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

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.

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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.

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 4 yes, 1 absent