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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>:<br>
<br>
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!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.</span><br>
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In my humble opinion, the decision about when to do elections should
not reside with the board, but with the elections committee.<br>
Aparently lfaraone is MIA.<br>
<br>
At any rate this course of events should've been discussed/announced
to the Sugar Labs members.<br>
<br>
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).<br>
<br>
I have volunteered to be member of elections committee since Oct
2014.<br>
I cannot do this work without being appointed the role by the board,
as per the governance model.<br>
<br>
I did not become a candidate because I was expecting do the
gruntwork to run the election.<br>
<br>
I will abide by what the majority of Sugar Labs members wish and the
accepted oversight board.<br>
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> :<br>
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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.</p>
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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.<br>
<br>
I would like to hear more opinion from the community about the
election process.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Sebastian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 10/03/15 a las 11:47, Samuel
Greenfeld escibió:<br>
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<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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:38 PM,
Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<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<br>
than slots to fill, we don't run the election. We'll run
another<br>
election at the end of 2015.<br>
<br>
Regards.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-walter<br>
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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:<br>
> I'm really sorry I didn't understood well your
intructions at that time...<br>
><br>
> Now, my name is on the list ;D<br>
><br>
><br>
> According to your logic, we should run elections
when we have enough candidates.<br>
><br>
><br>
> How many additional candidates do we need?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> 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>>:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> 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:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi Gonzalo,<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Regarding the Sugar Labs Board, if no
elections are going to me be<br>
>>> made, how do you justify not to rotate the
board members with long<br>
>>> time active volunteers? specially those who
have shown interest, like<br>
>>> I have<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> Hi Laura,<br>
>> Why you didn't follow the procedure to make
your candidature?<br>
>> You only needed add your name to<br>
>> <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><br>
>><br>
>> That was requested many times, and there are
only two candidates to fill 4<br>
>> seats.<br>
>><br>
>> Gonzalo<br>
>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Thanks and I really hope (for the sake of
the kids) we can run a<br>
>>> democratic community soon!<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> 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>>:<br>
>>> > Hi Sebastian,<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > In this specific case, we will keep
the replies from the deployments<br>
>>> > confidential<br>
>>> > and release a general inform with
conclusions without naming the<br>
>>> > deployment<br>
>>> > involved.<br>
>>> > There are a reason for that, and
anybody involved in negotiation with<br>
>>> > countries will understand.<br>
>>> > Every time than a country say will buy
N number of hardware with X<br>
>>> > software,<br>
>>> > all the big companies start to
pressure.<br>
>>> > Transparency have a big value, but we
can't be naive.<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> and we are organizing a face to
face meeting with all the members fro<br>
>>> >> SLOBs,<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> ><br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> How will this help to address
Dan's (valid) concern?<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> to discuss strategies.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > We need do a deep discussion we can't
do by irc or email.<br>
>>> > I don't know if this is the solution,
but we are trying something<br>
>>> > different.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> We are discussing more ideas, like
survey the community and teachers,<br>
>>> >> like<br>
>>> >> was proposed in this list.<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> And?<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > I don't understand the question.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Gonzalo<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> >
_______________________________________________<br>
>>> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not
a laptop project!)<br>
>>> > <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
>>> > <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep"
target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Laura V.<br>
>>> I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org<br>
>>><br>
>>> Identi.ca/Skype acaire<br>
>>> IRC kaametza<br>
>>><br>
>>> Happy Learning!<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Gonzalo Odiard<br>
>><br>
>> SugarLabs - Software for children learning<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Laura V.<br>
> I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org<br>
><br>
> Identi.ca/Skype acaire<br>
> IRC kaametza<br>
><br>
> Happy Learning!<br>
> _______________________________________________<br>
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop
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<span class="im HOEnZb">--<br>
Walter Bender<br>
Sugar Labs<br>
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target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
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