[Eg-oversight-board] It Takes a Village: OSS Models of Collaboration & Sustainability
Timothy Spindler
tspindler at cwmars.org
Mon Oct 9 13:29:50 EDT 2017
Terran,
As part of this IMLS grant they are not planning one. I'm not sure if
Lyrasis would do more though.
Tim
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Terran McCanna <
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
> Thank you, Tim. This is all very interesting. Do you know if they plan on
> holding another event like this in the future?
>
>
>
> Terran McCanna
> PINES Program Manager
> Georgia Public Library Service
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> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Timothy Spindler <tspindler at cwmars.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Ron,
>>
>> I think Evergreen is in better shape than most projects. I think long
>> term we may want to look at ways to get large projects done like the web
>> client. However, I think we have done well given Equinox leadership in
>> laying out the sprints and giving the community a path forward on this. We
>> also always seemed to be fortunate to have players like MassLNC willing to
>> step up to the plate within the community to fund some large projects.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Gagnon, Ron <gagnon at noblenet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Tim,
>>> Thank you for attending on our behalf, and for the recap. I realize
>>> there are many different governance models, as you outlined, but all in all
>>> does Evergreen seem to be on the right track, or are there any concerning
>>> takeaways?
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Timothy Spindler <tspindler at cwmars.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I attended this forum for the last two days in Baltimore representing
>>>> the Evergreen community. It was created under an IMLS grant and run by
>>>> Lyrasis. The goal of the forum seemed a little vague but ultimately in the
>>>> end they seem to want to develop a report and identify tools which would
>>>> assist organizations in starting up open source projects and managing them
>>>> long term.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The discussion began with representatives evaluating their stage of
>>>> their project:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> New/Starting Up
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Growing
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Self Sustaining
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Maintenance
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> End of life
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The discussion focused on what does the above categories mean. Are
>>>> they related to the community, organization or technology? Does the cycle
>>>> apply to individual versions of the software or the life cycle of the
>>>> project? Is there a difference between Self Sustaining and maintenance.
>>>> Some of the attendees seemed to want to focus on the development cycle but
>>>> not the life cycle of the project. Others focused on the life cycle of the
>>>> project.
>>>>
>>>> Established key top level issues for open source projects
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Governance
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Resources
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Technology
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Community
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Each project identified where they were on a scale of 1-10 for each
>>>> category. Some projects identified
>>>>
>>>> The discussion on the Thursday looked at the four areas identified
>>>> previously (governance, resources, technology and community) and focused on
>>>> what was needed to advance an a project in these areas.
>>>>
>>>> We also discussed what tools and the process for projects to develop
>>>> based on the first day’s discussion.
>>>>
>>>> Commentary
>>>>
>>>> The forum was strongly represented by large academic research
>>>> institutions even though it was ostensibly to include open source projects
>>>> for all cultural institutions. These projects almost all had much more top
>>>> down project management that controlled development and to a lesser extent
>>>> support. One notable exception was Koha (Chris Cormack was representing
>>>> the Koha community). Wikipedia, of course, has crowd sourced content so it
>>>> has a more bottom up approach. The other open source projects had
>>>> councils/committees/partners or simply what was termed a benevolent
>>>> dictator controlling the project. These groups control feature development
>>>> and manage the project. All the projects were at various stages in the
>>>> life of the project.
>>>>
>>>> Outcomes
>>>>
>>>> Lyrasis will be writing a report that will come out next year with the
>>>> goal of identifying a process for developing and possibly managing open
>>>> source projects.
>>>>
>>>> Projects Represented
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Archivematica
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> ArchivesSpace
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Avalon Media System
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> BitCurator
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Blacklight
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Collective Access
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> ConservationSpace
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Coral
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> DSpace
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Duraspace
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Fedora
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Islandora
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Knowledge Project
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Koha
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Library Simplified
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> LOCKSS
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> MetaArchive
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> OLE/Folio
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Omeka
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Public Knowledge Project
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Sakai
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Samvera
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Specify Software Project
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Vega
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> VuFind
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> Wikimedia (Wikipedia)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Tim Spindler | Executive Director
>>>>
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>>> Ronald A. Gagnon
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