<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Hi</div><div><br></div><div>In today's meeting, Seb mentioned the 2017 SLOB election is coming up fast and should happen in (early) December. </div><br class="">The election commitee last year was Samson, Caryl, and Sebastian, and Seb invited me to join, which I am happy to :)<div><br></div><div>I suggest we start making steady progress and update the community at each monthly SLOB meeting for the next 4 meetings that remain this year.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_dd38dc6aa11d1a98">http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_dd38dc6aa11d1a98</a> says "The top four candidates will serve 2 year terms and the next three will serve 1 year terms" and here's the ordered list:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Walter Bender</div><div>2. Lionel Laské</div><div>3. Adam Holt</div><div>4. Sameer Verma</div><div>5. Claudia Urrea</div><div>6. Tony Anderson</div><div>7. Jose Miguel Garcia</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore Tony, Jose Miguel, and Claudia's seats will be elected this year.</div><div><br></div><div>The first thing I think needs to be done is to get a confirmed list of members. I can take care of it this month. </div><div><br></div><div>Currently the member list is maintained in a Google Docs spreadsheet. Seb confirmed members were not contacted so far this year; the only activity is to add some new members to the sheet this year. Walter suggested a mass email to ask members to confirm/update their member status, and indeed it seems to me that the #1 purpose of the sheet is to have a list of people to email about Sugar Labs business.</div><div><br></div><div>So I propose that, since at the last meeting a motion to ask members for dinero passed, and since I have a large list of everyone who ever mailed a SL mailing list, everyone who every made a wiki account, and this members spreadsheet, I will mail all these people once to ask if they want to be 'members,' which I propose to define as having an email registed on a sugarlabs-annouce mailing list. This way there is no ambiguity that only paying members are members; instead it can be clear anyone on that mailing list is a member, and no payment is needed. I think it would be good to promise not to mail this announce list more than once a calendar month, and to configure the list as a public list where joining is moderated and so is emailing the list (ie, it can only be made by authorized persons.) Seb supported this idea.</div><div><br></div><div>For people who are not on the list, it seems there is already a procedure defined for how to deal with them. <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Currency_assurance_policy">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members#Currency_assurance_policy</a> says, "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." Therefore 6 months after this email, I can send a known-good list of accounts to remove from the wiki and we'll have a definitive active members list. </div><div><br></div><div>So, I volunteer to do the following before the next SLOB meeting:</div><div><br></div><div>- I will ask Sam C to set up a new <a href="mailto:sugar-announce@lists.sugarlabs.org">sugar-announce@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> mailing list with himself, myself, samson, caryl and seb as list admins. </div><div><br></div><div>- I will complete the review of all accounts on the wiki to mark the ones that look like spammers</div><div><br></div><div>- I will make a final 'all possible members' email list</div><div><br></div><div>- I will draft the email that asks people to join the announce list and explains why I am asking them to do this, and a motion to approve the election email, and share it on the IAEP list for community review</div><div><br></div><div>- I will ask SLOBs to post and second the motion</div><div><br></div><div>Then in early September I can send the email, and prepare a report with the new list of members and similarly to before another draft email soliciting board applications for SLOB to review and approve in the October meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Then in early October I can send that email, perhaps also with the donation request, and then prepare a final email calling for votes that SLOB can review and approve in the November meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Then in early November the call for votes can go out, votes can come in, and in early December the results can be announced. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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