Oversight Board/Decisions

This page (largely complete) is intended to be a one-stop place for reviewing all of the Sugar Labs oversight board (SLOB) actions and decisions.

2016-05-12

PENDING

to reimburse Edgar Quispe for expenses incurred representing Sugar Labs at the Traducción e interpretación en las lenguas originarias del Perú meeting in Lima. The cost is $168.88.

2016-05-06

PENDING

To pay for laboratoriosazucar.org domain registration renewal

POSTPONED

To appoint a Finance Manager (while scheduled for this SLOB meeting, the draft for the motion is still under development.)

PENDING

To fund a program to initiate the translation of Sugar into Yoruba. The work would be led by Samson Goddy and reviewed by Chris Leonard, in his role as Translation Community Manager (See [1]).

AGREED

To update the Sugar License from GPLv2 to GPLv3 [2]

MOTION FAILED

To allow the mentors participating in Google Summer of Code to disperse the mentor stipend among themselves as they see fit (See [3]).

PENDING

To adopt the wiki Vision proposal for 2016

2016-04-09

AGREED

To offer Devin U. an honorarium ($500) to compensate him since he needed to take a week off from work to run two Turtle/Music Blocks workshops at the Constructionism Conference. The funds would be allocated from the Trip Advisor grant which are in support of promoting and advancing Turtle Blocks around the world. (Vote taken by email.)

AGREED

Walter, as PI of the Trip Advisor grant, will inform the SL oversight board of his plans for workshops that fall under the guise promotion of Turtle Blocks but otherwise has discretion in organizing and funding these events, within the budget constraints of grant and the travel guidelines of the SFC. (Vote taken by email.)

2016-04-06

AGREED

To approve the position of Translation-Community Manager as described at Translation-Community Manager.

AGREED

That Chris Leonard be named to this position effective immediately.

AGREED

That the Translation-Community Manager be paid a stipend of $1000/month.

2016-04-01

AGREED

In keeping with the board 2010's decision on this matter from a different era, it was suggest that if a Board Member (1) fails to vote and attend pre-scheduled Board meetings for more than 12 weeks, (2) resigns or (3) dies, then the Board is empowered and encouraged to appoint a replacement for this seat. Finally, just a clarification that the Replacement Board Member would be required to defend their seat during the very next election.

2016-03-04

AGREED

Based on Translation Proposal, Tony (and other SLOB members) should write up a job description with goals and reporting structure for a coordinator position to be submitted to the SFC.

AGREED

Restrict email voting to 1 week going forward, to remove confusion from the current voting process, keeping focus. Board members' email votes would be required to arrive within One Week Maximum (168.0 hours) of the original motion. (Any motion that fails to pass within this 1-week sunset period, can of course be attempted again in future, e.g. if long-term overseas/off-grid/medical absences require another later vote on the same topic).

2016-02-12

AGREED

Moving regular SLOB meeting dates to the first Friday of the month at 16UTC

AGREED

Apply for GSoC 2016 (Lionel and Walter as co-admins)

2015-12-17

MOTION FAILED (3 In Favor, 4 Abstentions)

to pay Devin Ulibarri $500 for help organize and run the Turtle workshop in Bangkok

(See renewed motion passed on 2016-04-09.)

2015-10-12

AGREED

Apply to GCI

2015-09-14

AGREED

funding to file an affidavits required to maintain the registration of Sugar Labs' trademarks with the USPTO.

ACTION

Walter to recruit mentors for GCI

2015-07-06

ACTION

acknowledged the numerous contributions to Sugar from the late Marco Presenti Gritti.

2015-05-06

AGREED

via email to add Samson Goody to the Membership Committee (DONE)

2015-05-04

AGREED

to share survey results with community (DONE)

ACTION

Gonzalo to post results (DONE)

ACTION

Gonzalo to write to each of the respondents

AGREED

that Claudia and Walter go to NI to discuss Sugar/OLPC future with the Zamoras

ACTION

Walter to make a first pass at culling the decisions from past meetings into one page (this page)

2015-04-06

AGREED

appoint Icarito and Caryl to the election committee and to try to recruit a youth member to the committee.

2015-01-14

ACTION

organize a summit to discuss the future of Sugar

ACTION

do a survey to solicit feedback from deployments

2014-10-07

ACTION

Recruit mentors for GCI

ACTION

Recruit candidates for oversight board

2014-07-08

AGREED

on a .UY venue for a summit in September 2014. Jose Miguel and Daniel will get back to us about specifics.

2014-03-03

ACTION

everyone solicit students for GSoC

2014-02-05

AGREED

to Gonzalo and Manuq's proposal for Background Image Contest

2013-11-04

AGREED

Luke to run election for oversight board again

AGREED

to give cjl discretion over the i18n funds in the Trip Advisor grant

2013-10-18

AGREED

we would apply again to Google Code In

2013-03-21

AGREED

the next release will be Sugar 1.0

2013-02-25

AGREED

to establish a category for Sugar Labs advisors/educators/friends

ACTION

Claudia and Walter will meet to start planning Turtle Art Day

AGREED

to apply for Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-01-07

ACTION

ClaudiaU agreed to share Making Learning Visible with SLOB members (and Tonyf and JT4Sugar)

2012-05-30

AGREED

to modify the Trademark and Local Labs pages in the wiki (See TM Policy and Local Labs Policy)

2012-05-03

AGREED

We approved a budget of up to US $5000 for two servers.

AGREED

Sugar Labs joins the SFC GPL enforcement program

ACTION

Walter to bring code-of-conduct discussion to the community.

ACTION

SLOB members to get signed agreements to the SFC regarding new SFC by-laws.

2011-12-02

AGREED

The Sugar Labs Oversight Board thanked Bernie Innocenti and Mel Chua for their dedicated service to the community in their role as members of the oversight board.

