Leadership Group Meeting: June 30 2025 - Islandora/islandora-community GitHub Wiki
Agenda and Notes
Updates from IG’s, Committees, and Aubrey (Community Manager)
TAG
Met on June 11th. Discussed the status of the backlog. Islandora Labs is done and Islandora Devops is in progress. Discussed the process of contributing a repository to Islandora.
MIG
Met June 2 to discuss post-migration cleanup projects. Awaiting our next meeting (July 7) to have a fulsome response to the MIG restructuring proposal
DIG
DIG met on May 11th. Got updates from the Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) that the official Islandora docs can use content from their extensive documentation if we give credit. Yamil will give a DIG lightning talk at the conference.
LAC-GLAM - No July Meeting. August Meeting we will review/critique the IF website
IRIG: no update
Community Manager - No major updates outside of the conference & AGM presentation
Tech call: archiving Islandora 7 repositories and sending out a message to the Islandora community. There was support for this effort and went back to TAG for next steps.
IslandoraCon update
Early bird pricing still available for membership levels; there’s a sale at merch site through July 7. Email forthcoming with logistics and registration reminder. Slides deadline technically today but extended if needed.
Code of Conduct volunteers still needed. Over 100 registrants for conference.
Proposal for MIG to change to a Metadata Committee
MIG members will discuss July 7, 2025. We discussed how to best differentiate sharing, open discussion and expectations of committee work.
Proposal for a new Workbench Working Group
Working with Mark Jordan, convene and create a plan for Workbench to be sustainably maintained by the community; see also this document
A Working Group may either report into LG directly or be facilitated through another Committee, depending on the subject matter/requirements
LG discussion on timing of forming this group (after IslandoraCon) and creating Terms of Reference and reporting structure to best meet goals.
Proposal for changes to Interest Groups:
Discussion on revising the reporting structure and requirements for IG’s so that they do not report directly to the LG but are supported by Aubrey as Community Manager.
The intention is to encourage IG’s by making it easy to form and pursue relevant activities, sharing, discussion, etc., and know they can rely on Aubrey for supportive actions like scheduling meetings/Zoom, communications, and other facilitation.
IG’s will be a conduit to share community-based input via Aubrey to the IF Governance rather than having a seat themselves. IG’s will continue to be encouraged to come together around specific topics for information exchange, mentorship and best practices, etc.
Aubrey’s 1 year plan
Aubrey shared slides in progress for AGM and there was discussion of feedback to the draft version of the one year plan.
Plan is big-picture, not everything will happen in year one, and work will be collaborative not just from Aubrey.
Strategic planning process was a long-form version; the spreadsheet (“grid view”) is a more granular, faceted version of the Appendix A of the strategic plan. A tool for LG and groups to use in strategic focus and tracking outcomes.
Grid version doesn’t present anything new (apart from some clarification/updates on things like ICC _> LG change); notes on who should be responsible for this if work may be added
LG structure:
Agreement that we would continue LG with co-chairs and the Board Chair and Vice Chair serving on LG
AGM prep
Discuss elections for next year and composition of LG
Assumption that Metadata and Documentation will be committees.
Same rules as this past year for membership level representation