<div dir="auto">Thabks and congratulations to all the new slob.<div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, 6:55 pm Walter Bender, <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I hope everyone is well. We are in a seasonal transition -- winter has begun in the north and summer in the south. I wanted to convey holiday greetings to everyone in the community and also to provide some updates:<div><br></div><div>* We have a new oversight board. Welcome to James Cameron, Alex Perez, and Devin Ulibarri. Lionel Laske and I were reelected to our seats. Claudia Urrea and Samson Goddy will be completing their two-year terms in 2019. I think we have a very strong group, with demonstrable dedication to Sugar Labs and its mission and I look forward to having a very productive (and fun) year.</div><div><br></div><div>* Many thanks to Adam, Sameer, and Ignacio, all three of whom have dedicated many years of effort to the project and the community. Your contributions are appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>* James will be taking over for me as chair of the oversight board meetings -- he runs a much better meeting than I do and I think it will be a change for the better in terms of making us a more efficient organization, able to make more thoughtful decisions more quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>* James will also be replacing Adam as the Sugar Labs liaison to the Software Freedom Conservancy. I know he will offer a level of professionalism that will hopefully lead to clear and timely communication between our organizations.</div><div><br></div><div>A few heads up:</div><div><br></div><div>* Devin and I head to Japan to run some Music Blocks workshops in early January as part of an ongoing effort to reach elementary schools throughout the country. It has been going really well so far and I have high hopes that this little bit of Sugar will be used and enjoyed widely.</div><div><br clear="all"><div>* Rahul Bothra is helping to organize a new set of landing pages for Google Summer of Code. I anticipate that Sugar Labs will be applying again this year and we are striving to be more organized than in years past.</div><div><br></div><div>* The winners of the Google Code-in contest will be announce in two weeks by Google. We had some fantastic contributions this year. Thank you for all the help with organizing (Ibiam), mentoring, and participation.</div><div><br></div><div>Make sure to spend some time with family over these short (or long) days.</div><div><br></div><div>regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_1342984927010533438gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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