2023-04-19 Outreach & Engagement notes

 Date

Apr 19, 2023

 Participants

• @Chris Awre

• @Heather Greer Klein

• @Alicia M. Morris

• Molly Reed regrets (at ICOLC this week)

• @Karen Cariani

• @Kevin Kochanski

• @Kirsten Leonard regrets (at ICOLC this week)

 Agenda

Open

Notes

• Literature around Samvera

  • Chris forwarded a message from a publisher earlier. These are not uncommon, but this book would reach a European audience and is an open access book. Not a lot of mentions of Samvera in the literature, or anything at the OR conference this year other than the repo rodeo.

  • What specific topics? The offer came from an article many years old about the journey of the community, immediately after the name change.

  • Chris and Richard have written about how they made use of Blacklight in a more recent book chapter. Often an opportunity to showcase an option in the marketplace.

  • Do we have writers in the community? Often a search of the literature is part of a selection of technology. DSpace has a big presence in the literature.

  • Hyku for Consortia work with the community is a fascinating area for this; want to discuss it when Kirsten is back!

  • Chris will reach out to learn more about this specific opportunity

  • Will request anything that has been written, and put out a call for anyone who would be interested.

• Samvera motto discussion

  • Great discussion at Partner meeting

  • Next steps?

    • Next meeting is after Virtual Connect – let folks know it is a work in progress

    • Give each group member a number of votes, to narrow it down?

    • Could have Partners vote if we want to; could for either choice or acceptance

    • For next meeting: take these options and see what other ideas they spark; share our top 3-5 preferences via our working group email lists and will discuss at next meeting

• Two SoftServ community items

  • Proposed Valkyrie sprints, funding sprints to start May-June. Kirsten is leading the initiative to raise funds from the community

  • Will offer virtual training sessions series. Focus on responding to the community demand for training, to help make the community more self sufficient.

  • Training idea is one full day, with pair programming

• Website planning

  • Heather will make an issue to start with the blog, allowing better formatting

  • Will pick this up next time, talk about how to organize the work

  • Adam will give 5 min overview of the new website at Virtual Connect