2021-03-31 Meeting notes
Date
Mar 31, 2021
https://emory.zoom.us/j/98259723559?pwd=cFhMOW0rU201QmljM1J1NndNaE11dz09
Participants
@Heather Greer Klein
@Lynette Rayle
@Juliet Hardesty
@Maxence Gévaudan
Goals/Agenda
Review and discuss the group goals/objectives, scope, and timeline
Dev congress annual plan review: what’s missing?
Discuss our next goal: New contributor support practices
practices for highlighting successful contributions and contributors
regular opportunities for new contributor support
Have we seen anything relevant in other communities?
Marketing Group related recognition effort
Next steps and action items
Schedule next meeting
Notes
How have things worked in the past - what has worked well and what hasn’t?
discuss where we are before making future plans
How many partner institutions now? 32
How many have actively contributed to Hyrax? Roadmap Alignments WG might have this info based on data they are gathering now (Partner Outreach list to determine if folks are developing on Hyrax right now, so specific to Hyrax)
Are these all Hyrax or were some of this involvement pre-Hyrax (Sufia, CurationConcerns)
crossover between Samvera and Blacklight community
some partners may not work on Hyrax but work on gems used by Hyrax (Notch8, for example)
Heather has list of all partners and what they are using and working, so there is something out there we can probably review
from Roadmap Alignment outreach, looks like around 25 active partners
some places are not partners but are likely to become partners in the next year
this is good for understanding potential resources available in the community
Challenges to participating in community work
one-off contributions - putting something into Samvera software takes twice as long as putting it in local software; burdens of review and testing fully
review can be less locally so process is much faster
limited set of PR reviewers in community so there can be wait time
process of making changes, committing, and getting another review is also time consuming
determining if thing you want to contribute fits with vision of Hyrax (Tech Lead, PO) - can be hard to figure this out
joining WGs - Hyrax Maintenance WG, for example
hard to make commitment for small orgs and doesn’t fit priorities of larger orgs with more resources
long-term projects don’t line up with what places want to work on (analytics and permissions as examples)
project management applied to WGs - sometimes person is technical and sometimes more organizational - having technical vision is important to always include
leaders of WGs have been responsible for getting people to participate in WG
sometimes that is a mismatch, WG leader might not know who partners are or have the ability to reach out for individual invitations
having support that Community Manager has provided for Hyrax Maintenance WG has been essential to get participation
would be good to gather points from others in community
institutions with fewer resources
don’t just have Hyrax to manage
providing immediate fix and unsure if it is contributable (working in languages other than Rails and making it work for their needs)
institutions working in other languages - many problems dealing with translations
local customizations make it difficult to update to newer code versions (migration)
issues of time, energy, and skill
Need for pairing for people new to working in the community that can help with some issues, such as setting things up for migrating
Languages - might be good to consider a PO for something like this (similar to core component POs) - someone to coordinate this work
Samvera Technical Coordinator role could help with this but it is not a thing yet
Dev Congress in May 2021 - might have a topic dealing with improving translations; not in the topic list yet but would be good addition; might have been suggested in Slack
one idea from this group is having Dev Congress more often and regularly
need for documentation in other languages? Yes!!! Samvera.github.io for sure; Github wiki also exists but not sure if translation support is there
chat in Slack can be a challenge to use for some
maybe language-specific channels in Slack? DSpace has language-specific channels
could help to build language-specific coding community; convincing places to use something like Hyrax, not just IT question but also librarians and people working with data - they might not be as open to something that isn’t available in the language they speak
Virtual Connect WG update