Oversight Board/Meeting Minutes-2019-04-05
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Present
- Board members
- Walter Bender, James Cameron (chair), Samson Goddy, Lionel Laské, Alex Perez, and Devin Ulibarri.
Visitors
- Community members
- Jaskirat Singh and Peace Ojemeh.
Agenda
- Appoint new Project Representative,
- Receive report from Google Summer of Code Sugar Labs organisation administrator,
- Consider Google Season of Docs involvement,
- Appoint new GNOME Representative,
- Sugarizer missing from sugar-devel@,
- Complaints,
Appoint new Project Representative
James Cameron resigned as project representative. Devin Ulibarri was appointed.
We discussed;
- reasons for resignation,
- possibility of ending our relationship with the Conservancy,
- AGREED MOTION 2019-13
- appont Devin Ulibarri as Project Representative to the Software Freedom Conservancy.
Receive Report from Google Summer of Code Sugar Labs organisation administrator
Walter Bender made a report;
- proposals are landing, they need to be in by next week,
- we will submit mentors to Google to demonstrate that we have mentors available,
- once we have slots assigned and agree on which proposals to accept, we can cull the mentor list,
We discussed;
- quality of proposals; students unwilling to research, or who have familiar technologies they wish to use,
- adding Tarun, as mentor for Sugarizer Dashboard,
- limits on number of mentors,
- how more than one mentor per project creates doubt as to who is responsible to answer,
- we will have mentors submitted to Google who participate in pedagogy, music, or other facets of development,
- risks of secret conversations between mentors and students,
- our traditions are not codified,
We did not make a decision.
Google Season of Docs
Google Open Source Program Office is offering Technical writers working on projects and sponsored by Google.
We discussed;
- our user and teacher documentation is in need of work, particularly for Sugar and Sugarizer,
- we can't easily do it at the same time as Google Summer of Code,
- an education team are interested that we should apply, but the team hasn't demonstrated their participation with us,
- we would expect both developers and an education team to be interacting with the technical writers,
- we don't need any API documentation, it is in good order,
- AGREED MOTION 2019-14
- apply to the Google Season of Docs 2019 program.
Sugar workshop, Nigeria, Kano
A Sugar workshop will be held end of April in Kano, Nigeria;
- city center,
- kids and parents from the area,
- public event,
- Ahmed Idris is the lead, with some teachers,
- Sugar workstations (Fedora SoaS) with different activities,
We discussed,
- Sugar activity collaboration feature won't be used,
- possibility of creating a mailing list if needed, or use iaep@ and sugar-devel@,
We did not make a decision.
GNOME Representative
- AGREED MOTION 2019-15
- appoint Alex Perez as one of our GNOME project representatives.
Sugarizer missing from sugar-devel@
Complaints
Meeting closed at around 21:20.