2022-02-08 Meeting Notes and Agenda

Date

Feb 8, 2022

Zoom Link

https://zoom.us/j/93115408034?pwd=clZGWGM0RkN3UUZPMUloU2xHVFdXQT09

Participants

• @Nabeela Jaffer

• @Juliet Hardesty

• @Heather Greer Klein

• @jen young

• @Jon Cameron

• @James Griffin

Discussion topics

Notes

• GitHub Teams

  • These efforts are under active progress

  • Discussion

    • Group which was assembled for developer engagement by Heather

    • GitHub has this Teams concept which can be used more efficiently for taking the place of some groups which have taken place meeting

    • James and Core Components Interest Group

    • UX Working Group is going to sunset, but there should be another Front End Interest Group

  • To be determined

    • Where to start with this?

    • There is a Metadata Team within the Samvera GitHub

      • https://github.com/orgs/samvera/teams/hyrax-metadataists

    • https://github.com/orgs/samvera/teams

    • The use case was for trying to determine who might have the authority for Ruby Gem releases

  • Teams

    • 12 Teams are public

    • If there are outdated Teams, perhaps these should be archived?

    • Also, there are secret Teams, what to do for these?

  • Heather, Adam, and James can look to initiate this process

    • Heather and James will look to identify unmaintained or deprecated members

• Tech Lead Updates

  • At the Winter Retreat and Board Finance Subcommittee Meeting discussed this

    • Board wants to offer funding for a year for a Hyrax tech. lead to be placed within a partner institution

      • Expected 25%-33% as a part-time commitment

  • Funding resources are very good for this year, so this is an opportunity to demonstrate the importance of this role for future labor

  • Also wish to ensure that the recruit start their tenure during the summer 2022 (before Juliet departs from the position of Product Owner for Hyrax)

  • Specific criteria for identifying the best candidates still needs to be determined

• Staffing Needs Assessment Document

  • All of this discussion was integrated into the discussions regarding the Hyrax Tech. Lead discussions

Meeting adjourned at 09:20 PST/12:20 EST

Action items

Decisions