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community:pmc_meetings:minutes20220214

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PMC Meeting: February 14, 2022

:!: This document is currently a draft and will be finalized as minutes following the meeting.

Attending: Oliver Goldschmidt, Leila Gonzales, Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Ere Maijala, Craig Murdoch, Mohan Pradhan, Hajo Seng

Apologies: André Lahmann, Leander Seige

1. Review of Action Items from Previous Meeting

  • André/Demian/Ere/Mohan: Continue discussion of documentation management, etc. ONGOING
  • Demian: Continue moving OLF membership process forward. ONGOING
  • Hajo: Share WOLFcon details with the group as they emerge. ONGOING
  • Demian/Leila: Post discovery survey results on website. DONE
  • Demian: Open PR to link from installation screens to installation report form. DONE
  • Demian: Schedule reminder to send updated web analytics at end of quarter. DONE
  • Demian: Do some basic analysis of web analytics results. DONE
  • Demian: Turn on branch protection for dev branch in GitHub. DONE
  • Demian: Send email to committers about possibility of using April Community Call for sprint planning. DONE
  • Demian: Schedule “It Takes a Village” activity meeting for PMC on 1/26. DONE
  • Craig: Share draft Registered Service Provider Agreement (discussed during ITAV meeting). DONE

2. User Needs Assessment Survey

Leila posted results on the wiki.

This seems to support the value of ongoing investigations related to authority data. Possible action: discuss on Community Call (May?). Ere highlighted the complexity of dealing with authority data from multiple sources.

3. WOLFcon 2022

Hajo attended the first program planning meeting for WOLFcon. Time slots are fixed in place and room size/availability is known. The FOLIO community is developing a lot of content. We should determine as soon as possible what VuFind content we want to present.

Format expected to be hybrid but with strong in-person component.

Hajo will share details of schedule so we can plan further.

There is an opportunity for some hands-on workshops to show ease of installation/use of VuFind.

Hajo has been discussing the possibility of a VuFind-specific social event as well.

4. Improve VuFind Installation List

As promised, Demian opened pull request #2268 to link from the VuFind installation page to the instance report form. This was discussed and merged.

Other remaining actions:

  • Decide which email address(es) the form should notify (Demian and Chris for now; PMC forwarding address a possibility for the future)
  • Link to the form from the installation list itself. Demian will add this.

5. vufind.org Web Analytics

As discussed last month, Demian did some very minimal analysis of the top 40 web pages on vufind.org, finding that all of the frequently-accessed pages also seem to be reasonably up to date. The page that probably is most in need of attention is open data sources, which contains a lot of information that hasn't been checked in close to a decade (though it also includes some current and useful things). Perhaps we should consider breaking this into smaller pieces and/or reviewing all of it.

6. GitHub Branch Protection

Demian turned on branch protection for dev, dev-* and release-* branches.

7. Documentation

8. OLF Update

Progress continues on the VuFind/OLF process; Villanova has been funded the initial membership setup, and the necessary legal process is now underway to form the SMLLC.

Additionally, VuFind has been assigned three votes for the current open seat on the OLF roundtable. We should determine a process for allocating these.

9. Release Planning

Demian is planning to focus on sprint planning at the April Community Call, to tackle theme and/or Doctrine-related work.

Demian also raised the possibility of 8.1 and 9.0 releases coming closer together than in the past – the work on both releases is tied together by the new theme, and they may end up being ready at closer to the same time than we have seen in the past.

10. It Takes a Village: Resources Module

Following last month's PMC activity, Craig drafted a Registered Service Provider Agreement for further discussion.

The “new forms of community engagement” activity at the February Community Call also generated some ideas; Demian will follow up at the March Community Call.

11. Possible Future Actions

Some other possible items for the future:

  • Develop a fundraising communication plan - after February resource planning
  • Discuss a strategy for approaching VuFind services vendors (both for funding support and trademark compliance)
  • Develop a documentation maintenance plan
  • Investigate Dokuwiki enhancements (“old page” alerts, “page ownership” mechanism)
  • Community Call restructuring / marketing
  • “Good first issue” highlighting
  • Outreach to forks for new feature contributions
  • Marketing project (better VuFind definition, website improvements, etc.)
  • Publication / presentation efforts related to PMC and sustainability

Other Items

Action Items

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