+1 to Samson Goddy even if the Nigerian govt did not allow me to meet him during my less than 48hrs in country February (due to a more famous Goodluck/Badluck election ;) The following page says the Membership and Elections Committee can be emailed via "elections at <a href="http://sugarlabs.org">sugarlabs.org</a>" : <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance/Membership">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance/Membership</a> Is this still true? On May 6, 2015 12:17 PM, "Walter Bender" <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Sebastian Silva <<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>> wrote: >> >> Hi Walter, Membership Committee is not a Team. It is a committee, and it needs vetting by SLOBs according to the Governance page. Neither you or I have the authority to accept samsongoddy, as I read it. >> >> >> >> > > I am not sure what passage you are referring to, but I can assure you that it was never the intention of the oversight committee to micro-manage. In any case, I'll ask the committee, CC'd here, to vote on Samson's membership to the membership committee and we can perhaps discuss how to get us out of the micromanagement business at the June meeting. > > SLOB members, please let me know your vote re allowing Samson to join the membership committee. For those of you who don't know Samson, he is an active member of the community who has contributed some activities, e.g., [1] organized the Igbo translation team, and contributes often to the SL Facebook page. He was also a participant in Google Code-in 2014. > > regards. > > -walter > > [1] <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4758">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4758</a> > > >> >> >> Regards, >> Sebastian >> >> >> >> On 06/05/15 09:13, Walter Bender wrote: >>> >>> I did not realize that all volunteers on the teams need vetting by SLOB. If so it is a bad precident. >>> >>> On May 6, 2015 10:05 AM, "Sebastian Silva" <<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 06/05/15 03:37, Samson Goddy wrote: >>>>> >>>>> The reason why i was able to access the list was because Walter made one of the committee members. About "<a href="mailto:spykidacutez@outlook.com">spykidacutez@outlook.com</a>", is a volunteer in Sugar Labs and also his in my Sugar Labs team in Nigeria, which Walter know of. >>>> >>>> 1. Sugar Labs is _not_ Walter. Make sure the engage the rest of Sugar Labs. Nice to meet you. I was not aware of any other active members appointed by SLOBs. (And I did ask). Was your appointment announced sometime publicly? >>>> >>>>> I don't understand why you have to remove me in the membership committee, that i don't understand. Is there any way i shouldn't be in the membership committee? >>>> >>>> >>>> 2. Sure. We have a process which is in the Governance page. I volunteered to the committee because there had been 2 years without elections and never have there been a survey to keep the membership list current. These are the main responsibilities of the Election and Membership committee. We'd be glad to have you. In short, do this: - Read the governance / membership committee pages - Write to SLOBS requesting to be a member - Wait for a vote For us (Caryl and me), it took almost 2 months to be confirmed, official member of election committee. However, in that opportunity, SLOBS voted that they would solicit help from young members so maybe they will be more expedite for you. Thanks and good luck! Sebastian >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> I+D SomosAzucar.Org >>>> "icarito" #somosazucar en Freenode IRC >>>> "Nobody liberates anybody, nobody is released only humans are released into communion." - P. Freire >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Sugar-devel mailing listSugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.orghttp://<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel">lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> I+D SomosAzucar.Org >> "icarito" #somosazucar en Freenode IRC >> "Nobody liberates anybody, nobody is released only humans are released into communion." - P. Freire > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labshttp://<a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org">www.sugarlabs.org</a> > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >