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Table of Contents
PMC Meeting: April 16, 2024
Attending: Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, André Lahmann, Ere Maijala, Peter Murray, Mohan Raj Pradhan
Apologies: Oliver Goldschmidt, Craig Murdoch
1. Review of Action Items from Previous Meeting
- Demian/Mohan: make further progress on documentation updates. ONGOING
- Mohan: Share example eBook with PMC when ready (for discussion of “supports the project” logo/wording). ONGOING
- Chris: Review accessibility of current vufind.org theme. ONGOING
- André / Craig: Begin drafting article about PMC development and sustainability. ONGOING
- Leila / André: Continue investigating possible applications of AI tools to support the community. ONGOING
- André / Demian: begin planning Call for Papers for Summit. ONGOING
- Demian: Monitor growth of spam account sign-ups in wiki. ONGOING
- Demian: draft documentation management plan. DONE
- Demian: submit some proposals for WOLFcon. DONE
2. Goal Review
This year's goals:
- Release versions 10.0 and 10.1
- Hold a VuFind® Summit in Fall, 2024 linked with WOLFcon in some way
- Develop a documentation maintenance plan
- Investigate possible uses of AI for documentation, support, code reviews, etc.
- Perform literature review in Code4lib Journal/other sources regarding PMC/sustainability; draft and contribute an article if there is a sufficient need/gap.
- Marketing improvements (review vufind.org accessibility, improve content as needed)
3. Documentation
Maintenance Plan
Demian has drafted a Documentation Maintenance page.
We should decide where to link it in the overall wiki organization once it is finalized.
Page Updates
Demian has finished updating Koha documentation based on Mohan's latest input. More updates may still be forthcoming.
Demian and Mohan should update the DOAJ page and create a NepJol page based on recent experiments.
Work is still pending on the PubMed Central “open data sources” page. Mohan also plans to contribute documentation related to integrating SubjectsPlus (which recently had example XSLT import configs added to the project) and Moodle (which is still being researched).
Artificial Intelligence
PMC Article
4. Fundraising
Last time, Chris mentioned the github-stats project, which might be useful to communicate value/effort using GitHub data. Should we do anything with this?
5. WOLFcon 2024
The “save the date” has been sent out for the German Summit, and quite a few good VuFind®-related proposals have been submitted to WOLFcon. Demian proposed the usual “state of the project” talk (which he plans to give at both events) as well as a FOLIO ILS driver session specifically for WOLFcon.
6. Wiki Account Management
The wiki user file has grown from 2.1MB to 2.3MB since last month. That's not a huge amount of disk space, but it does demonstrate that there are a lot of spam accounts being created.
7. Possible Future Actions
Some other possible items for the future:
- “Good first issue” highlighting
- Investigate getting a VPAT
- Outreach to forks for new feature contributions