[IAEP] Board Status

[Sebastian Silva]

Hola Gonzalo,

In consequence to the matters as you describe them, what action plan
does the board have to address them?

I wrote to the board in November offering to volunteer for election
committee but got no response.

Regards,
Sebastian



El 26/01/15 a las 14:57, Gonzalo Odiard escibió:
> 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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