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 ====== VuFind Community Call Minutes: September 7, 2021 ======
-Attending: Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Ere Maijala, Mario Trojan
+Attending: Chris Hallberg, Demian Katz, Ere Maijala, Bob Scheier, Mario Trojan
 ===== Agenda =====
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 Work has resumed on [[https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/1799|pull request #1799]]; it seems likely this will be merged in time for the 8.0 release.
+Mario believes it is ready to go; Ere is going to do final testing.
 === Possible Laminas Deprecations ===
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 During this meeting, participants worked on the "We Can If..." activity; see also [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YlAGxtgBhKZiS1zHMw7qmy2gcrtq2VhDo8YJE--2g5Y/edit?usp=sharing|We Can If... Notes Document]].
+=== Highlights: ===
+== Challenge 1. Project leadership should be more distributed (bottleneck/succession issues) ==
+Possible Actions:
+  * Communication plan related to fundraising which highlights the value of community participation/support
+  * Fundraising for increased project independence (realistically: very long term goal)
+== Challenge 2. Documentation can not be all things to all people; how do we balance keeping it evergreen vs. having very clear, specific examples? ==
+Possible Actions:
+  * Investigate whether Dokuwiki contains a plug-in for alerting to old/potentially outdated pages.
+  * Investigate whether Dokuwiki contains a mechanism for page ownership, so people can “own” pages and be responsible for revisions, keeping things up to date, etc.
+    * Even if no automated mechanism exists, some of this could be done manually using pages listing other pages in need of attention and assigned owners.
+  * Form a group to develop a documentation maintenance policy.
+  * Gather analytics on usage of the wiki (add Matomo, etc.)
+== Challenge 3. Video editing tends to get backlogged ==
+Possible Actions:
+  * Set up video editing project in GitHub.
+    * Column for pending work (with link to files)
+    * Column for in process (assign card to person)
+  * Solicit more volunteers if a system is prototyped and works well.
+== Challenge 4. Community call participation could be significantly higher ==
+Possible Actions:
+  * Look at past attendees, reach out to occasional contributors to learn why they do not visit more frequently.
+  * Consider a survey about timing, content, etc.
+  * Marketing: clarify the purpose/content of the call; reassure users there is no obligation to do work
+  * Encourage users to visit the call to discuss support questions, feature suggestions, possible contributions, contribution process/value proposition, etc.
+  * New communication channels for advertising call? Not just listservs?
+== Challenge 5. There are relatively few technical contributors who contribute large amounts of code and who have a comprehensive understanding of the very large code base ==
+Possible Actions:
+  * Reaching out to hosting companies during fundraising phase.
+  * "Good first issue" highlighting for onboarding; in conjunction with Hacktoberfest?
+  * Reach out to existing users to contribute their local features/fixes.
+    * Even consider looking at published forked code bases from other users to propose/request features.
+    * Develop a more comprehensive/official list of VuFind instances.
 ==== 4. Other Topics? ====
+None this month.
 ===== Next Call =====
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