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Coordinating Meeting July 30 2021 11:30 am AST

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  • Chair: Amy Blau
  • Notes: Mirko Hanke

Per: Schedule

  • Attending:
    • Amy Blau
    • Bethany Seeger
    • Brandon Weigel
    • Don Richards
    • Drew Heles
    • Ian Song
    • Jenna Mlynaryk
    • Mirko Hanke
    • Rosie Le Faive

Agenda

Old Business

New Business

Interest Group Updates

  • Metadata IG (Rosie)
  • IR interest group (Bryan or Don)
  • ISLE Interest Group (Danny or Bryan)
  • Documentation Interest Group (Melissa or Mirko)

Islandora 8

Islandora Events

  • Summer of Islandora Aug 31 -- Discuss: panel on community engagement, additional demos, web presence

Round Table

Discussion about role of ICC

Email from Leadership group, executive director?

Notes

New business

  • Added discussion about role of ICC to agenda
  • Added discussion to agenda about Leadership Group email, recommendation to hire executive director

IG updates

Metadata IG

  • Kristina Spurgin presented on Drupal taxonomies, how do they work similarly/differently to controlled vocabularies, possibility to integrate MIG notes/documentation with general documentation
  • MIG to host mini-sprint;

Documentation IG

  • presentation during Islandora Open spawning discussion, contributions;
  • planning to integrate Cookbook with main documentation;
  • starting to collect/contribute documentation about Drupal prerequisites for managing I8

Islandora 8

  • no updates from attendees;
  • discussion about who could report on updates to ICC

Islandora events

  • Jenna created web page for SoI: [https://islandora.ca/content/summer-islandora];
  • Summer of Islandora August 31st
    • program updates: possibly shortening Q&A, more demos, lightning talks/demos, IG updates;
    • incentivize updates/presentations from wider community about how they are using Islandora;
    • casting net to ask for 5-10 min presentations and look for result;
    • keeping panel discussion format with IG and user/tech call members as a contingency plan and as an option for future Islandora Open events

Round table

  • Ian: Email from Leadership Group? --> Islandora group list;
  • Bethany might step in to report on I8;
  • Drew: looking for citation module for I8; Bethany, Don, will communicate outside mtg; Kent State appears to have citations;
  • Amy: ICG prepared report on Islandora testing, will be shared with ICC soon

Discussions

ISLE updates for ICC

  • Anyone on ICC able to report back on ISLE? Possibly asking for updates on Slack?
  • Don will explore temporary solution to get updates to ICC;

Leadership Group email, recommendation to hire Executive Director

  • Email to Islandora Community from 2021-07-30: [https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/islandora/c/diETUckBFp0]
  • community might feel need for tech lead sooner than need for Exec Dir
  • should ICC continue with plans to set up support structures to fill gaps left by Danny?
  • LG seems to suggest top-down organization strategy that is new to Islandora culture
  • Danny had huge horizontal technical awareness;
  • Melissa leaving foundation leaves gap for community organization role;
  • firm technical lead wanted;
  • need role who can speak tech really well, bridging broader vision and needs of community contributors;
  • coordination of various individual organizations' needs and development activities, will it be possible for Exec Dir to effectively bridge that?;
  • strategic directions under purview of Leadership Group and ICC, effective to 'outsource' this to Exec Dir?;
  • job description for Exec Dir available?;
  • call for Exec Dir position might not result in candidates willing to work hands-on on tech questions and community organization, project management;
  • reasons for decision? possibly not enough funds to hire both community organization and tech lead?
  • could prioritize coordination aspects and possibly 'outsource' tech side?
  • similar transitions, changed roles at other open source projects?;
  • prioritize community organization role based on prior experience before Danny came on board;
  • use prior model of rotating release manager - but complexity of Islandora grows, role of tech lead became more complex;
  • time contributions as possible/realistic model for rotating tech lead? e.g. organizations in the community contributing 0.5-1 FTE for e.g. half a year at a time?; example: UPEI will allow Rosie to contribute even more time to Islandora community work, allowing her to facilitate coordination between stakeholders and work towards improved user experience for the product
  • IF paying x hours/week for rotating tech lead?;
  • timing crucial, job search for Exec Dir could take long, need to support institutions in migration from 7 to 8;
  • ICC members want to respond to Leadership
    • form of response: email with ICC position and suggestions, as foundation for group discussion with leadership;
    • ICC members to work collaboratively on Google Doc;

Action items

  • Jenna sends recap communication about August SoI, asking for contributions from wider community in the form of 5-10 min presentations/demos
  • Don asks if Danny can re-join ICC as born digital rep, to provide updates on ISLE
  • Mirko sets up google doc with draft for ICC response to exec dir suggestion, share link with ICC members and queue them to look (email and ICC slack channel)
  • Jenna reaches out to Leadership Group, communicating that ICC is working on response to recommendation/call for feedback, and that we would appreciate LG not make a decision before we submitted our response and had time to discuss with them;

Next meeting August 13

  • Chair: Mirko Hanke
  • Notes: Brandon Weigel

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