Goal: Communicate information about VIVO (outreach) to potential developers and encourage an active ongoing development community.
Method: Content management systemThis wiki, communication tools (mail lists and forums), development tools (issue tracking, version control), and file management.
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Category Hierarchy
- Community documentation
- vivoweb.org– the VIVO project website, being moved from Cornell to DuraSpace in early 2015 so it can be more easily managed
- vivo.vivoweb.org – a VIVO tracking who is using VIVO, including links to public sites and information on the people supporting code, data, ontology, and outreach at each site
- wiki.duraspace.org – this wiki – sign up for an account now
- Issue tracker
CMS via Drupal, Confluence, Jira, and SVN on Cornell servers - GitHub
- Downloads
- Historical (2009-2012) project Project on SourceForge (http://vivo.sourceforge.net) that UFL setup
- file uploads
- MediaWiki
- tracker
- mail lists
- forums
- SVN
- Mail lists at UF and CU, and Constant Contact at UF
Problems identified related to Community and Outreach
Goals related to building a development and implementation community
- Make it clear Confusion on where documentation files live and what goes on SF MediaWiki
- Multiple mail lists at different institutions, unclear which is used for what
- Duplication of issue tracking (Jira at Cornell, tracker at SF)
- Lack of public visibility of issue tracking at Cornell
- File management confusion between SF and vivoweb.org
- Forums on vivoweb.org lack email/monitoring features
- SF landing page is not a good marketing page, problems with redirection
- SF navigation is confusing, hard to find stuff and it's not consistent, user gets lost
- Issue tracking on SF is known to be bad for project management
- Hard to find specific topics on MediaWiki
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Action
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Status
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Responsible
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Find out about budget?
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None
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elly
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Find out about SF?
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Yes
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elly
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Setup Amazon cloud depending ($1-1.5K/yr)?
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No, will use Cornell Jira (more open)
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brian, stephen
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Setup Jira?
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No, will use Cornell Jira (more open)
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brian, stephen
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Find out about SF beta and SVN control
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stephen
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Links from vivoweb.org to SF components
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Elly
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Change forum links on vivoweb.org to SF forum
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Done
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Elly
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SF Landing page reworked for audiences
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Elly
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Move mail lists that will persist after the NIH funds run out to SF
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Chris?
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Migrate non-confidential and applicable data from Confluence to SF MediaWiki
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group
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Establish categories or other method of navigation for SF MediaWiki
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group
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Establish process for SF users to get Jira accts
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Steven/Holly
- Clarify the use of mailing lists
- Explain the use we make of Jira, and the distinct goals of the VIVO-ISF ontology issue tracker
- Clarify what files go on vivoweb.org vs. the wiki
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