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How have things worked in the past - what has worked well and what hasn’t?
discuss where we are before making future plans
How many partner institutions now? 32
How many have actively contributed to Hyrax? Roadmap Alignments WG might have this info based on data they are gathering now (Partner Outreach list to determine if folks are developing on Hyrax right now, so specific to Hyrax)
Are these all Hyrax or were some of this involvement pre-Hyrax (Sufia, CurationConcerns)
crossover between Samvera and Blacklight community
some partners may not work on Hyrax but work on gems used by Hyrax (Notch8, for example)
Heather has list of all partners and what they are using and working, so there is something out there we can probably review
from Roadmap Alignment outreach, looks like around 25 active partners
some places are not partners but are likely to become partners in the next year
this is good for understanding potential resources available in the community
Challenges to participating in community work
one-off contributions - putting something into Samvera software takes twice as long as putting it in local software; burdens of review and testing fully
review can be less locally so process is much faster
limited set of PR reviewers in community so there can be wait time
determining if thing you want to contribute fits with vision of Hyrax (Tech Lead, PO) - can be hard to figure this out
joining WGs - Hyrax Maintenance WG, for example
hard to make commitment for small orgs and doesn’t fit priorities of larger orgs with more resources
long-term projects don’t line up with what places want to work on (analytics and permissions as examples)
project management applied to WGs - sometimes person is technical and sometimes more organizational - having technical vision is important to always include