Oversight Board/2010/Meeting Log-2010-09-28


 *   quorum call...
 * walterbender:is present
 * satellit_:listening
 *  Hiya Hiya
 *   hi adam
 * hi tom
 * bernie, cjb, mchua, tomeu ???
 * bernie told /me he'd be here today:)
 *   hi all
 * tomeu:still in pootle land
 *   tomeu: thank you for taking this on...
 * tomeu: any light at the end of the tunnel?
 *   yes, I think we are close now
 *  what's the pootle issue?
 *   CanoeBerry: it has been neglected of late and many commits had not been pushed in either direction
 * CanoeBerry: so the i18n for this release is a bit of a mess
 *  Sayamindu's been enjoying too much tea at the Media Lab 4pm's Friday, we know where to find him if nec ;)
 * Folks may want to grab the MP3 later today for this hourlong show on Teach for America I just listened to here:
 * http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/09/wendy-kopp
 * Sadly didn't catch all the details, but Teach for America is shaking up US campuses..
 *   CanoeBerry: university campuses???
 *  Yes.
 * Undergrads are surging in their applications to ToA like never before.. the dream to invest love into primary schools is one thing that's working in this country:)
 * TfA i meant
 *   how does this impact university??? it is a post-grad program?
 * I could see it impacting ed schools...
 *  I gather over 10% of MIT undergrad seniors applied to TfA this spring.
 * That shakes up the dialogue on campuses like MIT.
 *   Hi, I'm here
 * Bernie might be busy because his visa finally came through:)
 * tomeu: awesome, thank you very much for looking at Pootle!
 *   cjb: great news about the visa... just yesterday he didn't think it was going to happen.
 *  VISA!
 *   so we have a quorum... we should begin.
 * start-meeting
 * I don't have a lot to discuss today except the election and the release...
 * but I wanted to meet because I am going to be traveling so much this month... need to grab whatever opportunities we can.
 * topic SLOB election
 * I can double-check with Luke, but I think he has been tracking membership OK.
 * I am disappointed that our ranks have not been swelled by teachers, alas.
 * but I am more concerned about a lack of official candidates... right now, we only have 1 person who has contacted me to say that they are definitely running: SMParrish
 * which is great that he is running, but we have 3 positions to fill
 * I will try to convince Rosamel to officially announce... she is great and has had a lot of enthusiastic endorsements.
 * but I also want to pin down a few more...
 *  i put my name here:
 * http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010-2011-candidates
 *   walterbender: I'm in two minds about letting someone else have a turn, but I'm certainly willing if we end up short on candidates
 *   (hey ... my #start-meeting didn't start:
 * startmeeting
 *   Meeting started Tue Sep 28 15:20:17 2010 UTC. The chair is walterbender. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot.
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 * Commands Available: #TOPIC, #IDEA, #ACTION, #AGREED, #LINK
 *   #action walter is post backlog to the official log since #start-meeting is not an alias for #startmeeting:(
 * CanoeBerry: glad to hear you are running again!!!
 *  sorry if i misunderstood the process.
 * i followed last year's routine:)
 *   I added SMParrish too.. and I will add a link from the wiki home page...
 *  Is the Rosamel possiblity real?
 *   CanoeBerry: I hope so... I'll try to contact her... I think the biggest obstacle is she is not very comfortable with English.
 * didn't we have an auto-translation chat going at one point in this channel??
 *   yeah, "transbot"
 *   maybe that is enough to get her over the bump in the road...
 *  Bert's comment is eerily accurate -- English is the de facto Esperanto of global organizing..
 *   I agree...
 * and the urban legend is that more people speak Klingon from StarTrek than Esperanto:)
 *   what about reaching out to one of the english-speaking teachers we know?
 * gerald, tony, who else?
 *   OK. I'll do one more call for candidates and I'll reach out to a few more folks (Gerald A., for example).
 *  What is our hard deadline Fri Oct 1?
 *   Well, I think we could slip to Monday, but we should respect the process we outlined.
 *  Apparently 5PM Fri Oct 1 according to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members ?
