<div dir="ltr"><div>Board elections typically depend on what an organization's articles of incorporation say. To clarify, there are several organizations related to what you might call OLPC/One Laptop per Child: <ul><li>Sugar Labs, which spun off from OLPC in 2008 and maintains the "Sugar" user interface. This mailing list is maintained by them. </li><li>The "OLPC Foundation", which is a "501(c)3" charity/non-profit organization. "501(c)3" refers to the section of the United States' tax code which states what the Foundation can and cannot do. </li><li>OLPC Association, a "501(c)4" organization which handled many operational tasks for the above. </li><li>OLPC Inc., another 501(c)3 created last year by a different set of people. Many if not all of the trademarks and other property which once belonged to the OLPC Foundation and Association have been reassigned to them. </li></ul> In addition, there are a variety of other groups which have had varying relations over time. Many of them include OLPC in their name but never were officially part of the above. Past and possibly current OLPC employees have founded organizations for related causes ("Unleash Kids", "Digi-Bridge", etc.). In general many of us don't know what you might traditionally think of as OLPC has been doing recently apart from what they post on their blog. The relationships OLPC has had with volunteers, governments, and other organizations are too complex to explain in a single message. </div><div> </div>Disclaimer: While my name still appears on OLPC's website, I, along with potentially many other people listed, no longer work for them. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:godiard@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Dan, I suppose you are asking about Sugar Labs Oversight Board, right? (I don't think OLPC had a elected board at any time of their history) I am one of the members of the Oversight Board at the moment, but this is only my personal opinion. The number of volunteers proposed to integrate the board decreased in the last years, and at the end of 2013, we had less volunteers than seats to renew. At the end of 2014 we had even less. To add another problem, the volunteer who ran the elections in previous years is not available anymore. I think this is a consequence of other changes in the community/ecosystem. Right now funding of Sugar development as decreased and we still didn't find a way to sustain the minimal operations. Our users (not the kids, but the governments, fundations, etc) deploying Sugar, are used to a model where OLPC sustained a big part of the development with the sell of he XOs. That is not happening right now (OLPC continue selling XOs, but do not sustain Sugar development), but the "clients" do not see why pay for something they received by free. Gonzalo <div><div class="h5"> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Dan Tenason <<a href="mailto:dan.tenason@mail.ru">dan.tenason@mail.ru</a>> wrote: > I am following OLPC as part of a research paper on open source > organizations. > > Going over the archives, it seems there has not been a board election in a > couple of years. Has this affected the project in any way? > > -- > Dan Tenason > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Software for children learning _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div> </div>