<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> +1 for the proposal to extend both the registration dates and filing dates.<div> </div><div>Caryl</div><div> </div><div>P.S. How about some "love" at SCaLE in Feb???? > Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:42:06 -0400 > From: holt@laptop.org > To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-gang@laptop.org; olpc_boston@lists.laptop.org > Subject: [IAEP] an ardent proposal to bring *LOVE* back into Sugar Labs > > (1) In-person meetings in between Bostonian > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board members and Sugar/OLPC > Local Lab Boston, quasimonthly. Community is neither a buzzword, nor a > fantasy, with Sugar Labs' only 4 active board members now living in > Boston today. Community is the 132 volunteer members of > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc_boston who want to particitepate > in Sugar/OLPC but our promise withers, when accomplished teachers and > volunteers willing to pull their weight, simply don't -- as too many of > us are unintentionally hiding behind our IRC koolaid, yep myself guilty > as charged :) So it's time to throw a few parties. And get over a > couple of our antisocial hangups, at all levels of our organizing. As > our 130+ person high-energy http://olpcSF.org/summit this past weekend > proved far beyond a shadow of a doubt. As SF's own amazing hackerspace > (http://noisebridge.net) reminded us all late into the night before. > Sustainable volunteerism == bringing people together in a physical > space, even in Boston! Like others have already done globally here: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs . I made this happen last week > in San Francisco for almost 10 valiant-but-poor-volunteers, by lining > them up with other more well-off volunteers, using peer2peer donations > instead of bureaucratic budget molasses. Next year we can do this for > 20 volunteers instead of 10, if we bring ourselves together. Meantime: > I, Walter, Bernie and CJB (etc) can do our Boston and Global community a > gigantic favor if we Get Out More right here at home :) Learning (i.e. > healthy) communities live or die based on the Rhythm their members > create -- physical bonds feed online bonds and vice versa. Let us begin > now. Progress beckons: Walter, Bernie & I will meet all together Thurs > (tomorrow) for the first time in about a year, to discuss our > breakthrough community catapult in SF, even before SF's Mayor issued his > proclamation: > http://blog.laptop.org/2010/10/22/october-23-is-olpc-day-in-sf/ > > (2) Democracy does NOT grow on trees, or in the back of stale legalistic > texts. It is the worst form of governance, if we believe Churchill, and > accordingly I and Sugar Labs' Oversight Board have been negligent in not > getting folks fired up about the current election process, failing to > bringing strong awareness around precise key election dates, even > understanding it ourselves! I personally consider both to be > constitutional duty: the cleanest elections happen when we enable > get-out-the-vote mobilizations of all kind, enabling expression and > reflection AKA learning. Disturbing evidence I've uncovered in the past > 24hrs is that board members themselves I've spoken to privately remain > confused about nomination/election dates, confused about duration of > terms, confused about lame duck/impeachment/replacement/re-invitation > procedures for the several absentee board members already gone. Pity > our rank+file volunteer just trying to get some work done, or get fired > up about our so-sweet possibilities! Now drowning in this > unadvertised/undecided election machinery-- No more! I suggest we start > with Informed Consent, meaning strong advance awareness of all deadlines > and voting times -- that we hopefully all together agree to publicize > very directly off: > > http://google.com/search?q=sugar+labs+election > > (3) One specific proposal around strengthening awareness of Sugar Labs' > election clearly, widely and far more passionately, with all dates > clearly layed out, right off the uniquely memorable page above -- was > advanced by Luke Faraone (administering the election) earlier this > evening. Walter Bender says he would agree to support Luke's proposal > to extend registration (welcoming quality candidates & eligible voters > both) until something like Nov 10th 23:59 EST, if the election itself > was delayed until approximately Nov 14-27, IF our broad community and > board agrees this will all deepen our Participative process, strengthen > who we are, illustrate our shared sacrifice -- and most importantly: > waken our family and friends to our cause. Yes, I'm paraphrasing, > Walter please speak for yourself :) In any case, for me > clearness-in-democracy is non-negotiable, as is our blessed > responsibility to stay young, Meaningfully open (Lovable too please!) > while at last growing up as a 2008-2012 organization, as this election > will now decide. I support Luke's above thoughtful proposal and hope > others will too, enhancing it ideally if you can, but most important all > speaking our consciences towards deciding quickly and carefully, however > we proceed. > > (4) First kill all the lawyers (but please Shakespeare DO read our "SFC > by-laws" at > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/SFC-SugarLabs_Agreement and > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List carefully before > the light goes out :) And if a board meeting is needed to finalize any > electoral learning learning consensus(es) emerging above, or > similar/otherwise, please Walter/CJB schedule this very quickly before I > go offline most of Sat Oct 30 to Sun Nov 14 to volunteer building > http://blueTarpSchool.blogspot.com in Haiti. > > (5) I Love Haiti, but can't promise Sugar/OLPC/Realness/FabLab/Whatever > Local Lab Port-au-Prince just yet on this trip -- but I *will* do what I > can to convince my traveling companion (Tim Falconer, > http://waveplace.com/news/blog ) rest you assured!! > > (6) Fall in Love again, it won't hurt I promise... it might even > hopefully spur you to add your name here: > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010-2011-candidates > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep </div> </body> </html>