Communication

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.,

  • Hydra-Head

  • Sufia

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

  • Code4lib

  • Open Repositories

  • Digital Library Federation Events

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 http://webchat.freenode.net/ . If you are new to IRC, the Code4lib IRC wiki page is a good introduction.