Oversight Board/Meeting Minutes-2014-02-05

In attendance:

SLOB members: walterbender, Daniel Francis, Claudia Urrea, Gonzalo Odiard, Jose Miguel Garcia

Community members: decause and others.

Agenda

1. GCI/GSoC
2. Sugar Youth Summit
3. Background Image Contest
4. Pedagogist/Developer meetups
5. Libreplanet
6. UNESCO grant

GCI/GSoC

• We celebrated our GCI grand-prize winners and finalist.
  • Ignacio Rodríguez, Jorge Gómez, Sai Vineet, Emil Dudev, Sam Parkinson
• We agreed to apply to GSoC 2014
  • Walter will prepare the application
  • We agreed for the need to be more rigorous about mentoring

Sugar Youth Summit

• We agreed to organize regional youth summits, beginning in LATAM.
  • We want to both target a code sprint and a more general focus on the power of Sugar and FOSS as a pedagogy.
  • Daniel Francis and Walter will discuss plans and report back to the committee.

Background Image Contest

• We agreed to Gonzalo and Manuq's proposal for Background Image Contest
  • Details can be found [1]
  • Sean Daly offered to help with PR

Pedagogist/Developer meetups

• Claudia has been in touch with many Sugar deployments and has a group of pedagogists ready to meet.
  • Details to be announced soon.

Libreplanet

• Walter and Claudia will be running a panel discussion at Libreplanet on FOSS in elementary education (and the danger of Disneyfication of content).

UNESCO

• Gonzalo is pursuing a grant from UNESCO re accessibility.

Log

http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2014-02-05T14:02:12