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Item | Time | Facilitator | Notes | |
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1 | Review agenda | 2 min | All | |
2 | Updates | 5 min | All | Sharing meeting facilitation duties, and other updates |
3 | Staff Changes | 10 | debra/All | Technical Team changes |
4 | Cornell Hosted Meeting on the future of VIVO | 10 | Julia/All | Proposed Topics:
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6 | VIVO Vision | 10 | All | Follow up on previous discussion and introduce harvester topic |
7 | Research Graph | 10 | Erin/Mike | Progress report |
8 | VIVO Stories Update | 10 | Erin | Two done, more scheduled. Determine format and schedule for publishing |
9 | Your Item Here! |
Notes
- Alex: my former colleague Nate Prewitt didn't think there was a lot of energy towards centralized commitment. He also didn't think the existing technology appealed to developers.
- Dean: if we're looking at the aging core infrastructure, we're going to need to focus on that. Distributed committer additions is not going to make that happen. Andrew: agreed.
- Eric: yes, I think it's beyond maintenance.
- Rob: even if we revive the VIVO codebase, is that enough?
- Debra: there is a meeting planned in late January / February at Cornell to discuss the future of the project.
- Tom: is there typically face to face meetings? Mike: there's the Conference and there's the Duraspace Summit.
- Rob: it might be helpful to look back at what we wanted to do as part of our historical strategic plan.
- Rob: if VIVO is perceived as plumbing, that becomes a gating factor. We noticed that with Fedora. That's where initiatives like Islandora came from.... One of my concerns is that a vendor solution will lock down our data.
- Julia: I'm concerned that there are people who are participating who aren't members of the Leadership or Steering groups. Rob: I think people who participate should be active contributors (money or code) to the project.
- Rob: the vision and technological architecture should be aligned. Dean: I think we should have a vision meeting.
- Julia: it would be easy to have a meeting here if need be.
- Rob: we could do it in NYC too.
- Julia: I like the idea of submitting ideas ahead of time.
- How should we have a meeting?
- Julia: I think the composition should be Steering and Leadership.
- Dean: I think we might want to have some outside expertise.
- Rob: it was nice, in the case of Fedora, to have technology representation
- Mark: I like face to face meeting with primary stakeholders.
- Tom: I think a face to face, intensive meeting is worthwhile. I think it would be most valuable to define and/or confirm VIVO's vision as a product and community. I think it needs to include a frank assessment of the current tech stack. I think it should also look at resourcing and resourcing strategies as well as roles. I think any Leader or Steering reps should be there (perhaps excepting commerical partners), as well as any individual or institution who may be a contributor to an uplift. And yes, we should have technical experts there to have a high level tech discussion (but not actually do engineering or detailed design.)
- Andi: I don't like face to face meetings.
- Rob: how do we connect back to Curt?
Action Items