Date
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Participants
UAC roster
Kate Blalack
Lori Dedeyan
Adrienne Harling
Ashley Knox (UAC Chair)
Lydia Tang (Unlicensed) (UAC Vice Chair)
Althea Topek
Angela White
TAC roster
Maggie Hughes (TAC Chair)
Randy Kuehn
ASpace program
Christine Di Bella (Program Manager)
Laney McGlohon (Unlicensed) (Technical Lead)
Peter Carini (Unlicensed) (TAC Governance Board Liaison)
Gordon Daines (UAC Governance Board Liaison)
Notetaker: Lydia Tang (Unlicensed)
(Please feel free to edit the notes/attendance list if I missed anything!)
Goals
Kick-off the new term; welcome and orient new members; prepare for sub-team/working group assignments.
Discussion topics
Time | Item | Presenter | Notes |
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10 min | Roll call and Introductions | All | When your name is called, please briefly introduce yourself! Name, title and institution, UAC or TAC, Tell us about one highlight of your summer |
3 min | Introduction to Users Advisory Council | ||
3 min | Introduction to Technical Advisory Council | Overivew of what we do and how we operate - refer to bylaws info on TAC.
Retrospective last two years (2018, 2019). Can see what we thought we did well, what we could have improved on, what we had momentum with. | |
5 min | Please review TAC Responsibilities and Expectations (same for UAC). This was a new document for TAC last year and is new for UAC this year, please let us know if you have any feedback. Anything that should be added, clarified, or changed - we want to hear about it! | ||
3 min | Program Update | ||
Sub-teams | Subteam reps: please briefly describe the scope and work of your subteam for prospective new members and summarize any highlights from the last joint meeting (end of January) | ||
3 min | Development Prioritization | Description: Cross-council subteam working on Jira tickets to route them to developers, put them in “Awaiting for More Info,” or to decline. Highlight(s): Developed a membership survey to help assess future directions of focused program growth, to be shared soon. Also in collaboration with the program team, we developed and have started routing tickets into a Ready for Community Developer queue. | |
3 min | Testing | Description: The Testing subteam is a cross council sub-team. The sub-team tests features and bug fixes during the first three weeks of a sprint. The Testing sub-team was created in January 2016 following a decision to split the former Features Prioritization and Testing team into two separate groups.It includes members of the ArchivesSpace User Advisory and Technical Advisory Councils. Major activities of the sub-team are test new features and bug fixes in upcoming releases and regression testing to make sure that things that were previously working still are with changes in the application. Highlight(s): | |
TAC sub-teams | |||
3 min | Integrations | Description: Highlight(s): | |
3 min | Metadata Standards | Description: The Metadata Standards subteam supports the ArchivesSpace community by taking a transparent and proactive approach to documenting the metadata standards used by the ArchivesSpace application and monitoring the standards landscape. Highlight(s): | |
3 min | Technical Documentation | Description: Highlight(s): | |
3 min | Working groups | TAC has tried out working groups for the past two years as a way to accomplish time-limited or smaller projects. Can involve people from different teams or participants from outside of TAC. Prior examples:
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UAC subteams | |||
3 min | User Documentation | Description: Highlight(s): | |
3 min | Reports (limited-term Working Group) | Description: Highlight(s): | |
3 min | Usability | Description: To develop functional and practical recommendations to the program that streamline navigation, clarify the visual layout, identify accessibility improvements, and enhance the ease of use of the existing program for both the staff and public interface of the ArchivesSpace software application. Highlight(s): Brand new subteam seeking members and leadership. We welcome your ideas and enthusiasm! | |
3 min | Review next steps | How do we volunteer for teams and groups?
Next meetings: Both Councils will be sending out Doodle polls to schedule monthly or bi-monthly meeting times. The next time UAC and TAC meet separately, we’ll have come up with plan for teams. Then work moves to sub-teams and sub-team leadership. | |
5 min | Open mic | Any questions? |
Action items
- Maggie Hughes, Ashley Knox, Lydia Tang (Unlicensed) send out form gauging interest for sub-teams, leadership, and working group ideas.
- Everyone: fill out survey form.