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| 18:46 | Quozl | meeting: hello. |
| 18:46 | meeting | Quozl: Error: "hello." is not a valid command. |
| 18:55 | Quozl | #startmeeting |
| 18:55 | meeting | Meeting started Wed Feb 5 18:55:36 2020 UTC. The chair is Quozl. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. |
| 18:55 | Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic #endmeeting | |
| 18:55 | Quozl | #topic waiting for start time and quorum |
| 18:55 | pro-panda | ping |
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| 18:56 | Quozl | pro-panda: hello. |
| 18:57 | pro-panda | Quozl: Hello |
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| 18:59 | Quozl | ibiam: hello. |
| 18:59 | ibiam | Quozl: hi. |
| 18:59 | Quozl | llaske: hello. |
| 18:59 | MrBIOS: hello. | |
| 18:59 | MrBIOS | Good morning, I’m alive. |
| 19:00 | llaske | hi all |
| 19:00 | MrBIOS | I’m glad we were all able to make this time |
| 19:00 | Quozl | #topic election of chair |
| 19:00 | we have quorum, let's begin. | |
| 19:00 | we don't have devin or claidia as far as i can see. | |
| 19:00 | i'm happy to be chair again, but i need you to choose me. | |
| 19:01 | any other offers to be chair of the board? | |
| 19:01 | ibiam | I thought Alex was chair? |
| 19:01 | MrBIOS | ibiam: nopw |
| 19:01 | nope | |
| 19:01 | Quozl | not to my knowledge, ibiam. |
| 19:01 | ibiam | Okay. |
| 19:01 | MrBIOS | We can give them 1-2 minutes, can we not? I’m happy with your performance as Chair, and would happily have you again in that role. |
| 19:01 | Quozl | https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/[…]t_Board/Decisions 2018-10 |
| 19:01 | ibiam | MrBIOS: +1 |
| 19:02 | Quozl | motion: james cameron to chair oversight board meetings, moved by alex, seconded by ibiam. all in favour? the late people can catch up. |
| 19:03 | pro-panda | I'm in favor |
| 19:03 | llaske | +1 |
| 19:03 | Quozl | motion agreed. |
| 19:03 | #topic induction of new board members | |
| 19:04 | now, let's briefly tell ibiam and rahul what their responsibilities are and how to operate effectively on the board? | |
| 19:04 | MrBIOS | please. |
| 19:05 | Quozl | i think my key advice is that "silence is not consent, it means you are missing in action". we don't drop the responsibility to communicate once we send an e-mail, because e-mail is unreliable. |
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| 19:06 | Quozl | we can decide things as a board by e-mail, but our standing rule is that a motion once put by e-mail must have a response within a week, or we drop it. |
| 19:06 | ibiam | Claudia: hi. |
| 19:06 | Claudia | hi everyone |
| 19:06 | Quozl | Claudia: thanks for joining. we have elected a chair (me), and are working briefly on induction of new board members. |
| 19:06 | Claudia | ok |
| 19:06 | MrBIOS | yes, and asking questions is encouraged. Also, because you brought up an idea a year ago, doesn’t mean everyone else remembers it, so don’t bring the baggage of “it wasn’t approved last time, so it’s not worth bringing up again” with you, would be my advice. |
| 19:07 | Quozl | in general people don't read mail in full, so sometimes we have to come to a meeting to agree on something. |
| 19:08 | ibiam | I understand that every member has the right to remain silent on anything they choose to but what if that happens regularly? |
| 19:08 | Quozl | ibiam, rahul, the organisation you've joined is a project of the software freedom conservancy, and devin is our liaison to the conservancy, and may have other things to say about that. key is that devin is the channel through which we must communicate. |
| 19:08 | ibiam: in the same way that a member of the board has the duty to attend meetings, they also have the duty to answer mails in neutral; like "i've nothing to say". | |
| 19:09 | ibiam | Quozl: And if that is recurring especially? |
| 19:09 | Quozl | ibiam: then that board member should be removed by the board. |
| 19:09 | ibiam | s/especially/ |
