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Agenda

(meeting notes below)

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  • Heather is interested in direct outreach, communication to institutions
  • How do we address short-term things as long-term progress is made?
  • Often, people feel it is easier to make local changes than contribute upstream. Upstream has a longer review process, more back-and-forth.
    • This can frustrate regular contributors, leading to feelings of burnout.
  • Julie wants to tackle outstanding issues in Hyrax.
    • Some issues may be handled by the Hyrax maintenance working group.
    • For others, may reach out to institutions who may have already solved the issue
    • Core Components Maintenance working group and other groups have had mixed success
  • Coding for the community regularly means producing configuration that would not be necessary at the local institution
  • Open Source is not always a high priority for an institution
  • This is an issue that Partners, Steering will need to address
    • Developers are not leadership
    • Hard for developers to drum up community contributions and lead development
  • Developers can push a perspective that the work isn't done until it's merged upstream
  • Burnout issues will lead to difficulty in retaining (or replacing) tech lead, other positions
    • Also, we want to care for those in our community taking on roles which have historically been highly prone to burnout
  • Examples of successful contributions are useful for others to follow
    • Idea to thank people on slack when they contribute upstream or close issues
  • Large code base, but few contributors
    • Exacerbates the issue, and leads to code rot.
  • Dev congresses have been successful
    • May be useful to have the community manager help organize and schedule
    • Getting a schedule would help with institution resource planning.
    • Hyrax roadmap was useful as a schedule.
    • Dev congresses need a host, so usually were tacked on to another event.
    • Some have been focused on a single issue or product, others are more scattered.
    • Idea to have more dev congresses
    • Idea to have a dev congress that's only focused on pairing to get developers set up with a hyrax dev environment and close a small issue
  • Idea to individually approach partner institutions to ask them to contribute developer time

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