Latest revision as of 15:12, 23 October 2024

October 9 Meeting

Oversight Board/Meeting Minutes-2024-10-09

Attending

Devin Ulibarri (SL executive director)
Lionel Laske (SL Inc. board)
Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
Chihurumnaya Ibiam (community member, GSoC admin/mentor)

Absent

Alex Perez (SL Inc. board)
Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
Samson Goddy (SL In. board)

Agenda

AWS Update
Open Tech Funding
Discussion of Elections

AWS Update

Qixiang is still working on FastAPI access. There's a PR open, Ibiam is waiting for him to respond to comments. Ibiam merged some of Kshitij's changes.

Open Tech Funding

The Open Tech Fund has two options may work for us:

The former could be to improve accessibility for something like Sugarizer or Music/Turtle Blocks. The latter is more of a catch all.

Devin will investigate further.

Discussion of Elections

testing bettervoting.com -- seems to work and it supports ranked choice.

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 * Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
 * Chihurumnaya Ibiam (community member, GSoC admin/mentor)
-* Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
-* Samson Goddy (SL In. board)
-* Martín Abente Lahaye (community member, GSoC mentor)
 === Absent ===
 * Alex Perez (SL Inc. board)
+* Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
+* Samson Goddy (SL In. board)
 == Agenda ==
 * AWS Update
-* HacktoberFest
+* Open Tech Funding
-* Cloudflare
+* Discussion of Elections
-* Website feedback
-* OLPC
-* GSoC Mentor Summit
 === AWS Update ===
-* Qixiang started working on FastAPI sometime this week.
+Qixiang is still working on FastAPI access. There's a PR open, Ibiam is waiting for him to respond to comments. Ibiam merged some of Kshitij's changes.
-* There's nothing to test at the moment.
-* We're currently improving what's been added to the sugar-ai repo.
-* Once Qixiang has something basic, we can test.
-=== HacktoberFest ===
+=== Open Tech Funding ===
-[How to Participate](https://hacktoberfest.com/participation/#maintainers)
+The Open Tech Fund has two options may work for us:
-=== Cloudflare ===
+* https://apply.opentech.fund/user-experience-discovery-lab/
-We now have Google Workspace for Sugar Labs. Bernie, Matt Lee (who is advising us re: funding, as well as tech -- former employee at FSF and creator of GNU social), and Devin have access.
+* https://apply.opentech.fund/internet-freedom-fund-concept-note/
-Devin set up Cloudflare in the hope that we can implement a collaborative approach to DNS updates. I hope it will also avoid single-point-of-failure.
-=== Website improvements ===
+The former could be to improve accessibility for something like Sugarizer or Music/Turtle Blocks. The latter is more of a catch all.
-* [Ideas page](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qNn3urXzcjGLhx31ZQxpLNzukMDljgu_A1G-NMI7PYA/edit?usp=sharing)
-* [video discussion](https://youtu.be/DydO8QWQVP0)
-* Devin is looking for some tech help and for images and quotes.
-=== OLPC in Panama ===
+Devin will investigate further.
-The World Bank says Panama is not doing great with their costs/benefits; they spent the largest amounts per student in the region and their education is not doing great. Maybe we can help? Claudia and Devin will speak with Lylian.
-=== GSoC Mentor Summit ===
+=== Discussion of Elections ===
-Devin made a lot of connections, which he will continue to follow up on; he presented our work doing video events as part of GSoC; heI participated in as many discussions as possible; shared Music Blocks with another coder doing a music learning tool; he saw Sameer; and it was a relatively inexpensive trip (which is very good).
+* testing bettervoting.com -- seems to work and it supports ranked choice.