| 19:10 | MrBIOS | right, acknwoledging that you’ve seen a particular e-mail is important, even if you don’t feel strongly about it and have no feedback, so we know you’ve at least seen it. It does happen, yes. |
| 19:10 | Claudia | it would be good to summarize these points... on duties and important ways to interact |
| 19:11 | Quozl | Claudia: yes, i agree. i'm happy to move on to next topic now. |
| 19:11 | MrBIOS | agreed. I would also recommend that you both review the SLOB mailing list archives yourselves, so you get an idea of the type of things that might be brought up via e-mail. |
| 19:11 | Quozl | #topic appointment of liaison to the membership and elections committee |
| 19:11 | MrBIOS | You can do so at http://lists.sugarlabs.org/private/slobs/ |
| 19:11 | Quozl | yes, the slobs mailing list archives are open to you now. |
| 19:12 | pro-panda | My understanding was that we've moved away from being an SFC project ? |
| 19:12 | Quozl | pro-panda: yes, but we haven't finished moving away. |
| 19:12 | MrBIOS | pro-panda: it’s a lengthy process, we can send you the executed agreement with them for your review. |
| 19:12 | Quozl | pro-panda: the new organisation has not yet chosen how to elect their board, and are starting with a board consisting of a few of the board of this organisation. |
| 19:13 | pro-panda | MrBIOS: sure, Thank you |
| 19:13 | Quozl | pro-panda: we expect as things develop that we'll learn more. |
| 19:14 | MrBIOS | pro-panda: that agreement is also available in the SLOBs mailing list archive above. |
| 19:14 | pro-panda | Quozl: Okay |
| 19:14 | Quozl | motion: ibiam to be the board liaison for the membership and elections committee. |
| 19:14 | Claudia | second |
| 19:14 | MrBIOS | yeah, just don’t be afraid to ask questions, even if you might categorize them as “stupid” |
| 19:14 | Quozl | all in favour? ibiam has been on the board for a while. |
| 19:14 | llaske | +1 |
| 19:14 | MrBIOS | +1 |
| 19:14 | Claudia | +1 |
| 19:14 | pro-panda | -1 |
| 19:14 | Quozl | motion agreed. |
| 19:14 | #topic pending motions | |
| 19:15 | Claudia | who is pro-panda? |
| 19:15 | Quozl | i had suggested in recent slobs mail that we might do something about having only 34 votes cast by 297 historic members. should we do anything? |
| 19:15 | Claudia: that's rahul bothra. | |
| 19:15 | Claudia | Thank you. Hi Rahul (pro-panda) |
| 19:15 | MrBIOS | I would like to propose that we send an e-mail to those members, asking, essentially, “are you alive, and do you still want to be a member?" |
| 19:16 | Quozl | for the record, we don't appear to have any visitors to the meeting today; this could be because we changed the meeting time without notice. if any of you can stay to the hour, please do so. |
| 19:16 | MrBIOS: i agree. | |
| 19:16 | MrBIOS | I should be able to |
| 19:16 | Claudia | MrBIOS: +1 |
| 19:16 | Quozl | ibiam: what do you think about this? [membership list] |
| 19:16 | Claudia | it would be great to clean the list and make sure people can participate |
| 19:17 | MrBIOS | okay, should that e-mail should be crafted by the membership and election committee liason, or collectively? |
| 19:17 | ibiam | Quozl: Like Claudia just suggested, I'd planned to remove the 30 email aliases that Vipul reported to have bounced. |
| 19:17 | Claudia | good start |
| 19:17 | Quozl | MrBIOS: we delegated the task of maintaining the list to the committee when we created the committee, but we can always give instructions to the committee. and that committee can invite you to do something for them. it's not a worry. |
| 19:19 | so i see two steps; one already completed is to identify the bounced addresses, but the second step we're considering is to ask the members to respond that they want to continue to be members. | |
| 19:19 | ibiam | +1. |
| 19:19 | pro-panda | For the people who respond in the affirmative for being a member, they should also be able to indicate their contribution to Sugar Labs |
| 19:19 | Quozl | i think we need to agree two things; (a) whether to do this, and (b) what time period to allow for an answer. |
| 19:19 | MrBIOS | +1, having a list of non-responsive members doesn’t mean much, at least to me. |
