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== Present == | == Present == | ||
;Board members: Walter Bender, James Cameron (chair), Samson Goddy, Lionel Laské, Alex Perez, Devin Ulibarri, and Claudia Urrea. | ;Board members: Walter Bender, James Cameron (chair), Samson Goddy, Lionel Laské, Alex Perez, Devin Ulibarri, and Claudia Urrea. | ||
== Visitors == | == Visitors == | ||
;Community members: | ;Community members: Peter Ifeanyi, Caryl Bigenho, Iqra Muhammad, Ibiam Chihurumnaya, and Peace Ojemeh. | ||
== Agenda == | == Agenda == | ||
* Receive report from Membership and Elections Committee, | * Receive report from Membership and Elections Committee, | ||
* Receive report from Google Code-in project team | * Receive report from Google Code-in project team, | ||
* Remake Music LLC, | * Remake Music LLC, | ||
* Marketing update, | * Marketing update, | ||
* SCALE 17x, | * SCALE 17x, | ||
* Discussion of 2019 goals | * Discussion of 2019 goals. | ||
== Receive Reports == | |||
Reports were made by Membership and Elections Committee and the Google Code-in project team. | |||
We discussed; | |||
* the meaning of participation, | |||
* that registration with Google Code-in was separate, | |||
* that selecting a task didn't mean work was submitted, | |||
* the data is available but to protect participants' privacy cannot be published, | |||
* the data can be made available to board members on the understanding that it may not be published, | |||
;AGREED MOTION 2019-05: we formally receive the reports from Membership and Elections Committee, and Google Code-in project team (motion 2018-08). | |||
== Remake Music LLC == | |||
Walter and Devin have formed a company and declared a conflict of interest. | |||
We discussed; | |||
* to provide professional teaching services and support to teachers and schools for using Music Blocks in the classrooms, | |||
* conflict of interest forms have been reviewed by our project representative and sent to the Conservancy, | |||
* whether Walter and Devin need to recuse from this motion. | |||
;AGREED MOTION 2019-06: we formally receive report on and notification of conflict of interest with respect to Remake Music LLC. | |||
== Marketing update == | |||
Samson has been reaching out to schools, makers club, and planning. An overview of a plan was submitted. Draft goals for 2018 were used. A school in Port Harcourt is deploying Sugar on a Stick for desktop computers. | |||
We discussed; | We discussed; | ||
We | * that the marketing team is not a committee but a group of volunteers, the board remains responsible for marketing, and supervises marketing, | ||
* that there is an educational team which has shared intent, | |||
* there are other teams the board does not supervise, | |||
* there are more contributors from Port Harcourt for Music Blocks, | |||
* that Walter has been talking with the Kano team, and that things are picking up in Brazil, | |||
We did not come to any decision. | |||
== SCALE 17x == | |||
Alex is planning to attend SCALE for Sugar Labs. SCALE is a volunteer-run Linux and Open Source conference held in California. | |||
We discussed; | We discussed; | ||
Meeting closed at 21: | * when and where to ship the standing poster (not answered), | ||
* other volunteer-run conferences, such as linux.conf.au, | |||
* who else is attending; Caryl, Alex's wife, and one other, | |||
* costs of registration, travel and accommodation, | |||
* display will include OLPC XO-1 laptops, | |||
* how and where to accommodate the team, | |||
* who else might be invited to help; Sameer and Aaron, | |||
* recruiting developers, | |||
;AGREED MOTION 2019-07: to cover reasonable lodging and marketing expenses related to SCaLE attendance and promotion of Sugar and Sugar Labs, not to exceed $2,000. | |||
== Discussion of 2019 goals == | |||
We discussed; | |||
* [[Goals/2018_Submissions]] | |||
* Caryl offered educational team goals https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eciIMFffPT2oXJulOqV7iNh1DUXrsTNI7ZAcGNQxIus “Develop written guides, in multiple languages, for using Sugar Activities on a variety of of platforms to help students reach stated educational goals.” and “Curate and create a collection of visual media resources showing ways to use a variety of forms of Sugar on a variety of platforms inside and outside the classroom” | |||
* key goals are maintaining community and activities, | |||
* adding activities, not removing activities by ignoring them, and that we have maintainers for 52 activities out of several hundred, | |||
* we are close to being dropped by downstream distributions due to technical debt, | |||
* we might recruit, offer inducements, incentives, bounties, or rewards, | |||
We did not come to any decision. | |||
Meeting closed at 21:11 | |||