<HTML><BODY><br>Thank you for the information. It is interesting to study how projects evolve and devolve over time.<br><br>Dan <br><br><br><br>Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:39 PM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard <godiard@sugarlabs.org>:<br>
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<div id="style_14224739770000000634_BODY"><div dir="ltr"><div>There are two different problems:</div><div><br></div><div>Why people don't want or don't care be a candidate?</div><div>Right now, there are only one candidate [1], not enough to fill the seats we need change.</div><div><br></div><div>The second point is related to what you say about your proposal.<br></div><div><br></div>Reading again the log from 2014-10-07 [2]<div>the last action proposed was contact you with Luke.</div><div>I think Walter couldn't contact Luke, and nothing moved after that, </div><div>in part because we was dumped with GCI work.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't see newer logs/minutes here [3], </div><div>but the links to latest meetings are here:</div><div>Nov: <a href="http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2014-11-04" target="_blank">http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2014-11-04</a><br></div><div>Dec: <a href="http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2014-12-02" target="_blank">http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2014-12-02</a><br></div><div>Jan: <a href="http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2015-01-13" target="_blank">http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2015-01-13</a></div><div><a href="http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2015-01-14" target="_blank">http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2015-01-14</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2014-2015-candidates" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2014-2015-candidates</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2014-10-07" target="_blank">http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2014-10-07</a> </div><div>[3] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br><div>On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3asebastian@fuentelibre.org" target="_blank">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hola Gonzalo,<br>
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In consequence to the matters as you describe them, what action plan<br>
does the board have to address them?<br>
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I wrote to the board in November offering to volunteer for election<br>
committee but got no response.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Sebastian<br>
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El 26/01/15 a las 14:57, Gonzalo Odiard escibió:<br>
<div><div>> Hi Dan,<br>
> I suppose you are asking about Sugar Labs Oversight Board, right?<br>
> (I don't think OLPC had a elected board at any time of their history)<br>
> I am one of the members of the Oversight Board at the moment,<br>
> but this is only my personal opinion.<br>
> The number of volunteers proposed to integrate the board decreased<br>
> in the last years, and at the end of 2013, we had less volunteers<br>
> than seats to renew. At the end of 2014 we had even less.<br>
> To add another problem, the volunteer who ran the elections in previous years<br>
> is not available anymore.<br>
> I think this is a consequence of other changes in the community/ecosystem.<br>
> Right now funding of Sugar development as decreased and we still<br>
> didn't find a way to sustain the minimal operations. Our users (not the kids,<br>
> but the governments, fundations, etc) deploying Sugar, are used to a model<br>
> where OLPC sustained a big part of the development with the sell of he XOs.<br>
> That is not happening right now (OLPC continue selling XOs, but do not<br>
> sustain Sugar development),<br>
> but the "clients" do not see why pay for something they received by free.<br>
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> Gonzalo<br>
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> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Dan Tenason <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3adan.tenason@mail.ru" target="_blank">dan.tenason@mail.ru</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I am following OLPC as part of a research paper on open source<br>
>> organizations.<br>
>><br>
>> Going over the archives, it seems there has not been a board election in a<br>
>> couple of years. Has this affected the project in any way?<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Dan Tenason<br>
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