| 19:20 | I’m fine with 30-60 days. Thoughts? | |
| 19:20 | ibiam | For (b) I think a fortnight is okay. |
| 19:20 | MrBIOS | pro-panda: no contribution is necessary to be a member, you can be an end user for instance. |
| 19:20 | Claudia | what are we asking from members and what is the benefit of this membership? I think we should be able to talk about those things in the communication... |
| 19:21 | Quozl | MrBIOS: being an end-user is a contribution. |
| 19:21 | Claudia: i think there is no benefit of membership other than association. | |
| 19:21 | MrBIOS | Quozl: I agree, but I’m not sure it’s what pro-panda meant |
| 19:21 | ibiam | I think so too. |
| 19:21 | Quozl | MrBIOS: pro-panda and i have in the past wondered at how we have mentors who do nothing, or members who we cannot figur eout how they became members. |
| 19:22 | pro-panda | MrBIOS: ~contribution~ How are they a stakeholder ? |
| 19:22 | MrBIOS | yes, those folks should all be purged. Just because you contribute a line or 500 of code, once, doesn’t mean you are or even want to be a “member” |
| 19:22 | again, that word is ambiguous. | |
| 19:22 | it’s not clear if you mean _code_ contribution, or beyond that | |
| 19:22 | ibiam | Quozl: the mentor process was changed and that has improved. |
| 19:23 | Quozl | i'd like to suggest we think about membership criteria some other time, and not have it as part of membership list verification. |
| 19:23 | Claudia | Quozl: hmmm... giving inputs on some sort? working together with Sugarlabs on outreach? electing board? |
| 19:23 | pro-panda | Agreed |
| 19:23 | MrBIOS | agreed |
| 19:24 | this is another great point about being on the Oversight Board..just because something is clear to you doesn’t mean it’s clear to all the other members. | |
| 19:24 | llaske | ok |
| 19:24 | Claudia | I think those are benefits and responsibilities combined |
| 19:25 | Assuming people want to be a member for the affiliation alone is not sufficient... in my opinion | |
| 19:25 | Quozl | for the record, here's the membership criteria and the existing direction to the committee to clean up the membership list every six months; https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members |
| 19:25 | MrBIOS | Claudia: I agree, there needs to be a stated reason why, even if it’s relatively superficial, like a selection on a web form. |
| 19:26 | I would like to propose that we keep the membership list in a machine-readable format, not an OpenDocument uploaded to our wiki. | |
| 19:26 | something we can use to generate e-mails from, for instance, would be a marked improvement | |
| 19:27 | Claudia | I would not call those superficial... I think the benefits have strong links to what the organization is and should continue to be |
| 19:27 | Quozl | in our existing direction that the board made a long time ago, the time period was six months. |
| 19:27 | MrBIOS | As a reminder, here is the current process for membership indution: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/[…]ng_for_membership |
| 19:28 | Quozl | MrBIOS: the committee holds a list of e-mail addresses that is not published. as a board member you are entitled to a copy. but we don't host it on the wiki. |
| 19:28 | MrBIOS | understood, but it could easily be not-published somewhere else. A private repo, etc etc. |
| 19:28 | having to copy-paste a bunch of e-mail addresses to communicate with our membership is dumb. | |
| 19:29 | I guess I’d like to understand what the current process is for doing so | |
| 19:29 | if any | |
| 19:29 | ibiam | Quozl: The currency assurance policy was added by Luke Faraone, was there ever a decision by the board for that? |
| 19:29 | Quozl | MrBIOS: yes. i suggest you ask the committee about that. |
| 19:30 | ibiam: yes, but i don't have the exact motion noted. the list has been trimmed before. | |
| 19:30 | MrBIOS | Quozl: I don’t see a list of the current members of said committee, does anyone know who is on it, besides ibiam? (or are you still, ibiam?) |
| 19:31 | Quozl | MrBIOS: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/[…]ections_Committee |
