AYAB 1.0 Developer meeting notes 2/25/24

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# Agenda
- GSOC
- New hardware
- Pricing new hardware
- Getting started documentation
- Governance documentation
- Web
- 1.0 relase remaining issues

# Notes
- GSOC
  - Google said no
  - Projects are still on the table
  - Use all of the resources available (Carson used to work at Google)
  - Identified documentation gaps
    - Onboarding documentation is missing
  - Going to try again next year
  - Website needs updates
- New hardware
  - Showed up today
  - Looks good but small changes need to be made. Pull up resistors are missing. Boots. JTAG is there.
  - Bringup is starting
  - Repo for test firmware toggling things and checking encoder
  - Put the test code in the ayab project
  - Budget is good 10 peices $30 each, 50 should be $20 each
  - Victoria posted a spreadsheet about pricing
  - Whoever is selling it picks the price
  - eKnitter is $200
  - hardware is product or project? 
  - Seller will ultimately determine the price
  - Seller will be on the hook for support
  - Craftwork will handle distribution - we need to talk to them
  - Could go directly to the manufacturer if you want. Files checked into github. Will be able to generate production files from command line
  - Could be able to produce as part of builds
  - Could populate it yourself except for maybe the ESP32 but pads are under the chip
  - We will probably have to handle support requests with unknown board manufacturer. Probably want some test suite to validate boards.
  - Second meeting about pricing. Suggestion for Craftwork and then go from there.
  - Need to start a list of who has what machine.
  - Funding for these things?
- Governance documentation
  - GSOC asked about this. Tom said self organized with vague leadership roles.
  - Need to handle money at some point. Oversite of money handling.
  - Needs documentation
  - Organizing body to deal with money
- 1.0 release
  - 930 mispatterning on the lace carriage
  - 1.0 address regressions
  - mac build is still broken on apple silicon. Matei offered to help test.
    - fbs doesn't really work. Sam has been patching.
    - Timebox this and see about pulling out fbs.
    - Not a whole lot of fbs work to do
    - Sam has gotten a build working, needs to document and get things sorted out
  - Virtual deadline forced by the hardware
    - Will need more abstraction, not too much work
  - Set a deadline for 1.0 release - End of Q2 which is end of June
    - Beta some time before that on Facebook, even if just Windows and Linux
    - Not pulling in the big refactor
    - No ESP32 support
    - Will need some tooling for flashing the new board, probably from web
  - Next release build? Last one was end of December.
    - We should cut a firmware release and then a desktop to go with it. Carson TODO
- Web
  - Tom started a prototype, buttons, not a whole lot of functionality
  - Should go into the organization's git repos
  - Going to schedule some thinking and planning after the 1.0 meeting.