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Notes:

Financial update:

FY  $14K over expectations/budget planning.

ITAV: stipend helped ease spending.

Travel supported centrally by Lyrasis helped ease spending.

One time funding effort:  $16K in the bank.  Goal to reach $25K.

Membership:

Arran is expecting a minimum of two new members this upcoming year.

Governance/election planning:

Arran looking to July to begin governance planning.  Terms to be voted on for September.   NB: some existing governance terms are a little off b/c of the change we made to governance but we're getting them aligned over time.

Open Repositories 2024 in Sweden

It was a strong meeting with lots of Fedora projects represented.

From Lyrasis, Dan and Arran attended.  Also: James, Tom, and Heather attended.

Feedback on the Fedora Users group was positive.

Bridget:

introduced herself.  One of her first goals is working on an analysis of the organization home model(s?). To learn what and how the model works and beginning to explore what could be improved.  Also, Bridget is doing a deeper dive into each of the five communities.

This analysis will be informed by what stakeholders think the organizational model is.  Stakeholders include dedicated organizational home staff; Lyrasis staff that are called on to support the model; and members of organizational governance.  An upcoming milestone will be to create summary of findings from this initial information gathering.

Wiki improvement became->website improvement as the first item to tackle. 

The contractor has been doing great work.  The site is not fully complete but in good shape and ready for a soft launch. The registry, to reflect a more current state of affairs, has pretty thin data for now.    Tweaks to the registration form should make things smoother in the future (permission to contact; multiple registration at one time).

GDPR:  is informing the registry "consent to contact."  A privacy policy is needed *across* sites (as distinct from only the Lyrasis main site.   In place is an interim solution, reviewed by legal.  Now online is a draft privacy policy, while progress is being made on a final version.   As the new policy is drafted and firmed up, that work will be shared with governance.

Community partner updates:

Heather/Samvera:

This year a pivoting to four regional meetings instead of one big one.  Mid-west (late sept, Indianapolis); West Coast (date tbd: Portland); East Coast (Oct. 13-14, Princeton) Samvera Eurorpe (tbd).  Following these regional meetings there will be a sort of meta-analysis to identify common themes.

Board meeting is upcoming. A training event is planned in fall or winter with a service provider.  There will be scholarships.  This is to help build capacity around a need for Hyrax maintenance.  A goal is to get some folks up to speed and engaged.

Fedora-relevant news: Community is pivoting from Circle CI to Github for testing.  This has created some mild friction/delays, but the Hyrax 6 work is nearing completion.  One outcome will be a testing website with Fedora 6 that includes auto-deployment +analytics.

Nicole/Islandora:

Building community is looking good.

Identification of pain point has been accomplished. 

TBD:

Documentation of best practices/workflows. 

Collection and provision of feedback to Foundation about concerns/needs/features.

https://github.com/user-attachments/files/15565963/2023-2024_IF_LAC-GLAM_AR.pdf

https://github.com/Islandora/islandora-community/wiki/Liberal-Arts-Colleges-and-GLAM-Interest-Group

Rosalyn/OCFL:

Workshop planned for end of September at IPres. Editorial board will meet at IPres and start working on OCFL v 2.

From the community there is now a working example of an institution using Islandora + Fedora 6 + OCFL to manage dev *and* prod…fulfilling the communities hopes and expectations.

OCFL java within Fedora: Work underway to update to 2.x.  Work underway to update wiki style to action to point to registry.

System committers:

are a small, powerful group.  Concern is how to make software development more robust/less brittle.  Fedora is looking for contributions (specifically committers/code, but all kinds of contributions are welcome and needed: documentation, onboarding, etc).  Conferences are an expensive, but good way to build community.

Attendees then moved into the "Building new contributors" exercise.  From that exercise, Tom offered an example of a "camp"

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/FF/2017-09+Fedora+and+Samvera+Camp+UK

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/FF/2017-09+Fedora+and+Samvera+Camp+UK#id-201709FedoraandSamveraCampUK-4September