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| 19:31 | Quozl | MrBIOS: it includes samson, ignacio, hrishi, and pericherla. i've said before i don't like how we don't know what they do; there's no minutes, and no reporting. |
| 19:32 | MrBIOS | okay. I had asked Samson to be here, but he was likely unaware of the change of schedule, so I can’t fault him for not bing here. |
| 19:32 | I would like to propose that if they don’t change that, we abolish the committee, if it’s not actually doing it’s mandated job. | |
| 19:32 | and find some alternative means of facillitating the same thing. | |
| 19:32 | pro-panda | I'd second that |
| 19:32 | Quozl | MrBIOS: but they have successfully run an election, even if they haven't done the other things we would have liked. |
| 19:33 | ibiam | Some of the members of the committee haven't been active for a while. |
| 19:33 | Quozl | MrBIOS: we also haven't given explicit direction to do the things we thought they should. a bit unfair to dismiss them for it. |
| 19:33 | MrBIOS | I agree, not saying we do it without having a conversation with them about it first :) |
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| 19:34 | Quozl | ibiam: if someone doesn't turn up to meetings or answer committee mail in any way; that's someone who should be replaced by someone who will. |
| 19:35 | MrBIOS | I propose we call an “emergency”/one-off meeting of the elections committee, to discuss this in real time. |
| 19:35 | Quozl | let's wrap this topic up; do we have any proposed motions? |
| 19:35 | ibiam | MrBIOS: +1. |
| 19:35 | MrBIOS | any board members who want to attend would be welcome to do so. Anyone? |
| 19:35 | ibiam | I'll attend. |
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| 19:35 | Quozl | MrBIOS: if at an appropriate time, i'll attend. |
| 19:35 | MrBIOS | same here. |
| 19:36 | pro-panda | I'll attend |
| 19:37 | Quozl | motion: a meeting to be called on irc for the membership and elections committee, with board members invited. all in favour? |
| 19:37 | MrBIOS | anyone else care to second this proposed motion? |
| 19:37 | +1 here, in favor | |
| 19:37 | ibiam | Seconded. |
| 19:37 | pro-panda | I'll second |
| 19:37 | llaske | +1 |
| 19:37 | pikurasa | +1 |
| 19:37 | Quozl | Claudia: ? |
| 19:38 | motion agreed. | |
| 19:38 | #topic induction of new board members (repeating) | |
| 19:38 | pikurasa: hav eyou advised sfc of changes to board? i spoke with karen about this a few weeks ago at linux.conf.au, just to prepare her. | |
| 19:39 | pikurasa: sfc have to be told of the election result, and they will change their e-mail alias for the board. | |
| 19:39 | pikurasa | Quozl: I can tell them. |
| 19:39 | Quozl | pikurasa: good, thanks. do you have anything else to report on sfc relations? |
| 19:39 | pikurasa | Quozl: I will do it soon. |
| 19:39 | Quozl | #topic any reports from project representative |
| 19:40 | pikurasa | I have not spoken to SFC much recently, and do not have anything to report on that end. |
| 19:40 | Quozl | #topic any reports from project teams; e.g. gci, gsoc |
| 19:40 | thanks. | |
| 19:40 | walterbender: are you here? if not, i'll speak to gsoc. | |
| 19:40 | pikurasa | Let me know if you need me to communicate anything with them. |
| 19:40 | Quozl | pikurasa: will do. |
| 19:40 | Claudia | +1 |
| 19:41 | Quozl | the deadline for submitting the application for gsoc was, um, 41 minutes ago. |
| 19:41 | Claudia | sorry... emergency call |
| 19:41 | llaske | walterbender told he submit |
| 19:41 | Quozl | i was in a meeting so i don't yet know how walterbender went with that. |
| 19:41 | llaske: thanks! | |
| 19:41 | Claudia | back at the meeting |
| 19:41 | MrBIOS | I have a question as it relates to SFC, that I discussed with Peace and Samson in Brussels last weekend, at FOSDEM. |
| 19:41 | Quozl | we seem to have some interesting projects and mentors able to help us with sutdents. |
| 19:41 | MrBIOS: go ahead. | |
