View source for Oversight Board/2009/Meeting Minutes-2009-09-25

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In attendance:

SLOB members: walter, dfarning, tomeu, cjb. (bernie was connected but seemingly absent)
Community members included: sdziallas, caroline, bemasc, CanoeBerry, SeanDaly, mtd, lfaraone, bogstad, and other community members.

== Agenda ==

# Decision Panel re Sugar on a Stick
# Elections
# Bolzano meeting
# Misc. update re fund-raising

== Decision Panel ==

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?" 

Members of the Decision Panel are:
* Sebastian Dziallas 
* Luke Faraone 
* Martin Dengler 
* Bill Bogstad 
* Faisal Khan 
* Benjamin M. Schwartz 
* Samuel Klein 
* Sean Daly 
* Tabitha Roder 
* Caryl Bigenho 
* Daniel Drake
* Abhishek Indoria

''We neglected to assign a date by which they are to report back. I recommend we give then 2 weeks. Will discuss via email.''

=== Questions for the Decision Panel (as referred to in the log ===
* Add proposed Decision Panel questions here

** "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?"

== Election ==

* We have [[Oversight_Board/2009-2010-candidates|14 candidates]]. 
* Ballot will be sent out by dfarning on 2009-10-01 via [http://selectricity.org/ Selectricity] to all members with an email on file. 

== Bolzano meeting ==

Since dfarning had to leave, we deferred this discussion.

== Fund raising update ==

Walter reported on various grants in play and other opportunities. See the meeting log for details.

== Log ==

[[Oversight_Board/2009/Meeting_Log-2009-09-25|Meeting Log]]

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