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Samvera Tech Call 2025-10-22

Samvera Tech Call 2025-10-22

Meeting Logistics:

Agenda (meeting notes below)

  • Hyrax @Randall Floyd

    • Working on the backlog of PR’s

    • Some talk of a community sprint early December?

      • Some accessibility issues, Rails 8 help, ??

    • Flexible - should we create a new test app?

  • Flexible metadata labels

    • display_label vs view:label

    • Translations

 

  • ome interesting Slack discussions…

    • Nick S’s question to the community re: the conversation around moving Fedora out of direct interactions in favor of a database implementation with Fedora as a preservation “sidecar” strategy

    • Call for interest in coordinated sprints around Universal Viewer (in #general)

    • Dolsy Smith looking for some migration wisdom (today in #dev)

 

Moderator: @Randall Floyd

Notetaker: @Daniel Pierce

Attendees:

  • @Tracy McCormick

  • Max Kadel

  • Nicholas Homenda

  • Heather Greer Klein

  • Nic Don Stanton-Roark

  • Sarah Proctor

  • Shana

  • Brad Watson

  • Rob Kaufman

  • you!



Meeting Process

  1. Standing pre-agenda items (moderator)

    1. Welcome

      • "Welcome everyone, please add your name to the Attendees list.  If you are unable to do so, please let us know, and someone will add you. To any newcomers, Welcome, and please feel free to ask questions. Likewise for all attendees. We strive for an open and accessible conversation around Samvera technology."

    2. Call for new agenda items

  2. Follow Agenda from above (facilitated by moderator) and record notes in Notes section below (note taker)

  3. Standing post-agenda items (moderator)

    1. call for next moderator and note taker (moderator)

      1. Moderator:

      2. Notetaker:

    2. Samvera help follow-up (moderator)

    3. Pull request review (moderator)

      1. Recent Samvera PR list

  4. Post-meeting action (note taker)

    1. After call, this week's notetaker should create the agenda for the next call:

      1. Open template agenda titled "Samvera Tech Call XXXX-XX-XX"

      2. Click on ... in the top right corner, and select “Duplicate”.

      3. Popup will open for location. It should contain:

        1. Space: Samvera

        2. Parent page: (Verify value is current year)

      4. Select “Duplicate”. New page should be created.

      5. Modify the title to remove "Duplicate of", update it with the next date, add moderator, notetaker, and any carry-over agenda info. Click Publish. 



Notes

  1. Next week is Samvera Connect, tech call will be skipped.

  2. Community Sprint planning

    1. Potential for some easier fixes for newcomers

    2. Looking at first week of Dec

    3.