| 19:42 | MrBIOS | We had previously voted as a board, and approved, a motion to spend the money we received from GSoC some time last year on marketing, but we never actually spent any money, nor did we ask SFC to do anything about it. |
| 19:42 | so, we have a bit of a disconnect there, and I propose it be resolved. | |
| 19:42 | Quozl | MrBIOS: by the way, were the SFC people at FOSDEM? |
| 19:42 | MrBIOS | how, I’m not really sure, but I’m open to suggestions |
| 19:43 | Quozl: I know Bradley was, but I did not interact with him. He was also at a copyleft meet-up/conference on Monday, which I missed as I didn’t know it was happening, had booked my flight months in advance, and couldn’t attend since I had to get on a plane that morning. | |
| 19:43 | …which was also in Brussels. | |
| 19:44 | Quozl | MrBIOS: are you referring to motion 2019-01 to preserve the gsoc 2018 stipend for marketing purposes? this was an internal matter within the board, and didn't have any effect on sfc. |
| 19:44 | pikurasa | sent results to Karen of SFC just now. |
| 19:44 | Quozl | pikurasa: thanks. you included removal of samson and walter? |
| 19:45 | MrBIOS | Quozl: I don’t disagree, but since we effectively earmarked those funds, and then did nothing about distributing them, I just wanted to bring it up so everyone on this new board is now aware. |
| 19:46 | procedureally, since SFC still holds those funds on our behalf, it’s a bit complicated, given the divorce. | |
| 19:46 | ibiam | In addition to what MrBIOS is saying, I'd like to know what the plan of the board is for marketing and outreach. |
| 19:46 | Quozl | MrBIOS: okay, thanks. it's something that happens in other organisations i'm part of; a group of people say "here's some money, use it for suchandsuch", we call it a conditional-grant, and it imposes on the organisation a responsibility to track parts of it's money. |
| 19:47 | pikurasa | Quozl: yes |
| 19:47 | MrBIOS | ibiam: at this point I don’t think we have a coherent plan, but I would like to see us develop one, as part of our organizational re-boot, and our second decade of existence. |
| 19:47 | Quozl | #topic discussion of marketing and outreach |
| 19:47 | pikurasa | Quozl: I have some real quick finance topics, and I have kids coming in for classes. May I be next on agenda? |
| 19:48 | Claudia | go ahead |
| 19:48 | Quozl | pikurasa: i did not know, sorry. yes, and we also have to choose next meeting time. so let's move quickly through this marketing question. |
| 19:48 | MrBIOS | +1 for pikurasa |
| 19:48 | pikurasa | I filed 1099 for Kyle (which is required by IRS). The deadline was Jan 31st. |
| 19:48 | I used an accountant in my trusted circles | |
| 19:49 | MrBIOS | pikurasa: thank you. |
| 19:49 | pikurasa | http://www.finaccurate.com/ |
| 19:49 | is the firm | |
| 19:49 | I could either continue with this person (recommended) | |
| 19:49 | Quozl | pro-panda: ibiam: what is being discussed by pikurasa is the new organisation procedural steps relating to US government. |
| 19:49 | pikurasa | or try and find someone else (no time, I think) |
| 19:50 | I do not know the price, but I am finding out. | |
| 19:50 | MrBIOS | Also, for the new members, FYI, Kyle is our lawyer, he is working Pro Bono for us from now on, by his choice. We paid him to help forge the exit agreement with SFC, and negotiate with them on our behalf. |
| 19:51 | feel free to ask me any questions about any of this later on the SLOBs mailing list. | |
| 19:51 | pikurasa | I anticipate that it may cost between $1K-3K (ballpark). |
| 19:51 | ibiam | Quozl, MrBIOS: thanks. |
| 19:51 | pikurasa | (but may be less) |
| 19:51 | MrBIOS | pikurasa: annually, or? |
| 19:52 | pikurasa | I really do not know. I am giving a higher number than I expect. |
| 19:52 | (for filing 2019 taxes) | |
| 19:52 | I will try and get a number. | |
| 19:52 | Unsure if I need to call a motion. Any objections to working with this person? | |
| 19:53 | MrBIOS | it should be an incredibly straightforward process, I would be surprised if it exceeded $1K, personally. I have no objections. |
| 19:53 | it’s a necessary business expense. | |
| 19:53 | ibiam | No objections from me. |
