2025-12-18 Product Council Agenda and Meeting Notes

2025-12-18 Product Council Agenda and Meeting Notes

 Date

Dec 18, 2025

 Participants

  • PC Members: @Alexis Manheim @Thomas Trutt @Charlotte Whitt @Jennifer Eustis @Caitlin Stewart @Jeremy Huff @Martin Scholz @Tod Olson @Jana Freytag

  • Other Attendees: @Martina Tumulla @Kristin Martin @Gang Zhou @Christie Thomas @Peter Murray @Brooks Travis

  • Regrets: @Autumn Faulkner @Lisa McColl

  • Note taker: @Martin Scholz

Highlights for Monthly Newsletter

 Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

5 min

Welcome & Announcements

@Jeremy Huff

  • A revised Trillium release, for the end of May, has been announced. It is recommended that PC members listen to the RMS recording, so we can address this topic in a future meeting.

  • No PC Meetings Next 2 Week

3 - 5 min

Liaison Updates

@Tod Olson , @Alexis Manheim , @Jennifer Eustis

CC: no meeting

TC:

  • Pilot for review of existing modules: reviewers have been selected for mod-ebsconet and ui-export-manager

    • Ebsconet is EBSCO’s subscription management tool, this module does the integration

    • Charlotte: Has the linked data app been approved? Plan is to include it into T => Christie: will be evaluated next.

  • Discussed calendar calming proposal. There is interest in piloting that, but also some concern about the last week of the month interfering with other processes that kick off at the beginning of the month for developers.

  • No dedicated topic meeting this week

RMS:

  • Just a reminder that Ramsons CSP 9 will be released Jan. 14. Sunflower CSP 4 will be released Dec. 22, testing is in progress now.

  • Proposed timeline for Trillium is to consider a functional date. Public release date of May 29th with a code freeze of April 10th. Some considerations: Sunflower is just only beginning to be adopted and need to settle with that release; libraries might have more availability to test; allows alignment with fiscal year rollovers; allows hosting organizations to ramp up and target upgrades for late summer/fall. Recording.

  • Charlotte asked in RMS group whether Umbrellaleaf would be scheduled for fall 2026. Mark Veksler explained that flower releases are very expensive, indicated that there may be a shift to an incremental release schedule. A new release strategy should be communicated to the dev teams. A lot of teams are already done with T and they should know what they have to expect.

  • Jeremy: Will Kong be replaced by APISIX within T? Charlotte: Work on APISIX will not hold back T if it is delayed.

Housekeeping

3 - 5 min

New Topic Calendar 2026, and meeting dates

All

Alexis created calendar page for 2026.

On Jan 22 2026 is Tri-Council meeting

5 - 10 min

SIG Reports Are Due

All

Report page

  • Jeremy reminds that there was a plan to focus more on the PC reporting to the SIGs

  • Alexis: Community Priorities Dashboard (CPD) WG is discussing SIG update cadence

  • Jennifer: When to review SIG prios for next year? Alexis: CPD WG covers this.
    SIG prio updates take several weeks, streamline process.

  • Charlotte: Biggest potential of priority updates is informing dev work. Cadence of prio updates should align with release cycle

3 - 5 min

Action Item Review

@Jeremy Huff

@Charlotte Whitt send out a message to SIG conveners for feedback on idea of calendar calming
Charlotte is collecting all feedback on a single page (see below)

Updates on Active Initiatives

5 - 10 min

Working Group Check-in

All

Working Groups
Charlotte reports that at the PO meeting Anne E. presented new way how to communicate implemented features more human-friendly instead of list of UXPROD tickets (recording)

Community Priorities Dashboard WG:

  • Splits into two subgroups with focus on

    • prio dashboard development (Alexis, Autumn)

    • grouping the listed prios into larger packages (Caitlin, Tod)

New Topics

10 - 15 min

Calendar Calming Feedback

@Charlotte Whitt

  • Proposal: Update and Next Steps

  • A discussion evolves on the feedback given. Feedback is mainly on new groups already having problems finding meeting slots. Charlotte proposes to see this as two different things. Some groups are already switching from weekly to biweekly.
    TC has concerns regarding dev processes, but are wlling to go further.
    Jennifer: Data Import SIG will alternate business meetings and working labs
    Kristin: Alternating SIG meetings and working sessions (for subgroups etc.) may be a good way to go
    Christie: Hopefully getting groups to be more efficient than blocking more of people’s time.
    The discussions on he proposal are mixing two different goals:

    • a suggestion for weeks without Folio meetings at all (the original proposal)

    • making meetings more efficient and opening up timeslots

  • Jeremy proposes to implement proposal for PC’s meetings on January-March

    • Jennifer: PC could also alternate planning and business meetings or experiment with other configuration

  • PC decides that in January, February, and March there will be no PC-owned meetings (business, agenda planning, working groups) during the last week of each month

– discussed up to here –

10 - 15 min

Identification of Integrating Tools

All

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Planning

5 min

Newsletter topics

All

  • Pausing on this for the moment as Caitlin is still determining the status of some initiatives after time away.

10 min

Define agendas for next 2 meetings

All

 

 

 

Action Items

@Thomas Trutt reach out to implementers to determine if their survey can satisfy the PC’s goals for a list of modules with maintenance status
@Jeremy Huff Jeremy will set up a one-off meeting about the newsletter with the council chairs + PC.
@Jeremy Huff Updates from working groups in newsletter
@Jeremy Huff add Calendar Calming to a future PC agenda
All working groups should add their goals to the sub group page @Caitlin Stewart @Jeremy Huff @Autumn Faulkner
@Jeremy Huff Initiate PC discussion on how to surface tools that can be integrated with FOLIO but aren’t in the flower release?

Decisions

  • PC decides that in January, February, and March 2026 there will be no PC-owned meetings (business, agenda planning, working groups) during the last week of each month.

 Related materials

Recording: