Nominations Requested for ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council

The ArchivesSpace Board of Trustees is seeking nominations from its members for the ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council (TAC). Nominations may be made only by ArchivesSpace member representatives. Member representatives are encouraged to nominate persons from their institution or from other member institutions (please see the lists at http://archivesspace.org/members) who are experienced with some of the activities assigned to TAC and who are capable of participating on a regular basis throughout the term of service of July 1, 2015-June 30, 2017.

TAC (http://www.archivesspace.org/technicaladvisory) is a critical part of the ArchivesSpace community, having responsibility for providing overall technical guidance to code committers, the User Advisory Council, and the ArchivesSpace Board of Trustees. Some of the activities currently underway for TAC are:

· developing a community of committers, including establishing guidelines for contributing code and reviewing contributions,

· reviewing enhancements and priorities identified by the User Advisory Council and estimating the work needed,

· documenting and assisting with resolving bugs identified in the application,

· identifying integration points for ArchivesSpace with other systems (e.g. digital asset management systems, patron and request management systems, etc.) and developing technical requirements to undertake that integration,

· updating technical documentation and

· undertaking release management for new versions of the software

Sub-groups will be established within TAC to address the areas identified above, as well other activity areas identified subsequently. Nominees must have sufficient knowledge of application architectures and coding practices for participating in and leading some of the identified activities. Nominees with experience in developing web applications (particularly using Ruby on Rails and Sinatra) and software testing, or interest in those areas, are especially welcome.

The anticipated time commitment for each appointee is expected to be two hours per week on average.

The term of service for these appointments will be July 1, 2015-June 30, 2017. We expect making up to eight appointments, and each appointee will be eligible to have her / his appointment renewed for an additional two-year term, i.e., July 1, 2017-June 30, 2019.

To nominate a candidate for the ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council, please identify the person and her/his organization in the form below, indicate the areas of activity to which the nominee is prepared to contribute, and return the completed form to Brad Westbrook who will collect nominations on behalf of the ArchivesSpace Nominations Committee (brad.westbrook@lyrasis.org) by the end of Friday, May 22, 2015. Self-nominations are acceptable.

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Nominee’s Name: ______________________________________________

Nominee’s Organization: ______________________________________________

Indicate all areas to which the nominee might contribute:

___Technical documentation

___Program architecture and interoperability with other software

___Migration issues, including import/exports and API design and implementation

___Managing/endorsing/eliciting code contributions

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