Samvera Community Newsletter August 2022
Heather Greer Klein
In this issue:
Call for Proposals extended for Samvera Connect Online; lightning talk and poster submissions now open
Developers needed for the Hyrax-Valkyrization Community Effort – September 6th - 16th
Everyone can test as part of the Hyrax Valkyrization Community Effort
Samvera Metadata Interest Group co-facilitator opportunity
In case you missed it - news round-up and job postings
1 – Call for Proposals extended for Samvera Connect Online; lightning talk and poster submissions now open
You have time to submit a proposal for Samvera Connect Online 2022!
Submit a proposal for a Panel or Presentation – Deadline extended to September 2nd
Submit a proposal for a lightning talk by September 30th
Submit a proposal for a virtual poster by September 30th
Register for free on Eventbrite to join us at Samvera Connect Online from 11AM - 2PM EST on October 24th - 27th, 2022.
Full details about proposals can be found on the Call for Proposals wiki page.
Thank you for helping us create another excellent online conference!
2 – Developers needed for the Hyrax-Valkyrization Community Effort – September 6th - 16th
Developer volunteers are needed for the Hyrax-Valkyrization Community Effort – September 6th - 16th. You can participate in one day or all nine days. This critically important work will make a positive impact on all our Samvera technologies, and the work is being done 100% by community volunteers.
Here are some highlights of the remaining work:
Collections filter and Collections metadata (easy to get started)
The Viewer and Filesets (close to done)
Embargo, Transfers, and Work sharing
Collection sharing, nesting, and membership (still require some big lifts to re-work and complete)
The remaining tasks are being turned into workable issues, and will be ready to go for the sprint. Testers will be available as well to help move things forward.
Developer resources for this work are available, and the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group is currently preparing and refining issues from the last community effort to make developer work easier during the sprint.
If you’d like to participate please sign up on the wiki page. If you don’t have wiki access that’s no problem, just email hea...@samvera.org.
3 – Everyone can test as part of the Hyrax Valkyrization Community Effort
Calling all community members! We need your help during the Hyrax-Valkyrization Community Effort, September 6th - 16th. You can participate in one day or all nine days. This critically important work will make a positive impact on all our Samvera technologies, and the work is being done 100% by community volunteers.
Testers don’t need any special software, as you’ll be testing in a browser on a cloud-based test instance of Hyrax. You will be checking to see if specific functionality is performing as expected, and reporting your findings in a Google spreadsheet. You don’t have to be familiar with Hyrax to do this testing, as the testing spreadsheet will make it clear what functionality is expected.
Optionally, this testing is an excellent way to learn to write issues in GitHub – we can teach you how to report the bugs you find to developers, or you can document them in the spreadsheet.
If you’d like to participate please sign up on the wiki page. If you don’t have wiki access that’s no problem, just email hea...@samvera.org.
4 – Samvera Metadata Interest Group co-facilitator opportunity
The Samvera Metadata Interest Group (SMIG) is in search of a c-facilitator!
Facilitator responsibilities include:
Scheduling monthly meetings and preparing agendas
Commissioning working groups and specific initiatives as needed
Reporting to the community at Connect/Virtual Connect meetings, or sending an update
This role would be a one year commitment, beginning after Samvera Connect in October. If you’re interested and would like to discuss further, please contact the current co-facilitators, Anna Goslen (gos...@email.unc.edu) and Nora Zimmerman (zimm...@lafayette.edu). Thank you!
5 – In case you missed it - news round-up and job postings