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Nominations open for the Steering Group. The VIVO Leadership Group had its quarterly meeting this week. It approved a revision to the VIVO Charter, a Roadmap Process, and a plan to add five new members to the Steering Group. Three new members will be added from those nominated and elected by the Leadership Group. Two new members will be nominated and elected by community members. The Steering Group meets each week and is a key element in making the VIVO Project go. Want to contribute your thoughts and expertise to steering the VIVO Project – the Project? The Steering Group is the place to do it. Nominations are open now – see xxxxx for details. Elections will be held the weeks of July 20 and July 27. Please consider serving in this important role.
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Web site task force. More here.
A roadmap process for VIVO. Over the years, many incredible ideas have been suggested by members of the VIVO community regarding new features for VIVO. As an open source project, it is very important that we have an open process to share these ideas, thoughts about them, including preferences for particular features. Over the past several weeks, the Steering Group has worked to develop an open roadmap process for VIVO – one that capitalizes on the ideas of the community, aligns ideas with the strategic plan and the interests of the community for contributing effort to building specific features. More here The roadmap process is now "open for business." A list of features that have been proposed by you, has been assembled. Please take a look. A timeline for a process to discuss these features, express preferences, and assemble input into a coherent document has been drafted. Please take a look.
For the next month, we will be discussing these features, details of these features and even more features that you will certainly propose. After that, we will conduct a preference survey, gathering input from the community, leadership and steering. A task force will take this input and draft a roadmap for review by Steering and adoption by Leadership. The entire process should be complete by the conference.
But that's just the beginning. Having a roadmap will do little good without effort to build the features described in it. Please consider how you, or someone at your institution can contribute to the development of features in the roadmap. We will go further faster with more contributed effort. And as with any open source project, if a group of institutions self-organize to implement particular features that will be welcomed.
How does the VIVO Project Work? Some folks want to know more about how the project works. How do we make decisions? How do we get work done? Who contributes time and effort? How do things get organized? Turns out its a bit simple than you might think. And its written down. Three key documents "govern" the VIVO project, describing structure, membership, decision making, community participation and more. All three of these documents can be found with one click from the left hand menu of the VIVO Wiki home page. One click. Left hand menu. VIVO Wiki home page. The three documents are the VIVO Project Charter, the VIVO Strategic Plan, and the new VIVO Roadmap Process. Here's the skinny:
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