Oversight Board/Meeting Minutes-2024-04-10

Attending

• Devin Ulibarri (SL executive director)
• Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
• Lionel Laske (SL Inc. board)
• Ibiam Chihurumnaya (participant, SLOB)
• Peace Ojemeh (participant, SLOB)
• Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
• Martín Abente Lahaye (participant)
• Samson Goody (SL Inc. board)

Absent

• Alex Perez (SL Inc. board)

Agenda

• Code4Tech
• Fundraiser progress report
• Malden interns
• GSoC report
• Election planning

Discussion

Code4Tech

• Walter set up projects in the [DMP repo](https://github.com/suagrlabs/DMP) on GH.
• Waiting for the projects to go live on their site; then mentors need to fill out a form.

Marketing

• Devin wrote a [Marketing Team/Marketing Philosophy‎] page.
• We agreed to build a library of academic articles.
• We agreed to refresh the "press" room.
• Devin will explore some mechanisms for gathering/publishing updates (stuff that should be published to social media or our website's news feed).
• Devin will be running a seminar/workshop series.

Interns

• Devin is engaging them with basics around git and emacs.
• Ibiam will source some open issues in Sugar.

GSoC

• 115 proposals
• 25 marked as "ignore" as they were not up to the standards of the others.
• Mentors need to review/short list proposals they are interested in mentoring.
• Perrie will be design mentor as needed.

Board/Election

Motion: To disband the Sugar Labs Oversight Board in favor of the Sugar Labs, Inc. board

Motion made by Walter; seconded by Samson; +1 by Claudia, Ibiam, Walter, Lionel, and Perrie.

We discussed holding an election for the "even" seats of the Sugar Labs, Inc. board.

Walter, Lionel, and a vacant seat will be up for election in August.

Decisions

Motion by Walter Bender: To disband the Sugar Labs Oversight Board in favor of the Sugar Labs, Inc. board

The motion passes 5 yes, 1 absent