2025-03-13 Product Council Agenda & Meeting Notes

5 min

Announcements

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PC Planning and Meeting canceled for next week (3/18 and 3/20)

LDLite update @Jennifer Eustis . LDLite which is part of the LDP project, has a new developer (Katherine Barger) and PO (Patrick Waite). They presented this morning at the Reporting SIG. You can view this document, https://docs.google.com/document/d/143Wtqvg11t5AiUWfGWJNVGHPkn7_S81MWu770q3REJk/edit?tab=t.0  which outlines their vision. This also has a link to the slides which show how to contact them for info, support, and questions. New Slack Channel: #ldlite Presentation on vision and mission

Call for WOLFcon proposals are out. Proposals to be handed in by 04/11/2025. Website for registration is also up.

5 min

Eureka early adopters and Permissions updates

@Kirstin Kemner-Heek @Jeremy Huff @Charlotte Whitt
GBV, Texas A&M, Index Data

The non-EBSCO institutions have set up the basic implementation. The 6 weeks implementation has passed now, and the progress is very slow, and time is running out. GBV has set up an extra name space, and is getting assistance from colleagues at EBSCO, TAMU and Index Data. The documentation is being enhanced while working. GBV’s hardware is different from what US, EBSCO is using. We are aware that other Stanford, Linköping, and National Library of Sweden, has to go through the same challenges later this year.

25 min

FOLIO Governance Model updates

@Alexis Manheim @Kristin Martin

@Martin Scholz had a comment re. the distributed (governance) responsibilities and decision making. @Kristin Martin and @Caitlin Stewart suggests to add: “the following” to clarify that there are decisions that are not made by the councils.

The PC in general aim from lazy consensus, and then is some cases we move on and propose to vote. @Brooks Travis had a suggestion for change about the voting process. If the voting outcome is getting weird because a majority of the members are abstaining in voting, then the given council has bigger problems. Kristin Martin underscored that in general we have faith in good intensions. Jesse K. true consensus building would not require any voting. The suggested model is lazy consensus, so the abstaining votes, are supporting the majority of votes.

Lucy suggests in chat: “Majority of the quorum” vs. “majority of those voting” - but this will make the abstention a ‘no’ vote by default. Jenn add: If you force abstentions to equal ‘no’ then people can’t abstain when they have legitimate reasons.

Kritin Martin pointed out, that the convener will have the power to step in, and state, that more time for the conversation is needed.

20 min

Focus on Community-wide prioritization

@Alexis Manheim @Caitlin Stewart

Leveraging Prioritization process in SIGs to identify community wide priorities

5 min

Future topics

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3/27 WOLFCon planning for 4/11 submission deadline

FOLIO vision, Community development