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
  • 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