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2. We had a Sugar Labs oversight board meeting last Friday in which we reached consensus on a more formal set of rules regarding quorum and voting by the board: we require a minimum quorum of four members present in order to initiate a vote and a majority of all members (four) for a passing vote. We will accept votes by email. We also established a mechanism for oversight-board members and community members to raise discussion topics. Community members should email any SLOBs member with a topic suggestion before the start of a board meeting. The meeting chair will triage discussion-topic requests. To increase the likelihood that your discussion topic "rises to the top" of the queue, please include:

2. We had a Sugar Labs oversight board meeting last Friday in which we reached consensus on a more formal set of rules regarding quorum and voting by the board: we require a minimum quorum of four members present in order to initiate a vote and a majority of all members (four) for a passing vote. We will accept votes by email. We also established a mechanism for oversight-board members and community members to raise discussion topics. Community members should email any SLOBs member with a topic suggestion before the start of a board meeting. The meeting chair will triage discussion-topic requests. To increase the likelihood that your discussion topic "rises to the top" of the queue, please include:

# a link to existing discussion thread(s) on public mailing list;

* a link to existing discussion thread(s) on public mailing list;

# a ''brief'' summary of each option or alternative being proposed; and

* a ''brief'' summary of each option or alternative being proposed; and

# a rationale for why this issue needs to escalate to the oversight board.

* a rationale for why this issue needs to escalate to the oversight board.

The meeting [[Oversight_Board/Meeting_Log-2009-10-30|log]] and [[Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2009-10-30|minutes]] are available in the wiki. The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, 6 November 2009 at 15:00 UTC (10:00 EST).

The meeting [[Oversight_Board/Meeting_Log-2009-10-30|log]] and [[Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2009-10-30|minutes]] are available in the wiki. The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, 6 November 2009 at 15:00 UTC (10:00 EST).