TAG: September 13, 2023 - Islandora/islandora-community GitHub Wiki

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Attending:

  • Seth Shaw
  • Willow Gillingham
  • Amy Blau
  • Rosie Le Faive
  • Don Richards
  • Rebecca Power ✏️

Agenda

  • Add action items from previous meetings
    • Interest Group updates?
    • Islandora Events?
  • Modules on Drupal.org
    • overview of mirroring mechanism
    • routine to create releases on Drupal.org
    • recommendation to require islandora/islandora vs drupal/islandora
  • Node-media direction
  • ICC/LG ideating where islandora would be

Meeting Minutes

  • Amy: ICC is doing work to understand community desires and needs for Islandora events in the spring and summer (camps, trainings, etc.).
    • More workshop and hands-on stuff (lots of demand for this)
    • Demand for Workbench training
    • Giving real-world examples of what an object in a repository would look like (using migrations from institutions)
      • Better tutorials with these examples for institutions to use to dive deeper into given their university’s requirements
  • Amy: ICC & LG working on strategic planning–where do we want to be in 18 months?
  • Rosie: Modules on Drupal.org
    • overview of mirroring mechanism
    • routine to create releases on Drupal.org
      • Can’t be done until the mirroring mechanism is fixed
    • recommendation to require islandora/islandora vs drupal/islandora
  • Rosie: Node-media direction switch
    • Everyone to read over proposal
    • Will require a migration for existing sites–but can be automated
    • Will make using Drupal modules easier and make things make more sense in Islandora
    • How can we do this in a way that can be adopted by other Drupal users?
    • Invite Luke to discuss this at the next Open Tech Call
  • ICC/LG ideating where islandora would be
    • What are the goals for the community and software
    • Seth: Stable deployments to work from (too many options right now)
      • Willow: Some kind of emulator that just does it all for you?
      • Seth: ‘Click and Run’ more of a vendor thing

Action Items

  • Think about events for next year
  • Read over node-media direction switch proposal
  • Think about ICC/LG roadmap: where do you want to see islandora in 18 months? Goals for the community & software