[Grassroots-l] Ongoing grassroots campaign at OLPC-Sur

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
> Fellow Grassroots Volunteers:
>
> A vote is going on *right now* regarding the following proposal, which
> I human-translated because I think its important. Also, some of you
> may be subscribers at OLPC-Sur and thus have received a ballot. I'll
> quote Yama on that one:
>
> "Please vote! If you haven't voted because you disagree, vote negative!
>
> If you think it does not correspond you, whether because you don't
> want to hear from OLPC anymore, or
> are a foreigner, or don't live in Latinamerica, plese, vote "abstention"!"
>
> The ballot has a subject that says:
> "CIVS Poll now available for voting: Definir OLPC Latinoamérica"
> Make sure it didnt go into your junk mail if you're subscribed.
>
> Here's the proposal:
>
> "To present a united front before Nicholas Negroponte and Rodrigo
> Arboleda to achieve   the participation of the OLPC Latin America
> Community in decisions affecting the work of OLPC in Latinamerica."
>
> "A clear position in favor of Free Software as an integral and
> exclusive part of this educational project."
>
> "I personally commit to support this position in the community,
> locally, nationally, in the Sur list, and other forums."
>
> "Provisionally, and until we the community can decide for an
> alternative, but in no event past the 28th of february of 2009, I
> support Yamandú Ploskonka acting as representative of the OLPC Latin
> America community for these ends. This nomination and other positions
> hereby indicated must be confirmed by majority vote of the latin
> american community at the Sur list."
>
> I urge you to vote. Let's not be monkeys.
>
> Sebastian
>
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> Sebastian Silva
> Laboratorios FuenteLibre
> http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/
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Link to vote info?

Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/