Oversight Board/Decisions

This page (still incomplete) is intended to be a one-stop place for reviewing all of the Sugar Labs oversight board (SLOB) actions and decisions.

2015-10-12

AGREED: Apply to GCI

2015-09-14

AGREED: funding to file an affidavits required to maintain the registration of Sugar Labs' trademarks with the USPTO.
ACTION: Walter to recruit mentors for GCI

2015-07-06

ACTION: acknowledged the numerous contributions to Sugar from the late Marco Presenti Gritti.

2015-05-06

AGREED: via email to add Samson Goody to the Membership Committee (DONE)

2015-05-04

AGREED: to share survey results with community (DONE)
ACTION: Gonzalo to post results (DONE)
ACTION: Gonzalo to write to each of the respondents
AGREED: that Claudia and Walter go to NI to discuss Sugar/OLPC future with the Zamoras
ACTION: Walter to make a first pass at culling the decisions from past meetings into one page (this page)

2015-04-06

AGREED: appoint Icarito and Caryl to the election committee and to try to recruit a youth member to the committee.

2015-01-14

ACTION: organize a summit to discuss the future of Sugar
ACTION: do a survey to solicit feedback from deployments

2014-10-07

ACTION: Recruit mentors for GCI
ACTION: Recruit candidates for oversight board

2014-07-08

AGREED: on a .UY venue for a summit in September 2014. Jose Miguel and Daniel will get back to us about specifics.

2014-03-03

ACTION: everyone solicit students for GSoC

2014-02-05

AGREED: to Gonzalo and Manuq's proposal for Background Image Contest

2013-11-04

AGREED: Luke to run election for oversight board again
AGREED: to give cjl discretion over the i18n funds in the Trip Advisor grant

2013-10-18

AGREED: we would apply again to Google Code In

2013-03-21

AGREED: the next release will be Sugar 1.0

2013-02-25

AGREED: to establish a category for Sugar Labs advisors/educators/friends
ACTION: Claudia and Walter will meet to start planning Turtle Art Day
AGREED: to apply for Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-01-07

ACTION: ClaudiaU agreed to share Making Learning Visible with SLOB members (and Tonyf and JT4Sugar)

2012-05-30

AGREED: to modify the Trademark and Local Labs pages in the wiki (See TM Policy and Local Labs Policy)

2012-05-03

AGREED: We approved a budget of up to US $5000 for two servers.
AGREED: Sugar Labs joins the SFC GPL enforcement program
ACTION: Walter to bring code-of-conduct discussion to the community.
ACTION: SLOB members to get signed agreements to the SFC regarding new SFC by-laws.

2011-12-02

AGREED: The Sugar Labs Oversight Board thanked Bernie Innocenti and Mel Chua for their dedicated service to the community in their role as members of the oversight board.

2011-09-16

AGREED: to keep the GSoC 2010 mentor funds as our general funds.

2011-08-05

AGREED: to award Sugar participation certificates (See Certificate Program).
AGREED: to give North Dakota State University authority to establish a local Sugar Lab.

2011-06-09

AGREED: we endorse Free Softeware as defined here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

2011-05-08

AGREED: Bernie (head of infrastructure team) is authorized to approve spending tickets filed on the bug tracker up to $200.
AGREED: to update the governance page.

2011-02-10

AGREED: SL endorses the idea that community members have kids: means more Sugar hackers in the future !!
AGREED: Local labs can issue Sugar certificates (and charge for this service whatever they want) but only if: (1) they maintain a page on our wiki explaining what content they use for training, where to download it, and what pricing they use; and (2) all the content they use for training is licensed under one of the licenses recommend by http://opensource.org/docs/osd and/or http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/[…]ing#Good_Licenses.

2010-12-13

AGREED: Oversight_Board/Project_Motion
AGREED: SL would like to acknowledge and celebrate the marriage of acaire11 and icarito : the first Sugar marriage!!!

2010-12-01

AGREED: Each active team and local lab should propose a few delegates from that team to SLOBs. We will invite the delegates to SLOBs meetings, and rotate scheduled times during SLOBs meetings to hear reports from their team or lab.
AGREED: The default time/day of the week for SLOBs meetings will be Thursdays at 15:00 EST (20:00 UTC)
AGREED: If a SLOB member misses one month of regular weekly meetings in a row, twice during one calendar year, SLOBs may find a replacement for their seat.

2010-09-28

AGREED: We, the SLOB, acknowledge and praise the efforts of the release team for bringing us 0.90!!

2010-05-07

AGREED: to a Trademark policy.

2010-03-05

AGREED: (1) Bundles with non-Sugar dependencies be clearly marked in ASLO; (2) We work towards a mechanism for supporting access to non-Sugar dependencies--a specific endorsement of being open; and (3) We do not restrict ASLO while we progress towards #2.

2010-02-26

AGREED: to authorize Bernie to spec out a machine around $2000, send details to systems@ for review, decide exactly where it will be hosted, then buy it.

2010-01-22

AGREED: to authorize Luke Faraone to ship some used hardware from the Wikipedia Foundation (12 servers) to various hosting sites. The cost should not exceed US$300.

2009-12-18

AGREED: Sugar Labs encourages all GNU/Linux distributions to package and distribute Sugar, and if possible will assist with hosting and infrastructure. SL Marketing may strategically decide to focus resources towards specific distributions in the interest of promoting Sugar more effectively.
AGREED: Yes, "Sugar on a Stick" should be reserved by Sugar Labs for use by the SoaS-Fedora distribution so that Sugar can be marketed effectively, until such time when a trademark policy, agreement, and process is put in place: SoaS will be the first project to go through that process.

2009-12-11

AGREED: to adopt http://opensource.org/docs/osd as a set of guidelines for what is permitted on ASLO, for both software and content, and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses's opinions on specific licenses where applicable, and always asking the SFC for advice when a particular license is under question.
AGREED: SL is and should be a GNU/Linux distributor.
AGREED: SL wishes to spread the use of Sugar and consequently works with GNU/Linux distros to produce and offer downloadable versions. This work can include helping to promote distros, and hosting them.