PC will have meeting with SIGs about what to do for WOLFcon. There will be council meeting time at the end of WOLFcon. There will be a FOLIO Academy or similar even at the beginning of the WOLFcon, Tom Turtt and Debra Howell working on this an open to ideas/thoughts/instruction offers
Looking for a new FOLIO treasurer
PC is having first Asia-Pacific timezone friendly meeting March 21/22 (depending on your location wrt date line). Will try to do this quarterly.
Beijing (China) Friday, March 22, 2024 at 8:00:00 am CST
Canberra (Australia) Friday, March 22, 2024 at 11:00:00 am AEDT
Boston (USA – Massachusetts) Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 8:00:00 pm EDT
CC hiring committee has made decision on developer advocate and expect to extend an offer. Someone new to FOLIO community with software technology background
10 min
Updates on the Application Formalization Process
@Craig McNally
@Jenn Colt
Looking at questions from the council. Jenn is posting weekly updates on the tri-council channel. Aim to create proposals for work in different areas.
Craig/EBSCO update - working on POC environment that includes a number of ideas and ways to collect feedback and respond in an orderly way. Will be announced today.
Jenn/Craig happy for more engagement or to discuss.
40 min
How do we encourage more active participation in the FOLIO project and make the FOLIO project attractive to new member organizations?
Meeting prework: each council member should list at least 1 barrier to participation and 1 idea to increase participation. Ideas and barriers can go in this spreadsheet
Facilitator: @Kristin Martin
Discussion topics based on the spreadsheet (new ideas added directly to spreadsheet).
Comments about how hard to understand the FOLIO community is
Lots of comment on “pure customers” (solution from vendor) vs those engaged with community. We note positive of vendors allowing pure customer institutions to use OSS without all the engagement it might require – still a benefit to have them
Have been earlier efforts to reach out to institutions, but not currently. Interest both in understanding the position/motivation of institutions using FOLIO and possible outreach to encourage participation
Long term requests for more POs have not been very successful
How can those who are engaged help mentor those who are not?
Should be careful to use existing survey information
Marketing could use case studies/examples of where contributions (e.g. developer or other) have been helpful
We (SIGs) could also have some more low level introduction meetings - e.g how to navigate the wiki, councils, bugfest etc.
Need better shared understanding on what we mean by participation and what was want to accomplish
Do we need clearer expectations for what SIGs do? And what is already happening.
Don’t really have a good list of needs. Think not only about organizations becoming funding members but also about contribution of help.
While it would be great if institutions and individuals were in a position to be purely altruistic and contribute for the net good of all, we do really need to show how an contribution leads to a meaningful change for the contributor. open source is about empowerment, after all
How do we handle both institutions that just want to use FOLIO (perhaps still with wish lists), and those who want to engage in community process? What is the right feedback mechanism?
We’re making decisions without a strategic plan, probably making some decisions that are contrary to what we really want
Discussion of degree of control by the community and the councils. The councils do hold some resources: membership dues which, for example, empower them to fund the developer advocate. But the dev resources overall are not under council control.
the major resource held by FOLIO SMLLC would be the trademark. What FOLIO "is" or "isn't"
comments that current development investments by EBSCO not sustainable forever, where will future dev come from
move forward with the resources and control we have. And by all means let's try to grow that membership / resources.
How are we onboarding and engaging community members and preparing new council members? There is some burn-out of highly engaged community members
Was an earlier (2020) effort on strategic directions:
ACTION - @Simeon Warner & @Mike Gorrell to share results with community council and discuss ways forward - DONE, see