<div dir="ltr">Hi all! Hola a todos!<div><br></div><div>With 4 votes in favor [Walter Bender, Lionel Laske, Tony Anderson and José Miguel García] the board has appointed <b>Laura Vargas, Ignacio Rodriguez and Samson Goddy</b> as the new <b>Elections and Membership Committe</b> for the Sugar Labs Project. <b>As the 3 of us are also the 3 current candidates running for the board, Dave Crossland will serve as an impartial oversight party</b>. For details please read January's meeting log at [1].</div><div><br></div><div>According with our availability, we at the elections and membership Committee, have started debugging the member list [2] and are calling for additional candidates for the 2016-2018 Sugar Labs Oversight Board election, following to the Election Schedule proposed. </div><div><br></div><div>Please read the 2016-2018 Election Schedule and take note of the important dates and procedures:</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Stage 01 Additional candidates call and deadline: January 7 to January 21 (current stage) </b></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you do have enough time to contribute to the project's oversight (including but not limited to 1 hour monthly meeting) and you do understand the Sugar Labs Oversight Board mission is<b> "to ensure the Sugar Labs community has clarity of purpose and means to collaborate in achieving its goals"</b> please consider to be part of the list of candidates for one of the 3 seats available for the 2016-2018 period. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(159,197,232)"><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">If you do wish to be added to the list of candidates </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">for the 2016-2018 period,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <b>please send an email to the IAEP mailing list simply requesting to be added to the </b></span><font color="#000000" style="font-weight:bold">list of candidates </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>for the 2016-2018 period. </b></span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">If you wish to add additional information about your candidacy (like for example your background and/or current lines of interest within the SL community) during the election and pre-election period, please feel free and encouraged to do so. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please keep in mind the deadline set for receiving candidacies is January 21, 2107</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">. </span></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000">Current candidates list to be found at <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2016-2018-candidates">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2016-2018-candidates</a>.</font></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><b>Stage 02 If by January 22 we have more than this 3 candidates, we will need to have members list debugged by the 30th of January. If by January 22 we don't have any additional candidates, we would have 3 candidates for the 3 board places and no election may be necessary.</b></font></div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Stage 03 Send ballots and run the elections for the period from February 1 to the 28th of 2017.</b></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Any suggestions, question or idea please do share and we thank in advance.</div><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">We also thank those who have trust in our capacities to help Sugar Labs with these tasks! We wish to keep the process transparent and open to the community and I personally hope to learn a lot about elections.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you all for your contributions to the process!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards and blessings,<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Laura V.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div>[1] <a href="http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2017-01-06T19:07:40">http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2017-01-06T19:07:40</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#ff00ff"><b>
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