 *   Alas, I am traveling the next 3 days (to OWF in Paris)
 *  5PM EDT..
 *   #action walter will make one more call for candidates before heading to the airport
 * walterbender:hopes to be able to contact Sean while in Paris
 *  walterbender: does your manic jetset life include SF?:)
 *   CanoeBerry: I will know soon...
 *  Cool!
 *   CanoeBerry: I have a trip to Costa Rica next week and then Paraguay before SF:)
 *  Right.
 *   CanoeBerry: and maybe Mexico before... definitely afterward...
 * and it goes on and on... crazy fall
 * <CanoeBerry> Special Request to ALL for SF Topics -- please add core priorities here:
 * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010#Schedule_of_sessions
 * Then the OLPC-SF organizers themselves can piece this together into a schedule!
 *   seems like an exciting weekend
 * <CanoeBerry> And pre-wkd too.
 * And post-wkd party:)
 *   we also have talked about the need for a Sugar Camp for developers soon... to discuss Python and GNOME 3.0
 *   walterbender: Ah, deadline coming up -- okay, please add me as a candidate:)
 *   cjb: thank you.
 *   If you don't mind, I might decide to stand aside later if we have a good field of other candidates.
 * <CanoeBerry> Done: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010-2011-candidates
 *   cjb: always an option.
 * shall we switch topics?
 * I'd like to just touch on 0.90 to make sure we all know where we are at...
 * topic 0.90
 * We had a slight glitch with Pootle, but it seems that Tomeu (with input from cjl and others) has managed to get things working again...
 * and we have a candidate to replace/augment Sayamindu, who is being consumed by school
 * Erikos has already gotten a good start on the release notes: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Notes
 * all in all, despite the late start, I think it is a significant release
 * <CanoeBerry> other topics?
 *   no comments from the peanut gallery?
 * satellit_:Soas status: 3 bugs;2339;2351;2355 + no read but works ( latest Nightly Compose)
 *   let me propose a motion:
 * We, the SLOB, acknowledge and praise the efforts of the release team for bringing us 0.90!!
 * <CanoeBerry> Can we spell out the Release Team's contributors?
 * walterbender:is a bit worried abut marketing... I just did one interview, but we don't have Sean's blitz lined up...
 *   CanoeBerry: we can mention its leader, erikos... the membership is a bit fuzzy... tomeu and alsroot of course... any many contributions from the community
 * walterbender:has nothing else today... anyone else?
 * <CanoeBerry> Great +1 if we want to vote!
 *   seconded, +1:)
 *   OK... let's vote...
 * walterbender:+1
 *   would be good if people wanted to add themselves to the teams they belong to in the wiki
 * this is a bit ridiculous: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Contacts
 * <CanoeBerry> tomeu: care to vote?
 *   +1, but I would prefer to see more people joining the team:)
 *   tomeu: I never new there was a list at all... perhaps it should be linked to from the Join link...
 *   walterbender: all teams have a list
 * <CanoeBerry> Motion Carries.
 *   tomeu: but no team has a list that is easy to find...
 * <CanoeBerry> walterbender: speaking of teambuilding, do you have a favorite bio/pic if you will participate in SF Summit Oct 22-24 in person or remotely?
 *   walterbender: the team bar has a Contacts link
 * <CanoeBerry> walterbender: You should post that here: http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php
 *   tomeu: I assumed that was how to contact the team, not the member's list...
 *   walterbender: let's improve it then:)
 *   CanoeBerry: will try to...
 * <CanoeBerry> Thx, email that to me today if poss.
 *   tomeu: agreed... was just thinking about the specifics.
 *   but well, I don't think the community has given much importance to the teams structure anyway
 * <CanoeBerry> I have to run at Noon sharp here, anything else?
 *   tomeu: probably not, in general... but in a few specific cases, it has been important...
 * CanoeBerry: I think we are done for today...
 * thanks all for attending.
 * <CanoeBerry> Cheerio
 *   FYI, I emailed Rosamel (in broken Spanish)
 * endmeeting
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