2011-09-16

AGREED

to keep the GSoC 2010 mentor funds as our general funds.

2011-08-05

AGREED

to award Sugar participation certificates (See Certificate Program).

AGREED

to give North Dakota State University authority to establish a local Sugar Lab.

2011-06-09

AGREED

we endorse Free Softeware as defined here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

2011-05-08

AGREED

Bernie (head of infrastructure team) is authorized to approve spending tickets filed on the bug tracker up to $200.

AGREED

to update the governance page.

2011-02-10

AGREED

SL endorses the idea that community members have kids: means more Sugar hackers in the future !!

AGREED

Local labs can issue Sugar certificates (and charge for this service whatever they want) but only if: (1) they maintain a page on our wiki explaining what content they use for training, where to download it, and what pricing they use; and (2) all the content they use for training is licensed under one of the licenses recommend by http://opensource.org/docs/osd and/or http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/[…]ing#Good_Licenses.

2010-12-13

AGREED

Oversight_Board/Project_Motion

AGREED

SL would like to acknowledge and celebrate the marriage of acaire11 and icarito : the first Sugar marriage!!!

2010-12-01

AGREED

Each active team and local lab should propose a few delegates from that team to SLOBs. We will invite the delegates to SLOBs meetings, and rotate scheduled times during SLOBs meetings to hear reports from their team or lab.

AGREED

The default time/day of the week for SLOBs meetings will be Thursdays at 15:00 EST (20:00 UTC)

AGREED

If a SLOB member misses one month of regular weekly meetings in a row, twice during one calendar year, SLOBs may find a replacement for their seat.

2010-09-28

AGREED

We, the SLOB, acknowledge and praise the efforts of the release team for bringing us 0.90!!

2010-05-07

AGREED

to a Trademark policy.

2010-03-05

AGREED

(1) Bundles with non-Sugar dependencies be clearly marked in ASLO; (2) We work towards a mechanism for supporting access to non-Sugar dependencies--a specific endorsement of being open; and (3) We do not restrict ASLO while we progress towards #2.

2010-02-26

AGREED

to authorize Bernie to spec out a machine around $2000, send details to systems@ for review, decide exactly where it will be hosted, then buy it.

2010-01-22

AGREED

to authorize Luke Faraone to ship some used hardware from the Wikipedia Foundation (12 servers) to various hosting sites. The cost should not exceed US$300.

2009-12-18

AGREED

Sugar Labs encourages all GNU/Linux distributions to package and distribute Sugar, and if possible will assist with hosting and infrastructure. SL Marketing may strategically decide to focus resources towards specific distributions in the interest of promoting Sugar more effectively.

AGREED

Yes, "Sugar on a Stick" should be reserved by Sugar Labs for use by the SoaS-Fedora distribution so that Sugar can be marketed effectively, until such time when a trademark policy, agreement, and process is put in place: SoaS will be the first project to go through that process.

2009-12-11

AGREED

to adopt http://opensource.org/docs/osd as a set of guidelines for what is permitted on ASLO, for both software and content, and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses's opinions on specific licenses where applicable, and always asking the SFC for advice when a particular license is under question.

AGREED

SL is and should be a GNU/Linux distributor.

AGREED

SL wishes to spread the use of Sugar and consequently works with GNU/Linux distros to produce and offer downloadable versions. This work can include helping to promote distros, and hosting them.

AGREED

SL should not be completely neutral about promoting distros, but it should only choose to more strongly promote a distro based on technical merit and maintainer activity, and should publish the criteria it uses for making that decision. Furthermore, SL should be neutral about providing infrastructure resources (hosting, etc) to distros."

2009-12-04

AGREED

when a DP fails to meet a deadline, the decision passes to SLOBs.

2009-11-20

AGREED

Close the slobs@ list to just SLOBs, move current slobs@ traffic to iaep@ with a [SLOBS] subject line tag where at all possible.

AGREED

Give a two-week deadline to the Soas DP

2009-09-25

AGREED

We appointed a decision panel (by a vote of 3 for, 0 against, 1 abstain, 3 absent) with the following mandate:

"Investigate the situation of how SoaS should be treated by Sugar Labs, and related questions, including answers to the following:

"Should Sugar Labs be a GNU/Linux distributor, rather than just an upstream producing Sugar releases?"

"Should SL be neutral about distributions containing Sugar, and refuse to endorse one over another?"

"Should 'Sugar on a Stick' be a phrase that SL asks its community to avoid using unless they refer to the SoaS-Fedora distribution?"

Any other question the Decision Panel deems required to provide an answer to the original question:"Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs distributes a Sugar-centric GNU/Linux distribution?"

2008-09-05

AGREED

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

2009-07-18

AGREED

There was consensus that we have made sufficient outreach to the community that the initial list is a fair representation of Sugar Labs; we look forward to having the Membership Committee take it from http://selectricity.org/

AGREED

There was consensus that Walter would put together a strawman election process based upon the Selectricity tool. We are targeting an August election.

AGREED

There was consensus that we begin with just Oversight and Members committees.

AGREED

We agreed for the need to solicit more feedback in the wiki for the design direction being proposed by Luca.

AGREED

We agreed that further discussions with the SFLA about the merits of trademark protection is needed.

AGREED

We agreed on the desirability of Sugar Labs participation at conferences around the world, but hope to meet the need by utilizing locals to whatever extent possible. We also discussed the desirability to have a meeting of Sugar Labs developers a couple of times per year. We discussed the possibility of an on-line meeting that leverages resources above and beyond IRC.

AGREED

on the necessity of Sugar Labs participation in the learning community, but don't yet have a good handle on the best and most efficient means of accomplishing this.