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* Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
 
* Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
 
* Chihurumnaya Ibiam (community member, GSoC admin/mentor)
 
* Chihurumnaya Ibiam (community member, GSoC admin/mentor)
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* Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
 
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* Samson Goddy (SL In. board)
 
  
 
=== Absent ===
 
=== Absent ===
 
* Alex Perez (SL Inc. board)
 
* Alex Perez (SL Inc. board)
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* Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)
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* Samson Goddy (SL In. board)
  
 
== Agenda ==
 
== Agenda ==
 
* AWS Update
 
* AWS Update
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* HacktoberFest
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* Open Tech Funding
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* Cloudflare
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* Discussion of Elections
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* Website feedback
 
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* OLPC
 
  
 
=== AWS Update ===
 
=== AWS Update ===
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* Qixiang started working on FastAPI sometime this week.
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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.
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* There's nothing to test at the moment.
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* We're currently improving what's been added to the sugar-ai repo.
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=== Open Tech Funding ===
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* Once Qixiang has something basic, we can test.
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The Open Tech Fund has two options may work for us:
  
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=== HacktoberFest ===
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* https://apply.opentech.fund/user-experience-discovery-lab/
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[How to Participate](https://hacktoberfest.com/participation/#maintainers)
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* https://apply.opentech.fund/internet-freedom-fund-concept-note/
  
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=== Cloudflare ===
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The former could be to improve accessibility for something like Sugarizer or Music/Turtle Blocks. The latter is more of a catch all.
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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.
 
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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.
 
  
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=== Website improvements ===
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Devin will investigate further.
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* [Ideas page](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qNn3urXzcjGLhx31ZQxpLNzukMDljgu_A1G-NMI7PYA/edit?usp=sharing)
 
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* [video discussion](https://youtu.be/DydO8QWQVP0)
 
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* Devin is looking for some tech help and for images and quotes.
 
  
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=== OLPC in Panama ===
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=== Discussion of Elections ===
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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.
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* testing bettervoting.com -- seems to work and it supports ranked choice.

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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