Leadership Group Meeting: July 28 2025 - Islandora/islandora-community GitHub Wiki

Agenda and Notes

  • Welcome new members!
    • Akanksha Singh (Discovery Garden)
    • Joe Corall (Lehigh University)
    • Courtney Matthews (UPEI)
  • Updates from Aubrey and Committees
    • Aubrey/Community Manager
      • Upcoming vaca Aug 6-15
    • TAG
      • Chose who will attend leadership group meetings for this coming year.
      • Discussed questions around how to join TAG.
        • Discussed updates about Isladora.org pr/issue management.
    • Metadata Committee
      • Feedback from the committee: Willing to try “being a Committee” with feedback about how it’s working after a year.
      • Received a draft ToR for the MC from the LG which will be reviewed/revised.
      • Next meeting is Sept 8 (delayed a week due to labor day). Will discuss ToR then.
    • Documentation Committee: no updates
    • Code of Conduct: will need to think about new membership soon
  • IslandoraCon Recap
    • average attendance close to 90 each day
    • Feedback: feedback has started to come in, for example suggestions on tweaking "lunch" time for various time zones
  • New Committees
    • Mixed responses to joining new committees
    • Aubrey will do one more push for new committee members.
    • Community Involvement Interest Form
    • Metadata Committee: in the process of reviewing Terms of Reference
    • Documentation Committee: Terms of Reference accepted, will be posted shortly (some consideration of documentation structure was also discussed).
    • Prioritizing Roadmap Committee
      • Initial draft of Terms of Reference reviewed; next couple of weeks will get it completed and members finalized.
      • Suggestion on outreach to the Drupal community as part of efforts for the Roadmap committee
      • Next steps: contact those who expressed interest, get initial meeting set for August
  • Plan for 2025-2026 LG review
    • Aubrey reviewed and updated LG documents to reflect new proposed committees
    • Existing Committees will consider additional goals for this year and bring back to LG