Date
Attendees
- Mark Bussey
- Jon Cameron
- jen young
- Kate Lynch
- James Griffin
- Richard Green
- Simeon Warner
- Carolyn Caizzi
- Chris Awre
- Rosalyn Metz
- Jon Dunn
- Hannah Frost
- Robin Lindley Ruggaber
- John Weise
Goals
- Meeting with Steering to review the purpose and objectives of the Roadmap Council
Discussion items
Time | Item | Who | Notes |
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Introductions |
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Roadmap Council purpose and goals | Nabeela | ||
Group Name discussion and suggestions | Rob | ||
Q & A |
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Notes
Introduction
- Goal is to talk a bit about two topics
- The recurring theme of Roadmap Council - what it is expected to do vs. what it is really chartered to address
- If the council is doing what it is chartered to do, then how do we communicate this to the community?
- Charter is not to create a single roadmap for the community, but instead to try and align various efforts within the community
Roadmap Council Purpose and Goals
- 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
- If we wish to expand the charter of the Council to address institutional roadmaps, this might be helpful, as this objective is not quite clear in the current charter
- Roadmap Council could contribute some of the user stories (in terms of documentation and in order to exhibit the work which was achieved)
- This would also be useful for the induction of the Community Manager
- DataCite Integration
- There are currently 7 implementations
- Is there an activity for identifying which of these are being considered for inclusion into Samvera core?
- After looking at multiple implementations, Notch8 has found that the implementations are extremely similar in structure
- For the next institution which need this, perhaps they can work with the community instead
- Also, it might also be helpful to have seasoned contributors work in order to "reclaim" projects into Samvera core