2024-06-14 Partner Call

Samvera Partners Call

Friday, May 10th, 2024

11:30 am  |  Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-05:00)  |  1 hr

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Facilitator: @Kirsten Leonard

Note Taker: @Robin Lindley Ruggaber

Attendees

  • Robin Ruggaber

  • Kirsten Leonard

  • @Nicholas Mark Homenda

  • @Kevin Kochanski

  • @Jon Dunn 

  • @Chris Awre

  • @Karen Cariani

Regrets

  • Kate Lynch

  • Esmé Cowles

  • David Schober

  • Heather Greer Klein

Agenda & Notes

  1. Any other items for the agenda?

  2. Discussion: TBD

  3. Regional Meetings Updates and Planning

    1. Midwest - Regional meeting looking to build a programming committee and also considering a portion for unconference. All are welcome, not limited to just the mid-west; no registration fee; hosts will provide some refreshments.

      1. When: 1:00 pm Wednesday, September 25 - 4:00pm Thursday, September 26, 2024

      2. Where: University Library, Indiana University Indianapolis, 755 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis IN 46202

      3. Who: Members of the Samvera Community (including Hyku and Avalon) in the Midwest and beyond: repository managers, developers, librarians, archivists, administrators, and others

      4. Sponsors: Indiana University Libraries - Bloomington, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), Indiana University Indianapolis University Library (meeting space provider)

    2. Northeast - Princeton Oct 14-18; Three small events in one week: Samvera, devops, and Blacklight. Samvera Regional event on 10/14-15, DevOps4Lib on 10/16-17, and a Blacklight on 10/18

    3. West Coast - Margaret Mellinger sent a survey: https://forms.gle/4RRm5dHjSwhtkHMN7

      1. First or second week of October - 10/2-10/3 or 10/9-10/10; two half-days

      2. Hosted by Oregon State University at Portland Event Center in Pioneer Square

      3. Committee (so far): Margaret Mellinger, Chrissy Rissmeyer, Julia Simic, Kevin Kochanski

    4. Europe - Call for interest has been sent out. Oxford and British Library have expressed interest in working together to host something at Oxford. in the fall.

    5. End of year virtual meeting/regional meeting review/state of Samvera/2025 planning - week of December 3rd

    6. Throughline and representation at all meetings?

      1. Heather will try to be at each, so they’ll be staggered

      2. Hyrax Group would like an opportunity to interact with community on roadmap items, not enough people attend the calls to make that the best forum for broader feedback

        1. Would be good to have a presence at all the Regional meetings in the fall.

        2. Regional Ambassadors: Are there enough regions represented in the Hyrax WG and Maintenance calls to have someone from each local area attend one of the regional meetings as an ambassador?

  4. Other Updates: 

    1. Sign up to present or facilitate a topic (5 - 30 minutes) at a future Partner call. One requested topic without a facilitator is around hiring challenges and approaches. Potential Robin could present on supporting smaller institutions situated in disadvantaged areas.

    2. Hyrax and Hyku development updates:

      1. Hyrax Hyku- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oP54Lft3I9oVZ0-qifUjrMQvpv67-7UyZzuSvEwabUc/edit#heading=h.esu7r1gk1qsq also working on flexible metadata, see notes for additional info.

      2. Hyku 6 is scheduled for release 3rd week of June, Amigos is sponsoring flexible metadata

Anything for the Samvera Board? (Standing item) nothing noted


Date of next call: July 12th

Notetaker: