[IAEP] [SLOBS] Motion To declare a fix date for every year's Sugar Labs Oversight Board election.

[Walter Bender]

I suppose trying to legislate a date is worth trying, but I don't think the
problem has been one of setting the time of the election, but rather
getting candidates for the election. Not sure how this helps.

-walter

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org> wrote:

> Walter,
>
> Currently in the Sugar Labs Governance [1] terms there is no description
> of any of time-line, stages and basic procedures for SLOBs elections. This
> is a bug and needs to be corrected.
>
> SLOBs approval is required because the adoption of a fixed date for SLOB's
> elections every year does modify our current terms of Governance. So here
> is the new motion:
>
> *Motion: To modify Sugar Labs Governance terms so that there is a fixed
> date for every year's Sugar Labs Oversight Board election.* Sugar Labs
> Oversight Board, elections will take place every second Friday of the 12th
> month, every year. Therefore elections for 2017 will take place on December
> 8, 2017.
>
>
> Hopefully by adopting this policy, we will have elections every year :D
>
> There is a nice example of time-line and procedures for elections at the
> Debian Project Governance model [2].
>
> Regards,
> Laura Victoria
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance
> [2] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-5
>
>
> 2017-03-14 11:40 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
>
>> I think this is a matter for the Election committee, not SLOBs. -1 from
>> me.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> For having a fix date for SLOBs elections; democratic process require
>>> clear time lines.
>>>
>>> Hope to hear from all other SLOBs.
>>>
>>> Regards and blessings,
>>>
>>> Laura Victoria
>>>
>>> 2017-03-11 9:03 GMT-05:00 Samson Goddy <samsongoddy at sugarlabs.org>:
>>>
>>>> +1 for me, i think we should begin the voting!
>>>>
>>>> Samson
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear SLOBs:
>>>>>
>>>>> As discussed on March 3, 2017 Sugar Labs Oversight Board meeting, and
>>>>> with the purpose of securing the dates for every year's elections, I am
>>>>> presenting the following motion for approval by SLOBs:
>>>>>
>>>>> *Motion: To declare a fix date for every year's Sugar Labs Oversight
>>>>> Board election.*
>>>>> Sugar Labs Oversight Board, elections will take place every second
>>>>> Friday of the 12th month, every year. Therefore elections for 2017 will
>>>>> take place on December 8, 2017.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If someone on the board seconds the motion, we can begin a vote.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards and blessings.
>>>>>
>>>>> Laura Victoria
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2017-02-21 11:22 GMT-05:00 Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello all! Hola a todos!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to propose an activity so that SL members can keep up to
>>>>>> date with Sugar Labs Events and give and receive support. But first we need
>>>>>> to have an "official" calendar to start with :D
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One recurrent event we have all years is the SLOBs elections on
>>>>>> December, that we must set ahead for the committees to perform on time. I
>>>>>> will present a motion for elections to take place every second friday of
>>>>>> each 12th month of every year. If seconded and approved, upcoming elections
>>>>>> would take place on December 8th of 2017.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Although I'm not familiar with the details, I know there is a
>>>>>> recurrent Turtle Art Day as well, maybe Walter can confirm if is recurrent
>>>>>> and of it has fixed date to take place.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Other recurrent events that may be considered to be included in the
>>>>>> base calendar, are those related with the applications and commitments made
>>>>>> with recurrent sponsors on each program/sponsorship. For example the Google
>>>>>> Summer of Code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Of course one Sugar Camp would be nice to have once in a while. Still
>>>>>> I'm not proposing traveling as a recurrent event as I consider environment
>>>>>> global impact of traveling with current technology has a negative value at
>>>>>> the end. Shall we coordinate something online for this year perhaps?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards, blessings and hope to hear lots of input in this threat :D
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Laura V.
>>>>>> * I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> “No paradox, no progress.”
>>>>>> ~ Niels Bohr
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Happy Learning!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Laura V.
>>>>> * I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org*
>>>>>
>>>>> “No paradox, no progress.”
>>>>> ~ Niels Bohr
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy Learning!
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Laura V.
>>> * I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org*
>>>
>>> “No paradox, no progress.”
>>> ~ Niels Bohr
>>>
>>> Happy Learning!
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Laura V.
> * I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org*
>
> “No paradox, no progress.”
> ~ Niels Bohr
>
> Happy Learning!
>
>


-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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