[Eg-oversight-board] Thinking strategically: EOB involvement in "future of EG XUL client"?

[McKinney, Elizabeth]

I agree with this idea and approach. If we think the annual conference is not a good time/place, do you think the developer community would agree to a pre or post hackaway meeting with an EOB sponsored/coordinated group of potential financial backers? How soon would an idea need to be floated to the developer community for consideration on the agenda at a hackaway? 



Elizabeth 

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From: "Kathy Lussier" <klussier at masslnc.org> 
To: eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org 
Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 11:28:12 AM 
Subject: Re: [Eg-oversight-board] Thinking strategically: EOB involvement in "future of EG XUL client"? 


On 9/4/2013 11:10 AM, Galen Charlton wrote: 



Hi, 


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Ben Hyman < ben.hyman at bc.libraries.coop > wrote: 

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What does this group think of something like a "Resource-Allocator-A-Way" loosely based on the successful Hack-A-Way model, and facilitated by the EOB? "Say what?" Essentially, this would be an opportunity for resource allocator types to a) come together b) learn of common cause c) brainstorm methods to achieve common cause via protocol and - wait for it - funding agreements and the like. 




I think this is a good idea, particularly as an event that's part of the Evergreen Conference and potentially the regional conferences -- "part of" because I think that identifying the common causes is more easily done at times and places where developers and users gather. 
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When I first saw Ben's idea, I was thinking of it as an Evergreen Summit where the resource allocators and developers would come together because I do think it would be important for developers to be part of this conversation. I'm guessing there are many infrastructure improvements that the developers would like to see. However, they can't really act upon those ideas because the resource allocators don't know about the possibility of those improvements and, therefore, don't fund them. 

The problem with doing something like this at the Evergreen conference is that there is little time to address these topics in a comprehensive manner. A separate summit to discuss these issues would ensure that we can spend a full day exploring these questions and that everyone one participating is somebody who wants to be part an active part of the discussion. 

Kathy 

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