| 19:53 | Quozl | pikurasa: i've nothing to say, it's entirely up to the members of the board of the new organisation, and that's not me. |
| 19:53 | pikurasa | The 1099 was $75, btw. (This should be done by payroll when we get bigger, which will be cheaper) |
| 19:53 | I got to go now. | |
| 19:53 | Thanks! | |
| 19:53 | Quozl | pikurasa: bye! |
| 19:53 | MrBIOS | s/necessary/necessary and non-optional/g |
| 19:53 | pikurasa: thanks for your time. | |
| 19:54 | Quozl | now, do we want to get back to marketing or move on to time of next meeting? |
| 19:54 | ibiam | pikurasa: bye. |
| 19:54 | MrBIOS | anyways, pivoting back to marketing for a moment? |
| 19:54 | Quozl | right, marketing. |
| 19:54 | MrBIOS | either/or |
| 19:54 | Towards the marketing goal, I’d like to ask all board members if they have any emotional attachments to our current logo, or any other aspect of our current branding, or website. I do not at all, personally. | |
| 19:54 | I’d just like to have this on the record. | |
| 19:54 | Quozl | my marketing plan at the moment is to ensure sugar and activities continue to work, and to release a new version when it is an appropriate time, with a sugar live build. |
| 19:54 | MrBIOS | pikurasa: if you’re still here and are able to comment, feel free, otherwise we can get your answer later |
| 19:55 | Quozl | MrBIOS: what do you think is our current logo? |
| 19:55 | Claudia | I think it is very confusing to be operating for the exisiting and the new organization, but not everyone that needs to be involbved us |
| 19:55 | MrBIOS | Quozl: the one on our website, and which was made the logo when Sugar Labs was formed, ~10 years ago. There are also color variants of it on our wiki. https://sugarlabs.org/ |
| 19:55 | Claudia | *is here |
| 19:55 | Quozl | Claudia: i agree. |
| 19:56 | MrBIOS | Claudia: I don’t disagree, it’s no bueno, but it is what it is. |
| 19:56 | Quozl | https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trademark |
| 19:56 | Claudia | so... it is hard to make decision |
| 19:56 | MrBIOS | Quozl: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Logo |
| 19:56 | Quozl | MrBIOS: so you mean the icon top left of https://sugarlabs.org/ |
| 19:56 | MrBIOS | Claudia: I don’t think this decision needs to be binding, I’m just asking for opinions here. |
| 19:56 | Quozl | MrBIOS: okay, thanks. |
| 19:57 | MrBIOS | Quozl: it’s also in the upper-right on our wiki |
| 19:57 | a square variant | |
| 19:57 | Quozl | MrBIOS: yes, i have a tiny emotional attachment. i'm just used to it. i think we could do better. i've not seen any better, especially not in the recent gci attempt to get students to come up with a better one. |
| 19:58 | llaske | Quozl : +1 |
| 19:58 | Quozl | MrBIOS: it would be appropriate to hire a graphics designer. i don't think we have people who can do this in our membership. is this something the new org could pay for? |
| 19:59 | MrBIOS | agreed, those were not serious contenders. okay, the reason I ask is that Peace showed me some ideas in Brussels, that she had worked up. I liked at least one or two of them, completely subjectively, and thought it might be worth running them by the board as a whole. |
| 19:59 | Quozl | (if we had members who could do this, they would have already demonstrated their skills in graphic design and made a suggestion by now.) |
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| 19:59 | MrBIOS | they exist today, so they wouldn’t need to be created. |
| 19:59 | Quozl | aha, good. then i suggest you propose them. |
| 20:00 | MrBIOS | Quozl: there are reasons why they have chosen not to, which I explained I didn’t think were valid/good reasons, which is why I’ve chosen to bring this up here. |
| 20:00 | ibiam | Walter__: hi. |
| 20:00 | Quozl | our time for the meeting is up. does anyone have to go now? |
| 20:01 | MrBIOS | okay, I will engage with her and send this content along to the SLOBs mailing list. |
| 20:01 | I do not, and am happy to hang around | |
| 20:01 | do we want to formally end the meeting? | |
| 20:01 | Quozl | pro-panda: still here? |
