2018-12-13 Meeting notes

2min

Roll call and notetaker

@Jared Campbell

5min

Recent contributions (since November 16, 2018)

Listserv:

• @Patrick Galligan

Code:

• @Trevor Thornton

• @Bria Lynn Parker (Unlicensed)

• @Wiedeman, Gregory

• @Maggie Hughes

Bugs/new features:

• @Maggie Hughes

5min

Program update

@Christine Di Bella

• Still looking at a small release before the end of the year

• Community Engagement Coordinator search is underway and expect a new hire will be made in the early months of the new year; contact Christine D. with any engagement needs before the new person is in place

• ArchivesSpace has an agreement with LYR Digital Technology Services to provide technical support for members; as part of that, Blake Carver of LYR DTS is working on some short videos on technical/sys admin topics. See list at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y5PPWFA97g9Pu6X_2eW3UWAM7VQa-KLSEmiDeuFAnoE/edit?usp=sharing - feel free to suggest additional topics. Each video will be uploaded to our public YouTube channel when complete.

2min

TAC/UAC updates

@Max Eckard and @Maggie Hughes

• Discussed having a joint meeting with UAC.

• No TAC meeting in January

• Both committees will be poled and a joint meeting scheduled for sometime in January.

2min

Bimonthly meetings

• TAC will move to bimonthly meetings.

20min

Discussion: “an active community of developers”

• How can we increase the number of active developers?

• How can “non-coders” get involved?

• Do we need to expand the definition of developer? Possible webinar topic?

• Another possible webinar topic: Basics Architecture of the System (Hands-on Beginners Session)

• How do identify barriers to building local plugin?

• What is the process for suggesting changes to core code. How to get community together to discuss these changes?

• Do we need more documentation on how to run an ASpace development environment.

20min

Sub-team updates

@Patrick Galligan (Integrations)

@Julia McGinnis (Unlicensed) or @Bria Lynn Parker (Unlicensed) (Migration)

@Alicia Detelich (Technical Documentation)

Development Prioritization

Testing

• Integrations Sub-team:

  • We are currently performing a widespread review of our existing documentation. This includes rethinking the names for Integration Tiers, Revising out How and Why to Integrate documents, and taking a look at the information on the ArchivesSpace website.

  • We’ve also identified the AS/Alma Integration as a large project in the future, and will be providing comments on the document sent out by Adrien Hilton on Monday, 12/10.

Migration Sub-team: we’re currently working on reviewing and updating the data import/export maps, and will be meeting in January to share our progress.

5min

Working group updates

@Megan Firestone (Unlicensed) , also @Max Eckard , @Maggie Hughes

5min

Open mic!

2min

Next time

Notetaker: @Former user (Deleted)

Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 2pm EST