[IAEP] Seeking insights into Oversight_Board/Decisions

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> Thanks to Adam for putting together
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions - is a great read
> :)
>

I put this collection together as a quick reference, not as a place to go
for the details...

>
> I have some questions about some of the motions, but some are a few years
> old and perhaps it is no longer easy to answer them - no pressure :)
>

I'll try find time to dig into most of these over the next day or two.

-walter


>
> > selectricity
>
> This sounds great! What was the experience of using it like in 2009?
>
> Today www.loomio.org seems like a similar/alternative tool that could be
> used productively.
>
> Reading the IRC logs, the meetings are pretty chaotic. While IRC has
> 'voice privileges' to allow an op to de/mute certain handles to "pass the
> mic" and keep things more orderly, I think it would be better to do voting
> via email or loomio and keep the IRC meeting for discussion motions before
> they are voted on.
>
> > the design direction being proposed by Luca
>
> Where can I read about this?
>
> > We agreed that further discussions with the SFLA about the merits of
> trademark protection is needed.
>
> (I guess SFLA is a thinko and it was either SFLC or Conservancy :)
>
> Given the trademark fee was recently paid to renew the trademarks, I guess
> the merits were accepted; but I'm curious what they were stated as at the
> time. Where can I read about the discussions at that time?
>
> > desirability to have a meeting of Sugar Labs developers a couple of
> times per year
>
> What SL developers meetings are planned for this year, if any?
>
> > Sugar Labs encourages all GNU/Linux distributions to package and
> distribute Sugar
>
> All is a long list. Where is a list of distros that have packaged sugar's
> latest release in February?
>
> > Local labs can issue Sugar certificates (and charge for this service
> whatever they want)
>
> This is an interesting business model for Local Labs. When and where were
> such certs sold? When was the most recent certificate issued by any Local
> Lab?
>
> Which Local Labs are still active?
>
> > to keep the GSoC 2010 mentor funds as our general funds.
>
> Were subsequent years also retained as general funds? Will the GSoC 2016
> mentor funds be retained also?
>
> > Making Learning Visible
>
> Where is this text?
>
> > do a survey to solicit feedback from deployments
>
> Where are this survey's results?
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
>
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Walter Bender
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