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- When the Council started, this was chartered to bring together representatives for service providers, representatives from interest groups, and working groups to align project goals
- Coordinating and communicating regarding community sprints was also a significant undertaking of this group
- Every IG and WG defined their documents differently - the Roadmap Council first saw to try and standardize this by offering templating
- Beyond this, there was a whitepaper published addressing the state of the technology in the community
- Roadmap Council meets every two weeks
- Project Management and Community Sprints
- This Council was chartered to assist with managing and aligning these
- 2020 saw an entire year of activity, along with a retrospective
- Three Goals:
- Analysis of roadmaps and planning cycles
- The results of this will be presented during the next Partner Call
- Facilitating to get code back into core
- Communicating with the community at large
- Analysis of roadmaps and planning cycles
- Three Goals:
- When we discuss facilitating contributing to core, is this murky or problematic?
- If so, what are the obstacles?
- It comes with challenges given the size of the community, and it will never be trivial
- There have, however, been real successes
- User management pieces in Hyku were extracted into a Gem and shared with Hyku and Avalon
- Who contributed to this?
- Avalon Team contracted with Notch8, Northwestern paid for the feature with grant funding
- Roadmap Council makes these efforts known, and interested parties could request involvement and contribute funding or resources
- The Roadmap Council identified the requirements for work in this case
- Another Feature: DataCite Integration
- All community members with this requirement produced a solution for this independently
- Who contributed to this?
- Some assumed that the Roadmap Council is to coordinate rather than create a roadmap
- To what extent should the Roadmap Council invest in aligning IG/WG roadmaps and project roadmaps?
- What of individual institutions and their roadmaps for custom Samvera repositories or local Samvera projects?
- Community Manager is supposed to be a member of the Roadmap Council
- They are responsible for representing the interests of individual institutions and their roadmaps
- Community Manager clarifies that there might be similar functional requirements for different Samvera projects undertaken by different institutions