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Mozilla Science Global Sprint. More here
Web site task force. More here.Interested in helping with the new VIVO web site? Have video, graphics, experience with writing for the web? Please consider joining the web site task force. With a little bit of elbow grease we should have the new site available in time for the conference. If you are interested, please drop me a note at mconlon@duraspace.org Thanks!
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. And, of course, we do share ideas abut the future of VIVO every day in our normal community processes – work groups, task forces and governance activities. But as many have pointed out, we need a process to coalesce these ideas and conversations into a roadmap. 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 leverages the interests of the community for contributing effort to building specific features. 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 further, 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.
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How does the VIVO Project Workwork? 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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Please take a look if you are interested in how the VIVO Project works. Thanks to all who have contributed to these documents and have participated in all the great things the community has been doing.Got a question or comment? Looking forward to hearing from you. Please drop me a note on any thought you may have
Recap. Opportunities to be nominated and elected to the Steering Group, participation in a global sprint to enhance the ORCID2VIVO software, opportunities to join the web task force, a new roadmap process, and some insight into how the project works. Whew.
Have a great week. I'll be in Indianapolis for Open Repositories.
Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
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