2017-1-17 User Advisory Council Meeting

10:00 a.m. Mountain time

Staff

• Tech Lead – Laney McGlohon starts Monday. She will be managing technical elements – code review, code committers, encouraging more contributions, managing relationship with HM
• Program manager – Christine Di Bella is program manager effective now! 
• New staff - reset with groups; need to review staff and determine which staffer would be the best person to attend each work with each group

Roadmap

• The roadmap is a planning and communication tool to help the community know what to expect in terms of future development work and aid in planning for upcoming releases and application upgrades.   A small team created the initial doc, shared with UAC/TAC; positive comments received about transparency and planning thus far.

Development

• Small release in Feb – bug fixes, pull requests, etc. 
• Major release in March

Elections process – Nomination Committee Chair will be decided soon and then nominations process will begin

Governance Board - meeting in March

Membership  - We currently have 315 members. The most recent (i.e. since the last UAC meeting at the end of November) are:

• Concordia Historical Institute (St. Louis)
• Hong Kong Baptist University
• Kennesaw State University (Georgia)
• North Carolina State University
• Rhode Island State Police Museum Foundation
• University of Texas at Austin

There will be a small release in February. Testers are reviewing 3 bug fixes and 4 pull requests with a deadline of Jan. 25 to be included in February release.