March 05 2025 Meeting

Attending

Devin Ulibarri (SL executive director)
Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
Sumit Srivastava (SL Inc. board)
Sebastian Silva (SL Inc. board)
Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
Samson Goddy (SL In. board)
Om Santosh Suneri (community member)
Nikhil Bhatt (community member)
Harshit Verma (community member)
MostlyK (community member)
Aman (community member)

Agenda

Feedback and discussion on Revenue Pros and Cons
GSoC+DMP report by Walter and Devin
Website 2.0 by Devin
Sugar 4 should have Wayland support

Revenue Pros and Cons

[Potential types of revenue generators](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1otIf3f2LKKD3oFwNifUYll-rtlcFt6HlLm2osPiVQJg/edit?usp=sharing)

[5-year Plan](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EQPAqUtdlf9SkzKPFCXlIMJu1tGaB2V3lEeRdu3z_Go/edit?usp=sharing)

"Thank you for sharing. I also think this is something we need to discuss more. I see no development goals, for instance, and I dont' think we have a "product" at the moment" --Icarito

Sumit offered to take the lead on a revenue subcommittee; Aman volunteered to help

Icarito has been drafted take the to lead on a "goals" committee. Walter volunteered to help.

Minimum Year 1 program goals:

To pay a manager
To pay a sysadmin -- someone to help lead our current infrastructure
To pay one programmer+teacher -- not to replace our volunteers, but to support them and take on some of the roles of deployment (and things like that that we could do
Marketing budget

GSoC/DMP 2025

The first bit of news is we were accepted into GSoC 2025
Everyone who we have planned to mentor has signed up to mentor
We should encourage more project ideas (aligned with our pedagogy)

Website Updates

[Sugar Labs v2](https://sugarlabs.github.io/www-v2/)

We need help soliciting stories from the field.