Oversight Board/2008/Meeting Minutes-2008-09-05

Oversight Board Meeting Minutes 2008-09-05

 * Logs: Oversight Board/2008/Log-2008-09-05
 * Attending: walter, gregdek, marcopg, tomeu, erikos, bernieXO (AKA NerdyNipple-f169), dfarning, cjb, cjl, davidb

The Oversight Board acknowledged and celebrated the great job Simon has been doing on managing the 0.82 release.

Administrative

 * OB meeting protocols
 * We'll appoint someone to take minutes each meeting; We'll announce the meetings on the Sugar and IAEP lists (they are already announced on Sugar Digest and in the wiki). Agendas are set in the wiki.


 * Additional OB representatives (learning, design, deployment)
 * We agreed that having representation from these areas is important. We'll make explicit invitations to ensure these voices are heard. Walter will follow up.


 * Finalize SFC agreement
 * Moving ahead, but still waiting for final agreement from SFC for the OB to sign.


 * Appoint (Membership)
 * Dfarning will organize/liaison with the Membership committee; Gregdek will organize/liaison with the Events committee; Bernie will organize/liaison with the Infrastructure committee; Simon will organize/liaison with the Test committee; Walter will organize/liaison with the Deployment committee''


 * Appoint Ombudsman
 * If Bert is willing, we'd like to make his acting role permanent.


 * Proposals
 * We discussed a process whereby Sugar Labs vets proposals: a public discussion of the general ideas and an approval by the OB regarding the specifics.


 * Fund raising
 * Walter will prepare a report for the next meeting about various possibilities. The idea of helping external groups form to share in the development and support burden was seen as a favorable strategy. Raising money for "events" was seen as important.


 * Logo
 * We discussed a new logo proposal (See sugarlabs) and agreed to have Christian Schmidt take charge of this decision.

Infrastructure status

 * Hardware
 * Hosting
 * @sugarlabs.org
 * We agreed to give members email addresses at sugarlabs.org


 * etc.

Key issues

 * Engineering
 * Ports
 * Stability
 * QA
 * Updates
 * Accessibility
 * Walter will follow up with a UT proposal to partner in an accessibility proposal. We need someone to volunteer to champion this effort.


 * growing the community of contributors
 * Learning
 * Outreach
 * Feedback
 * growing the community of contributors