2019-07-31 Forum Facilitators Meeting notes

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Noting that we are a maturing community and the current cadence can be dropped back.  Once a month?  Once every-other month?  Roadmap updates after each release.  Other, more general, topics to be picked up by the OLF Outreach SIG.

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Product Owner session

Peter Murray to talk with Jessie, otherwise drop and notify Outreach SIG.

Comments from Product Owners:
> I really don't think the outcomes from the D.C. meeting have impacted my PO work, except that I am working towards identifying and creating the MVP. Might it make more sense to do a Forum on the MVP? I didn't meet with my SIG in DC or address Fees/Fines in any way. Maybe others did...

> I agree with Holly. An MVP update is a great topic for the forum.

> as with as Holly's suggestion for a forum on MVP, I think forums on specific topics would be more appropriate than a general forum on the outcomes of the F2F (which was quite varied in its discussions and outcomes).

> From my perspective most of the F2F was about pursuing conversations that relate to specific bits of functionality within ERM, all a bit too granular for a Forum I think

Market-Viable Product.  Is this a good Forum topic, though?  Seems more like a document or blog post.

Instead, have a session with Jessie with outcomes from the F2F meeting and outlining the MVP?  If not, push out the F2F outcomes in other ways.  Can also share out the notes/documents from the F2F meeting in different ways.

Dropped: Panel Discussion of Vendor Partners and Libraries

Moderator: Peter Murray

Last call we though that the ER&L recording was the best example of this, and now that the ER&L recording is online we can drop this as a Forum topic.

RFPs in the Open Source Age

Bump up to OLF.Our community needs to help change the conversation around RFPs.  FOLIO doesn't fit around the RFP structure.  FOLIO itself is free, so there shouldn't be an RFP around it; and RFP would be about implementation and support around a FOLIO implementation.  Panel among libraries and vendors?  Brendan from ByWater.  Peter from Index Data.  Someone from EBSCO.

FOSS Communities from a mature open source community

Bump up to OLF.Sustainability of FOLIO.  Hearkens back to a panel Peter moderated about different open source community practices.  Panel featuring communities around the OLF.  "Intro to the OLF communities"  VuFind/Coral/FOLIO/ReShare.

?September???: Open Library Foundation

Host: Ginny Boyer

To talk holistically about the communities in the Foundation: the ones that exist, the ones that are coming on. Talk about the idea of scope for the FOLIO project as it relates to the goals of these communities coming onboard. To include members of the OLF Board, ideally. Also talk about the transition of OLF leadership.

Branding as "OLF Forum" versus "FOLIOForum"

Rachel reached out to Ginny about this. September might be good timing.  Gather interest in WOLFcon in Texas in January 2020; ALA Midwinter Jan 17-20 then WOLFcon.

Decision-making tools

Bump up to OLF.Tools for making decisions. How to make lazy consensus.  Part of the general track of WOLFcon?

Role of Subject-Matter Experts in FOLIO

Keep as a FOLIO Forum.

As a part of onboarding new people into the community.  Similar to what we did in the past where we had what each of the SIG conveners talk about what they are doing and how people can get involved.

Series of presentations from PC Chair, SIG Convener, UX Designer, Product Owner, Developer – how does everyone work all together.  Possibly part of the general track of WOLFcon?

Tips and Tricks for Documenting a Project


Part of the general track of WOLFcon?

FOLIO Project Roadmap Update

Host: Eric Hartnett

December: FOLIO Year-in-Review



?: "Beyond ILS” session: Research/Special Collections

Host:

Moderator: Sebastian Hammer

Heidi Mann, Nassib, Mitchell.

On hold for now. Sebastian is confirming with participants.

Preceded by Sebastian/Christopher/Michael with a session about where we are on the project.  What we've discussed with Resource Sharing, for instance. 

?: Panel Discussion of Early Implementers/Adopters Partners


Session on how Chalmers went and what the plans are from others. Representatives from TAMU and UChicago.

Hold until after Chalmers has gone live and gotten their feed under themselves.

?: ERM Apps

Host: Eric Hartnett

It has been a while since a review of the ERM apps was done and there are some exciting things happening.  Eric Hartnett to watch for the optimum time in the fall to do an update.
Codex
in order to put pressure on ourselves to make some decisions around Inventory and Codex
Review Idea Bank
  • Usage Statistics
  • Presentations could start to look at deployment, particularly in a hosted, non-hosted environment
  • Work to prep for migrations to FOLIO. Get implementation managers on a panel.
  • How FOLIO is impacting libraries now: view from Cornell – wait to reach out until we have better sense of implementation timelines; How are they viewing FOLIO from a strategic perspective
  • What is the international perspective on FOLIO? Can we get a panel of international sites (Australia, GVB) to give their perspectives? Plus, international update
  • Host a Forum in the Spanish language with roadmap discussion and demo, could be hosted by Lydia @ EBSCO, include UNAM development team. Rachel Fadlon to investigate.
  • Podcasting as a possibility to get developers to answer questions about the process, EBSCO has people who be able to edit
  • Panel of PO/SIG facilitator/developer together to discuss the full life cycle, moderated by product owner
  • Codex Revisited, based on the vision statement – including the entity formerly known as authority work.
  • Accessibility features/process of testing – perhaps in the fall after the issues of the latest testing are resolved?
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