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Let's do it, conveniently right by Alewife's Red Line subway stop:<br>
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I will help cater -- thanks so much for your devotion to the cause
Caroline.<br>
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On 10/28/2010 11:30 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTineLjKDzDdFZYE_9LyfXGA0f0xCNwCYGrS0CBTC@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Great idea! I can host parties at my new T Accessible
house in Arlington if that helps.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Holt <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:holt@laptop.org">holt@laptop.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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padding-left: 1ex;">(1) In-person meetings in between
Bostonian <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board"
target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board</a>
members and Sugar/OLPC Local Lab Boston, quasimonthly.
Community is neither a buzzword, nor a fantasy, with Sugar
Labs' only 4 active board members now living in Boston today.
Community is the 132 volunteer members of <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc_boston"
target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc_boston</a>
who want to particitepate in Sugar/OLPC but our promise
withers, when accomplished teachers and volunteers willing to
pull their weight, simply don't -- as too many of us are
unintentionally hiding behind our IRC koolaid, yep myself
guilty as charged :) So it's time to throw a few parties.
And get over a couple of our antisocial hangups, at all
levels of our organizing. As our 130+ person high-energy <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://olpcSF.org/summit"
target="_blank">http://olpcSF.org/summit</a> this past
weekend proved far beyond a shadow of a doubt. As SF's own
amazing hackerspace (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://noisebridge.net" target="_blank">http://noisebridge.net</a>)
reminded us all late into the night before. Sustainable
volunteerism == bringing people together in a physical space,
even in Boston! Like others have already done globally here:
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs"
target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs</a>
. I made this happen last week in San Francisco for almost 10
valiant-but-poor-volunteers, by lining them up with other more
well-off volunteers, using peer2peer donations instead of
bureaucratic budget molasses. Next year we can do this for 20
volunteers instead of 10, if we bring ourselves together.
Meantime: I, Walter, Bernie and CJB (etc) can do our Boston
and Global community a gigantic favor if we Get Out More right
here at home :) Learning (i.e. healthy) communities live or
die based on the Rhythm their members create -- physical bonds
feed online bonds and vice versa. Let us begin now. Progress
beckons: Walter, Bernie & I will meet all together Thurs
(tomorrow) for the first time in about a year, to discuss our
breakthrough community catapult in SF, even before SF's Mayor
issued his proclamation: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blog.laptop.org/2010/10/22/october-23-is-olpc-day-in-sf/"
target="_blank">http://blog.laptop.org/2010/10/22/october-23-is-olpc-day-in-sf/</a><br>
<br>
(2) Democracy does NOT grow on trees, or in the back of stale
legalistic texts. It is the worst form of governance, if we
believe Churchill, and accordingly I and Sugar Labs' Oversight
Board have been negligent in not getting folks fired up about
the current election process, failing to bringing strong
awareness around precise key election dates, even
understanding it ourselves! I personally consider both to be
constitutional duty: the cleanest elections happen when we
enable get-out-the-vote mobilizations of all kind, enabling
expression and reflection AKA learning. Disturbing evidence
I've uncovered in the past 24hrs is that board members
themselves I've spoken to privately remain confused about
nomination/election dates, confused about duration of terms,
confused about lame duck/impeachment/replacement/re-invitation
procedures for the several absentee board members already
gone. Pity our rank+file volunteer just trying to get some
work done, or get fired up about our so-sweet possibilities!
Now drowning in this unadvertised/undecided election
machinery-- No more! I suggest we start with Informed
Consent, meaning strong advance awareness of all deadlines and
voting times -- that we hopefully all together agree to
publicize very directly off:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://google.com/search?q=sugar+labs+election"
target="_blank">http://google.com/search?q=sugar+labs+election</a><br>
<br>
(3) One specific proposal around strengthening awareness of
Sugar Labs' election clearly, widely and far more
passionately, with all dates clearly layed out, right off the
uniquely memorable page above -- was advanced by Luke Faraone
(administering the election) earlier this evening. Walter
Bender says he would agree to support Luke's proposal to
extend registration (welcoming quality candidates &
eligible voters both) until something like Nov 10th 23:59 EST,
if the election itself was delayed until approximately Nov
14-27, IF our broad community and board agrees this will all
deepen our Participative process, strengthen who we are,
illustrate our shared sacrifice -- and most importantly: waken
our family and friends to our cause. Yes, I'm paraphrasing,
Walter please speak for yourself :) In any case, for me
clearness-in-democracy is non-negotiable, as is our blessed
responsibility to stay young, Meaningfully open (Lovable too
please!) while at last growing up as a 2008-2012 organization,
as this election will now decide. I support Luke's above
thoughtful proposal and hope others will too, enhancing it
ideally if you can, but most important all speaking our
consciences towards deciding quickly and carefully, however we
proceed.<br>
<br>
(4) First kill all the lawyers (but please Shakespeare DO read
our "SFC by-laws" at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/SFC-SugarLabs_Agreement"
target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/SFC-SugarLabs_Agreement</a>
and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List"
target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List</a>
carefully before the light goes out :) And if a board meeting
is needed to finalize any electoral learning learning
consensus(es) emerging above, or similar/otherwise, please
Walter/CJB schedule this very quickly before I go offline most
of Sat Oct 30 to Sun Nov 14 to volunteer building <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blueTarpSchool.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://blueTarpSchool.blogspot.com</a>
in Haiti.<br>
<br>
(5) I Love Haiti, but can't promise
Sugar/OLPC/Realness/FabLab/Whatever Local Lab Port-au-Prince
just yet on this trip -- but I *will* do what I can to
convince my traveling companion (Tim Falconer, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://waveplace.com/news/blog"
target="_blank">http://waveplace.com/news/blog</a> ) rest
you assured!!<br>
<br>
(6) Fall in Love again, it won't hurt I promise... it might
even hopefully spur you to add your name here: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010-2011-candidates"
target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010-2011-candidates</a><br>
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Caroline Meeks<br>
Solution Grove<br>
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