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2026-07-02 Product Council Agenda and Minutes

2026-07-02 Product Council Agenda and Minutes

 Date

Jul 2, 2026

 

 Participants

  • PC Members: @Alissa Hafele @Regina Hartwigsen @Tod Olson @Martin Scholz @Caitlin Stewart @Brooks Travis @Thomas Trutt @Charlotte Whitt

  • Other Attendees: @Olamide Kolawole@Alexis Manheim@Wayne Schneider @Christie Thomas @Martina Tumulla @Gang Zhou

  • Regrets: @Jennifer Eustis@Jana Freytag @Autumn Faulkner

  • Note taker: @Tod Olson

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5 min

Welcome & Announcements

 

call for notetakers

call for co-chair volunteers

The following people have been elected to PC for the period of July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2028:

  • Caitlin Stewart - Library of Congress @Caitlin Stewart

  • Brooks Travis - EBSCO Information Services @Brooks Travis

  • Alissa Hafele - Stanford Libraries @Alissa Hafele

  • Regina Hartwigsen - BVB - Bibliotheksverbund Bayern (Bavarian Library Network) @Regina

  • Martin Scholz - FAU Nuremberg-Erlangen University Library @Martin Scholz

5 min

Liaison updates

 

Community Council: Met on 6/22 and discussed council election status, planned for the 6/25 Tri-Council meeting, and suggested topics for the WOLFCon council shoulder meetings and Member meeting.

Tech Council: More discussion of Configuration Management RFC. Questions about scope, implications for release process and for operations. To be continued.

Updates from Subgroups (did not cover in Tri-council meeting)

5 min

Community Priorities Dashboard

@Alexis Manheim

  • SIG updates of top five dev priorities

  • documentation added, trying to lighten maintenance costs

  • Want to tell concrete stories about desired improvements

    • gives context for work of POs

    • useful for funding institutions

  • WOLFcon:

    • formal time to discuss the dashboard

    • conversation about concrete stories about improvements to guide how we spend time and resources.

Comments:

  • Some hopes that the DIP process would help fill the needs of stories.

Note: PC also looking at ways to better ways to monitor releases, better ways to sync between RMS & PC. Will recommend a subgroup to work on getting PC more plugged into RMS.

5 min

Community Directed Development

@Jeremy Huff

Jeremy could not be here today, see:

MVP DIP: 2026-07-02 Product Council Agenda and Minutes

2026-06-04 Product Council Agenda and Minutes

5 min

Release Management Communication

@Autumn Faulkner

  • Recent focus on release communication

    • release notes : looking for something more consumable by SMEs

    • release digest expensive to produce, does not meet many needs

  • want something lighter weight, less burden on POs & Release Manager, more PC engagement with getting information out

  • Outcomes

    • FOLIO website (folio.org) has been updated with. Maintenance will remain with EBSCO, councils & others to feed info to the team for things to be featured.

    • Drafting of new wiki home page, looking for comments.

      • Note: this is an edit link, page is not yet published!

    • Suggestion to start using blog feature as lightweight way of publishing information.

Housekeeping

10 min

Round up: What needs to happen between now and WOLFCon?

 

  • Call for updated priorities - week of july 16

  • Conversation about what is not in dashboard

  • Start brainstorming on project investment priorities July 16

10 min

Check:

 

Adjustments needed to PC calendar for calendar calming.

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5 min

 

 

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