Fedora ai-ml-sig meeting: 2026-05-21

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Here are the meeting minutes from the AI/ML SIG meeting on 2026-05-21, courtesy of Bot Aurélien

Fedora Contributor Skills Library:

  • A proposal was made to create a central repository for AI “skills” to help Fedora contributors.
  • The group agreed to use a mono-repo for easier discovery and installation, repurposing the skill-meeting-secretary repository into a new skills-library.
  • A workaround for Fedora’s anti-bot protection when using agents is to use the Forgejo API with a token, and this should be documented.

Package Updates:

  • The text-to-speech package python-piper-tts is now available, with a focus on improving accessibility. The training side is being worked on.
  • ollama has been updated and openclaw has been added. A review is requested for the pi-coding-agent package.
  • There’s an ongoing effort to make various text editors (like Emacs, Vim, and potentially nano) LLM-aware.
  • Peter Robinson is working on executorch and a GStreamer ML framework to support NPUs in Fedora.

AI/ML SIG’s Role as a Stakeholder:

  • The group discussed the recent “Fedora AI Developer Desktop” proposal, noting that it was not presented well to key stakeholders.
  • There is a strong consensus that the SIG should be a venue for discussing new AI-related ideas before they are made public.
  • The SIG should be a formal stakeholder in the AI Developer Desktop work, and this will be discussed with the proposal author in a future meeting.
  • The SIG’s documentation needs improvement. A plan to migrate relevant content from the Wiki to the official Fedora Docs site will be discussed at the next meeting.

AI on the Edge:

  • Peter Robinson is working on Executorch and a GStreamer ML stack for AI on edge devices, targeting a Fedora 45 feature.
  • This work, sponsored by Arm, aims to create a fully open NPU stack for use cases like HomeAssistant.

Action Items

  • @cverna: Open a PR on the ai-ml/skills-library repo to reorganize it as a general library of skills for Fedora contributors by 2026-05-28.
  • @jflory7 & @cybette: Create a draft of a “Getting Involved” page for the AI/ML SIG section on the Fedora Docs site before the next meeting.
  • AI/ML SIG: Revisit the topic of separating content between the Fedora Docs site and the Wiki in the next meeting.

Links

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F44 - AMD XDNA and FastFlowLM
Fedora Initiative for a Potential AI Ecosystem