<HTML><BODY><br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6; margin:10px; padding:0 0 0 10px;"> Tuesday, December 29, 2015 10:59 PM +08:00 from Laura Vargas <laura@somosazucar.org>:<br><br><div id=""><div class="js-helper js-readmsg-msg"><div><div id="style_14514011790000000495_BODY"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>d</div><div>Hello everybody / Hola a todos</div><div><br></div><div>Hope all the holiday wishes come with many blessings for the big Sugar family. </div><div><br></div><div>2015 was a great year, many exciting releases! I would like to congratulate and thank you all.</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">I'm glad we have enthusiastic candidates for the upcoming elections. </span></font><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">It surely is of our best interest to have good quality software in the hands and heads of our little ones, therefore I believe during the</span> 2016-2018 period SL should center it's energy on QUALITY.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px">Quality of process, functionalities, documentation,etc.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">So talking about Quality, one of the first things I would like to underline is that there currently is a deep organizational conflict since there is an Executive Director also serving as an Oversight Board member. I believe this situation is unhealthy and must be avoided if possible.</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br>How does Mr Bender having two roles causes quality problems for Sugar and Sugar Labs? How would Mr Bender's absence from the Board while retaining the title of Executive Directory improve the situation for the various stakeholders?<br><br>This is effectively a statement of no confidence in Mr. Bender's Leadership. Until one has the data to support the proposal, it is going to to be hard to make such an emotionally charged change. There is a reason the board is colloquially know as "Friends of Walter."<br><br>Dan<br><br><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6; margin:10px; padding:0 0 0 10px;"><div id=""><div class="js-helper js-readmsg-msg"><div id="style_14514011790000000495_BODY"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px">From our wiki:</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">"The Executive Director (ED) is responsible for the day to day operations of the foundation and reports directly to the <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board" title="Oversight Board" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(211,211,211);background:none" target="_blank">Oversight Board</a>..."</p><div><br></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="line-height:22.3999996185303px">'The current Executive Director is </span><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter" title="User:Walter" style="line-height:22.3999996185303px;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" target="_blank">Walter Bender</a><span style="line-height:22.3999996185303px">, elected by the during the </span><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2008/Log-2008-09-19" title="Oversight Board/2008/Log-2008-09-19" style="line-height:22.3999996185303px;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" target="_blank">2008-09-19 board meeting</a><span style="line-height:22.3999996185303px">." </span><br></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px">I propose we ask Walter to withdraw his candidacy for the 2016-2018 Board and continue serving as Executive Director for Sugar Labs.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Best regards.</p></div>-- <br><div>Laura V.<br> I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org<br><br> Identi.ca/Skype acaire<br> IRC kaametza<br><br>Happy Learning!<br><br></div></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br><a href="/compose?To=IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a></div></div></div></blockquote> <br></BODY></HTML>