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Mike suggests that after the VIVO conference, we should start working on conferences and networking at these. We want people to share information that something important about VIVO is happening. This creates opportunities to collaborate about VIVO.
Carol observes that VIVO users also attend other conferences and wear many hats. It's an interwoven community.
Partners such as Altmetrics, Plum, Pure etc are synergistic with VIVO but we need to make sure that all of our partners are productive partnerships. We need to make sure that these ties really benefits VIVO.
Coming up with six key conferences is not so easy since we are widespread across a lot of fields.
Community mailing list
Is there another source of community contacts? Mike would like a community mailing list where people are talking about non-technical issues, adoption, partnerships, policy issues. People can ask and discuss anything that's not technical. This would pair with a technical list and they can be combined. So that people can ask non-technical questions about VIVO and get answers. Like how to introduce the project to their administrators, etc. They let the community step up and answer these questions. Kristi would like to provide a way for people to reach out confidentially. Maybe in the footer of the email, say, "To ask a confidential question . . " etc with an email address. Kristi suggests an opt-out to the conference attendees and presenters with an easy way to opt out.
"VIVO around the world" will be a 45-minute session to get one slide, like a screenshot of the home page, and presenting for five minutes about their VIVO. To show the diversity in what we're doing and put a strong finish to the conference. We need to engage people on the list.
Next call: August 18 at 1:00