The face-to-face Spring 2020 Partner Meeting to be held at Emory University in Atlanta on 27/28 April has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Arrangements have been made to hold a virtual Partner Meeting on the same dates - Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th April. On each day there will be an approximately two-hour session starting at 9:00am PDT, 12:00 noon EDT, 5:00pm BST as set out below. The Zoom session will open 30 minutes before the meeting is due to start on each day.
Zoom joining information
Join from computer or mobile: https://iu.zoom.us/j/879420568 | Meeting ID: 879 420 568 One tap mobile Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US | Meeting ID: 879 420 568 IU videoconferencing equipment: 26 879 420 568 Videoconferencing equipment outside of IU: H.323: 162.255.37.11 (US West) |
Attendees
- Maria Whitaker (Indiana University)
- Richard Green (Samvera Operations Adviser)
- Rick Johnson (U. of Notre Dame)
- Jon Dunn (Indiana University)
- Chris Awre (University of Hull)
- Robin Ruggaber (University of Virginia)
- Rosalyn Metz (Emory University)
- Nabeela Jaffer (University of Michigan)
- Chrissy Rissmeyer (UC Santa Barbara)
- Mike Giarlo (Stanford University) - April 27th only (conflict on April 28th, sorry!)
- Stuart Kenny (Digital Repository of Ireland)
- Karen Cariani (WGBH)
- Esmé Cowles (Princeton)
- John Weise (University of Michigan)
- Abigail Bordeaux (WashU)
- Franny Gaede (University of Oregon)
- Brian McBride (University of Utah)
- Nora Egloff (Lafayette College)
- Glen Horton (University of Cincinnati)
- Simeon Warner (Cornell University)
- Alicia Morris (Tufts)
- Hannah Frost (Stanford University)
- Harriett Green (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Margaret Mellinger (Oregon State University)
- James Griffin (Princeton University)
- Ben Armintor (Columbia University)
- Jeremy Friesen (University of Notre Dame)
- tom johnson (UC Santa Barbara)
- Mark Bussey (DCE)
- Rachel Lynn (DCE)
- Bess Sadler (DCE)
- Lauren Ajamie (University of Notre Dame)
- Mark Dehmlow (University of Notre Dame)
- Tom Cramer (Stanford)
- Carolyn Caizzi (Northwestern)
- David Schober
- Tim Marconi (UC San Diego)
- Jessica Hilt (UC San Diego)
- Rob Kaufman (Notch8)
- May Chang (Cincinnati)
- Casey Davis Kaufman (WGBH)
Agenda
Monday 27 April | Topic | Who | Length | Spkr OK? Slot OK? |
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12:00 EDT | Housekeeping | Maria Whitaker | 10 mins | |
12:10 | Status check on appointment of Community Manager and Technical Coordinator (slides) The Community Manager will be advertised as a remote post. Things will be moved forward as quickly as the hiring freeze at Emory allows. If that becomes problematic we may need to consider an alternative hiring strategy. | Jon Dunn | 15 mins | |
12:25 | Finance and budget reports (slides) | Richard Green | 15 mins | |
12:40 | Steering Group elections 2020 (slides) | Richard Green | 5 mins | |
12:45 | Connect 2020 and 2021 (and maybe 2022) - info and status checks Connect 2020 in Santa Barbara has been cancelled as the direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. A virtual event will be arranged in place of the cancelled face-to-face conference. See Brian McBride's presentation below for further details. We plan to hold Connect 2021 at the University of Notre Dame (this was already in the early stages of planning as Rick Johnson's presentation below shows) and UC Santa Barbara hope to stage the event there in 2022. | Chrissy Rissmeyer Rick Johnson | 5 mins 5 mins |
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12:55 | Virtual Connect 2020 - info May 14-15, 11am - 1pm EST Currently 12 presentation proposals on a range of topics, 13 working group updates Working on logistics - timetable likely available next week Planning meeting on 4/30, until then proposals will still be accepted - ping David Schober and Franny Gaede on Slack if you do want to do so. | David Schober | 5 mins | |
13:00 | Encouraging contributions to, and participation in, Connect conferences; ideas for format of fall Connect Contact brian dot mcbride at utah dot edu Slack: Brian McBride | Brian McBride | 15 mins | |
