Transcript
Slide 1
Hello, and thank you for participating in the It Takes a Village in Practice practitioner workshop. My name is Megan Forbes, and along with my colleague Laurie Arp, I serve as Co-Director of the It Takes a Village project.
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The core goal of this grant project is to create and pilot an adaptable set of tools for cultural- and scientific-heritage-focused open source software teams to use when planning for their long-term sustainability.
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One of the most significant themes of It Takes a Village is that sustainability is not a linear process, with set beginning and end points. Program sustainability shifts and evolves over time across a number of facets and phases. The facets describe the different components of sustainability, each of which is critical to overall program health, but may have different timelines, goals, and resource needs. The facets deemed most critical by the Guidebook’s authors and contributors are Governance, Technology, Resources, and Community Engagement.
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The phases speak to where a program is in its life cycle: getting started, growing, or stable but not static.
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Here in our sustainability wheel, we show that the facets move in cyclical phases, together and separately.
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In advance of the workshop, three participants will be assigned to each phase within the technology facet of It Takes a Village.
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We ask each of you to review two draft activities or tools that programs trying to move through that phase might find useful, create a two-minute presentation about each activity to share with your group, and then discuss how you’d use, adapt or edit them. You will be assigned these activities in advance so you have time to review ahead of the workshop.
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In addition to the activity you review in advance, during the workshop, we will use the online tool GroupMap to discuss other tools and activities you've used or found useful in your own programs, and brainstorm about tools or resources you wish had been available. Over the course of two half-day workshops, we will repeat the same set of activities, brainstorming and discussing tools, for each moving forward objective within your phase.
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After each workshop, the ITAV program team will take all of the great ideas and feedback you generate, edit and adapt existing tools or create new ones and then share them out with our beta testers. After beta feedback we’ll iterate again, then test again with a different group. After a final edit, we’ll release the tools for all four facets in summer 2022. Right now, we’re in the Workshop stage for the Technology and Community Engagement facets, and the Edit/Refine/Create stage for Governance.
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If you have any questions before the workshop, we’ll have two informal opportunities to ask questions and meet others attending the workshops, the dates and times are on the slide, and you can email me or Laurie for the Zoom link. We look forward to working with you in February.