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Mesa Dev Meeting ‐ 11 11 2026 ‐ 12:00 EDT 16:00 CET 22:30 IST Notes
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Agenda:
- Revisit - last meeting
- GSoC 2024 & 2025 Fund Update
- GSoC Contributors Guide
- #2884 & #2879
- Approaches to get Mesa funded
- Location class (Jan)
PR: ContiniousObservables: https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa/pull/2851
- Still open; Tom Pike will review.
Discuss: Non-linear rate functions: https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa/discussions/2854
- Needs additional input -- any takers?
Discuss: ActionSpace https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa/discussions/2858
- Needs additional input -- any takers?
- jackiekazil (Jackie Kazil) Colin Frisch
- GYM has an action space - Ewout will investigate to see if this works -- https://gymnasium.farama.org/index.html
- GSoC 2024 - final expenses are being processed, then distributions will occur.
- GSoC 2025 - jackiekazil (Jackie Kazil) needs to check on funds Ewout & Adam needs to submit for reimbursement.
- Great work by Colin Frisch
- Merged; living document.
Deprecating stdlib random https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa/issues/2884
- Update related to random generator; b/c Python's stdlib random uses Mersenne Twister
- There is a scientific python standard. Jan Kwakkel is working to make Mesa compliant.
- General agreement around support.
ReadtheDocs Section Navigation https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa/issues/2879
- Jan Kwakkel fixed the immediate problem, but this is still relevant discussion. Right now, some of our stuff is non-sensical organization.
- What are people trying to do here? Proposed Goals
- Trying to get up and running?
- People building more complex models and API docs? Understand extendable parts of of the ecosystem?
- Building out the community -- much like agent blocks and GSoC -- how do we continue to build the Mesa community?
- Next steps: Comment on the proposed update in 2879
Location class https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa/pull/2875
- Jan Kwakkel is proposing -- Everyone interested should review/follow
- Ewout & Jan Kwakkel had a discussion.
- About 30-40 Universities are using Mesa.
- Can we get universities to support $5,000 Euros to $10,000 Euros per year?
- Not sure if this happens in the U.S. well-- because it might not fix into funding box.
- What would Mesa offer to the Universities? -- A paid steering council?
- Let's set this up as a focus group.
- JK & Ewout & Tom & Jan
- jackiekazil (Jackie Kazil) will add to google calendar
- Do we want to do it?
- We need to decide HOW we make big decisions. Then we need to decide this.
- Ewout Ewout is going to post a discussion related to this for collective input.
- We discuss, possibly vote during next meeting 11/25/2025; depending on where the discussion goes & what we agree on for "how we make big decisions".