Communication
Summary: This page details the communication channels used by developers in the Samvera community. For more information on broader community communication, please see the Samvera wiki Get Started in the Samvera Community page.
Regular Calls
Weekly Technical Call for technical discussion, and coordinating releases and code review
Monthly Partner Call complements the tech call with a focus on community and functional progress
Community Sprint Calls are also organized to coordinate development
Slack
Slack has become the primary mode of synchronous communication in the Samvera community. There is a Samvera Slack team that is used for discussion, questions, announcements, interest groups, and working groups. Topics span very general discussion to in-depth interest/working group work, from metadata work to development coordination. Anyone can create a new channel within the Samvera Slack team once they have registered for an account.
Slack: http://samvera.slack.com/
Signup form: http://slack.samvera.org/
Mailing Lists
https://groups.google.com/group/samvera-community for general Samvera discussion
https://groups.google.com/group/samvera-tech for technical discussion
and several more listed on How to Ask for Help
Wiki
Samvera wiki: Samvera for general project documentation, meeting notes, and working group pages
To request an account, please email heather@samvera.org
GitHub codebase-specific wikis for technical documentation and tutorials: e.g.,
Conferences
SamveraConnect: the annual go-to event for the entire Samvera community, primarily geared towards connecting with fellow Samvera community members to learn how they are using Samvera
Developer Congresses: these community hackfests tend to be held 1-2 times per year, and have a strong record of delivering advances in our community codebases and helping to onboard new Samvera developers
Other Conferences
Training
SamveraCamp: for many partners, one of the first steps to joining the Samvera community was, and remains, sending a team of software developers to SamveraCamp to learn the common practices of our community. We generally hold 3-4 SamveraCamps per year.
IRC
Slack is more active, but there is still a #samvera IRC channel on chat.freenode.net. Connect using your favorite IRC client, or using