May 28 2025 Meeting

Attending

Devin Ulibarri (SL Inc. board)
Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
Sumit Srivastava (SL Inc. board)
Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
Safwan Sayeed (community member)
Om Santosh Suneri (community member)
Aman Naik (community member)

Absent

Sebastian Silva (SL Inc. board)
Samson Goddy (SL In. board)

Agenda

GSoC+DMP report
Discuss a single-mentee pilot of "Sugar Summer of Code"
Final discussion for Ibiam's contract
Discuss different tasks that need help

GSoC+DMP

We have taken on five mentees for DMP.
- Aman Chadha
- Aman Naik
- Anvita Prasad
- Justin Charles
- Harshit Verma

Reminder that mentors and mentees for GSoC and DMP should be putting together schedules for the summer. The GSoC coding period begins next week.

[Meeting Schedule](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RzeFZVQjF1Pk_igRfiUSb_UKPzS7MYAT8FQhap-QTaE/edit?usp=sharing)

Safwan Sayeed created a [template for dev-blogs](https://www.sugarlabs.org/news/template/gsoc-25-sa-fw-an-weekX) for the summer.

Each week of a student's coding period, the student is required to provide a report of their work in the form of a blog. Students should:

Clone the www-v2 repo.
Create a new branch.
Copy the template to a new file.
Use the template to write the blog.
Commit the new file.
Push the branch.
Make a PR with the blog.
Once merged, it will appear on the website.

Many people have asked if it's ok to blog elsewhere. While it's fine to publish a blog elsewhere (e.g. Medium, personal blog, etc.), you're required to maintain reports on the main site (www-v2). For any other sites, you can write "Originally published at [SL URL]".

Discuss a single-mentee pilot of "Sugar Summer of Code"

We have one candidate for this year.

The broad strokes are:

same timeline as GSoC
same goals
small stipend
certificate

Final discussion for Ibiam's contract

Approved. 👍️

Discuss different tasks that need help

Grant writing and submissions
- Claudia and Walter
Marketing
Sysadmin and other tech help
Fundraising (finding individual donors and engaging with them)

Devin has meet-up space we can use.