Oversight Board/Meeting Minutes-2024-11-20

November 20 2024 Meeting

Attending

• Devin Ulibarri (SL executive director)
• Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
• Samson Goddy (SL In. board)
• Chihurumnaya Ibiam (community member, GSoC admin/mentor)
• Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
• Lionel Laske (SL Inc. board)

Absent

• Alex Perez (SL Inc. board)

Agenda

• Election discussion
• Membership
• Reimagine Africa
• AWS update
• website update

Election

• So far, we have 20 people who have completed their ballot application.
• Nov 22, 2024 Deadline to receive candidacy applications and candidate bios and ballot applications.
• One candidate so far (See https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2025-2026-candidates).

Membership

• We have some members whose email is no longer active and should be removed from the list (Devin and Ibiam will work on this).
• We also need to clean up some shell accounts.
• We have more than two hundred members.
• Q. Should we allow contributors to be auto-enrolled as members?
• We need to review Sugar_Labs/Members
• We need to ping current and recent contributors about membership. (Devin)

Reimagine Africa

Claudia wanted us to be aware of https://conference.reimagine.africa/ and for Devin to meet Awoingo Davies

AWS

Still waiting on the changes to the FastAPI MR.

website

• Lots of incremental improvements... generally in solid shape
• Proposal to add WhatsApp as a contact option
• Suggestion to perhaps add a BlueSky account
• Add a link to https://www.sugarlabs.org/donate/ in the wiki page footer (walter).