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Brian Hoffman left ArchivesSpace as of August 18. We’re working on posting the Tech Lead position. We’re very fortunate to have two other full-time developers on the team, but there will understandably be an impact on the development work we were expecting to complete through the end of the year. We’re discussing this as a team and will have more information to share with the community soon.
Our new part-time Program Assistant Bailey-Grace Harrell started on August 21. She’ll be providing support in different areas of the program, focusing on our events and communications to start.
We’ll be putting out a small patch release, v3.4.1, to address a few issues found with 3.4.0 as people started using it in production more. We hope to release it by the end of this week.
📆 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
Cancel December or January meeting?
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).
Atlassian accounts for Confluence and JIRA, and Google Drive permissions should be up-to-date; if you or a member of your team do not have access to something you should, let me know!
Expectations for sub-teams:
Hold first meeting, if you have not already
Craft workplan for the term, to be presented at the TAC/UAC meeting in September
Identify sub-team Vice Leads
Expectations for all:
⏰ Attendance and Engagement:
Attendance and/or contributions to Council meetings. Participation in discussions.
Attendance and/or contributions to sub-team meetings. Communication with your sub-team lead(s) if you cannot attend or complete tasks.