WOLFcon is a conference organized by the Open Library Foundation. As one of the projects under the OLF FOLIO will have a presence at each WOLFcon.
Current WOLFcon 2022 plans:
- Location: Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.
- Catering option
- Bucerius is very prepared to help with Covid-related issues/testing/etc.
- Will need to be prepared to address Covid-related questions during registrations
- Space for 250 people+
- Dates: 31 August through 2 September 2021
- Early registration to open January/February 2022
- Regular Registration April 2022
- Expect guest to arrive Tuesday 30-August
- Lunch and morning/afternoon coffee breaks are included in the fees
- One reception being planned on a ship (funded by Hamburg State- and University Library) - Thursday
- Current space/technology reserved:
- 10 smaller rooms where Zoom/etc will be available (more rooms could be available as well)
- 5 x Workshoproom up to 30 guest each room
- 3 x Workshoproom up to 18 guest each room
- 2 x Workshoproom up to 50 guest each room
- One large room that can hold over 400 people
- 10 smaller rooms where Zoom/etc will be available (more rooms could be available as well)
- OLF and FOLIO Outreach groups are available to be on site to help coordinate/manage the event
Submit ideas for Sessions here.
Calendar DRAFT
Tuesday 30th | Wednesday 31st | Thursday 1st | Friday 2nd |
Afternoon “Pre-Conference” Agenda? (Can we find location/ budget?) | 9:00am Earliest meeting | 9:00am Earliest meeting | 9:00am Earliest meeting |
LUNCH for all 12:30-13:30 | LUNCH for all 12:30-13:30 | LUNCH for all 12:30-13:30 | |
Evening meet and greet | Last Session ends at 17:00 | Last Session ends at 17:00 BOAT!!! | 16:00pm Conference Ends |
Sample Sessions for Early Registration Packet
WOLFcon will have a presence for the FOLIO project, and the following are examples of the kinds of sessions you can expect. Note that these sessions were pulled as examples from the detailed list suggested by the FOLIO Community. The actual list is still to be determined.
- Working meetings
- UI Review and Plans for the future
- Testing Guidelines and Process
- Documentation
- Integration with Discovery Systems
- Consortia Functionality Planning
- FOLIO Architectural Blueprint
- Panel discussions
- Talking to Vendors
- Reporting Lessons from Implementers
- How to host FOLIO
- General presentations
- What is FOLIO?
- Cross OLF Demos
- Quarterly Community Meeting
- FOLIO Implementers: Lessons Learned
- Cool FOLIO Extensions and Customizations
- How to get started with FOLIO
- Workshops
- Introduction to LDP
- Introduction to jq
- How to create a FOLIO Module
Ideas/suggestions for meetings
We are in the midst of planning for WOLFcon 2022, tentatively planned to be in Hamburg, Germany 31-August-2022 through 2-September-2022. We are planning for a hybrid conference (both in person and remote participants. Contact Mike Gorrell with questions or comments, or, join the #folio-wolfcon-planning-group slack channel.
Please enter ideas for sessions in the table below.
| Meeting Name | Description | Potential meeting length | Primary Group/SIG | Suggest by (your name/group) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consortia Information + Update | Consortia informational session (SIG, Single Tenant / Multi tenant) | 60 min | Consortia | Noah Brubaker, Consortia SIG |
| Consortia Meeting | Needs / Features Discussion | 60 min | Consortia | Noah Brubaker, Consortia SIG |
| Introduction: So you want to be a Product Owner (or someone else thinks you should be a Product Owner) | Help describe the responsibilities of the Product Owner to encourage individuals to volunteer for these positions | 30-60 min | Product Council/Community Council | Product Council |
| Roadmap Overview | What's been done in FOLIO, what's coming up, successes, areas for growth, opportunities for discussion for how institutions and individuals can impact the road map | 60 min | Product Council | Product Council |
| Workflow: state of system and where can we go from here | We have developed some functionality, e.g., Dashboard, but where do we go from here? Discussion topic to consider how to support workflows What are the problems with the existing system and how could FOLIO address them or what solutions have libraries discovered to manage their workflows? Could be two meetings | 60 min (each?) | Product Council/App Interaction | Product Council |
| UI Review and Growth | UI retrospective: is what's been built good? Does it suit people's needs? Could libraries that have already conducted UI research be able to share their results? Could be two meetings or more (UI track) - could share information and then follow up with a retrospective | 60 min | Product Council/UI PO | Product Council |
| Talking to Vendors | How should we talk to vendors to get them engaged with FOLIO? Convince them to integrate with FOLIO and show them the advantage of working with libraries with FOLIO | 60 min | Product Council | Product Council |
| Testing FOLIO functionality | How do libraries test the system to approve it for release/upgrade? How can we incorporate that type of testing into BugFest to make it more useful? Right now, BugFest tests the functionality but not necessarily the process being used day-to-day. | 60 min | Product Council | Product Council |
