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Roadmap Meeting February 5 2016 2pm AST

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  • Chair: Gabriela
  • Notetaker: Jennifer

Per: Schedule

  • Attending: Melissa, Mark, Caleb, Brian, Eric, Gabriela, Jean, David, Jennifer, William, Noah

  • Apologies: Nick, Donald, Kirsta, Mark Jordan

Agenda

Old Business

  • Previous meeting notes Previous meetings approved

  • New meeting time: Doodle poll results The earlier time on Friday works well for all except for 3 people. Melissa will contact those 3 to see if they can re-arrange their schedule.

New Business

  • New members Welcome to Jean Phillips from Florida State University.

  • New CLAs CLAs. Among the new CLAs are University of New Brunswick, University of Saskatchewan, University of Wyoming, and METRO New York

Interest Group Updates

  • Preservation IG (Donald/Nick) No report at this time.

  • Fedora 4 IG (Nick) There is a tech and interest group calls which are combined. The meetings are now weekly. They are looking for people to develop claw. The interest group might be put on hiatus.

  • Documentation IG (Melissa) No report at this time.

  • Dev Ops (Mark Jordan) No report at this time.

  • Metadata IG (Jennifer) The MIG is looking for a new co-convenor. The Authorities subgroup has become active again and is working on use case scenarios for authorities in Islandora.

  • UI Interest Group (Rosie) No report at this time.

  • IR interest group (Donald) The interest group is still working on its vision. There is talk of 2 subgroups: metrics and migration. Emily and Brian will be sharing their challenges and lessons learned from their migration. The group will be using the issues on GitHub to track and move items to JIRA.

There is the Migration to Islandora Kit

Islandora Camps

  • iCampFL Registration is moving along and all proposals are in.

  • iCampBC2 No real change.

  • iCampMO Dates and the venue location are still being worked out.

  • OR2016 There are a number of proposals on Islandora from the foundation and the community.

  • Islandoracon 2017 People are already asking about the next Islandora conference. We'll need to ensure that it doesn't come too close to Open Repositories 2017 which might be in Canada next summer.

A subgroup will work on planning. Mark, Gabriela and Jennifer have volunteered. If you'd like to volunteer, contact Melissa.

Round Table

Melissa: New memberships are going strong and revenue has increased. Lobstometre

David: Fedora camp at CalTech is 2/3 full and things are looking good. There will also be a workshop at OR in Dublin.

Eric: The beta launch is soon and they are currently loading data.

Noah: Currently, they are working with liberal arts colleges in the area to get into the foundation.

Mark: We're finishing up the project of moving away from Digital Commons. Currently they are working out workflows.

Jean: They have moved from BePress and are rebranding the institutional repository. This year will be spent on development on projects like a textual genetics module or looking at the streaming media module.

Will: The GSearcher module from DGI is ready.

Caleb: They are about 2 months shy away from launching their repository.

Gabriela: Not much except for an Islandora update.

Jennifer: They will share the information on the AWS VM. They are looking into an external ingest service.

Next meeting: Feb 19

  • Chair: Jennifer
  • Notes: Will

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