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- What we heard from OR2015
- We had the greatest turnout for the user group plenary
- T-Shirts were a big hit and we should start sooner next year
- Islandora doing considerable work to refactor due to work in Fedora4
- Two greenfield deployments - Hydra North (Alberta) and Fienman School (Northwestern Medical School)
- Both camps Hydra and Islandora are both committed to interoperability; collaboration is great; this came up in terms of training
- Camel is evident in both Islandora and Hydra
- A lot of good discussion is coming up for a potential Fedora5- a roadmap
- Good feedback on the migration tools
- Some concern about perception of the thin showing of Hydra
- Lack of name in titles because there was more
- This impacts Fedora in an overall way
- We have to make sure we have larger rooms next year
- We have a large metadata problem in that people are covering the same ground struggling with PCDM
- perhaps we should put RDF lower and obscure that layer to alleviate pain
- this needs to be discussed more
- Value in making something available in Hydra or Islandora that is friendly and has perhaps museum fields or others
- we do not want Fedora to push Hydra, Islandora or anything else because more options are good and we want people to use Fedora regardless
- Fedora to continually communicate and renew the business proposition as leadership changes
- highlight variety of options of Fedora based solutions
- highlight the flexibility - if you go with proprietary you are forced to take what they are willing to do whereas you have the power to
- some of these people are showing up at OR in the fence between open source and pressure to consider off the shelf
- could we consider a "new to OR" plus the value proposition for Islandora, Hydra and Fedora, begin to build the narrative; showcase polished products
- perhaps have some time to un-conference style to get questions answered but there are some problematics issues with manager support
- curate camp has effectively inserted an open agenda
- we need to change course to provide information for the attendees to use with management or for high level managers to access
- contributions of papers or marketing for open source
- we need to look at our service providers and look at competition thru RFIs and RFPs; Hydra in a Box open opportunity and certainly DiscoveryGarden
- Fedora Futures and Strategies
- focus for the last 3 years has been replacing F3 so what do we want to focus on now? Do we want for the next phase.
- proposal - discussion and goals for 2015 is being captured in the proposal document
- Vision
- we probably have 500 or so counting Fedora, Hydra, Islandora
- what would it take to have 1000 "verified" users in 2 years
- what should our target audience be?
- should be called a platform rather than a system
- a call for focusing fedora on services based on standards - explained well and then communicating use cases
- potential statement that we could all leverage
- Fedora supports the world's leading research and learning institutions, cultural heritage organizations, government and commercial entities.
- The Fedora platform delivers a stable foundation for a variety of systems and services, including locally hosted services built using Hydra, Islandora and other software stacks, as well as cloud-hosted and vendor-hosted service offerings.
- Lower risk, more choice, increased flexibility to meet today's needs and tomorrow's challenges and an active community pushing the boundaries
- Innovation by the community, shared with the community
- integration of technologies which align with our principals and ensures the stability of the relationships with those who provide those technologies
- Deployment & Upgradation
- identify and implement a strategy of tracking adoption
- make it easy for people to register by putting a link on the splash page
- could we hire someone to verify registry, mine mailing list
- does Christy do any of this?
- cannot automatically register
- Overall we want to focus on identifying and showcasing successful examples and using that to drive future development
- 6-10 reference implementations? we are more concerned about how an implantation is leveraging the functions and features at scale rather than the number;
- want at least 4 upgradations
- identify and implement a strategy of tracking adoption
- Technology - We want to continue to combine momentum with Fedora, Hydra and Islandora toward mutually beneficial innovative direction of common strategies
- Current cross project work
- Camel
- LDP
- etc
- Harden code and provide evidence of real world production
- Current cross project work
- Community
- Resource Commitments
- We have an issue to solve in getting resource commitments and showing evidence of those commitments
- Could we regularly email outstanding list of needs to all the lists to highlight needs
- Confirm messaging related to governance/membership
- we need a subgroup to firm up issues and a good topic for a leadership call
- Declan highlighted that he wants to be involved and has an example of how this can be a platform for budgeting time and travel budgets
- Markets
- museums
- @Mire (Mark Dickory, Chris Wilper) and Cherryhill are a couple of vendors that are focused on markets in areas of the world we want to expand in
- are we going to make our targets for 3+ international events and 3+ non-library events? yes on international, need to identify non-library, museums are covered
- we need to identify vendors and information for outreach
- we will consciously move toward interest groups, working groups across Fedora, Hydra and Islandora
- we could also become more formal about the acknowledged relationship between Islandora, Fedora and Hydra
- Wolfram has offered to host a Duraspace event to highlight Fedora, VIVO, etc; could draw several hundred people
- Resource Commitments
- Training
- pilot camp will inform what we can do next year; this year will offer 1 3-day at Duke and begin training the trainer
- we want to attract technical as well as non-devopers
- question - do we address a progression between curricula Fedora, Islandora and Hydra
- reach out to providers of training for each
- Vision
- Governance - Election Strategy
- Fedora 4.x Roadmap
- Developer Contributor Model
- International Representation, Outreach and Adoption Strategy
- Data Mandates
Actions
- David Wilcox will pull together a list of current green fields and upgradation by the next leaders call
- Declan Fleming and David Wilcox will compile a list of vendors and information to support outreach
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