 2010-07-11

[Bernie Innocenti]

El Sun, 11-07-2010 a las 06:54 -0400, Mel Chua escribió:

> Our meetbot does some truly awful meeting minutes formatting, but here's 
> the summary of 
> http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.minutes.20100711_0446.html:


It was a wonderful SLOBs un-meeting, we should have more of these!


> * Local Labs TM applications can't be found, so we'll drop this topic 
> until a Local Lab is indeed blocked by lack of TM permission, at which 
> point they should ping SLOBs (via emailing the slobs and iaep lists with 
> their request - doesn't have to be formal, just needs to be publicly 
> documented somewhere) so we can +1 them. DONE!

To minimize the overhead of funding future Local Labs, we may want to
implicitly grant TM usage consistently with the approval of the lab
itself.


> * Question from Kevin Mark: "Who should be the deciding organization for 
> who determines what version of sugar is used in the field?" (Hitting the 
> list shortly as a separate discussion thread, but no action really 
> needed - just a good point to bring up.)

My viewpoint is that Sugar Labs as a whole shouldn't officially endorse,
recommend or support anything at all. The decision to take such
commitment is up to the individuals (or teams, or companies) who are
willing to put the weight of their professional expertise behind the
projects they're interested in.

In other words, we as a community-driven organization shall not
interfere as long as the laws of self-organization are doing their job
right :-)

This reflects Mel's projects proposal and Tomeu's view that Sugar Labs
is a place to work together, not one of the players itself.


> What else do people consider the most pressing topics to the future of 
> SL? How are we doing? Are we reaching our goals? (What are they?) These 
> should be the agenda items we discuss.

Didn't we set goals for 2010 a while ago? It would be nice to review
them now. In my mind, this year we're seing a huge leap forward in the
Sugar Labs community. Relationships with OLPC have enormously improved
and deployments are starting to get engaged in development. The
relationship with Fedora is as strong as ever and Debian/Ubuntu are
coming along. 

My #1 priority for this year was to close the gap between what our
development team releases and what OLPC deployments are rolling out,
which seems to be happening now.

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