Hydra Partner Meeting Functions

Functions needed

Plus

Minus

Sum

social cohesion

10

0

10

collaboration opportunities

10

0

10

architectural working sessions

8

0

8

community roadmapping

8

0

8

cross partner updates

8

0

8

techical roadmapping

7

0

7

skills sharing

7

1

6

working sessions

7

3

4

hackfest

6

4

2

resource coordination

6

0

6

scheduling next meetings

5

0

5

Hydra vis a vis other projects

4

0

4

rotating release managers

4

2

2

administration (project)

3

2

1

PR, communications, etc.

3

3

0

input to duraspace

3

1

2

community maintenance + growth

2

0

2

process definition

2

1

1

outreach

1

0

1

adoption

1

3

-2

training

1

6

-5

Implications for Hydra Partner Meetings:

  • value in having stakeholders of all types (devs, managers, architects, analysts) together
  • plenary sessions useful for social cohesion, setting up collab
  • tracked sessions useful for working sessions, coding, resource coord
  • project admin can be relegated to Hydra Steering or other smaller groups

Other Meetings:

Open Repositories

  • Outreach, Collaboration opportunities

Hydra Camp
Skills sharing, Training

LibDevConX

  • Hydra vis a vis other projects
  • Outreach
  • Skills sharing

Code4Lib/Access

  • Skills, Training, Adoption

We need to ask the people who aren't here as well, are the meetings too frequent? Location? Coincide with other conferences? (Richard)