Implementation and Development Call 20140605

Announcements

• Ontology Working Group: next call is Thursday, June 12 at noon EDT

• Today’s call included a demo from LASP, and hope to be involved in a subgroup for data sets

• Agenda to be determined -- look for an announcement or review the last call notes at http://goo.gl/AHPqoe

• Apps & Tools Working Group: next call is Tuesday, June 10 at 1pm EDT

• Agenda to be determined

• VIVO Conference: August 6-8 Austin, TX

• Registration is open – early bird rate through June 20 and lodging discount at venue (Hyatt Regency) through July 3 is based on availability

• Submission responses went out today, and organizers hope to have the full schedule available by the end of next week

Working Group Activities 

• First annual survey of VIVO sites due Thursday, May 29

  • The survey: https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1704676-gIMWlsYzom 

• VIVO 1.7 development

  • VIVO 1.6.2 patch released -- fixes a VIVO 1.6/1.6.1 memory leak 

  • VIVO 1.7 code freeze planned for Friday, June 6

  • See VIVO v1.7 release planning and notes from last call

• Next themed weekly call topic – June 19

  • Theme to be confirmed: revisit End User Documentation/Support

Theme: VIVO Wiki and General Documentation

• Suggested topics and questions:

  – Topic: what are the characteristics of strong documentation for a software project? Give us a tour of the some projects you admire.
   - Question for the group: What should and shouldn’t be on the home page?
   - Question for the group: Let’s think about information architecture. What are the top-level categories that VIVO documentation most naturally falls into?
  – Topic: what practices can we put in place to improve VIVO's documentation?

   - Question for the group: How do we track future or ongoing needs for the wiki?

   - Question for the group: who will do the work of improving the documentation?
  – Topic: what ought to be our documentation priorities?
   - Question for the group: What are the most pressing needs?
   - Question for the group: How does the VIVO project, or individual contributors, prioritize documentation versus other activities?

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