Oversight Board/2018-2020-candidates/Rahul Bothra

Hi everyone, I am Rahul Bothra (pro-panda). I am a Python Developer and code reviewer for Sugar Labs.

I was a GSoC' 18 student with Sugar Labs, and I worked on porting Sugar to Python 3. I continue contributing in terms of code, code reviews and as a mentor in GCI' 18.

I am excited by our goals and our potential. But I am concerned that the way we are working is wrong. Currently in the SLOB meetings,

A lot of the members are inactive. They don't attend the SLOB meetings or reply to motions, crippling our progress.
There is a lot of talk, but there is not an equivalent amount of work done. We fail to properly materialise discussions
We don't have a concrete plan of our goals. We try to cover a lot of breath in our efforts, and end up working on things which are not related to our goals (eg: Sugar Social)
We drag work for a lot of time, (eg: ASLO v3) a direct result of inactive mentoring and checks during GSoC
Lack of concern about the number of developers working on Sugar and its activities. We are failing in attracting new consistent developers for it, despite being a popular GSoC and GCI organisation.

What I will undertake once elected:

Attend every SLOB meeting regularly
Revamping how we conduct GCI and GSoC to attract more contributions as well as improve the quality of mentoring; making sure we prioritise tasks which are more important to us, adding more checks before adding developers, grooming of every task / project before it is added / selected.
Make a clear roadmap of our goals for the next 2 years in each domain of code, outreach, design and content. Start towards implementation of those goals according to priority.

I would like support from the community for my candidature for the post as a SLOB member.