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- We have some members whose email is no longer active and should be removed from the list (Devin and Ibiam will work on this).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).