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Presenter

Notes

10 min

Roll call

Maggie Hughes

  • Roll call question: What is your Halloween costume OR what is your favorite Halloween candy?

  • Notetaker: Trevor Thornton

2 min

TAC membership changes

Maggie Hughes

Julia McGuiness stepped down and Megan Firestone taking a break this fall.

Julia is from a medium-sized institution, Megan from a small one. We want more representation from those so hopefully it works out.

2 min

Recent contributions

Maggie Hughes

Shoutouts for contributions since Sept!

Listserv:

  • Alicia Detelich

  • Dave Mayo

  • Trevor Thornton

Code: n/a

Bugs/new issues:

  • Maggie Hughes

  • Kevin Schlottmann

5 min

Program update

Christine Di Bella

2.7.0 released last week!

  • gem updates

  • language updates (kudos from Kevin!, Lora did the work - thanks!)

  • ARK support

Webinars! They’re happening.

Southeast regional forum in Columbia SC next month

Trying to get regional forum together in conjunction with Western Archivists Conference in SF

2 min

TAC Vice Chair

Maggie Hughes , Trevor Thornton

Trevor Thornton! He has nothing to say but is ready to get to work!

Will be soliciting volunteers for 2020-2021 Vice Chair in the spring.

20 min

Sub-team updates on planning for the year

Integrations: Dallas Pillen

Metadata Standards: James Griffin (Unlicensed) and Kevin Schlottmann

Tec Docs: Alicia Detelich

Dev Pri representative: Maggie Hughes

Testing representative: Wiedeman, Gregory

Subteam leaders share out action plans.

Integrations (Dallas):

  • work plan: 2019-2020 Integrations sub-team Work Plan

  • continuing to improve external-facing documentation (esp. updating known integrations)

  • improving internal documentation and project management

  • reviewing integrations survey results and determining next steps

Maggie: internal documentation is a focus for TAC generally and other councils too

Metadata Standards (Kevin):

Technical Documentation:

  • Work plan: Technical Documentation 2019-2020 Work Plan

  • How to solicit input from users/assess needs?

  • Fill in documentation gaps in key areas

  • Document info covered in old developers screencasts

  • Coordinating work with API docs working group

  • Thinking about linking tech docs to user docs where appropriate

Valerie: Have we ever evaluated listserv questions to assess needs for better tech docs?

Christine: We tried but it didn’t get too far

Maggie: We should

Kevin: Can we spin-out tickets based on listserv questions?

Sarit: Can listserv posts be integrated into Confluence to make them easier to review?

Christine: listserv platform is not ideal. Increased interest in moving to something else.

Development Prioritization (cross-council) (Maggie)

  • Work plan: 2019-2020 Work Plan

  • Continue to use "Ready for Community Developer" queue

  • Evaluating survey results

  • Establishing themes/goals for selecting tickets

Testing (cross-council) (Greg)

  • tested 2.7.0

  • No work plan, but ready to test stuff!

5 min

Ad hoc working group updates

API: Dave Mayo (Unlicensed)

API Documentation (Dave):

  • had 1st meeting

  • internal training on how to update API docs coming soon

  • figuring out how to delegate work

Maggie: how long will it take?

Dave: don’t know yet - depends on who’s doing the work and how much time they have to do it

15 min

Discussion topic: Integrations sub-team

Integrations sub-team

5 min

Open mic

All

1 min

Next time

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 12pm PT/3pm ET

Notetaker: Dallas Pillen

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