| Cross OLF demos and information | This could be a whole track including: GOKb VuFind ReShare LDP and FOLIO | Product Council | Product Council | |
| A day in the life of a FOLIO PO | What is a PO? What do they do? What are the skills they need and build? This could be a PO recruiting opportunity. | 30-60 min | POs/Product Council | Product Council |
| Managing Orphaned Apps working meeting | Review of FOLIO apps and which are lacking support and are "orphaned." How can we find support for these apps? | 60 min | Product Council/POs | Product Council |
| Documentation needs | Documenting beyond basic app workflows using wiki vs. docs.folio.org sharing documentation and practice guides between implementers | 60min | SMEs/POs/all? | (OLD ACCOUNT) Erin Nettifee |
| RA SIG joint PO SMEs discussion | 60min | SMEs/POs | RA SIG | |
| RA Implementers | Lessons learned? Show and tell? What should the project have done differently? | 60Min | SMEs/POs | RA SIG |
| Integration with discovery systems | APIs, User integration, What is needed, what is working | 60Min | SMEs/POs | RA SIG |
| Integrations into FOLIO | maintenance of integrations from outside, sharing integrations in community, orphaned integrations | 60Min | SMEs/POs | all? |
Hacking FOLIO | eg. using the existing APIs to fill functional gaps via locally and community-developed scripts, services, and web-applications | 60Min | SMEs/POs | RA SIG |
| Permissions | How do Permissions work? General information on that, since there is a lot of confusion still. Training session? | 60Min | SMEs/POs | |
| Training track? | should there be a training track for several topics? e.g.: Permissions | |||
| FOLIO architectural blueprint | Build on earlier work on defining and documenting the long-term architectural blueprint of the system | 120min | Technical Council, SysOps SIG, tech leads / dev leads | Technical Council |
| Addressing FOLIO technical debt | Strategize on reducing current technical debt levels and preventing new debt to the extent possible | 120min | Technical Council, SysOps SIG, tech leads / dev leads | Technical Council |
| Operational needs | Operational consistent documentation, an approach to a simpler core release installation, proposal of a simplified FOLIO bootstrap process | 120min | Technical Council, SMEs, SysOps | Sys Ops SIG |
| Workflow sessions | Libraries walk through workflows from beginning to end, e.g. Purchase a resource for a patron (incl. Orders, Receiving, Requests, Invoices, Check-in, Check-out, Inventory) Incl. gap analysis | 60 min several slots | ALL implementing institutions App Interaction | App Interaction SIG |
| Working meeting | Working meeting on outstanding topics (topic TBD closer to the conference) | 60 min several slots | App Interaction | App Interaction SIG |
| AI/Community meeting | AI presents on current status of outstanding topics that AI or subgroups are discussing and gathers community topics | 90 min. | App Interaction, ALL | App Interaction SIG |
| Privacy SIG | The Privacy SIG will engage SIGs and developers on the cross-cutting needs for privacy in the FOLIO apps and include a description of how the Privacy SIG members can consult with groups. | 30 min. | All | Privacy SIG |
| ERM meeting | ERM working meeting with topics yet to be determined | 2 x 60 min | ERM | ERM SIG |
| Introduction to Library Data Platform and FOLIO Analytics for Reporting | Overview of interconnected open source reporting systems (LDP software, FOLIO Analytics query repository, LDP app, Metadb software, LDLite software), including description of functionality and options for hosting. Demonstration of querying an LDP using SQL queries from FOLIO Analytics or using LDP app. | 90 min | Institutions with LDP implementations, institutions considering implementing LDP | Reporting SIG |
| API-based reporting for FOLIO | Demonstrations of workflows and/or open source software solutions for extracting FOLIO data via APIs. Example software includes LDLite, a python-based application that extracts and transforms FOLIO data via API and loads it into either a local or networked database. Would ideally include tips and tricks for using APIs, including idiosyncrasies of the different APIs. | 60 min | All | Reporting SIG, others with API-based tools |
| Reporting lessons from FOLIO implementers | Panel session from FOLIO implementing institutions. How did they implement reporting (e.g., what software solutions, what hosting solutions)? What went well? What should others look out for? | 60 min | All | Reporting SIG |
| Introduction to the migration_tools toolkit | Hands-on demo and introduction to the EBSCO IC toolkit for data migrations into FOLIO. | 120 min | Data migration Subgroup | |
| Introduction to jq | Hands-on demo using jq to parse, manipulate, and extract JSON data | 60 min | All | |
| Data migration Lessons learned | Libraries that have gone live share their experiences wrt data migration. | 60 min | All | Theodor Tolstoy (One-Group.se) /Data migration subgroup |
| Migration tools showcase | Lightning talks/ presentations of the available tools that have been developed by libraries and vendors in order to move legacy data into FOLIO | 60 min | All | Theodor Tolstoy (One-Group.se) / Data migration subgroup |