2024-08-09 UAC Meeting agenda and notes

Aug 9, 2024 12pm ET/ 11am CT/ 10am MT/ 9am PT

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Participants

@Dalton Alves

@Rebecca Baugnon (Chair)

@Susannah Broyles

@Mattie Clear (regrets)

@Christine Di Bella (Ex-Officio, Program Manager)

@Elizabeth Delmage

@Kelly.Francis

@Matthew Gorham (regrets)

@Amanda Greenwood

@Regine Heberlein (Ex-Officio, TAC Vice-Chair)

@David Krah

@Kelly Kress

@Noah Lasley

@Ryan Lee (regrets)

@Heather Lember

@Christine Liebson

@Jaime Margalotti

@Austin Munsell (Ex-Officio, TAC Chair)

@Michelle Paquette

@Mary Pedraza

@Kolbe Resnick

@Keli Schmid

@Matt Strauss

@Chris Tanguay

@Ashley Williams Clawson

Goals

  • Welcome new members

  • Overview of the year ahead and UAC business updates

  • Overview of workplans

Notetaker

  • @Rebecca Baugnon

Time

Item

Presenter/Facilitator

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter/Facilitator

Notes

10 mins

Introductions

@Rebecca Baugnon

Brief introductions for each member

Name, where you work, how long have you been on Council, sub-team(s)

Icebreaker: What was the first concert that you attended?

2 mins

Roster Updates

@Rebecca Baugnon

A warm welcome to our newest members:

  • Dalton Alves

  • Elizabeth Delmage

  • Amanda Greenwood

  • David Krah

  • Kelly Kress

  • Noah Lasley

  • Heather Lember

  • Christine Liebson

  • Kolbe Resnick

A recording of new member orientation is available here. Passcode is 2Wa+qJ!J

3 min

About This Meeting

@Rebecca Baugnon

  • UAC meets monthly except in December, when there will be no meeting.

  • UAC and TAC hold two joint meetings - one in September and one in the Spring.

  • Meetings typically consist of:

    • Overall UAC report

    • Report from the ArchivesSpace Program Manager

    • Reports from sub-teams on recent work

    • Block of time for discussion, usually led by one sub-team each month.

  • Notetaking assignments this term will be extended alphabetically to non-sub-team lead members.

5 mins

Program Update

@Christine Di Bella

 

5 mins

The Year Ahead

@Rebecca Baugnon

Yearly Timeline of Council Activities : this page in the Council Handbook gives a month-by-month breakdown of Council activities, as well as who is responsible for those activities.

  • Terms begin in July and end in June. In June and July there is typically little Council work outside of the Chair’s responsibilities.

  • Joint TAC/UAC meetings are held twice a year, once early in the term (usually September) and again towards the end of the term.

  • Workplans are due and presented at the first joint meeting in September.

  • Quarterly reports to the Governance Board in August, October, January, and May

  • December meeting cancelled

  • Online member forum in the spring – Council participation is strongly encouraged.

  • Most Council work wraps up in June. Sub-teams complete a retrospective and work to make term-to-term transition as easy as possible.

  • Sub-teams usually meet monthly, although this can vary based on the work and needs of the sub-team (e.g., Testing).

10 min

UAC Business

@Rebecca Baugnon

10 mins

Sub-team Reports

 

Sub-team Leads:

  • Provide a general overview of sub-team responsibilities

  • Provide a summary of current projects

  • In the sections below - provide updates (if any) from work completed in July and August.

 

Development Prioritization

@Matt Strauss

  • Primary goal is reviewing and prioritizing feature request and bug reports

  • Special projects include seeking community input of certain tickets, standardizing JIRA ticket editing, and supporting ticket submission efforts

  • Reviewed 7 tickets at August meeting

 

Member Engagement

@Jaime Margalotti

  • General responsibilities:

    • Provide outreach and community support for the ArchivesSpace member community, primarily done through the Member Match program

    • Collaborating with the Community Engagement Coordinator to grow current engagement initiatives

  • Current projects:

    • Kicking off Member Match programming: Quarterly Mixers, Monthly informal events, informal discussion spaces

    • Continuing work with the Code of Conduct review task force

  • 1st meeting was Thursday, 8/9/24

 

Testing

@Michelle Paquette

  • General responsibilities:

    • Testing Jira tickets as developers complete work

    • Full regression testing for ArchivesSpace major new versions

  • This year:

    • Review regression testing spreadsheet and attempt to “gherkin-ize” it

  • Done so far: Initial meeting and Jira testing assignments for 13 tickets

 

Usability

@Susannah Broyles

  • General responsibilities: respond to Jira tickets that streamline navigation, clarify the visual layout, identify accessibility improvements, and enhance the ease of use of for both the staff interact and the PUI. 

  • Current projects: Review of PUI display of Agents module, ongoing multilingual description work.

  • Usability has not met yet this term.

 

Users Documentation

@Kelly.Francis

  • General responsibilities are to create, update, and maintain documentation for the ArchivesSpace Help Center

  • Current projects: review documentation for bulk import digital object spreadsheet; identify and consolidate duplicate pages in the User Manual; continue review of User Manual pages

  • User Docs has not met yet this term

10 mins

Sub-team Workplans

@Rebecca Baugnon

What goes in a workplan:

Workplans

  • Identify overall goals for the term

  • Identify specific tasks or projects to accomplish

  • Optional: identify opportunities for new or continued collaboration with other sub-teams (both within UAC and across to TAC)

  • Optional: identify themes for how you intend to approach your work

  • Optional: identify projects or areas that are out-of-scope for the term

Methods:

  • Review your sub-team’s workplan and retrospective from the previous year

  • Be realistic! Small, achievable goals are important!

  • Think long-term about maintenance

  • Feel empowered to be creative

Other notes about workplans:

  • Sub-team Leads will be asked to present a summary of their workplans at the September TAC/UAC meeting

  • TAC and UAC Chairs and Co-Chairs will meet after the September meetings to review all workplans to identify areas for support or further collaboration

2 mins

Questions

@Rebecca Baugnon

 

3 mins

Next Steps

@Rebecca Baugnon

  • Joint TAC/UAC Meeting in September (instead of normal UAC meeting). Please fill out Doodle poll.

    • Sub-team workplans are due at the September meeting

  • Fill out the poll for the October and rest of term meetings