2024-02-07 Outreach & Engagement notes

Participants

• @Heather Greer Klein

• @Kevin Kochanski

• @Karen Cariani

• @Alicia M. Morris

• @Adam J. Arling - regrets

• @Kirsten Leonard - regrets, will only attend occasionally in future

• Molly Reed

• @Chris Awre

Agenda

• Review of action items

  • Reach out (@Kevin Kochanski ) to Heather and Adam about Hyku aligning with Avalon - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bvxLStnDtpRg2uKNPkK5CpIxjJcN5S4qvgZULjdKjbQ/edit#gid=0

    • Added information outline to the issue ticket

    • We have a good architecture outline here; need the design wireframed which will speed up if we recruit more devs

    • Emily Lynema is the contact here

  • Kevin will merge the glossaries and add definitions as a draft

    • See new spreadsheet for easier transfer to Contentful

  • Molly will think through link text re: Accessibility; potentially Site Improve scans.

    • Accessibility issue ticket for collecting these changes

  • Motto and presentation templates: Community materials folder with templates

    • Deleted old template; do we need to add to the existing template?

      • Heather will add motto to logo in existing template

    • Motto guidelines? Do we need an overall style guide?

• Contentful and website planning

  • We need additional designer/front end participation in the group; it’s too much for just Adam.

  • Wireframe for hyku subdomain

    • Workspace for site map: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bvxLStnDtpRg2uKNPkK5CpIxjJcN5S4qvgZULjdKjbQ/edit?usp=sharing

  • https://github.com/samvera/samvera.org/issues

  • Content strategy (to be replicated for the subdomain sites, starting with Hyku)

  • Accessibility

    • Accessibility issue ticket

    • Should we consider an overall Accessibility scan? (Site Improve)
      
      

• Blog posts, press releases, upcoming events

  • Value of Samvera Partnership (also can be a web page, document)

  • Get to Know the Samvera Community

  • Get Involved with the Samvera Community in 2024

  • Hyrax 5 when released

  • British Library as new Partner - waiting on their signed agreement

  • New Board members and Chair (after special election)

  • Virtual Connect is coming up - record response to call for committee!
    
    

• Making the case: Create a series of documents to help people get administrative support for adopting initiatives. -

  • Adopting open source -

  • Value of going to Samvera Connect -

  • Pledging community hours -

  • Value of Samvera Partnership -

Action Items

• @Heather Greer Klein will work with Adam to create a call for more developer participation and share it at Partner call

• @Heather Greer Klein will load the glossary terms into Contentful