Leadership Group Meeting: June 2, 2025 (May meeting rescheduled) - Islandora/islandora-community GitHub Wiki
Agenda and Notes
Rosie Le Faive has taken over as LG rep from Chris Day on the MIG
Brief updates from IG’s & Committees
Code of Conduct: (no update)
IR IG:(no update; Aubrey will follow up)
MIG: Meeting June 2; focus on post-migration clean-up. Looking for a third co-convener willing to take requests for "output" e.g. reports, focus areas, improvements to metadata profile, etc. Clarification on the definition of output: this was taken up in later discussion.
DIG: Met in May. Noted that Florida Virtual Campus proposed an IslandoraCon session on the FLVC documentation process. Noted that Mark Jordan plans to hand off Islandora Workbench to Islandora community in the next months
TAG: Met on May 14. Implemented backlog solution that was proposed in a previous leadership group meeting (April 28.) We are testing it first on the Islandora Labs repository and then we will move to implement it on the Islandora and Islandora Devops repositories. Big thank you to Joe Corall for a repository wide solution.
LAC GLAM: Next mtg June 5, 2025 2-3 EST. Topic: submission forms and Drupal 11 update. We are looking for anyone that can share info on the D11 update with the group.
Community Manager:
Continuing final plans for IslandoraCon
Finishing preparation for Open Repositories conference (June 15-18)
Organizing community survey
Continuing work on 1 year plan (to be presented at AGM)
IslandoraCon update
Let Aubrey know about those wanting to participate in watch party.
Current registration is about 80.
Members have early bird pricing up to the start of the event.
Leadership Group structure and proposed new groups; discussion context:
Aubrey to create a one-year plan for strategic focus at AGM, drawing on her community conversations/work thus far, the work done in LG, and the existing strategic plan.
What is the best structure for the LG that supports the strategic focus for next year (July 2025-2026)?
Changes will be brought to the AGM for vote and ratification (specifics on this to be discussed further).
Proposed new committees:
MIG changes to Metadata Committee
DIG changes to Documentation Committee
Provide input on and help LG make decisions on best practices for metadata and documentation as it relates to Islandora
Generally bring metadata and documentation expertise into larger planning conversations
Chair of each serves on LG
On behalf of DIG, Yamil confirmed agreement on this change.
For MIG: because the LG meeting was rescheduled this month, it created a conflict with the regular MIG meeting, so we’ll follow up with them in between meetings
New: Events Committee
Supports planning and execution of IslandoraCon, Camps, and any other community/Foundation events
Overall agreement on this new committee. Aubrey will chair and is building a calendar. A committee will help initiate planning committees for specific events. Discussed highlighting the Education/Training component of the activities.
New: Roadmap Committee
Create and maintain an updated Islandora roadmap, including priorities and timelines; chair serves on LG
Overall and enthusiastic agreement on this new committee. Committee would include technical and non-technical community members, with an emphasis on collaboration and coordination with TAG.
New: Membership and Fundraising Committee
Develop a renewed promotion and marketing campaign for Islandora with the goal of building memberships and participation
Develop a Grants and Partnerships Strategy to help drive new revenue streams
Overall agreement on this from LG. Aubrey willing to Chair.
There were a couple of additional proposals and agenda items that we did not get to, so these will be taken up in-between and at the next meeting:
Creation of a Workbench working group
Change the requirement for Interest Groups to send a rep to the LG, and instead be supported and represented by the Community Manager
A question via TAG from the Tech Call about archiving Islandora 7 repositories