<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Adam</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On 11 April 2016 at 15:21, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span>On 11 April 2016 at 14:32, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:</span><br><span></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>You are thorough enough to consider the fiduciary/stewardship secretary role outlined below, and/or coaching/mentoring someone younger to assist you -- would you consider giving back in this way?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Sort of: I don't want to take on any responsibility, but you can trust me to make unsolicited recommendations to everyone ;)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I'll take that as a [Yes!]<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Alright, then ;)<br></div><span><div></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Wonderful if you can keep us all honest! Remember secretary was
the person at the very top in many peoples' republics until 1989 ;)<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>Certainly if nobody but Walter and I are willing to maintain self-consistency at <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions</a> and <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes</a> and <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance</a> etc, we will need to consider a paid Financial Manager per Caryl's recommendation so we move beyond Magical Transparency to Material Transparency, that you and others keep asking for.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>What is it, exactly, that you and Walter are doing, that you would like me to do?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Take your pick in keeping with your own motivations for give-back (optionally I strongly encourage you to recruit a co-curator in due course?) among tasks like the following, that could and certainly would be immediately useful:<br><br><div>- Post/verify Oversight Board minutes/transcripts/votes at
<a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes</a> and
<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions</a> within a few
days. Official minutes and/or transcripts (sometimes both) have gone missing in
the past on many occasions.<br><br>- Include meetings w/o quorum, when Oversight Board does not
reach quorum during a pre-scheduled meeting time, but a healthy
comunity conversation ensues regardless. Still, annotated as such
("meeting w/o quorum" or similar).<br><br></div><div>- Remind everyone of upcoming Oversight Board meetings many days in advance, and again ~24 hours in advance, keeping likely agenda fresh where possible. If Walter prefers to own some/all of the above 3 tasks, ask him for others.<br></div><div><br>- Regularly reconcile
bylaws <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance</a> with
<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions</a> highlighting/removing contradictions, and building clarifying cross-links between these 2 sites? Are Sugar Labs 501(c)(3) legally-mandated bylaws in fact the superset of these 2 pages in the end? SFConservancy will clarify, but
presumably one and/or the other page needs to be partially locked (or at least we need to institute
a procedure for removal of errors and vandalism, so this is all far more approachable to the next Dave Crossland who steps out of the wilderness! Eventually: move FAQ-style highlights to the top, preserving unending "legalese" below...) I was surprised that new Oversight Board members had no ideas how to vote, and what constituted a vote, even well after being elected to office. We're getting there ;)<br></div><div><br></div><div>- Etc! As nec we'll print up Fred Olmstead business cards for you saying "Internet Landscape Architect" as Walter suggests ;)<br></div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Til we grow up into a healthy ecosystem where Volunteers & Paid Professionals work alongside with complete respect, per Bastien's reminder. On that note I have very close friends in direct contact with the worldwide experts in Participatory Budgeting if we need that facilitation. Note this does Not reduce costs nor accelerate decision-making -- but it increases the Democratic Input of Everyone, similar to <a href="http://loomio.org" target="_blank">http://loomio.org</a> -- if for example Servant Leadership is our goal?<br><br></div><div>In the end of course it's all a question of putting our money where our mouth is :><br><br>(I can and will bring in experts in Participatory Budgeting later if that turns out to be appropriate.)</div></div></div></blockquote></span></div><br>Yeah, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_budgeting" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_budgeting</a> sounds reasonable. <br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Given that SLOBs are volunteers who run Sugar Labs, then what more do you want to see SLOBs do to practice Servant Leadership?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The "confidential suggestion box" is ignored in many organizations around the world, or sometimes worse as an escape valve to silence/smother thoughtful dissent. I don't believe we need our own implementation of "Secure Drop" (the open-source whistleblower submission system managed by Freedom of the Press Foundation, originally created by Aaron Swartz). Still, consider reaching out to OLPC's Ombudsman Bert Freudenberg and pseudonymous activist Dan Tenason, asking them and a Broad Diversity of others sincerely how we can avoid becoming a faceless or disputatious bureaucracy in our 2nd decade. Enabling a conscientious listening culture that scales is harder than granite, for all organizations and movements! Yet the rewards are So Many. That this endeavor could be worth it a hundred times over if...<br><br>There are many ways to approach this. One way is to write a shrewdly gossipy (with means reflective, yet opinionated) weekly column in <a href="http://planet.sugarlabs.org">http://planet.sugarlabs.org</a> explaining what you learned from Sugar/OLPC this week. But I'm sure you can think of even better~<br></div></div><br>--<br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div></div>
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