SB notes 22nd April 2022

Owned by Heather Greer Klein
Apr 25, 2022
2 min read

 

Invitees

  1. Carolyn Caizzi (Chair)

  2. Esmé Cowles (Chair-elect)

  3. Hannah Frost

  4. Harriett Green

  5. Nabeela Jaffer

  6. Brian McBride

  7. Rosalyn Metz

  8. Alicia Morris 

  9. Simeon Warner 

Ex-officio

  • Heather Greer Klein

Agenda

  1. Changes to the agenda

  2. Hyrax Valkyrization meeting and update

    1. Still an amount of work left. Great to have had a team on it. They estimate 3 more 2-week sprints at that level; but Princeton had 6 developers on it.

    2. A lot of the patterns and work has been done to reduce complexity. A majority of the complexity will fall off when we don’t need to work with Valkyrie AND active fedora.

    3. What sort of familiarity of developer is needed? Need to know how to identify who is needed and communicate that.

    4. Need to sit down with the devs on this and define who can do this work, so we can find who can do it.

    5. If a lot of new developers come in, unless they are very comfortable with Rails it takes a while to get up to speed. Could we have a training channel? Getting up to speed as not part of the sprint work. It can be a significant amount of time to support developers who need to get to that level of comfort with the code.

    6. Moving from active fedora to Valkyrie is requiring knowledge of two frameworks. Always will take an investment. Need to empower folks to work on Valkyrie.

    7. Dev Onboarding group will work on this as well, with Hyrax and Valkyrie.

    8. How do we help developers get to the place where they are feeling more comfortable onboarding to Valkyrie. Will check on a virtual Valkyrie workshop and one at Connect.

    9. Heather will work with devs and the onboarding to get better messaging about what we need for this work.

    10. Also need to push the Rails end of life issue.

    11. For a future meeting can discuss do we want to budget for contractors annually. Can also look at doing a fund for features in the way that DSpace is currently doing that for features on their roadmap.

  3. Hyrax Tech Lead

    1. We will know more next week.

  4. Partner Meeting agenda

    1. Do we need a communications plan? Are we asking too casually for help? Do we need a development communication plan? This could be a good activity for the roadmaps alignment group. We should be planning the resources for things not at the last minute.

  5. CLAs – see https://docs.google.com/document/d/15X5sVJzZtpxwuOM677Nl8YMrmw8SIePZhfJIxQSaSiA/edit?usp=sharing

    1. Proposal was unanimously accepted by the Board. Heather will communicate to the Community and work to remove CLA information from the wiki.

  6. Status checks

    1. ITAV next steps

      1. Look for a message soon for selecting activities

    2. Circle CI subscription

      1. New level is too expensive, we’re at the right level

    3. Invoicing for Partners

      1. 19 have confirmed their invoice at or above minimum

    4. Virtual Connect

    5. Samvera Connect 2022 planning update – Workshops CFP to go out next week

    6. Roadmaps Alignment Group (regular status check)

    7. Community Guidelines WG update (Hannah)

      1. All done!

  7. Misc

 

Items for next Partner call:


Date of next meeting: May 27th