[IAEP] Board Status

[Dan Tenason]

Thank you for the information. It is interesting to study how projects evolve and devolve over time.

Dan 



Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:39 PM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>:
>There are two different  problems:
>
>Why people don't want or don't care be a candidate?
>Right now, there are only one candidate [1], not enough to fill the seats we need change.
>
>The second point is related to what you say about your proposal.
>
>Reading again the log from 2014-10-07 [2]
>the last action proposed was contact you with Luke.
>I think Walter couldn't contact Luke, and nothing moved after that, 
>in part because we was dumped with GCI work.
>
>I don't see newer logs/minutes here [3], 
>but the links to latest meetings are here:
>Nov:  http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2014-11-04
>Dec:  http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2014-12-02
>Jan:  http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2015-01-13
>http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2015-01-14
>
>Gonzalo
>
>[1]  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2014-2015-candidates
>[2]  http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2014-10-07  
>[3]  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes
>
>
>On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Sebastian Silva  < sebastian at fuentelibre.org > wrote:
>>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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>Gonzalo Odiard
>
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