May 11, 2012

Hydra Partners call, 11 May 2012 8:30 AM PDT

Attendees:
Tom Cramer, Jessie Keck, Chris Beer, Naomi Dushay (SU); Robin Ruggaber, Ray Lubinski (UVa); Adam Wead (RockHall); Mike Stroming, Steve Didomenico (Northwestern); Dan Brubaker-Horst (ND); Matt Zumwalt (MediaShelf); Chris Awre (Hull)

Agenda:

1. logistics for June Partners Meeting at Charlottesville
2. agenda for June Partners meeting at Charlottesville
3. Hydra MOU and 1 page partner letter of agreement

Notes:

Brown Science & Engineering Library is in walking distance
- has numerous breakout rooms
Monticello tour planned for Weds night. $45. Sign up on wiki Attendees list
- Himalayan Fusion for Weds night tentatively planned

Agenda additions:

Version hoe-down: What version are people at, and how are people upgrading, what are the upgrade paths, issues?
How can local institutions best keep pace with keeping local apps in sync with latest developments?
- taking advantage of new features
- avoiding unmanageable technical debt in leaping from
distinct but related issue: what system components are people running hydra stack on (OS, server)
OR12
- detailed plan for Hydra Workshop
- detailed plan for HydraSphere
Fall Webinars for DuraSpace
Training
- Penn State has offered to host HydraCamp in Fall. Going to be at Penn State w/ dates TBA soon
Hydra Partner Show & Tell
HH5 – update & planning
Hypatia sync up (if Ben A. is attending)
Dev topics:
- process for deprecating & removing code
- UI code modularization
Code license review, rationalization, standardization

Additional attendees? Robin will ping several partners to see if they will be attending

JoDI Article on Hydra published last month

link to from Hydra Web site and wiki

Ariadne Article on CLIF (Hull) also published.

MOU Update

MOU Update and Letter of Agreement done
distributed to Partners shortly
license agreements are an open item; to be approached in next month