<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Yedian,</div><div><br></div><div>If you can share the repo to <b>Building LLM Interactive Personas</b>, that would be great.<br></div><div><br></div><div>TIL <b>"Invented spelling correction"</b>, looks interesting.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>"A settings panel will allow persona switching and feature<br>customization."</b></div><div>It'll be nice to see how you want the settings panel to look.</div><div> </div><div>Your use of <b>Sugar Toolkit (GTK+3, sugar3)</b>, should be Sugar Toolkit Gtk3, because</div><div>we have a Sugar Toolkit that's not Gtk3 or sugar3, and Sugar Toolkit Gtk3 points to sugar3. <br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>SymSpell or Hunspell</b></div><div>Have you considered the size implications of this if bundled with Speak activity?</div><div><br></div><div><b>"Weekly check-ins with mentor via GitHub issues and Zulip."</b></div><div>You've said "and Zulip", did you see any info somewhere about the mentors using Zulip?</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps!</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre style="color:rgb(46,52,54);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">-- <br></span></pre><div style="color:rgb(46,52,54);font-size:14.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;width:71ch"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span></span><span></span>Ibiam Chihurumnaya <br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(46,52,54);font-size:14.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;width:71ch"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><a href="mailto:ibiamchihurumnaya@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(42,118,198)" target="_blank">ibiamchihurumnaya@gmail.com</a><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(46,52,54);font-size:14.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;width:71ch"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(46,52,54);font-size:14.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;width:71ch"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"></span></div><div style="color:rgb(46,52,54);font-size:14.6667px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;width:71ch"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM Yedian Cheng <<a href="mailto:chengyedian@gmail.com">chengyedian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p>Dear Mentors,</p>
<p>I hope you are doing well. My name is <strong>Yedian Cheng</strong>, and I’m submitting a proposal for <strong>Google Summer of Code 2025</strong>, titled:</p>
<p><b>“Refactor the chatbot in the Speak Activity to use gen-AI”</b></p>
<p>I have already submitted my proposal to the GSoC dashboard, but I’m attaching my proposal in PDF format and also included this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RPzGsFc0bhN_xBdZUKVw6lolq73htdPo6XBXdMXrqfw/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Google Docs link</a> for your convenience and would sincerely appreciate any feedback or suggestions.</p>
<p>To prepare, I’ve:</p>
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<p>Set up a complete Sugar development environment (Fedora-based VM)</p>
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<p>Run and modified the Speak Activity locally</p>
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<p>Submitted a pull request (<a rel="noopener" href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/speak/pull/38" target="_blank">PR #38</a>) that adds a mock <code>get_llm_response()</code> function</p>
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<p>Recorded a short <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mubSEPcv1k" target="_blank">demo video</a> to showcase the mock response integration</p>
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<p>This proposal builds on that work and introduces LLM-based chat features, invented spelling correction, and expressive personas to make Speak more interactive and engaging for young learners.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your time and support — I’m looking forward to your feedback!</p>
<p>Warm regards,<br>Yedian Cheng</p></div>
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