2024-01-08 Community Council Meeting notes

Date

Attendees

Simeon Warner 

Paula Sullenger 

Edwin Pretz 

Marko Knepper 

Boaz Nadav Manes 

Tom Cramer 

Ian Ibbotson (Use this one) 

Christopher Spalding (later)


Guests: Maccabee Levine, Ludwig Liebl (BSZ), Ian Walls 

Regrets: Mike Gorrell Kristin Martin 

Discussion items

ItemWhoNotes
Treasurer's update

Delayed from before winter break

  • All membership fees are paid! (star)
  • Budget looks good
Outreach and Marketing WG

Ref. COM WG charge from 2023: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZTOUOhwUtWaEjywKkS0cA41t1h0Wzhv_F9FR5Cyhqzk/edit

  • Working group reporting to CC, 7-8 members 
  • Definition of themes per year and follow up
  • Rachel and Boaz are founding members → ACTION ITEM: find volunteers
    • marketing profs → we need professionals! 
    • FOLIO experienced people
    • people from vendors 
    • 1 h/week would be the effort
  • 2024: 
    • Focus on Innovation
    • Youtubes, forums, global insight
    • WolfCon 2024: how to attract UK institutions? Involve JISC?
  • Interested persons shall address Boaz for next steps! 


Survey results

Grouped list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jqETlhc3x5-JLGrKYG0u3ppilVMefycbrSsXrBfr9WA/edit#heading=h.m83ixy3abjcu - end

  • Toms question: which next steps to do for CC are useful to make use of the results of the survey? 
  • Paula: From the list: FOLIO governance, especially when it comes to the budget, is opaque.    It has been a long while since we've pointed anyone to the Finance pages
  • Maccabee: birng the list into a formalized form, publish it, folow up each year
  • Boaz: publish who is in charge for what actions
    • Prioritze areas of work the community cdecided to pick up
  • Tom: here is a work in progress tracking sheet from last year: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BVTrXq4b098uAtcDL3ZLIJan65dIIbaNY1_hDhsvcQ4/edit
    and here is the 2022 summary: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1x2jON9yjEQboPlXiwFm8pqPT69g0wCDCD_4atR04atw/edit#slide=id.p
  • Tom: 
    • present the picked up topics from last year and tell what happened
  • Simeon: 
    • Tri.-Council: what are peoples top 3 prios for 2024
      • data should be available to all members before discussion
      • Read until next week!
  • Ian: 
    • Would be great to discuss topics / questions in the paper with the authors and document the feedback
      • would be necessary to go back to the original paper 

Action item: Council chairs shall figure out the next steps

  • how to discuss the summary, Tom will provide in the next 2 weeks
  • Everyone shall read the full version and come back with prios.
  • Buckets to categorize the questions


Application and Platform Formalization Proposals WG

  • good process
  • edge modules and other apps: how to differentiate and what to achive?
Other Business



Backlog of topics to discuss
FOLIO Developer AdvocateBefore break we had 2 candidates (both from outside FOLIO)
Action items to follow up with
FOLIO System Administration and DevOpsMike Gorrell  

Index Data needs to pull back from some System Administration tasks - we will end our support by March 1, 2024. Announced and first discussed 2023-11-27 Community Council Meeting notes, next step is a list of duties to transition, then develop a plan, aim to have candidate teams by February 1.

Community survey

Survey closed Friday Sep 29. Tom shared a first draft / summary of grouped items in 2023-11-27 Community Council Meeting notes 

NEXT STEPS:

  • Tom, Maccabee, Jesse - will produce summary to share early in the new year
  • All - feel free to add comments as you read/review, can also suggest new high-level categories
Community communication norms

From 2023-08-25 Meeting notes

  • idea about changing the ask on SIG's!  Information and discussion in the SIGs and a transport of summaries to upper levels
  • asking how communication flows across the project, new people don't know, need some guidance for the project
  • no update
Architecture group