Plaza 2026-10-14¶
Date: 14 October 2026
Facilitator: Emma
Attendees: Carol, Dawn, Emma, Thorin, Michal, Reuven, Pelle, Al
Contributions: Input from all attendees
Agenda + notes¶
Introduction¶
- who we are, why we're here
- "Building AI our own way" and defining what that means for us
- Recent Launch YAY! new website - Dawn & Laura Website Leads
- AI our way and a focus on people and community
- Baked in some of the good lessons from Jupyter to scale community, knowledge and tooling
- Open by default and as transparent as possible
Overview¶
- what lives where
- satyrn.ai (new launch)
- satyrn-zen
- Place for outreach focus to share educational resources
- Information by the team as well as 3rd party resources
- Leaning into Python community's strengths ;)
- Three sections: Learn, create, share
- Already have some "how-tos" + glossary
- team-compass
- Working group and status updates
- Meeting notes
- Team pages
- github
- Best place to start to browse different issues
- discord
- Org chatter happens here
- "Plaza" calls scheduled in Discord
- who/where to ask for help
- team pages on team-compass
- github issues
- discord
- roles
Organisers update¶
- project stage
- launch plan
- Onboarding / New volunteer / New community member flow
- Discord continue to polish
Working Group Updates¶
- model
- launched the model
- smaller model focusing on right now to add to the collection
- working on ensuring the models works well with the engine
- getting model and engine teams aligned
- First model for supporting Python 3.15
- engine + evals
- Go to #engine-general on discord for more context
- Proof of concept from Everitt being iterated on in the open with Satyrn AI: https://pauleveritt.github.io/satyrn-evals/
- web
- Minimal updates
- Update for blog / content
- education
- empowering people to find their own learning path
- different forms of content
- meet people where they are
- DevRel / content
- Create launch plan
- Social / comms channels
- Mastodon focus - social.satyrn.ai [Add Link HERE]
- Follows the ethos of openness, privacy and data protection
- Update! Carol was on PyBites - linked in Discord [Add Link HERE]
AOB¶
- did a round of intros/what brought us to satyrn