<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Actually, the governance model says nothing about election at the end of every year, nor about shortages of candidates. <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance#Oversight_Board">It does say</a>: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sugar Labs shall be governed by an Oversight Board, consisting of seven (7) members elected by the Sugar community—the Sugar Membership. The positions on the Oversight Board will be on a two-year staggered basis. The members of the Oversight Board may be removed from the position at any time by a majority vote of the Community Members. Upon the resignation or removal of a member of the Oversight Board, the Community Members shall elect a replacement Community Member to serve on the Oversight Board. In my humble opinion, the decision about when to do elections should not reside with the board, but with the elections committee. Aparently lfaraone is MIA. At any rate this course of events should've been discussed/announced to the Sugar Labs members. It could've been expected, that the board members with expired period would simply no longer be board members and that the 2 candidates would be promoted to board members (as pretty much happened last year, except no shortage). I have volunteered to be member of elections committee since Oct 2014. I cannot do this work without being appointed the role by the board, as per the governance model. I did not become a candidate because I was expecting do the gruntwork to run the election. I will abide by what the majority of Sugar Labs members wish and the accepted oversight board. If we are to run elections any time we need to also follow <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members</a> : <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.3; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Currency assurance policy<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; float: right; font-family: sans-serif;">[<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Sugar_Labs/Members&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Currency assurance policy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 14.9333333969116px; cursor: url(http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/1/10/TextSmall.cur), text; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In order to ensure that the Sugar Labs Membership list is reflective of the current status of the project and its participants, once a year members will be asked to confirm that they still wish to be a Sugar Labs Member. If this request bounces, or if a request has not been replied to after it has been a) resent, b) checked for a more current email address, and c) six months have passed, the member will be sent a removal notice with an invitation to reapply. I am in technical capacity and have the good will to begin working with these objectives as soon as I get the board's appointment. I would like to hear more opinion from the community about the election process. Regards, Sebastian <div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 10/03/15 a las 11:47, Samuel Greenfeld escibió: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CA+cAqjMXb-4iQYj_P+No7L7GLwW0+58fMR2L7FBAtguRBJ85PA@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:godiard@sugarlabs.org">godiard@sugarlabs.org</a>>: >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Laura Vargas <<a moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >>> > <a moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </div> </div> -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>