[Sugar-devel] welcoming the new Sugar Labs oversight board members

[Jaskirat Singh]

Thats a great idea. Outreaching is always good. It seems like markering
team is at good pace.

On Sat, 22 Dec 2018, 11:30 am Rishabh Thaney, <rishabhthaney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the update, Walter and congratulations to all the newly elected
> members.
>
> I would also like to help Samson and Vipul with outreach.
> Would also like to share that we recently hosted an 'hour of code' with
> the ACM student chapter of our college in which we went to a school and
> taught basic programming to the students of 5th grade.
>
> I was wondering if Sugar Labs also participates in the ACM Hour of code
> which takes place every year.
> Would also like to discuss the possibility of partnering with Code.org and
> to see if we can list an activity here:
> https://hourofcode.com/in/en/learn
>
> Which I believe would help in outreach and supporting a bigger cause as
> well.
> I would request everyone to please share any relevant inputs on this.
>
> Happy holidays!
>
> Best
> Rishabh
>
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 6:23 AM, Peace Ojemeh <
> fidelis.peaceojemeh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Great! congratulations to the new SLOB members.
>>
>> Thanks for the updates
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> I would love to help out with this.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 5:28 PM, Vipul Gupta <vipulgupta2048 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for the update, Walter and congratulations to all SLOB
>>> members. It sure is looking up to be a great next year for Sugar Labs.
>>> I will be helping Samson and others in outreach and promotion of Sugar
>>> Labs through workshops and conferences. Looking forward to awesome
>>> contributions.
>>>
>>> Happy Holidays everyone.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 7:03 PM Jaskirat Singh <juskirat2000 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thabks and congratulations to all the new slob.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, 6:55 pm Walter Bender, <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>> * 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> * 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> * 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> * 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> A few heads up:
>>>>>
>>>>> * 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> * 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> * 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Make sure to spend some time with family over these short (or long)
>>>>> days.
>>>>>
>>>>> regards.
>>>>>
>>>>> -walter
>>>>> --
>>>>> Walter Bender
>>>>> Sugar Labs
>>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>>>> <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Cordially,
>>> Vipul Gupta
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>>> <https://github.com/vipulgupta2048>
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> --
> Thanks & best regards
> Rishabh Thaney
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