SB notes 2nd December 2022

Owned by Heather Greer Klein
Dec 05, 2022
2 min read

 

Invitees

  1. Carolyn Caizzi (Chair)

  2. Esmé Cowles (Chair-elect)

  3. Hannah Frost

  4. Harriett Green

  5. Brian McBride

  6. Rosalyn Metz

  7. Alicia Morris 

  8. Simeon Warner 

Ex-officio

  • Heather Greer Klein

Agenda

  1. Changes to the agenda

  2. Thank you to Carolyn, Hannah, and Simeon!

  3. Nurax hosting migration from DCE

    1. DCE is not able to continue to host; they will keep it in place but must enable a transition as soon as possible.

      1. https://nurax-stable.curationexperts.com/ <— not currently actively using this server - perhaps it can just be shut down?
        https://nurax-dev.curationexperts.com/ <— Fedora persistence - some amount of testing happening here
        https://nurax-dev.curationexperts.com/ <— Postgres persistence - DCE has had difficulty establishing effective processes to manage required changes to the Postgres database. The nature of testing means it may require ad-hoc on-demand database administration.

      2. Need to determine who can host (short and long-term); who can manage the transition; who can maintain/do database admin.

      3. Board agrees that the best way forward is centralized ownership of instances, rather than being at a Partner.

      4. Heather can get the instance in place in AWS, and others need to stand it up.

      5. Hyrax Maintenance WG proposed as owner, and need to make it clear that this group will now need devops from community volunteers.

      6. Northwestern can help by getting it stood up, not within the DCE timeframe, but can get it working. Reconfiguring the host names and taking over billing, then taking on maintenance, may be the easiest way forward? A new team standing it up with proper documentation, could be a great learning experience and lead to best practices documentation.

      7. Even with a lift and shift approach to start, we will need point people other than Heather.

      8. We will ask the Hyrax Tech Lead to head up the process to lift and shift, and then get help as needed. Then we can get back to DCE with a plan.

  4. Motto question from Marketing Group

    1. Do we want to open this up to community suggestions? Or, should this be kept to the Marketing WG and the Board? Other ideas?

    2. Decided to request suggestions, the working group makes a selection, and the board approves.

  5. Component Maintenance update

    1. James Griffin sent a message this week outlining the proposals from the November meeting.

    2. Will extend the due date through January

  6. Roadmap Alignment Group update (standing item)

    1. Helped see the components message through.

  7. Connect registrants report

    1. 241 registrants

    2. 80 institutions

    3. 156 registrants (about 64%) from 28 Partners

  8. Other Updates

    1. Board election – Runs through December 5th, can announce on the 6th.

    2. Reaching out to new AD at UCSB

    3. List of dreams activity items

      1. Already have a few volunteers to investigate ideas further; Heather following up

    4. meeting with AWS about reference architectures – still working to get this scheduled.

    5. Partner payments - still six remain, represent $47,000. Heather has followed up

Items for next Partner call: Nurax

Date of next meeting: January 26th - 27th Board retreat