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15 min
Follow up re; China Community issues
@Alexis Manheim
Need volunteers for time bound group that will help frame the issues and advise on next steps
2 volunteers to be part of that group so far: Paul Moeller and Jennifer Eustis
this will be a limited time investment
would be good to have other non-PC members
Jennifer: volunteers from China Community are needed to run the meetings
a lot of the issues of the China Community will be solved by upgrading to the latest release, so that would be the first advice: upgrade to current release
many issues cannot be backported
Question: what is the goal: manage product side only or manage technical side as well? It will depend on this decision whether TC members should be part of the group
proposal: hold off this decision until China Community will decide to upgrade to current version and until we have a volunteer from China Community
@Alexis Manheim reach out to potential volunteers from China Community
@Alexis Manheim get in touch with @Paul Moeller and @Jennifer Eustis to start group on China Community issues
Alexis would like to change wording on and will add a comment to the document draft State of FOLIO
The Product Council, under its charter, ‘manages’ the roadmap through compilation and distillation of all of these different development activities, while not directing the development resources. Whenever possible, the Product Council has compiled documents from organizations who are funding (and/or doing) development for FOLIO to support an informed roadmap for the community. The PC uses this information to support a Roadmap that needs updating with each release.
Jennifer: what is the goal with this document? Who is the audience?
Jennifer: has issues with how PC task is described; it is slightly confusing; is PC well represented?
Alexis: the document is very long, depending on the audience that it is meant for
Owen: reading was positive; reasinably good summary of state
development happens through organisation’s funding and work
by funding and contributing work institutions influence what is being developed
document may not be too long for the complex content
Ian Walls in chat: Libraries are empowered to make FOLIO be what they need it to be... but they have to exercise that power through a commitment of resources
Tod, Gang Zhou, Owen and Alexis agree
Tod agrees to Owen
most open source projects have large companies that do the majority of the development
Jesse: docuemnt can be a useful foundation
Alexis: maybe restructure or add a table of contents - will make a comment
question: how often will the document be reviewed and updated?
question: where will it go? On the webiste?
Lucy Harrison in chat: Yeah there are several places where specific numbers are mentioned that will quickly be out of date
Tod in chat: Having a data on the document is a very good thing! s/data/date/
Jennifer: are there other ways to show the history?
Owen: did not read this document to give milestones of history of FOLIO
there was a page on FOLIO history on the website
better definition of what the document is for is needed
coming back to Alexis point: it is worth defining where the document should go - that would indicate whether it is too long
Lucy Harrison in chat: I need to run to another meeting but thank you fr letting me lurk! We are developing the website for OpenRS right now and grappling with some similar issues https://openrs.org/ We haven' tposted our governance doc yet since we're still working on that
Alexis: when and how will the document be presented to the marketing team - if it is to go on the website
Everyone is encouraged to read the document and make comments
Alexis and Kristin will follow up with Mike about the way the PC is conveyed in the document