AI Meeting Notes
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Meeting Notes 3rd April 25
Attendees:
Keshav Arora
Sitam Meur
Victor Romero
Ed Cable
Gibran Armijo
David Higgins
Debjyoti Ray
Favour
Notes:
Victor agreed to give a presentation on the work he had been undertaking recently and shared on the slack #wg-ai-for-all channel
Victor explained he had been looking at MCP (Model Context Protocol) the server for which can be found in the repo http://www.github.com/OpenMF/mcp-mifosx/
Victor presented the MCP protocol developed by Anthropic and Indisway protocol, enabling external systems to connect with AI models. A demonstration showed a system using language models to interact with Mifos financial services platform. The team developed an open-source chatbot solution with automatic translation and multi-platform connectivity (WhatsApp, Slack).
Victor explained how the system worked together before presenting a demo of the system working and creating an account from the chatbot instructions via the MCP server. He then showed a read request from the chatbot.
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Victor took some questions and replied he is open to more questions in the slack channel later.
David requested for a volunteer for the next meeting to kick off the discussion, our current topics for discussion can be found at AI Topics for Discussion . David requested volunteers let him know in the next 48 hours so we can advertise it.
Meeting Notes 13th Mar 25
Attendees:
Keshav Arora
Oreoluwa
Aru Sharma
Lalit
Aleksander Vidakovic
Satvik Mishra
Raj Manishsahu
David Higgins
Ed Cable
Notes:
David provided an intro the AI working group. He explained the need for submission of proposals for Code for GovTech in next 48 hours.
New members to the working group gave a brief introduction to themselves and their interests in AI
David covered a number of questions around GSOC and Code for GovTech.
Lastly, David encouraged participants to submit their ideas and proposals, and to share any ideas or questions in the working group chat.
Next steps
All to send AI project ideas for Code for Govtech to David via Slack DM within the next 24-48 hours.
All participants to engage and ask questions in the Slack channel for quicker responses and community involvement.
All G-SOC applicants to structure their proposals addressing the 17 questions provided in the G-SOC proposal template.
All G-SOC and Code for Govtech applicants to consider contributing to open-source projects (including small PRs) to improve their evaluation metrics.
All participants to put any additional discussion topics for the next meeting in the working group chat.
Summary
AI Working Group Update and Opportunities
David provides an update on the AI working group and upcoming project opportunities. He mentions that there are three working groups focusing on architecture, documentation, and AI. The group is currently seeking mentors for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects and will be submitting proposals for Code for GovTech in the next 48 hours. David encourages participants to review the project ideas and get in touch if interested in mentoring or if they have specific AI project ideas, especially for Code for GovTech. He also introduces new members and asks them to share their backgrounds and interests in AI.
Intern Time Commitment and Project Sizes
David discussed the time commitment and project sizes for interns in their organization. David clarified that while there is no fixed prescribed time, projects are typically pitched between the mid and large size. The organization allows proposers to indicate how much time they will have available for the project. David also mentioned that the measured outcome at the end is that the code is published into a repo. Aru expressed gratitude for the clarification and mentioned that he would send ideas to David via DM.
Code for Govtech and Summer of Code
David discussed the upcoming deadlines for the Code for Govtech and Summer of Code programs. He encouraged participants to submit their ideas and proposals, which could be in any format but should cover 17 key questions. David also emphasized the importance of engagement and track history in the evaluation process. He invited participants to share any ideas or questions in the working group chat.
Meeting Notes 27th Feb 25
Attendees:
Lalit
Sitam Meur
Parth Kaushal
Gibran Armijo
Ed Cable
David Higgins
Notes:
David shared the new Wiki space and walked through it. He asked members to check the following:
They have had their right identities tagged on the Members section
They have access to add to meeting notes and the discussion topics list
To add topics for discussion
Parth introduced himself as a GSOC participant last year, he has written a number of research papers and looking to contribute in AI arena for Mifos between the end of his course and is new role.
Lalit introduced himself he has 10 years experience of working with Ed and is currently a Chief Product Officer in Cyber Security, his interests are in LLM and genAI
Key actions for all:
Look at GSOC ideas at : GSOC Ideas and flesh out projects if interested in Mentoring please let @David Higgins or @Ed Cable know.
We are in need of more ideas for AI for C4GT DMP2025 please let us know.
Add in topics for Discussion to List
Look at the discussion in our slack channel and participate
@David Higgins to ask @Victor Romero if we would like to go through is project on the next call.
Meeting Notes 13th Feb 25
Attendees:
Sanjay S
Gibran Armijo
Raj Manishsahu
Abhinav Kumar
Sitam Meur
Ed Cable
Victor Romero
David Higgins
Notes:
Todays call we did a quick check around the attendees of their experience and what they want to achieve out of the working group moving forwards, the following were the points expressed:
Sanjay - Build AI solutions, look into LLMs and deployments currently doing Masters in Data Science
Gibran - Background of Computer Science now strategic would like to see some type of roadmap/architecture focus of Fineract/Mifos and AI.
Raj - Student in Computer Science been following for some time.
Abhinav - Worked on LLMs and using Agents when at Samsung. Undergrad CS was a recent C4GT Intern
Sitam - Final year student, based in India. Work in AI daily, published in Lightning AI tutorials, Was GSOC last year with an org other than Mifos.
Ed - Interested in AI decisioning, chatbots Generative AI. Wants an API driven approach not just testbed.
Victor - PhD in AI machine learning/Deep learning. Looking at Generative AI.
Gibran also highlighted Open BB and its open core architecture.
All agreed to share some info on our slack channel for discussion ahead of next meeting.
David to setup a WG page.