13:15 | Governance assessment exercise (slides) Governance Working Group produced a set of six recommendations. Exercise is to go through them and judge how well we are doing in implementing them. Also going to survey more broadly - people who are interested in Samvera but not highly engaged - how we appear to people outside our Community but that we interact with. Rank each recommendation in a similar fashion to the 'It takes a Village' report:
| Esmé Cowles | 40 mins | |
13:55 | Wrap-up | |||
Tuesday 28 April | ||||
12:00 EDT | Housekeeping | Maria Whitaker | 10 mins | |
12:10 | Samvera's use of Circle CI Samvera's current payment plan for CircleCI assumes a fairly steady usage of the tool and doesn’t cope well with the peaks that occur – for instance when we hold a developer event. It is proposed that we move to a new plan that relies us on buying ‘credits’ which can be used at any rate and topped up if needed. Our devs think that this may possibly lower our annual CircleCI bill as well as suiting their needs better. After discussion, it was agreed that we should move to the new arrangement immediately. The system will initially be set to provide regular credits at approximately the current rate of usage and we can manually finesse this as required - increased to deal with a peak, dialed back if we are amassing a surplus. Richard Green will notify Lyrasis of the change in charging pattern. The system will be set to copy Steering's finance subcommittee with details of charges. | Esmé Cowles | 10 mins | |
12:20 | Brief reports from Roadmap Council, Component Maintenance WG, Hyku IG, Hyrax MWG and IG | |||
Nabeela referenced the detailed email she had sent out recently giving a quarterly update on the Roadmap Council's work. Her first slide details the membership of the Council. Subsequent slides set out the Council's three next goals and the pattern of meetings. The first goal, currently being worked on, involves analyzing roadmaps and planning cycles around the Community to try and produce a centralized roadmap. The second goal is to facilitate the process for getting code back into core, 'code reclamation'. The third goal is to improve communication into and out of the Roadmap Council, to help increase collaboration across the Community and to help facilitate 'asks'. Rob Kaufman explained that the code reclamation work is to reclaim useful features for the core that have been implemented in one or more projects. As part of that it is envisaged that people who have contributed to core code in the past would work with 'new' people who have interesting code but have never yet contributed it back. Another aspect would be encourage people to look at existing implementations of a feature in the Community, and rather than write their own version from scratch, spend their dev cycles getting a generalized version of that feature code back into Hyrax. Rob wants to try and break the pattern that "we didn't invent this code and so want nothing to do with it" and, in doing so, cut down on duplicated work. | Nabeela Jaffer | 7 mins | ||
Component Maintenance Group (slides) | James Griffin | 7 mins | ||
Hyrax Maintenance Working Group | Tom Johnson | 7 mins | ||
Hyrax Interest Group (inc update on Hyrax PO) | Rob Kaufman | 7 mins | ||
Hyku Interest Group | Rob Kaufman | 7 mins | ||
12:55 | Report from Marketing Working Group including discussion on website update (slides) | Chris Awre | 15 mins | |
13:10 | Process for forming Working and Interest Groups - review and update the guidelines? | Robin Ruggaber | 30 mins | |
13:40 | Partner Ask for Upgrading Hyrax to Improve Valkyrie Work | Jessica Hilt | 5 mins | |
13:45 | Parking lot
| 15 mins | ||
14:00 | Wrap-up - evaluation of on-line versus f2f meeting (may be earlier depending on parking lot items) | |||
Deferred | ||||
Are job adverts put out on our lists successful? Where did successful applicants hear about their jobs (do we know)? | All | Email survey? | ||
Code of Conduct review - status check https://docs.google.com/document/d/17hrlfQtE89zw_N0ccp373JVA29NY_EVZrsdFszK-rdU/edit?usp=sharing | Jessica Hilt? | move to monthly call? |