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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:
 
* 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