Community Contributions Day November 2015

This page has been created in the run-up to the EPrints Community Contributions day on November 18th, 2015

Event Run Up

Things to do before the event:

• Register for the Wiki via the EPrints LDAP server at http://trac.eprints.org/ldap/
• If you have an a suggestion for an interest group, add it below
• Please add your name to an interest group that looks interesting.

On the Day

Format and Timings

Interest Groups

Any contribution that can be made is welcome, whether it's a minor edit to a wiki page or a bugfix. However, it may be profitable to run a number of discussion groups in the morning around areas of interest. These discussion groups can then set up work to be accomplished in the afternoon.

• 10:00 - 11:00 Interest groups meet (google hangout?), make decisions and assign tasks
  • What problem are we solving
  • How will we work
  • Who will do what?
• 11:00 - 13:00 Morning Contributions
• 14:00 - 16:00 Afternoon Contributions
• 16:00 - 16:30 Interest groups wrap-up and reporting.

Independent Members

If contributors have particular projects they want to work on, then there's no need to join an Interest Group.

Interest Groups

Group 1: Community Training Course

This interest group is concerned with the wiki page at http://wiki.eprints.org/w/EPrints_Training_Course.

Areas of Discussion

• Standard layout and content for training video pages
• Content of the training course

Members:

• Adam Field

Group 2: Technical

This interest group will be looking at Github, folding in pull requests and evaluating bugs.

Members

• Jiadi Yao

Group 3: Community Contributions

This group will look at how barriers to community contributions (at all levels) can be lowered and community engagement can be promoted.

Members

• Rachel Proudfoot

Group 4: Best Practices and Processes

This group is concerned with community best practices and processes in EPrints.

Suggested subtopics - Impact, Open Access - drafting community requirements for a standard functionality in EPrints

Members:

• Valerie McCutcheon