GOAT Quarterly Community Call
Date: 13 January 2025
Time: 10am PT, 1pm ET
Meeting Link: Social Co-op GOAT Gatherings room .
Calendar: Calendar – GOAT
Agenda
- Welcome, introductions, Q&A (5-10 minutes) - What are you professional goals for 2025?
- Review new structure for community calls (2 minutes)
- Open Source Tool Demonstration / Community Effort Presentation (20 minutes) TBD, looking for volunteers!
- Topic Deep Dive - Fill out Poll below
- Miro Board Discussion: Miro
- Call for Community Stewardship participation.
- Call for next Community Call presentations
… Add your agenda item - its a wiki!
Topic Deep Dive Poll
We allocate 20 minutes of each community call to an unstructured discussion on a topic chosen by the community. Many suggested topics are ongoing discussions on the forum, but you can recommend others in the comments below! Do not update the poll because it will remove existing votes.
We know its hard to choose one, so you can vote on up to two preferred topics for this quarter’s community call.
Which topic do you want to deep dive on this quarter?
Attendees
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Professional goals from the group:
- Formalizing processes for how we can work together
- Visualizing of data for farmers in DSTs
- Broadening work we’re doing across language barriers
- Socializing Ag Data Wallets
- Spectrometry for hop extracts
- Internship opportunities for open source
- Trying to get a design and engineering project going and looking for collaborators (https://runrig.org/)
- Technical assistance for farmers.
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Great Discussion today on The Role and Use of AI in Ag.
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Hey folks, unfortunately I had a conflict but wanted to offer also that we have a public, bi-weekly AI in Ag call that happens Fridays from 2 - 3pm that’s been running since early last year.
It’s now on the [public GOAT Community Calendar] (https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=dDJpb2psNDVkZmN0ZWwzamlvNnVxZzQ2c3NAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ) so if you subscribe to that you can find it there.
It’s an open call with a flexible agenda. Description below. We’d love to have you join and learn together!
A meeting to discuss the use of AI in Agriculture, specifically for those interested in Open Source Agricultural Technologies.
The agenda is fairly open, but typically:
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People present work they’ve done relating to AI - developing AI toolchains, testing models, building data structures which support use of AI, etc. The goal is for us all to learn, give useful feedback, and find opportunities for collaboration.
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People present a question or prompt relating to AI. eg What model should I use? How do I set up open source models locally? How do people feel the tech will change or shift in 6 months? Is this ethical? Etc.
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People ask for help, or seek collaborators. A lot of this work is duplicative - everyone has to learn the same lessons. So we try to not relearn, and collaborate especially in the common areas.
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People just come to listen and see what happens - Lurking is welcome 
Also FYI - There’s also an adjacently related Common Farm Convention call on the GOAT community calendar now which is biweekly on Thursdays at 1pm EST.
