[IAEP] Board Status

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Hi Dan,
I suppose you are asking about Sugar Labs Oversight Board, right?
(I don't think OLPC had a elected board at any time of their history)
I am one of the members of the Oversight Board at the moment,
but this is only my personal opinion.
The number of volunteers proposed to integrate the board decreased
in the last years, and at the end of 2013, we had less volunteers
than seats to renew. At the end of 2014 we had even less.
To add another problem, the volunteer who ran the elections in previous years
is not available anymore.
I think this is a consequence of other changes in the community/ecosystem.
Right now funding of Sugar development as decreased and we still
didn't find a way to sustain the minimal operations. Our users (not the kids,
but the governments, fundations, etc) deploying Sugar, are used to a model
where OLPC sustained a big part of the development with the sell of he XOs.
That is not happening right now (OLPC continue selling XOs, but do not
sustain Sugar development),
but the "clients" do not see why pay for something they received by free.

Gonzalo



On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Dan Tenason <dan.tenason at mail.ru> wrote:
> I am following OLPC as part of a research paper on open source
> organizations.
>
> Going over the archives, it seems there has not been a board election in a
> couple of years. Has this affected the project in any way?
>
> --
> Dan Tenason
>
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