Happy New Year from VIVO! I wish everyone in the VIVO community a very Happy New Year. We have much to be thankful for and much to look forward to. Here are just a few things we can look forward to in 2018:
- A new approach to community development. In the coming year we hope to organize sprints – concentrated effort related to the development of specific new features. Software sprints will develop new capabilities for VIVO and Vitro, and incorporate great work available at VIVO sites into the base VIVO for everyone to use. We look forward to building on the great work of the community to share that great work with others. This is the essence of open source software development. Do you have work to share? We look forward to creating sprints to incorporate your work in future releases. We are gathering examples of great community work that should be available to others through the VIVO community open source efforts. Please send any example you have of your work, or work of others that you have seen presented at a VIVO conference, or have heard of through lists or community activity. Let's build a better VIVO and Vitro for everyone!
- VIVO events throughout the year.
- The VIVO Conference will be held at the JB Duke Hotel in Durham North Carolina on the campus of Duke University, June 6-8, 2018. Let's see the fruits of a new community development process bearing fruit for discussion and further development at the conference.
- New engagement with Leadership and Steering regarding strategic direction
- Technical developments – the Data Distributor (see below), new approaches for getting data into VIVO (see below) and more. Do you have ideas about improving the VIVO software? Are you a developer and want to help? Please contact Andrew Woods who will be helping develop VIVO's technical community in 2018.
Graham Triggs Graham is leaving the VIVO Project as of December 31, 2017. After two plus years of developing software, creating new releases, launching OpenVIVO, and helping organize the technical documentation, Graham is moving on. Graham's deep knowledge of software development, the VIVO code base, and system environments for VIVO will be sorely missed. I greatly enjoyed and appreciated working with Graham. He is an amazing talent. We wish him well in all his future endeavors and profusely thank him for all he has done for VIVO.
Data Distributor Text of story 3
Getting Data into VIVO
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Go VIVO!
Mike
Mike Conlon
VIVO Project Director
Duraspace
