<div dir="ltr">If the current governing documents don't allow mid-term replacements due to someone resigning or shortages, that might be something worth amending them to include. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We run elections at the end of each year. If we have fewer candidates than slots to fill, we don't run the election. We'll run another election at the end of 2015. Regards. -walter <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Laura Vargas <<a href="mailto:laura@somosazucar.org">laura@somosazucar.org</a>> wrote: > I'm really sorry I didn't understood well your intructions at that time... > > Now, my name is on the list ;D > > > According to your logic, we should run elections when we have enough candidates. > > > How many additional candidates do we need? > > > > 2015-03-10 11:23 GMT-05:00 Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:godiard@sugarlabs.org">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>>: >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Laura Vargas <<a href="mailto:laura@somosazucar.org">laura@somosazucar.org</a>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Gonzalo, >>> >>> >>> Regarding the Sugar Labs Board, if no elections are going to me be >>> made, how do you justify not to rotate the board members with long >>> time active volunteers? specially those who have shown interest, like >>> I have >>> >> >> Hi Laura, >> Why you didn't follow the procedure to make your candidature? >> You only needed add your name to >> <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> >> >> That was requested many times, and there are only two candidates to fill 4 >> seats. >> >> Gonzalo >> >>> >>> Thanks and I really hope (for the sake of the kids) we can run a >>> democratic community soon! >>> >>> >>> 2015-03-10 10:06 GMT-05:00 Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:godiard@sugarlabs.org">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>>: >>> > Hi Sebastian, >>> > >>> > In this specific case, we will keep the replies from the deployments >>> > confidential >>> > and release a general inform with conclusions without naming the >>> > deployment >>> > involved. >>> > There are a reason for that, and anybody involved in negotiation with >>> > countries will understand. >>> > Every time than a country say will buy N number of hardware with X >>> > software, >>> > all the big companies start to pressure. >>> > Transparency have a big value, but we can't be naive. >>> >> >>> >> and we are organizing a face to face meeting with all the members fro >>> >> SLOBs, >>> > >>> > >>> >> >>> >> How will this help to address Dan's (valid) concern? >>> >> >>> >> to discuss strategies. >>> > >>> > We need do a deep discussion we can't do by irc or email. >>> > I don't know if this is the solution, but we are trying something >>> > different. >>> > >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> We are discussing more ideas, like survey the community and teachers, >>> >> like >>> >> was proposed in this list. >>> >> >>> >> And? >>> > >>> > >>> > I don't understand the question. >>> > >>> > Gonzalo >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > 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> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Laura V. >>> I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org >>> >>> Identi.ca/Skype acaire >>> IRC kaametza >>> >>> Happy Learning! >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gonzalo Odiard >> >> SugarLabs - Software for children learning > > > > -- > Laura V. > I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org > > Identi.ca/Skype acaire > IRC kaametza > > Happy 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> </div></div>-- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">_______________________________________________ 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> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>