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October Open Meeting

Code of Conduct

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October Open Meeting

10/29/2024

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Agenda (wiki)

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Shared notes

Code of Conduct: https://www.islandora.ca/code-of-conduct

Contact Us: https://www.islandora.ca/contact-us

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Icebreaker!

“Pumpkin Spice” as a fall food group/flavour: YES or NO

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Respond in the poll!

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menti.com

Code 8352 1826

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New to Islandora or Open Meetings?

  • Welcome!

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  • Say hello and introduce yourself if you wish (unmute or in Zoom chat)

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  • What to expect:
    • Currently the ICC coordinates this meeting
    • Different topic each month
    • Always some community and Foundation announcements
    • Always time for Open Q&A: bring any question (technical or non-technical) about Islandora
    • Suggestions welcome for future meetings: see the link to the agenda in the community wiki or email the ICC

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Updates:

IslandoraCon 2025

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IslandoraCon planning underway!

IslandoraCon 2025 will be held at UNLV, Las Vegas NV, July 14-17, 2025.

Planning Committee:

Cary Gordon and Cory Lampert (co-chairs)

Natalie Baur, Amy Blau, Lina Crowe, Sarah Jones, Tammi Kim, Emily Higgs Kopin, Manish Kumar

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Updates:ICC

  • November Open Meeting is 11/19 at 12:00pm ET
    • Topic TBD
  • No December Open Meeting: we’ll resume in January 2025

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Updates: Islandora Board

Our Roles & Contact Info

  • Noah Smith (Born Digital) - Chair, noah@born-digital.com

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  • Nicole H. Scalessa (Vassar College) - Vice Chair and Secretary, nscalessa@vassar.edu

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  • John Eden (Discovery Garden) - Treasurer, john@discoverygarden.ca

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Updates: Islandora Board

What the IF will focus on Moving Forward

  • Establishing relationships with peer Open Source projects, such as the Drupal Community.
  • Providing an easily adoptable instance of Islandora with auxiliary services off by default
  • Supporting and maintaining the core feature set and adoption path
  • Making key architectural decisions that shape the common core of Islandora
  • Coordinating community efforts around documentation and collaboration
  • Providing the guidance and governance required to ensure aligned efforts
  • Facilitating “user groups” within the Islandora Community
  • Finding a sustainable way to bring awareness to other instances and deployments in the ecosystem so that the community can understand the complexity of the IFr, and the various “flavors” and extensions that arise as a result of a robust open source ecosystem.
  • Defining the roles that the various actors in the ecosystem perform (e.g. the IF, Vendors, developers, adopters, etc.) to ensure clarity.

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Updates: Islandora Board

What the IF will NOT do

  • Remove the existing suite of auxiliary services that current adopters (and vendors and larger development teams) rely on.
  • Write code.
  • Provide technical support.
  • Directly support i7 migration efforts.

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Updates: Islandora Board

Next Steps

  • Collapse the Islandora Coordinating Committee and Leadership Group into a reconstituted Leadership Group, for an initial meeting by mid/late November

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  • Post and hire a Community Manager, reporting to the Board. It is our goal to have the new Leadership Group in place and able to provide meaningful feedback in the final stages of the hiring process.

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  • Finalize and formally adopt the Strategic Plan, moving forward with implementation via the new Leadership Group and Community Manager

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Bots!

  • Noah Smith, Joe Corall, Luke Taylor
  • Slides

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Open Q&A