| 20:01 | MrBIOS | we don’t have a date/time for the next one yet, but we also don’t have pikurasa |
| 20:01 | ibiam | I don't have anywhere to be, happy to be around for a while. |
| 20:01 | Quozl | yes, i understand. |
| 20:02 | i move to close the meeting, all in favour? | |
| 20:02 | pro-panda | Quozl: yes, but would like to exit the meeting |
| 20:02 | llaske | +1 |
| 20:02 | pro-panda | +1 |
| 20:02 | Quozl | Claudia: ? |
| 20:02 | ibiam | +1. |
| 20:02 | Quozl | MrBIOS: ? |
| 20:02 | MrBIOS | +1 |
| 20:03 | Claudia | +1 |
| 20:03 | Quozl | #endmeeting |
| 20:03 | meeting | Meeting ended Wed Feb 5 20:03:24 2020 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. (v 0.1.4) |
| 20:03 | Minutes: http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/s[…]-05T18:55:36.html | |
| 20:03 | Log: http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/s[…]20-02-05T18:55:36 | |
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| 20:03 | Quozl | thanks all, chat as long as you require. i'll be back in a minute or two. |
| 20:04 | ibiam | Re marketing and outreach, Vipul has some good ideas. |
| 20:04 | pro-panda | Goodbye |
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| 20:04 | MrBIOS | ibiam: are they documented anywhere? I’d love to hear them |
| 20:06 | ibiam | MrBIOS: Search your inbox for an email with subject "Regarding Sugar Labs Outreach plan" |
| 20:06 | MrBIOS | ah yes, I’m familiar with the thread. |
| 20:06 | ibiam | What do you think? |
| 20:08 | MrBIOS: Was looking forward to having a booth for SL at the upcoming Open Source Community Africa festival. | |
| 20:09 | Don't know if it was brought up before now. | |
| 20:09 | Although it's too late. | |
| 20:09 | MrBIOS | I assume Samson can make that happen, I see no reason why we shouldn’t have one. |
| 20:09 | is it? | |
| 20:10 | ibiam | Yes it can happen but it'll require sponsorship of some kind. |
| 20:10 | To the Open Source Community Africa. | |
| 20:10 | I think. | |
| 20:10 | MrBIOS | so, if you don’t sponsor the conference, you can’t have a table? |
| 20:10 | seems odd | |
| 20:11 | that’s not how PyCon works, for instance, or even FOSDEM | |
| 20:11 | ibiam | I'll gladly handle the booth as I plan to attend the festival. |
| 20:11 | I might be wrong about the booth. | |
| 20:11 | Quozl | some conferences are like that. |
| 20:11 | it depends on how the conference organisers feel about funding and coercion by sponsors. | |
| 20:11 | ibiam | Don't know what it takes at the festival, I know for other conferences you just have to apply. |
| 20:11 | And be there. | |
| 20:12 | Quozl | linux.conf.au for instance is very much against coercion. |
| 20:12 | MrBIOS | yep, assuming they have space, they usually just give you a table and tell you when and where to show up. |
| 20:12 | That was the case with FOSDEM, but it’s a nearly-all-volunteer event. | |
| 20:12 | Quozl | ('cause we have IBM strolling in with cash). |
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| 20:14 | MrBIOS | Quozl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-hH_0tY5qw likely relevant to us. I did not attend this talk (there were hundreds) |
| 20:14 | walterbender | managed both to get the meeting time mixed up and to be double-books. |
| 20:14 | reads the logs | |
| 20:15 | Quozl | walterbender: the meeting time was changed without notice. |
| 20:15 | MrBIOS | downloadable video at https://fosdem.org/2020/schedu[…]ted_testing_foss/ |
| 20:15 | walterbender: we can’t fault you, no worries | |
| 20:17 | Quozl | walterbender: specifically the achievement of unanimity of change of meeting time happened while the chair was asleep, and so it was changed on the wiki about 20 minutes before the meeting. ;-) |
| 20:17 | MrBIOS | Quozl: it was obvious that was gonna happen :) |
| 20:17 | Thank you for waking up in time | |
| 20:18 | is still a bit jetlagged | |
| 20:21 | walterbender: At FOSDEM, I met with the GNOME folks at their table, where I was introduced to Melissa Wu, their recently-hired Program Coordinator, and then attended a “GNOME Beers” event at a pub, where I had further discussion with her. The GNOME conference, GUADC, this year, is being held in Zacatecas, Mexico, July 22-28, and I intend to attend. | |
