2019-06-07 Meeting notes

40 min

Cross-Council logistics

Some items to cover:

• Cross-Council whole group meetings

• Are there any sub-teams to consider phasing out or re-envisioning - as themselves or as particularly cross-Council?

• New and current members - any coordination in onboarding and sub-team assignments?

• Any coordination in other kinds of messaging?

• Anything else?

All

• Sub-teams will remain where they are organizationally, but all will be open to members of either Council.

• Hold two full Council meetings - one at the beginning of the year and one in January. Aiming for the first one to be in mid- to late July if it is feasible, with August as a backup.

• Introduce the sub-teams at the first meeting, provide a Google form/SurveyMonkey survey for people to make their preferred selections.

• Put together documentation with tips for successful sub-team and Council leadership and participation. This would go on the wiki in the TAC/UAC Coordinating area.

• For TAC: worth considering sunsetting Migrations, bringing up a team related to metadata standards. Integrations might be something to evolve down the line.

• For UAC: worth considering sunsetting Reports, bringing up a team related to Community Engagement and/or Usability or Accessibility. Some members of the Reports team may be particularly interested in a metadata standards team.

• Reports needs a defined task to wrap up its work; could convert this area of focus to a task force/working group involving broader community participation.

• Any new groups would need defined charges and selection of leaders that are likely to succeed in the role.

• Some broader discussion:

  • What are the essential elements that are intrinsic to TAC and UAC? Does there need to be some retention of separate identities?

  • Concern that TAC shouldn’t drift too far from one of its stated purposes: encouraging an active community of developers. As teams shake out, is there a way to have Integrations, for example, get more involved in this area? Could TAC propose a Coding for Dummies-type workshop on contributing code to fix little annoying things in the application?

  • To what degree can/should Council work evolve into task force-type limited-term work?

10 min

Additional topics

• How to deal with absentee/AWOL Council members
  
  

All

• Ran out of time; will discuss another time.