Oversight Board/Meeting Minutes-2014-02-05

In attendance:

SLOB members: walterbender, Daniel Francis, Claudia Urrea, Gonzalo Odiard, Jose Miguel Garcia

Community members: decause and others.

Agenda

 * 1) GCI/GSoC
 * 2) Sugar Youth Summit
 * 3) Background Image Contest
 * 4) Pedagogist/Developer meetups
 * 5) Libreplanet
 * 6) UNESCO grant

GCI/GSoC

 * We celebrated our GCI grand-prize winners and finalist.
 * Ignacio Rodríguez, Jorge Gómez, Sai Vineet, Emil Dudev, Sam Parkinson
 * We agreed to apply to GSoC 2014
 * Walter will prepare the application
 * We agreed for the need to be more rigorous about mentoring

Sugar Youth Summit

 * We agreed to organize regional youth summits, beginning in LATAM.
 * We want to both target a code sprint and a more general focus on the power of Sugar and FOSS as a pedagogy.
 * Daniel Francis and Walter will discuss plans and report back to the committee.

Background Image Contest

 * We agreed to Gonzalo and Manuq's proposal for Background Image Contest
 * Details can be found
 * Sean Daly offered to help with PR

Pedagogist/Developer meetups

 * Claudia has been in touch with many Sugar deployments and has a group of pedagogists ready to meet.
 * Details to be announced soon.

Libreplanet

 * Walter and Claudia will be running a panel discussion at Libreplanet on FOSS in elementary education (and the danger of Disneyfication of content).

UNESCO

 * Gonzalo is pursuing a grant from UNESCO re accessibility.

Log
http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2014-02-05T14:02:12