Oversight Board/Meeting Minutes-2026-01-07
Jan 07 2026 Meeting
Attending
- Devin Ulibarri (SL Inc. board)
- Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
- Samson Goddy (SL In. board)
- Sumit Srivastava (SL Inc. board)
- Safwan Sayeed (community member)
- Om Santosh Suneri (community member)
- Mebin Thattil (community member)
Absent
- Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
- Sebastian Silva (SL Inc. board)
Agenda
- Elections
- Infrastructure/AWS
- GSoC mentoring and planning
Elections
- https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2026-2027-candidates
- Voting and candidacy eligibility is detailed here: https://www.sugarlabs.org/news/all/elections-extension-december-2025 (with additional links to our bylaws).
- Makho and Elvis are not community members, and hence, not eligible to run for board positions.
- Om Santosh made a motion that we remove Makho and Elvis from the ballot. Seconded by Sumit. Motion passed: 4-0-2.
Infrastructure/AWS
- Ibiam will be moving lists.sl.o to point to the new service
- Ibiam sorted out an issue with sudo on Sunjammer
- MB v3.7.0 was released (and includes widgets that use AI services)
- Devin will apply for some more credits, but he has a request: Please, please, please:
- think about what we need them for
- think about how many credits our planned use will cost
- think about the benefit of using those
- discuss amongst each other and review
- send to me an agreed upon number with some details for how you plan to use them by Jan 15.
GSoC mentoring and planning
- Last year's interns are encouraged to mentor.
- https://forms.gle/JfqnRqBVww5Bh22J9 <-- mentor application form
- Om Santosh will set up the Ideas page for 2026 -- we need to start populating it.
- Walter will begin the application process once it is live. He'll invite Sumit and Om Santosh to be co-admins.