[IAEP] an ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs

[Caryl Bigenho]

+1 for the proposal to extend both the registration dates and filing dates.
Caryl
P.S. How about some "love" at SCaLE in Feb????

> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:42:06 -0400
> From: holt at laptop.org
> To: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org; support-gang at laptop.org; olpc_boston at lists.laptop.org
> Subject: [IAEP] an ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs
> 
> (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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