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