<html> <head> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <style></style> <div dir="ltr"><br><div><br> <style></style> <div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><font size="3">Hi Folks!</font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><font size="3">Three Sugar Labs members, Adam Holt (Unleash Kids), Aaron Borden (OLPC-SF), and myself (SoCalOSSIE), joined by 7 other local SoCal Ossie volunteers staffed a booth at SCaLE14X at the Pasadena Convention Center this past weekend. </font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><font size="3">It was an exciting event with approximately 4000+ attendees. We had unprecedented success in recruiting volunteers to work on various projects such as the school server, Sugarizer, and the new "Magic" SD card project. You can see a photo of the booth in the above file.</font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><font size="3">Now it is time to turn our attention back to the Sugar Labs Oversight Board election which is going on right now. We are half-way through the time allotted and, so far,<b> only about 20% of eligible voters have cast their ballots.</b> We know some people have not received their ballots for one reason or another:</font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> </span><b><font size="5">*</font></b><font size="3"> The ballot was sent out by the CS dept of Cornell University, and even though it also has my name on it, the "cs.cornell.edu" doesn't pass many peoples' SPAM filters. If you haven't found your ballot yet.. look there first.</font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> </span><font size="5"><b>* </b></font><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">Some long-time members of Sugar Labs have changed their email address, but it has not yet been updated in our data base. If you think this is you, please send us your new address and we will get you a ballot right away!</font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;"> </span><b><font size="5">*</font></b><font size="3"> One new member's address was accidentally left out of the data base but, because they notified us, we were able to send a ballot. If you are new, and think this may have happened to you, just send us a copy of your welcome letter, verifying eligibility, and we'll add your address to the list.</font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><font size="3">If you think you may be in one of these categories, or are just putting it off, please don't wait too long! Balloting will close in a few days and then it will be too late. If you don't know all the candidates, you can check out their platforms at </font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3"><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2015-2016-candidates" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2015-2016-candidates</a></font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><font size="3"><br></font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><font size="3">Caryl Bigenho, Poll Administrator for the</font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><font size="3">Sugar Labs Membership/Elections Committee</font></p> <p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><font size="3">(Sebastian Silva (Peru), Caryl Bigenho (USA), Samson Goddy (Nigeria)</font></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;"><font size="3"><br></font></p><div class="quoteDetails " style="float: left; width: 518.75px; margin-right: 12.5px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a class="leftAlignedImage" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/229.Abraham_Lincoln" style="color: rgb(0, 99, 93); text-decoration: none; float: left; margin-right: 10px;"></a><div class="quoteDetails " style="float: left; width: 518.75px; margin-right: 12.5px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"><a class="leftAlignedImage" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/229.Abraham_Lincoln" style="color: rgb(0, 99, 93); text-decoration: none; float: left; margin-right: 10px;"></a><a class="leftAlignedImage" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/229.Abraham_Lincoln" style="color: rgb(0, 99, 93); text-decoration: none; float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><font size="3"><img alt="Abraham Lincoln" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1198518158p2/229.jpg" style="border: 0px;"></font></a><div class="quoteText" style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; padding: 0px 5px 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="3">"Elections belong to the people. 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