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Sugar Labs Oversight Board Candidate Statement 2011-2012

Sugar Labs Oversight Board Candidate Statement 2013-2014

I have decided to stand as a candidate for election to the Sugar Labs Oversight Board.

I have decided to stand as a candidate for re-election to the Sugar Labs Oversight Board.

Since placing my G1G1 order on the first day of availability back in 2007, I've been very interested in learning how I could contribute to the goals of the education mission articulated by OLPC.  With the spin out of Sugar Labs in 2008, I joined as a member of Sugar Labs, but have long considered myself to hold "dual-citizenship".

Since placing my G1G1 order on the first day of availability back in 2007, I've been very interested in learning how I could contribute to the goals of the education mission articulated by OLPC.  With the spin out of Sugar Labs in 2008, I joined as a member of Sugar Labs, but have long considered myself to hold "dual-citizenship".

In recent years I've been focusing my efforts on the Localization community, working with and then picking up tasks from Sayamindu Dasgupta as he made his transition to graduate school and in the process took on responsibilities as the Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator.  In that role I have worked to expand our language coverage and facilitate the recruitment and empowerment of members of the Localization community that spans Sugar Labs / OLPC and Etoys.  I have advocated on behalf of improvements in internationalization and localization of our products as well as the tools to perform that work.  I've performed extensive outreach to upstream and downstream efforts to improve the overall L10n ecosystem.  We now host translation for Gnash and AbiWord upstream's as well as the Waveplace downstream.  I arranged for the Gnome team to provide us with a "release set" to facilitate our tracking of the upstream L10n bits we pull from them, as well as facilitating upstream contributions by our localizers that will ultimately benefit our users.

In recent years I've been focusing my efforts on the Localization community, working with and then picking up tasks from Sayamindu Dasgupta as he made his transition to graduate school and in the process took on responsibilities as the Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator.  In that role I have worked to expand our language coverage and facilitate the recruitment and empowerment of members of the Localization community that spans Sugar Labs / OLPC and Etoys.  I have advocated on behalf of improvements in internationalization and localization of our products as well as the tools to perform that work.  I've performed extensive outreach to upstream and downstream efforts to improve the overall L10n ecosystem.  We now host translation for Gnash and AbiWord upstream's as well as the Waveplace downstream.  I arranged for the Gnome team to provide us with a "release set" to facilitate our tracking of the upstream L10n bits we pull from them, as well as facilitating upstream contributions by our localizers that will ultimately benefit our users.

I'm a frequent presence in the open meetings of the various Sugar Labs teams IRC meetings, including the SLOBS meetings and I have advocated for attention to the needs of our language communities in those forums as well as encouraging collaborative effort among Sugar Labs teams and upstream outreach to the wider FOSS community.  

I try to be a frequent presence in the open meetings of the various Sugar Labs teams IRC meetings and I have advocated for attention to the needs of our language communities in those forums as well as encouraging collaborative effort among Sugar Labs teams and upstream outreach to the wider FOSS community.  

I've gained a wide angle view of Sugar Lab's work, as well as having delved into excruciating detail in a number of areas.  I've had the opportunity to work with a broad variety of stakeholders and I hope to use this perspective to help Sugar Labs grow it's community and reach it goals.

I've gained a wide angle view of Sugar Lab's work, as well as having delved into excruciating detail in a number of areas.  I've had the opportunity to work with a broad variety of stakeholders and I hope to use this perspective to help Sugar Labs grow it's community and reach it goals.