2022-11-30 Meeting notes: closed vs. open Slack channel

Date

Nov 30, 2022

Meeting time 12:30 until 1 pm ET due to Folio forum

Housekeeping

• Convener and notes: @Martina Schildt

• Next meeting: Dec 5, 2022

Discussion items

1. Slack channel: closed vs. open | discuss pros and cons

   1. meetings?

2. Form group to talk about expectations related to fast-adding records

3. Select future topics

Minutes

• AI SIG started as a small working group, became larger and later became a SIG

• PC recommended a while ago to open up groups - if there are no reasons to keep them closed

• similar example: ACQ group and RM SIG - opening up ACQ made sense and they are making good experience

• group will most probably not get overrun

• possibility: open channel but keep meetings closed

• Slack channel should be open

• few groups have closed meetings | meetings are not communicated

• there is a private and a public part

• Charlotte in chat: The App Interaction SIG is recommending cross app functionality, so maybe we are one of the very important groups to be ’Public’ - and open for everyone

• Kristin: would not call our meetings closed, there is a wiki space, meeting minutes ... - if channel goes public 

• we can continue to call this a meeting for POs, devs and conveners

• if we make this open, Martina will communicate the open invitation via Slack in in PC

• continue practice of asking the group for topics

• cancel meetings (even with short notice) is fine

Chat

Future topics

• Topic proposal by @Owen Stephens for October:

  • Use of shortcut keys and macros for more effective cross-app working  - it also be good to have UX and Stripes/dev knowledge for this discussion I think. I know @Laura (she/they) uses macros so might have insights into the potential for cross-app working

  • Potential for external 'workflow' solutions for cross-app interactions

    • I think 'workflow' is a dangerous term here - in this context it's more about automation than user workflows, although I think there is overlap

    • I was particularly struck by the solution in production at TAMU (Jeremy Huff and Sebastian Hammer presented, the recording is at https://prod-zoom-recordings-openlibraryfoundation-org.s3.amazonaws.com/50dc6c87-3912-43fa-8287-56ec73b12bbb%2Fshared_screen_with_speaker_view%28CC%29.mp4 starting at 3 hrs, 14 min) - I think getting someone from TAMU to talk about how this is used would be v interesting

    • There was also a presentation on the use of a tool called Airflow at Stanford for "bibliographic workflow" but I've not watched that yet so not 100% sure if it is completely applicable - I think the core use case there was systems migration but it may go beyond that

    • Or Jenn Colt on using Prefect

    • does not need to be workflow across apps

• UX/UI and implementers topics

  • should be Wednesdays

• comprehensive look at where data is copied and stored as opposed to live data | how it is represented

Attendees

Action items