2022-01-04 Meeting Notes

Goal:  Make the Implementation Group the go-to place for "how do I...?" and "are you seeing this?" type questions for the FOLIO Community

Strategies:

1. Focus on asynchronous discussion (via Slack) rather than synchronous discussion (via Zoom).
2. Work closely with other key groups, such as: data migration, sysops, support SIG, documentation
3. Create a searchable archive of answers to community questions

Meetings are for discussions and presentations.  Slack channel #folio-implementers is go-to place for questions (and hopefully answers)
Patty: it would be great to have a more interactive implementers group, need more people to come to meetings.
Topic: have circ folks talk about their loan policy settings once a quarter. Less prep-heavy sessions, lots of presentations, helping each other. Thoughout the year, run through all the modules (in presentations).
Tod: How to swap practical advice.  Maybe some adjacent topics, not just FOLIO, “how we interact with the registrar” etc

Searchable archive:
Tod: how often would answers change. Slack answers are hard to find.
Darsi: pointers instead to wiki documentation, GitHub?
Patty: have had to hunt through wiki is hard.  Q&A is all over the place, so would be amazing to have in one place.
Ian: hoping to create some automation. Bywater is working on having documentation.  Wants to create a proof of concept and see if it will fly, figure out how to keep it up to date, more folks contribute to it, later.

If no agenda, we won’t meet.  Will make sure we do have an agenda/meeting at least once a month (Ian will take responsibility for this).

Kara: general conversation and questions as an agenda topic occasionally, would be helpful for new folks to the community who aren’t sure where to surface their question