New England Museums Association (Nov. 11, Mystic, CT)
Membership Update
301 members, 10 Educational members, 3 RSPs
New members
Earlham College
Greenwich Historical Society
Heritage Park Museum
Mars Hill University
Palos Verdes Library District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Sacramento Public Library
Saint Mary's College of California
SUNY Downstate
SUNY Maritime College
The SJA, LLC
The University of Texas at Dallas
University of Connecticut
Wayne State University Libraries
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
TAC:
Next general TAC meeting is Monday, Sept 19th
Sub-team updates:
Special group composed of two members of committer's oversight and two members of integration subteams are fleshing out proposal to re-organize ASpace Github, clarify who can contribute to which Github spaces, and define guidelines for contributions.
Integrations subteam also continues to update the Integrations & Community Projects page on the wiki and two members have contributed to the rights management spec recently developed. Adding guidance for new integration projects to wiki. Have two new members
Migrations subteam starting work on EAD3 implementation plan. Also continuing to provide support to users on list via referrals from program staff.
Technical documentation - compiling answer to identified FAQs
Dev Prioritization - Survey is out, had discussion about role while there is no development happening. Group was of the opinion there was still work that could be done - ideas discussed included more firmly communicating about / establishing a process for seeking ongoing community feedback so users will know when the community will they will be consulted; improving and/or clarifying the process of feature and bug request submission (e.g. only via JIRA?); backlog grooming and identifying where further specs are needed.