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

[Laura Vargas]

Is that a +1 from you to the updated motion then?

Regards,

Laura V

2017-03-14 14:00 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:

> 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
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Laura V.
>> * I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org*
>>
>> “No paradox, no progress.”
>> ~ Niels Bohr
>>
>> Happy Learning!
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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>



-- 
Laura V.
* I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org*

“No paradox, no progress.”
~ Niels Bohr

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