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Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace
Purpose and notes
: We'd like to open up the conversation about outreach with the community and offer help when needed. Mike thinks that this group could talk more about community-building and related issues and provide that feedback to Steering. There may be specific issues that we can tackle, for example, issues related to the conference, are there things that we could do about certain things. Kristi talked about environments, organizations and companies who are representing people data, which is rather complex. These organizations may need help learning about VIVO, and need VIVO evangelists.
Mike reminds us that we need to talk about partners and parterships partnerships with other related organizations, which is important to the project. Kristi's current research dovetails very nicely with VIVO and partners nicely, but it's nice to have different perspectives.
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Partners such as Altmetrics, Plum, Pure, thomson Thomson Reuters/Converis etc. are synergistic with VIVO and we need to make sure that all of our partners are productive partnerships. We need to make sure that these ties really benefit VIVO and help to strengthen our partners.
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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.
Conference session update
"VIVO around the world" will be a 45-minute session to highlight all of the cool things happening with VIVO implementations. A call for participation will be released this week. Participants will get one slide, like a screenshot of the home page, and presenting for five 3-5 minutes about their VIVO. To Submissions will be welcomed from people who cannot attend VIVO in person, too (giving them a way to plug into the conference and more importantly, the community). The session will 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 PM Eastern
Community Outreach and Engagement meetings are held every four weeks on Tuesday at 1 pm EST. Future meetings scheduled:
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