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Note: Notes from the Sugar Activity meeting were mistakenly saved to this page. If you are looking for those notes, please go to Activity_Team/Meetings/2025-02-05.

February 05 2025 Meeting

Attending

Devin Ulibarri (SL executive director)
Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
Sumit Srivastava (SL Inc. board)
Chihurumnaya Ibiam (community member, GSoC admin/mentor)
MostlyK (community member)
Quozl (community member)
Om Santosh Suneri (community member)
Sebastian Silva (SL Inc. board)
Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
Samson Goddy (SL In. board)

Absent

Agenda

Discussion of GSoC 2025 and DMP
Discussion of Sugar Labs infrastructure
Review proposed event schedule for May-July this year (similar to last year)
NSF grants discussion

GSoC and DMP

Note: DMP is Code4GovTech's Dedicated Mentorship Program

More project ideas that need to be written up by the weekend:

Git backend
Pippy debugger
Robotics support
Try to make Sugar more xdg/freedesktop compliant so that it behaves better with other / alongside more traditional desktops
Wayland support
resolution independence
pervasive activity packaging as flatpak or snap
Bluetooth device support (would help with robot controls)
multiple display and resolution changing support
bring the Sugarizer activities into availability as flatpak or snap

Sugar Labs infrastructure

With our latest ldap mishaps, we've been looking at moving to using local user accounts for authentication.

We seem to have a really hard time standing up servers/services

Proposed event schedule for May-July

Do we agree to make gen-AI a central topic for discussion? **YES**

Do we want to bring in any special guests? **YES** -- whom?

This is the event proposal for May-July: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y7U1Xqbfgokzr2CDyRk9y0O1YKvPKGq5Qd-qb1pGtd8/edit?usp=sharing

NSF grants discussion

Devin is looking into:

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-== Om Santosh ==
+''Note: Notes from the Sugar Activity meeting were mistakenly saved to this page. If you are looking for those notes, please go to [[Activity_Team/Meetings/2025-02-05]].''
-=== Dark mode ===
+= February 05 2025 Meeting =
-Working towards a refresh-less switch
+== Attending ==
+* Devin Ulibarri (SL executive director)
+* Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
+* Sumit Srivastava (SL Inc. board)
+* Chihurumnaya Ibiam (community member, GSoC admin/mentor)
+* MostlyK (community member)
+* Quozl (community member)
+* Om Santosh Suneri (community member)
+* Sebastian Silva (SL Inc. board)
+* Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
+* Samson Goddy (SL In. board)
-Text representation of Music Blocks code
+=== Absent ===
-Working on transcribing JSON as Plain text
+== Agenda ==
+* Discussion of GSoC 2025 and DMP
+* Discussion of Sugar Labs infrastructure
+* Review proposed event schedule for May-July this year (similar to last year)
+* NSF grants discussion
-Tried this with Llama 70 billion model, which was able to understand the code
+=== GSoC and DMP ===
-Discussion: There are tradeoffs between JSON and plain text representations.
+Note: DMP is Code4GovTech's Dedicated Mentorship Program
-Reference:
+More project ideas that need to be written up by the weekend:
-* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pTfqxOChClc09rz6yEa7aWkggFq6iIFZaTeWnpbS5vM/edit?tab=t.0
-* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iQuSgs0WL_bviRHMvrqOFE9-pWuc9yirkr6a9lH9XsU/edit?tab=t.0
-== Safwan Sayeed ==
+* Git backend
+* Pippy debugger
+* Robotics support
+* Try to make Sugar more xdg/freedesktop compliant so that it behaves better with other / alongside more traditional desktops
+* Wayland support
+* resolution independence
+* pervasive activity packaging as flatpak or snap
+* Bluetooth device support (would help with robot controls)
+* multiple display and resolution changing support
+* bring the Sugarizer activities into availability as flatpak or snap
-=== New instrument ===
+=== Sugar Labs infrastructure ===
-Sampled harmonium from a recording; will be raising a PR soon for testing.
+With our latest ldap mishaps, we've been looking at moving to using local user accounts for authentication.
-Q: Do we need to make a random number generator?
+We seem to have a really hard time standing up servers/services
-A: No. That's a student project.
-== Diwangshu ==
+=== Proposed event schedule for May-July ===
-=== Music Keyboard ===
+Do we agree to make gen-AI a central topic for discussion? **YES**
-When you record with metronome, it is recording the final rest note of previous recording as well as rest for current recording. PR made.
+Do we want to bring in any special guests? **YES** -- whom?
-During countdown, no rests should be recorded.
+This is the event proposal for May-July: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y7U1Xqbfgokzr2CDyRk9y0O1YKvPKGq5Qd-qb1pGtd8/edit?usp=sharing
-== Harshit ==
+=== NSF grants discussion ===
-=== Sampler widget ===
+Devin is looking into:
-Discussion about generating sounds via gen-AI.
+* https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/exlent-experiential-learning-emerging-novel-technologies/nsf25-511/solicitation
+* https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/iuse-edu-improving-undergraduate-stem-education-directorate-stem
-== Abhijeet ==
+* https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pose-pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems
-== Muhammad ==
-== Nikhil ==
-== Farhan ==
-== Yashveer ==
-== Ubayed ==