Date

02 Oct 2014

Regional Hydra Groups

Overview

• Develop Regional Hydra Meetings

• How to communicate out to the larger Hydra community

• The Hydra community is too large to hold frequent meetings.

Questions:

1. How can we establish a pattern of regional meetings that doesn’t fragment the community?

2. There are separate/regional Fedora meetings. Should those be separate? Should there be a convergence there?

3. What are we looking to get out of regional meetings?

4. What do we want people to share?

Benefits

• Resource Sharing / Regional Development:

• Easier development of shared solutions, collaborative development

• Place developer at another institution for a week or two, learn workflow, management, coding. Developer exchange. More of a micro-level development

• Regional allows focus on potentially local policy/open access issues (relevant for UK)

• Regional allows for more dedicated time for discussing and walking through problems, code, etc.

• Opportunity for training

• Engagement with metadata analysts, other potential adopters and consultants (local Ruby/Rails groups)

References

• Regional Ruby/Rails/Drupal meetings:

• Bring in luminaries from community and have groups such as ConFreaks film the presentations.

• Presentations are them posted and spread online

• Drupal organization provides guidelines for hosting meetings, communicating out, etc.

Communication

• A single news channel would be helpful.

• There is a gap between hydra-tech (immediate technical questions) and hydra monthly reports.

• What are people currently working on?

• Are we solving the same problems at the same time?

• Would a blog aggregator be more helpful than messages on a list. Just like Ruby 5

• People may feel more comfortable sharing day-to-day progress via in aggregator, as it would be a less ‘official’ channel

Potential Regional Groups

• Ohio

• UK

• West Coast (UCs, Stanford, Oregon)

• Mid-Atlantic

• NE

Action items

• 1 page on organizing a regional meetings (Karen and Richard)
• Identify the regions and partner/adopters within regions (self-identify by asking community)
• Identify a local for Regional Groups on the Wiki (Karen)