[Systems] #Action Required: Election's 2017-2019 Stage IV Decision on Tool/Platform/server to be used [WAS:Re: Re[2]: Sugar Labs Oversight Board Election Candidates 2017-2019 - Stage III Closed]

[James Cameron]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 12:17:08PM -0500, Laura Vargas wrote:
> 
> 2017-09-19 13:47 GMT-05:00 Samson Goddy <[1]samsongoddy at gmail.com>:
> 
>     On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Laura Vargas <[2]laura at somosazucar.org>
>     wrote:
> 
>         Good day Committee, Dave, Frederick, Systems,
> 
>         Thanks for everything you do to keep elections, memberships and wiki
>         users and editions flowing.
> 
>         I have created the following cont down to election's Stage IV on
>         October 1-15, 2017:
> 
>         [3]https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20171001T00&p0=%3A&msg=
>         Sugar+Labs+Oversigth+Board+Election+2017-2019&ud=1&font=cursive
> 
>         AFAIK we only have the following pending tasks:
> 
>         01- Definition and preparation of the platform/tool/methodology to be
>         used during the election
>         02- Add new member's requests in a timely manner
>         03- Check for additional verified emails for the period
>         <Add yours here>
> 
>         We thank Ignacio and Systems who will be in charge of  task 01.
> 
>         For task 01 there is a [4]decision pending: civs and loomio have been
>         suggested as appropriate tools.
> 
>     We should decide on it asap, october is just around the corner. 
>    
> 
>         Also Ignacio stated we could reuse [5]verify.sugarlabs.org server.
> 
>     [6]verify.sugarlabs.org for membership? if yes. +1 from me. 
>    
> 
>         #ACTION REQUIRED: Vote/decide on the election tool/platform/server
> 
>         I support Ignacio's proposal to reuse verify. [7]sugarlabs.org server.
> 
>     Are we using it for the voting process? if yes? why? 
> 
> I dream one day Sugar Labs will have trust among its members so we can develop
> and use sugar tools/activities to make decisions as a collective.

That's a useless deflection.  I second Samson's question; what is
verify.sugarlabs.org used for, and will it be used for the voting
process?

Why is it not documented in the Wiki along with the other services?

> 
> Meanwhile,  
> 
> @Ibiam @Pericherla @Hrishi @Samson @Ignacio
> 
> Please state your election (A or B) at your earliest convenience.
> 
> A) civs (has been the tool used historically for SL elections)
> B) loomio (will be the first time to be used for SL elections)
> 
> I recuse from voting so you will need 3 votes for a decision.
> 
> @Samson, @Ibiam, @Pericherla, @Hrishi
> Some additional tasks I need your help with:
> 
> 01 This wiki link needs to be updated [8]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/
> Sugar_Labs/Governance/Committees#Membership_and_Elections_Committee adding the
> new members names (Ibiam, Hrishi and Pericherla) to the Membership and
> Elections committee list and references links.
> 
>  
> 02 Six months have passed since we started the 2017 Sugar Labs member list
> debug back in April. According to procedure described at the [9]Currency
> assurance policy we should send a removal notice with an invitation to reapply
> to all unverified emails to date.

The "Currency assurance policy" is a purge of members who do not read
mail, or have changed their mail address.

I ask the committee to consider if the purge is actually necessary.
The purge takes volunteer time that could otherwise be used for
development or systems administration.  The purge removes members only
because they can't keep answering mail.  The purge generates new
member applications, which also takes volunteer time for responding to
the applications.

Failure to answer mail doesn't seem to be a good enough reason to
disenfranchise, or make Sugar Labs appear smaller.

I make no motion; that's up to a committee member.  Be explicit and
clear.  Don't just say "what James said".

> @Ignacio
> Will it be possible for you to help sending the removal notices/invitation to
> reapply?
> 
> 03 I will send instructions for access and maintaining the SugarLabs-vote
> mailing list to the new Committee members.
> 
> Regards and thanks all for helping out!
> 
> Laura
>  
> 
>        
> 
>         Hope to hear from you all soon,
> 
>         Regards and best wishes
>        
>         --
>         Laura V.
>         I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org
>        
>         “Solo la tecnología libre nos hará libres.” 
>         ~ L. Victoria
> 
>         Happy Learning!
>         #LearningByDoing
>         #Projects4good
>         #IDesignATSugarLabs
>         #WeCanDoBetter
>    
>    
> 
> --
> Laura V.
> I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org
> 
> “Solo la tecnología libre nos hará libres.” 
> ~ L. Victoria
> 
> Happy Learning!
> #LearningByDoing
> #Projects4good
> #IDesignATSugarLabs
> #WeCanDoBetter
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:samsongoddy at gmail.com
> [2] mailto:laura at somosazucar.org
> [3] https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20171001T00&p0=%3A&msg=Sugar+Labs+Oversigth+Board+Election+2017-2019&ud=1&font=cursive
> [4] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/systems/2017-August/005520.html
> [5] http://verify.sugarlabs.org/
> [6] http://verify.sugarlabs.org/
> [7] http://sugarlabs.org/
> [8] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance/Committees#Membership_and_Elections_Committee
> [9] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Sugar_Labs%2FMembers&type=revision&diff=100601&oldid=100600#Currency_assurance_policy

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