We are victorious yes..:), but this is for LA. We still are lacking a more united overall (worlwide) community representation to the OLPC board of directors. Rafael Ortiz <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Sebastian Silva <<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org" target="_blank">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The proposal has been passed with an overwhelming victory: <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/%7Eandru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_b21b2c0fdce694ad" target="_blank">http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_b21b2c0fdce694ad</a> Yama has his first meeting in a few minutes with Rodrigo Arboleda, in full representation of OLPC-Sur. We are discussing further steps to community consolidation and participation. Input is welcome. Congratulations Yama, we welcome your initiative and put our full support behind you. Sebastian 2009/1/14 Sebastian Silva <<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org" target="_blank">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>>: > Fellow Grassroots Volunteers: > > A vote is going on *right now* regarding the following proposal, which > I human-translated because I think its important. Also, some of you > may be subscribers at OLPC-Sur and thus have received a ballot. I'll > quote Yama on that one: > > "Please vote! If you haven't voted because you disagree, vote negative! > > If you think it does not correspond you, whether because you don't > want to hear from OLPC anymore, or > are a foreigner, or don't live in Latinamerica, plese, vote "abstention"!" > > The ballot has a subject that says: > "CIVS Poll now available for voting: Definir OLPC Latinoamérica" > Make sure it didnt go into your junk mail if you're subscribed. > > Here's the proposal: > > "To present a united front before Nicholas Negroponte and Rodrigo > Arboleda to achieve   the participation of the OLPC Latin America > Community in decisions affecting the work of OLPC in Latinamerica." > > "A clear position in favor of Free Software as an integral and > exclusive part of this educational project." > > "I personally commit to support this position in the community, > locally, nationally, in the Sur list, and other forums." > > "Provisionally, and until we the community can decide for an > alternative, but in no event past the 28th of february of 2009, I > support Yamandú Ploskonka acting as representative of the OLPC Latin > America community for these ends. This nomination and other positions > hereby indicated must be confirmed by majority vote of the latin > american community at the Sur list." > > I urge you to vote. Let's not be monkeys. > > Sebastian > -- Sebastian Silva Laboratorios FuenteLibre <a href="http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/</a> _______________________________________________ support-gang mailing list <a href="mailto:support-gang@lists.laptop.org" target="_blank">support-gang@lists.laptop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang</a> </blockquote></div>