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

Peace Ojemeh fidelis.peaceojemeh at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 19:52:06 EST 2018


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
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>
> --
> Cordially,
> Vipul Gupta
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