Oversight Board/Meeting Minutes-2025-12-03

December 3 2025 Meeting

Attending

  • Devin Ulibarri (SL Inc. board)
  • Walter Bender (SL Inc. board)
  • Sebastian Silva (SL Inc. board)
  • Sumit Srivastava (SL Inc. board)
  • Safwan Sayeed (community member)
  • MostlyK (community member)
  • Mebin Thattil (community member)
  • Ibiam (community member)

Absent

  • Samson Goddy (SL In. board)
  • Claudia Urrea (SL Inc. board)

Agenda

  • Elections report
  • AWS report
  • Sugar Systems Report
  • Plans for next year?
  • Anything else?

Elections

Devin and Safwan were able to publish the application and the announcement: https://forms.gle/2F5PjLHZpzPq2ssL7

As a reminder, we use ranked voting for our elections: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yd6rLfd7SrrHAPVQnLPpJUr01LBHe_sI6HdcGl0vW_I/edit?tab=t.0

AWS

AWS is asking us to reapply for Open Source Credits in January, which is right around the corner.

Action: Devin will apply for more credits. MostlyK and Mebin will help prepare a report of what we have been doing in support of the application.

Sugar Systems

Devin will meet with Bernie to discuss DNS configuration and support going forward.

2026 planning

  • More on-line seminars
  • More alumni mentors for GSoC, DMP, and SSoC
  • Maybe an International MB Day? Or a competition for the best MB project? Similar ideas for other Sugar activities? Best Sugar story? Best Physics project?

Action: Devin to apply for a MCC grant for MB Day.

Other

Book recommendation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6918930-confessions-of-a-public-speaker

We should push for some end-of-year gifts to Sugar Labs: https://www.every.org/sugar-labs

MostlyK is giving a talk on his GTK4 work on December 13.