Meeting planning call notes

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017

April 15, 2015,Ā 12:00 PM EDT (phone)

Call details TK

March 18, 2015: phone

In attendance: Michael Friscia, Karen Cariani, Alicia Morris, Andy Ashton, Eben English (notetaker)

  • Signups so far
    • 10 via Google form, more expected
    • Andy will ping people who have added their names to the "Interested in participating?" main page but who have not signed up via the form
  • Topics suggested
    • Most popular: Fedora 4 migration; Spotlight; content modeling
    • Others: UX; ingest workflows; code release workflows
    • Eben will update main wiki page with a better layout for proposed topics/sessions; Andy will integrate suggestions from form as they come in
    • Karen will include a list of most popular topics in next email regarding meeting to be sent to attendees
  • Meeting structure/agenda options
    • Decide morning of:
      • pros: organic, less organization to do ahead of time, can let attendees' interests dictate
      • cons: potential for some wasted time at beginning until things get worked out
    • Via email/form beforehand
      • Could send out an email with a link to a form where people could vote for favorite topics?
    • Open with updates from each institution
      • Have each institution do a 5-10 lightning talk where they discuss current status, what they're working on, demo projects, etc. (Similar to beginning of Boston Hydra Partner meeting in Summer 2013
  • Next steps
    • Cap registration by April 15
    • Karen will send out update email asking for more participation with topics, etc.
    • Andy will send Karen list of signups so far
    • Michael will send Karen list of people from recent Hydra Camp at Yale
    • Eben will post announcement to Code4Lib list
  • Next call
    • Wednesday April 15, 12:00 PM EDT
    • Michael will set up conference call line, details TK

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Feb 25, 2015: phone

  • e-mail to be sent to tech and community list next week with registration info and call for topics of interest
    • concern about conflict with and overlap with NEFUG that happens following week
    • feedback on that concern desired
    • how to make this event useful and different
    • is date ok?
    • need estimate of attendees/ interested attendees
  • meeting will be developer focus to get NE Hydra developers together where they might not be ableĀ to travel to other Hydra events
  • chance for developers to network andĀ talkĀ toĀ each other, share info and work, and possibly write code together if there is taskĀ identified
    • what else do people want to get out of this meeting?
  • assess interest to date and topics listed for next phone call
    • March 18 noon