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| 20:25 | MrBIOS | ibiam: as far as “Javascript conferences” go, unless on Vipul’s list, I have no real interest or desire to attend them, and unless llaske wants to, I would suggest that anyone not directly involved with Sugarizer go, as I don’t think they’d know enough about it to be a useful presence there. |
| 20:25 | regardless of the conference. | |
| 20:26 | Same goes with Open Source Summit Japan, unless Devin and/or Walter wanted to attend, I don’t think that particular event is worth attending in an official capacity. We don’t have any member representation within Japan, that I know of. | |
| 20:26 | llaske | MrBIOS: Not sure which Javascript conferences you're talking about |
| 20:27 | MrBIOS | llaske: none were named, I’m only parroting what was in the Google Doc Vipul sent, where he mentioned “Javascript conferences” as a potential place for us to do outreach |
| 20:28 | llaske | Okay. I'm not sure it's interesting to go to a Javascript conferences. |
| 20:30 | MrBIOS | I don’t doubt it, but not for someone who isn’t necessarily involved with Sugarizer, which was the point |
| 20:30 | llaske: is it currently possible to run/use Javascript-based activities within Sugar Desktop? | |
| 20:31 | if not, do you have any thoughts as to what it would take? | |
| 20:31 | llaske | In a browser yes, directly no because there is some incompatibilities between Sugar-Web Sugar and Sugar-Web Sugarizer |
| 20:31 | Quozl | Moon is usable, but I don't understand enough JavaScript to figure out what needs to bring the sugar-web implementations closer together. |
| 20:32 | MrBIOS | llaske: why is that, out of curiosity? It seems highly undesirable |
| 20:32 | just nobody to fix it? | |
| 20:33 | being able to write activities in Javascript for Sugar is good for the whole community, is it not? | |
| 20:33 | llaske | There is a current issue on this. But there is also some feature missing, for example presence and journalchooser has not been ported in Sugar-Web |
| 20:34 | MrBIOS | okay, but as long as the authors of JS activities understand those limitations, that shouldn’t be a reason to not fix it, no? |
| 20:34 | llaske | Sure, it's possible. |
| 20:34 | MrBIOS | there are plenty of circumstances I can envision where a tailored JS activity would not necessarily need those two things. |
| 20:35 | llaske: who, in your opinion, would be the best person to resolve the open issue, to which you’re referring? | |
| 20:36 | llaske | Hmmm. Hard to say but anyone with a knowledge of Sugar and JavaScript. Of course, I can help on this |
| 20:37 | And I will be please to update Sugar-Web Sugarizer to integrate changes need | |
| 20:39 | MrBIOS | that would be a very welcome fix, if you can make the time. |
| 20:45 | llaske | To be clear, I will be please to help but I don't have time to fix it myself. |
| 20:46 | MrBIOS | I see, so it will just stay broken forever? Who else might be able to fix it, if anyone? |
| 20:46 | It’s not clear to me where you are the only person who can. Are you? | |
| 20:47 | llaske | I'm not. I'm not the author of Sugar-Web, I've just adapted it to be able to work in a browser |
| 20:47 | So anyone could take time to understand how it work and try to fix it | |
| 20:50 | MrBIOS | Got it, thanks. |
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| 20:54 | walterbender | Todos: I did submit our GSoC application. |
| 20:55 | ibiam | Thanks walterbender. |
| 20:55 | walterbender | Also the consensus results for GCI |
| 20:55 | but we cannot announce GCI until Google gives the OK | |
| 20:55 | @pikurasa, I will try to write up an activity report on the airplane tonight. | |
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| 21:28 | walterbender | Winners and Finalists announced |
| 21:28 | February 10, 2020 at 13:00 (Eastern Standard Time) | |
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