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

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org> wrote:

> Is that a +1 from you to the updated motion then?
>
>
No. -1 since I see no value presented in adding another constraint.


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


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Walter Bender
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