Scope & Objectives
The Hyrax Interest Group (formerly SIGAHR) will form a core leadership and management body for defining the Hyrax roadmap and actively overseeing the execution of the roadmap. The group will be home to the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group which undertakes periodic development sprints. There will be four Hyrax ‘roles’: Technical Lead, Community Lead, Projects Lead, and Product Owner to ensure that Hyrax is managed, developed and promoted in a stable way. The Hyrax Interest Group will be led by the Hyrax Product Owner.
Meeting Times & Communication Channels
Meetings will be held at least monthly on a conference call/video chat. Meeting agendas and notes will be shared with the community via chat (Slack) and Samvera Lists (Google Groups). Members of the group may wish to meet more often than monthly as needed.
Sunset Milestone: the Interest Group will self-evaluate at Samvera Connect 2018. Evaluation and decision to continue the Interest Group will be based on group input into the utility of the group for advising the direction of Hyrax and the decision to continue or discontinue the group will include open discussion with the Samvera Community.
Slack group is: #hyrax-interest-group
Monthly meetings: 2nd Tuesdays at 4pm ET - 5pm ET (starting June 12, 2018)
To join the Meeting:
https://unc.zoom.us/j/576875406?pwd=dklaTWcyRUZScnV2c2xQWGptZWRxQT09
enter pass: hyrax
Members
This group, and it’s meetings, will be open to the community, though the Hyrax Product Owner and Technical Lead will work to ensure, as possible, that members of the Interest Group represent a breadth and depth of interest in and engagement with Hyrax across the Samvera community. Members are expected to participate regularly in Interest Group activities and may have up to 8 hours of non-meeting work some weeks.
- Michael J. Giarlo (Stanford University)
- Jessica Hilt (University of California, San Diego) - Hyrax Projects Lead
- Ryan Steans (Northwestern University - to 16/8/2019)
- Julie Rudder (University of North Carolina)
- Kevin Musiorski (Art Institute of Chicago)
Brian McBride (University of Utah)
Chris Colvard (Indiana University)
- Collin Brittle (Emory)
- David Schober (Northwestern University)
- Lynette Rayle (Cornell)
- Tom Johnson (UC Santa Barbara) - Hyrax Technical Lead
- Julie Hardesty (Indiana University)
- Julie Allinson (Notch8)
- Mark Bussey (DCE)
- David Schober (Northwestern)
- Nabeela Jaffer (University of Michigan)
- you!
Hyrax Roles
- Hyrax Product Owner ( 0.25 full-time commitment ) - see below. This role is vacant.
- Current Role Holder: vacant
- The Hyrax Product Owner owns the vision and sets the focus for Hyrax.
- Hyrax Technical Lead ( 0.25 full-time commitment )
- Current Role Holder: Tom Johnson (UCSB)
- The Technical Lead leads on the technical architecture and vision for Hyrax.
- Current Role Holder: Tom Johnson (UCSB)
- Hyrax Projects Lead ( 0.1 full-time commitment )
- Current Role Holder: Jessica Hilt (UCSD)
- The Hyrax Product Lead runs the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group, acting as sprint lead / scrum master for this and any other ad-hoc development sprints.
- Current Role Holder: Jessica Hilt (UCSD)
- Hyrax Community Lead ( 0.1 full-time commitment )
- Current Role Holder: vacant
- The Hyrax Community Lead is intended as an interim position until the recruitment of the Samvera Community Manager. The Hyrax Community Lead takes ownership of communication into and out of the Hyrax Interest Group.
The roles will rotate on an alternating 2 years schedule where the Product Owner and Project Lead will be given an opportunity to step down one year, and the Technical Lead and Community Lead the next. The rotation will give those in the roles an opportunity to step away, although there is no requirement that they do so. We value both continuity and flexibility. The Interest Group will nominate someone to lead on recruitment and that conversation will begin at Samvera Connect the year prior to the roles coming up for rotation.
Hyrax Working Groups
The following working groups fall within the scope of the Hyrax Interest Group:
- Hyrax Maintenance Working Group
Resources
Meeting Notes
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