Attending: Oliver Goldschmidt, Leila Gonzales, Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, André Lahmann, Ere Maijala, David Maus, Mohan Pradhan
Apologies: Anne Christensen, Craig Murdoch, Leander Seige
Leila posted a draft documentation survey. No one object to the draft, so Demian will distribute the link on January 9. We'll leave it open for a month, closing the week of February 6 for discussion at the February PMC meeting.
Mohan has shared some updated Koha installation documentation with Demian; Demian will work with other Villanova staff to get this formatted for the wiki and posted early in the new year. (At the moment, other projects are taking up most of his team's time, but they should be completed early in 2023).
Work is still pending on MeSH, DoAJ, PubMed Central and NepJol “open data sources” pages.
Demian has posted the Conflict of Interest Policy on the website, and has opened pull request #2653 to link to it from the governance document.
Several PMC members still need to submit signed COI policies; in some cases, there is still institutional discussion underway.
Work was completed on pull request #2598. André did a test export from the platform and found that it formats quotes differently than VuFind expects; he has submitted a feature request to sort this out, but in the meantime, the standard language file normalization tooling can likely address any problems. More testing should be done.
Chris gave the support web page a redesign to better accommodate more RSP logos “above the fold.”
Oliver's research suggests that CINECA no longer supports VuFind, so Demian has removed it from the list.
Equinox Open Library Initiative has become the third RSP (and the first in the United States) this month. Demian has retweeted the announcement via @vufindorg and will update the website later today.
Several other RSP payments are still pending; Demian will follow up when time permits.
Next planned “membership drive” – in tandem with next Summit, which in turn will likely be timed around the next WOLFcon.
Use of funds:
André will investigate a security firm he has worked with in the past to get an idea of the cost of a security audit. If we can get an estimate, that could be used as a target in a fundraiser, and helps with feasibility determination.
Some other possible items for the future:
Demian was reminded while reviewing the governance document that everybody's first terms on the PMC will be expiring in April, 2023. If anyone does not plan to renew for another two years, they should let everyone know so we can begin to plan to fill open positions.