[IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi…
I disagree about XSCE. Those contributors should definitely be eligible for Sugar Labs membership. Their work has been in direct support of many Sugar Deployments. IIAB developers should also be included, if they wish, as we use their work in deployments that either do not have internet or cannot use it for some reason. For example, at one of the deployments in a battered women't shelter in  Los Angeles they use it because the children aren't allowed to use the internet. Other places use both of these these (XSCE and IIAB) in their Sugar Deployments.
Also, the many folks involved with Sugarizer should be included. Obviously, it is the only way Sugar can be used on tablets and phones and is critical in areas where XOs and computers that can run SOAS are not available. For many, it represents the future of Sugar.
Now… additionally… I personally do not feel that mearly owning an XO or using Sugar should qualify a person for membership. If they have contributed to testing various versions of Sugar or have developed lesson plans and guides or similar resources for using Sugar with children they should definitely be eligible. In fact, maybe it is time to encourage people to  share their lesson plans. There is a real need for them.
Similarly, merely adding a few lines to the wiki or writing a few responses on a mailing list should not be enough. Real contributions should show a true commitment to the project and represent many hours of work. Not just a few minutes of casual comments and a few lines of information on the wiki.
Sorry, Dave, but I think some other long-time members may tend to agree with me. Remember… bigger isn't better and quantity doesn't equal quality!
Caryl
From: dave at lab6.com
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 14:45:45 -0400
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election
To: cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
CC: caryl at laptop.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; samsongoddy at sugarlabs.org

Hi
On 6 August 2016 at 11:14, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
Contributions to L10n on http://translate.sugarlabs.org

Sounds good! Please can you extract and email me a list of all names/emails of all translation contributions? :)
On 6 August 2016 at 11:13, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:

Clearly we should be looking for people who are supporting or sponsoring XO deployments with Sugar. I'm obviously happy to cast a wide net here, so, sure - please email me a list of all names/emails of all such contributors :)
You also did not mention contributors to Sugar activities. 
OK, I'll try to grep the git logs of the activities already Github as well as the legacy Gitorious codebase. What about contributors to support-gang (albeit an olpc list)? Nah, if support-gang or unleashkids or olpc-sf or any other related community's members are not subscribed to any sugarlabs list, I don't think they can qualify as as a Sugar Labs contributor :)
What about developers and users of xsce (school server)?
Nah, that's a related but separate project for me. There are lots of projects in the libre edu tech space, I see no reason to reach out to invite them to vote in the SLOB campaign. 
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Cheers
Dave
 		 	   		  
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