Music Blocks/2026-03-15-meeting

Ashutosh: Doing research on Constructionism via YouTube. Suggest: Watching SL YT Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnjBiZCD1gs&list=PLyTz5XRZyi-yTvLyd-VmLKLpP06d7sZ6U Watch Make a document about Constructionism

Farhan: Planet Server -- new issues addressed

Vyagh: Read about OLPC; thinking of writing blogpost

Aman: Working on getting Sugar AI working; meanwhile, working on other AI-related things.

Anshu: Discussion about authentication

Hari: Toolbar

Jetshree: Local scripts in the (library); we could migrate to (JSON?)

Kartik: (Busy with exams) Helping with reviews. <-- Walter appreciates.

Krishna: Focused on proposal work—studied the Music Blocks codebase, planned technical approaches, and refined ideas based on discussion with Walter. Also reviewed 5–6 PRs and shared feedback.

Parth: Studying how the code is written

Shaik: Working on lesson plans; have been working on AI reflection project.

Different ages; how to differentiate between the students; how to cater the language.

Classification of activities.

Shreya: Worked on proposal; a bit of PR work

Syed: This week I spent most of my time figuring out and writing down the technical specifications for my gsoc proposal and it's almost ready

Suryaansh: GSoC Ideas: Temperament; Performance

response from Farha: "Suryaansh, you can check this- https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/pull/5319"

response from Stuti: "Lighthouse gives the loading time performance"

Stuti: Fixing minor issues; working on proposal

Anindya: I've been meeting with prospects over the last few weeks.

Discussion:

Git Backend ideas

Trying to keep GH dependencies a minimum

Historical context: We used to use Gitorious; you can see what it was like here: https://web.archive.org/web/20130725065424/git.sugarlabs.org/desktop/stats

Sugar AI

1. An issue on sugar-ai is to be created on sugar-ai with all the work that needs to be done before deploying sugar. 2. 5-min cold starts when sugarai goes idle(is that all right? Ways to handle it). 3. Setting up a deadline might help to bring things to speed in deploying sugar ai. 4. Sugar meetings havent been happening regularly. 5. Guardrails for various problems specifically for children. 6.(Any other topics by other members)

Discuss Suryaansh topic: Performance -- 1) tracking and 2) finding metrics