Oversight Board/2010/Meeting Log-2010-09-28

<walterbender> quorum call...

• walterbender:is present
• satellit_:listening

<CanoeBerry> Hiya Hiya

<walterbender> hi adam

hi tom

bernie, cjb , mchua, tomeu ???

bernie told /me he'd be here today:)

<tomeu> hi all

• tomeu:still in pootle land

<walterbender> tomeu: thank you for taking this on...

tomeu: any light at the end of the tunnel?

<tomeu> yes, I think we are close now

<CanoeBerry> what's the pootle issue?

<walterbender> CanoeBerry: it has been neglected of late and many commits had not been pushed in either direction

CanoeBerry: so the i18n for this release is a bit of a mess

<CanoeBerry> Sayamindu's been enjoying too much tea at the Media Lab 4pm's Friday, we know where to find him if nec ;)

Folks may want to grab the MP3 later today for this hourlong show on Teach for America I just listened to here:

http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/09/wendy-kopp

Sadly didn't catch all the details, but Teach for America is shaking up US campuses..

<walterbender> CanoeBerry: university campuses???

<CanoeBerry> Yes.

Undergrads are surging in their applications to ToA like never before.. the dream to invest love into primary schools is one thing that's working in this country:)

• TfA i meant

<walterbender> how does this impact university??? it is a post-grad program?

I could see it impacting ed schools...

<CanoeBerry> I gather over 10% of MIT undergrad seniors applied to TfA this spring.

That shakes up the dialogue on campuses like MIT.

<cjb> Hi, I'm here

Bernie might be busy because his visa finally came through:)

tomeu: awesome, thank you very much for looking at Pootle!

<walterbender> cjb: great news about the visa... just yesterday he didn't think it was going to happen.

<CanoeBerry> VISA!

<walterbender> so we have a quorum... we should begin.

1. start-meeting

I don't have a lot to discuss today except the election and the release...

but I wanted to meet because I am going to be traveling so much this month... need to grab whatever opportunities we can.

1. topic SLOB election

I can double-check with Luke, but I think he has been tracking membership OK.

I am disappointed that our ranks have not been swelled by teachers, alas.

but I am more concerned about a lack of official candidates... right now, we only have 1 person who has contacted me to say that they are definitely running: SMParrish

which is great that he is running, but we have 3 positions to fill

I will try to convince Rosamel to officially announce... she is great and has had a lot of enthusiastic endorsements.

but I also want to pin down a few more...

<CanoeBerry> i put my name here:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010-2011-candidates

<cjb> walterbender: I'm in two minds about letting someone else have a turn, but I'm certainly willing if we end up short on candidates

<walterbender> (hey ... my #start-meeting didn't start:( )

1. startmeeting

<sugaroid> Meeting started Tue Sep 28 15:20:17 2010 UTC. The chair is walterbender. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot.

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<walterbender> #action walter is post backlog to the official log since #start-meeting is not an alias for #startmeeting:(

CanoeBerry: glad to hear you are running again!!!

<CanoeBerry> sorry if i misunderstood the process.

i followed last year's routine:)

<walterbender> I added SMParrish too.. and I will add a link from the wiki home page...

<CanoeBerry> Is the Rosamel possiblity real?

<walterbender> CanoeBerry: I hope so... I'll try to contact her... I think the biggest obstacle is she is not very comfortable with English.

didn't we have an auto-translation chat going at one point in this channel??

<cjb> yeah, "transbot"

<walterbender> maybe that is enough to get her over the bump in the road...

<CanoeBerry> Bert's comment is eerily accurate -- English is the de facto Esperanto of global organizing..

<walterbender> I agree...

and the urban legend is that more people speak Klingon from StarTrek than Esperanto:)

<tomeu> what about reaching out to one of the english-speaking teachers we know?

gerald, tony, who else?

<walterbender> OK. I'll do one more call for candidates and I'll reach out to a few more folks (Gerald A., for example).

<CanoeBerry> What is our hard deadline Fri Oct 1?

<walterbender> Well, I think we could slip to Monday, but we should respect the process we outlined.

<CanoeBerry> Apparently 5PM Fri Oct 1 according to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members ?

