Samvera Community Newsletter July 2021
Heather Greer Klein
In this issue:
Summer Developer Congress starts next week -- all levels welcome and supported
Q&A Sessions start July 21:
July 21: getting started with Hyrax engine development
August 4th: Hyrax documentation (what we have and what we need)
Sign up to facilitate a Q&A Session
LAST CALL: Please allocate staff to the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group 2021 Cycle 2 (July-December 2021)
Samvera Repositories Online Tour is live
In case you missed it - June news round-up
1 -- Sign up for Summer Developer Congress -- all levels welcome and supported
The summer Developer Congress is next week, July 12 - 16, 2021.
This Congress is perfect for:
Anyone who writes code or software documentation, especially those who are new to the Community or to Hyrax.
Developers interested in working on a specific development topic.
Current potential topics for work during the week are:
Running Hyrax locally
Implement data seeds
Extend metadata.yml to ActiveFedora::Base work models
Make feature tests runnable in docker environment
Documentation on code base patterns to help educate new contributors
Implementing a CLA checker
To join, just add your name to the participants list.
2 -- Q&A Sessions start July 21
These half hour, informal learning sessions will be led by and for Samverans with technical interests and are an opportunity to dive deep and ask questions.
Upcoming sessions:
Learn more about sessions and suggest topics for future sessions on the Q&A Sessions wiki page.
3 -- Sign up to facilitate a Q&A Session
Who we need: Samverans at any level of technical experience to lead a session. This can be a general Q&A time or demo time for a particular feature or aspect of technology, a review of a common or tricky process, a walkthrough of specific troubleshooting steps, etc.
To volunteer to facilitate just claim an open session on the Q&A Sessions wiki page.
4 -- LAST CALL Hyrax Maintenance Working Group 2021 Cycle 2 (July-December 2021)
We would like to see new participants in this cycle. Relying on the same individuals and institutions for Hyrax maintenance will lead to burnout.
We need institutional leaders to commit .25 or .5 FTE from Developers and GitHub issues testers for July-December 2021. Work is done in 2-week sprints, two weeks on and two weeks off.
To participate: Add your name to the team list on the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group page (https://samvera.atlassian.net/l/c/7Ez5hbR1)
For more information: See the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group page (https://samvera.atlassian.net/l/c/7Ez5hbR1) For questions, contact Julie Hardesty (jlha...@iu.edu), Hyrax Product Owner
5 -- Samvera Repositories Online Tour is live
The Samvera Repositories StoryMap is an easy way to learn about a variety of Samvera-based repositories and the unique collections available from institutions in the Samvera Community. You’ll see community oral history projects, coronavirus research, studies on the grasses of Madagascar, and more!
If you’re interested in adding your repository to the tour, just fill out this form.
6 -- In case you missed it - June news round-up
Open Repositories Steering Committee - taking nominations for new members
Job Posting: Computer Systems Admin / DevOps Senior (University of Cincinnati)
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