Oversight Board/Meeting Minutes-2025-02-05
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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:
- 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
- https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pose-pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems