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Coordinating Meeting August 13 2021 11:30 am AST

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  • Chair: Mirko Hanke
  • Notes: Amy Blau

Per: Schedule

Attending:

  • David Wilcox
  • Amy Blau
  • Mirko Hanke
  • Jenna Mlynaryk
  • Ian Song
  • Don Richards
  • Mike Kemezis
  • Rosie Le Faive

Agenda

Old Business

New Business

Proposed IF staffing changes: ICC response?

  1. Does the ICC have a common position to give as a response to the Leadership Group?
  2. If so, what should it look like?
  • What aspect of leadership/direction is most needed now: community building or tech role?
  • Concern about specifics of Executive Director role at the expense of tech and community roles; what will happen to the community without leadership at tech and community levels?
  • With respect to a suggestion that rotating tech leads from the community might be paid for their work, noted that some folks who work for public institutions would not be able to accept external compensation for Islandora work.
  • Concern that an Executive Director might promise directions or outcomes (in interest of increasing membership?) that they don't have skills or connections to do themselves or make sure it's done.
  • Need for attention to parts of development cycle like QA, integration tests for features.
  • Need to organize the community so that people do work that's relevant to them and the whole thing makes sense. The top-down idea is new to the community and would take getting used to.
  • Before Danny was tech lead, that role didn't exist but community manager role did and was essential -- tech responsibilities can be distributed in ways that the community building cannot.
  • What will be specific elements of the ED role? What is the 3-5 year plan for the Foundation -- hiring into community manager or tech lead roles?
  • Decision on response to Leadership Group (no objections from attendees): will come from individual members of ICC rather than as a body. Will frame questions and concerns rather than making a specific recommendation, and will circulate response among all ICC members. Deadline to contribute to Leadership Group is August 20.

Interest Group Updates

  • Metadata IG (Rosie) -- last meeting was on August 2, next meeting Monday August 16. The MIG is generating a glossary of Islandora 8 terms as a sprint, and is also developing use cases to explain adding metadata with taxonomy terms.
  • IR interest group (Don) -- no meeting since last ICC meeting, next meeting on Thursday August 19.
  • ISLE Interest Group -- update from Jenna that ISLE interest group is on hiatus until mid-late fall.
  • Documentation Interest Group (Mirko) -- last meeting was on August 11. Discussion about new template for pull requests to incentivize adding documentation as part of tech development pull requests. Discussion about feature parity document, with determination that the DIG will pull information from that document into documentation. DIG is looking into a range of ways to source documentation, and considering a sprint in the fall.

Islandora 8

  • no new updates; eventually there should be regular updates from Danny again.

Islandora Events

Islandora 8 August 31st

  • Lightning Talk deadline August 12th (1 confirmed presentation) - Jenna is making a final call for participation.
  • Would like to determine theme in order to start heavily advertising two weeks out (Tues 17th) -- suggestion: specific use cases
  • Final schedule goes out to participants 1 week in advance (Aug 24th).
  • Decision that IRIG would do a quick presentation and advertisement along the lines of the DIG presentation earlier.
  • Jenna will reach out to one or two additional possible presenters, finalize the schedule to share with the ICC ahead of general announcement.

Round Table

  • Amy: ICG systems testing report is public; ICG is planning for internal governance and work preparing for migrations.
  • David: Grant in in ingest mode; documentation is underway, is currently still in draft mode, will be shared with the community when pilot work is wrapped up (September, hopefully).
  • Mike: Connecticut Digital Archive has roadmap for Islandora 8 migration, starting in September 2021, wrapping up in October 2022.
  • Rosie: working on Island archive migrations from Islandora 6 to Islandora 7, on migrating RDM platform to Drupal 9, on ingesting non-standard Islandora content model. Looking ahead will have full time to devote to Islandora projects for 2 years beginning in October, considering how that work best fits sustainably with the larger Islandora Foundation plans.
  • Mirko: working on migration of 200,000 objects including paged objects and multilingual metadata.
  • no news to share from other attendees

Action items

  • add discussion of ICG report to agenda for next meeting
  • circulate draft of response to Islandora Foundation staffing changes among ICC members, send finished document to Leadership Group
  • plan for discussion of Rosie's Islandora work as it relates to Islandora Foundation staffing

Next meeting August 27

  • Chair: Brandon Weigel
  • Notes: Gabriela Mircea

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