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


;Logs: [[Sugar Labs/OversightBoard/Minutes/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'' [[DesignTeam/Logo-ideas#Christian.27s_take_on_this_theme|'''sugar'''labs]]'') 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



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