<walterbender> Alas, I am traveling the next 3 days (to OWF in Paris)

<CanoeBerry> 5PM EDT..

<walterbender> #action walter will make one more call for candidates before heading to the airport

• walterbender:hopes to be able to contact Sean while in Paris

<CanoeBerry> walterbender: does your manic jetset life include SF?:)

<walterbender> CanoeBerry: I will know soon...

<CanoeBerry> Cool!

<walterbender> CanoeBerry: I have a trip to Costa Rica next week and then Paraguay before SF:)

<CanoeBerry> Right.

<walterbender> CanoeBerry: and maybe Mexico before... definitely afterward...

and it goes on and on... crazy fall

<CanoeBerry> Special Request to ALL for SF Topics -- please add core priorities here:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2010#Schedule_of_sessions

Then the OLPC-SF organizers themselves can piece this together into a schedule!

<walterbender> seems like an exciting weekend

<CanoeBerry> And pre-wkd too.

And post-wkd party:)

<walterbender> we also have talked about the need for a Sugar Camp for developers soon... to discuss Python and GNOME 3.0

<cjb> walterbender: Ah, deadline coming up -- okay, please add me as a candidate:)

<walterbender> cjb: thank you.

<cjb> If you don't mind, I might decide to stand aside later if we have a good field of other candidates.

<CanoeBerry> Done: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010-2011-candidates

<walterbender> cjb: always an option.

shall we switch topics?

I'd like to just touch on 0.90 to make sure we all know where we are at...

1. topic 0.90

We had a slight glitch with Pootle, but it seems that Tomeu (with input from cjl and others) has managed to get things working again...

and we have a candidate to replace/augment Sayamindu, who is being consumed by school

Erikos has already gotten a good start on the release notes: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Notes

all in all, despite the late start, I think it is a significant release

<CanoeBerry> other topics?

<walterbender> no comments from the peanut gallery?

• satellit_:Soas status: 3 bugs;2339;2351;2355 + no read but works ( latest Nightly Compose)

<walterbender> let me propose a motion:

We, the SLOB, acknowledge and praise the efforts of the release team for bringing us 0.90!!

<CanoeBerry> Can we spell out the Release Team's contributors?

• walterbender:is a bit worried abut marketing... I just did one interview, but we don't have Sean's blitz lined up...

<walterbender> CanoeBerry: we can mention its leader, erikos... the membership is a bit fuzzy... tomeu and alsroot of course... any many contributions from the community

• walterbender:has nothing else today... anyone else?

<CanoeBerry> Great +1 if we want to vote!

<cjb> seconded, +1:)

<walterbender> OK... let's vote...

• walterbender:+1

<tomeu> would be good if people wanted to add themselves to the teams they belong to in the wiki

this is a bit ridiculous: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Contacts

<CanoeBerry> tomeu: care to vote?

<tomeu> +1, but I would prefer to see more people joining the team:)

<walterbender> tomeu: I never new there was a list at all... perhaps it should be linked to from the Join link...

<tomeu> walterbender: all teams have a list

<CanoeBerry> Motion Carries.

<walterbender> tomeu: but no team has a list that is easy to find...

<CanoeBerry> walterbender: speaking of teambuilding, do you have a favorite bio/pic if you will participate in SF Summit Oct 22-24 in person or remotely?

<tomeu> walterbender: the team bar has a Contacts link

<CanoeBerry> walterbender: You should post that here: http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php

<walterbender> tomeu: I assumed that was how to contact the team, not the member's list...

<tomeu> walterbender: let's improve it then:)

<walterbender> CanoeBerry: will try to...

<CanoeBerry> Thx, email that to me today if poss.

<walterbender> tomeu: agreed... was just thinking about the specifics.

<tomeu> but well, I don't think the community has given much importance to the teams structure anyway

<CanoeBerry> I have to run at Noon sharp here, anything else?

<walterbender> tomeu: probably not, in general... but in a few specific cases, it has been important...

CanoeBerry: I think we are done for today...

thanks all for attending.

<CanoeBerry> Cheerio

<walterbender> FYI, I emailed Rosamel (in broken Spanish)

1. endmeeting

<sugaroid> Meeting ended Tue Sep 28 16:00:25 2010 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. (v 0.1.4)

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