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Accomplishments from this term

• Completed Member Match Program

  • Held three quarterly events:

    • 2 1 Tips and Tricks

    • Collaborated with DevPri where Dan Michaelson the Development Prioritization sub-team on an event where Matthew Neely provided a great presentation which facilitated lots of discussion and engagement with the more technical side of ArchivesSpace

    • Held a session reflecting on this year’s program where participants offered great suggestions for improvement, including:

      • Instituting a slack channel as an informal discussion board

      • Providing matches with discussion topics to inspire their meetings

      • Vary the date and time of events to allow for increased attendance from participants who have not been able to attend due to conflicts

  • Instituted first Friday informal events, a monthly open discussion event where any participants could come to talk with the program team about anything, ASpace related or not

  • Used the listserv for to provide updates about the Member Match program for discussion questionsto participants

  • Solicited feedback from program participants via the half-year survey and end of year feedback form

• Launched next year of Member Match , 2023-2024

  • Improved match making workflow based on feedback

  • Brainstormed ideas to improve the program next year

  Published “Making the Case for ArchivesSpace” document2024-2025

  • Included preferences for 2-person of 3-person matches to better reflect the desires of participants

• Participated in reviewing the ArchivesSpace Code of Conduct

  • Mary and Regina met with Annie Benefiel to discuss how to reevaluate the Code of Conduct

  • Welcomed a community volunteer

  • Hired the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement to lead our discussions on reevaluating and updating the language in the ASpace Code of Conduct

Challenges from this term

• Struggled to keep up with listserv discussion questions, all members forgot at least once

  • Program participants did not engage with the discussions

• Retention challenges as both the lead and vice lead resigned

• Organizational issues, keeping on track with work plan

• Retention challenges as a new member resigned as well as someone resigning just a month before the end of the term

• Getting more Member Match participants to engage with our programming offerings, we had a small number of regular attendees but we struggled to connect with the more laid back participants

Priorities for next term

• Create documentation on the Lead and sub-team responsibilities to keep confusion down and participation up

• Continue Member Match program

  • Plan and implement a calendar of events/activities/discussion questions

  • Document outcomes, including keeping data on participation

  • Assess and make changes as needed

  Expand listserv discussions, increase participant engagement

  • Implement a slack channel for informal discussion

  • Create a series of discussion topics to provide to participants

  • Vary the times and dates of Member Match events to increase attendance

  • Increase participant engagement in our programming opportunities

  • Collaborate with at least one UAC sub-team on a quarterly event

  Explore sub-team’s role in

  • , possibly a new sub-team

• Complete the review of the ASpace Code of Conduct violations

Leadership assignments for next term

• Bailey and Patrick William Clements resigned from the sub-teamMary

• Regina Carra resigned just one month before finishing her term on UAC

• Jaime will serve as lead

• TBD vice-lead