[IAEP] Urgent Motion: To add three contributors into the membership/election committee

[James Cameron]

Thanks.

I don't think adding more Sugar Labs members to the membership and
elections committee will increase transparency.

Practices that will increase transparency are;

- make open the discussions, meetings, minutes, and decisions of the
  committee,

- make open the collective actions of the committee; Laura is doing
  that job very well,

- make open the individual actions of the committee,

- declaring any conflicts of interest, or confirming there are no
  conflicts of interest, as a consequence of being on committee,

- deciding the types of information that will not be made open; such
  as votes, and Sugar Labs member e-mail addresses.

There's a risk adding more Sugar Labs members to the membership and
elections committee might decrease transparency; by reducing time
spent on transparency practices.

Don't forget, the membership and elections committee also has two
independent third parties they can turn to; Dave Crossland (impartial
election oversight party), and Bert Freudenberg as Ombudsman.

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 12:09:49AM +0100, Samson Goddy wrote:
> Thank you James,
> 
> The reason we want more members is due to the current members are all SLOBS and
> since we will be having elections it is wise to have some non-SLOBS member in,
> for sake of transparency.  
> 
> Samson
> 
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 12:05 AM, James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     Good that the motion passed, but I'll comment anyway.  ;-)
> 
>     Pericherla Seetaramaraju and Hirish Patel are not Sugar Labs members
>     yet.  On the other hand, nor am I.
> 
>     My opinion is that it is up to the membership and elections committee
>     who they invite to their meetings and who they collaborate with.  Call
>     them visitors.  Visitors need not be Sugar Labs members.  Visitors
>     could be asked their opinion but their vote on motions could be
>     avoided.
> 
>     I don't see why the committee needs more committee members, apart from
>     Walter's concern that the committee at the moment consists only of
>     the continuing oversight board members.
> 
>     [2]http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2017-09-01T19:10:08#
>     i_2902795
> 
>     This perhaps is more a function of the level of interest overall; and
>     losing Ignacio is an unfortunate sign of that.
>    
>     On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 05:43:31PM -0500, Laura Vargas wrote:
>     > Samson,
>     >
>     > I would support a motion to add Ibiam to the Membership and elections
>     Committee
>     > since Ibiam is a Sugar Labs member.
>     >
>     > Not sure it works for non Sugar Labs members.
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>     > Laura V
>     > Membership and Elections Committee Liaison
>     >
>     > 2017-09-06 16:02 GMT-05:00 Samson Goddy <[1][3]samsongoddy at gmail.com>:
>     >
>     >     Hello, 
>     >
>     >     I am requesting to SLOB. To add Pericherla Seetaramaraju  (Google
>     Summer of
>     >     Code Intern), Hirish Patel (Contributor and Google Summer of Code
>     Mentor) 
>     >     and Ibiam Chihurumnaya (Member of Sugar Labs). I mentioned at the
>     meeting
>     >     that we need more members in the Membership/Election committee. 
>     >
>     >
>     >     I will appreciate if someone second this motion for voting.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >     Regards
>     >
>     >     Samson Goddy
>     >
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> [2] http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2017-09-01T19:10:08#i_2902795
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