Roadmap Meeting September 18 2015 2pm AST

• Chair: Nick Ruest
• Notetaker: Donald Moses

Per: Schedule

• Attending: Rosie, William, Nick, David, Mark, Melissa, Carrel

• Apologies: Noah, Jennifer,

• First business: Welcome to new members!

  • Welcome Carell and Mark

Old Business

• Previous meeting notes

  • Approved

• CLAs

  • Message to the list re: CLA submissions from the community. Sent September 8. See CLA section below for feedback.
    • CLA Item 3 - Patent Language
      • CLA Language reflects GPLv3
      • Will's comment - to prevent workarounds of the license.
      • David's comment - Declan Fleming may be a good person to consult how the issue was resolved. Perhaps invite Declan to the next Board meeting.
  • This is an issue that the Board should review and resolve.

• 7.x-1.6 release

  • Tweet re: Release team growth
  • 1st Islandora Sprint - 38 tickets resolved
    • Variety of experts and noobies

• Formalize "Committers" -- see also Fedora Committers

  • Proposal here
  • Vote: Will, Nick, David, Rosemary, Mark B., Melissa all +1, Donald 0

Interest Groups

• Preservation Interest Group (Donald)

  • preparing annual report for the Islandora Foundation Board of Directors

• Archival Interest group (Melissa)

  • No meeting updates, no convenor
  • Roapmap committee votes to dissolve

• Fedora 4 Interest Group (Nick)

  • Fedora 4 Interest Group Report
  • General discussion about sustainability of Islandora 7.x-2 project and the need to continue to develop and push toward supporting F4.
  • UPEI starting a F4 study group Friday mornings to get up to speed re: F4.

• GIS Interest Group

  • May need to be closed down.
  • Roadmap voted to dissolve the

• Documentation Interest Group (Melissa)

  • nothing to report

• Dev Ops Interest Group (Noah)

  • DGI shared Ubuntu documentation

• Metadata Interest Group (Jennifer)

  • From Jennifier - We're going to have some back and forth with the IR interest group. The subgroups for MIG begin meeting on or after 9/29. We're still looking for people to volunteer for the subgroups.

• UI Interest Group (Rosie)

  • Preparing report for Board.

• IR Interest Group (new!)

  • Meeting on Sept. 24

Islandora Camp updates

• iCampCT
  • Registrations coming along.
  • Hylandora needs to be promoted.

CLAs

• Patent language is a problem for many institutions. We didn't add it - do we need to keep it? ** see discussion above.

New Business

• Islandora 7.x-1.7 - last feature release. New development should be 7.x-2.x

  • Nick proposes a vote on this recommendation.
  • Will - DGI continues to develop against 7.x-1 and create new features and modules.
  • General discussion about an approach to moving the community to 7.x-2.x.
  • Sprint for 7.x-2.x is Nov. 2-13
  • No decision yet. Await community reaction to the F4 Interest Group report.
  • Carell - discussion re: fundraising for F4 project and the timeline.

• Islandora 7.x-2.x needs early adopters

  • YUDL and UManitoba would be interested
  • UPEI plan to migrate herbarium site as a learning/development project

Roundtable

• Carell - UManitoba ... splitting servers ... view only server for front end display and backend server for processing.
• David - F4 Camp event is sold out. Interest in developer focused camp - classroom style.
• Donald - generalizing data.upei.ca
• Mark Baggett - moving away from Digital Commons and perhaps adopting Islandora IR. Discussing with Bryan Brown (UFlorida). Hiring a team lead for development. Trying to transition from putting collections online to being more developer focused. Hoping to finish migrations.
• Rosie - migration projects coming up - D6 > D7.
• Will - nothing to report ... but will have something next meeting.
• Nick - 350K digital objects in the YUDL repo.

Closing Remarks

Next meeting: Chair: Jennifer Notes: Will