[Tf-curation] CMDI meetings: doodles

[Twan Goosen]

Happy new year everyone!

Although fewer meetings might be a new year's resolution for many of us,
I would like to bring to your attention two doodles. The first I already
shared before the holidays, but I think we are still missing input from
some people. This one is for the first 'broad' CMDI meeting, i.e. the
one where the concrete 'mini task forces' report and we look at the
overall progress and planning. It is open to anyone interested:

    <https://doodle.com/poll/ymrdv7ue63h2y6gd>  <-- broad meeting (February)

I have another Doodle for those interested on working on the 'core
metadata components and profiles' activity. It would be great if we
could have a first meeting on this before the broad meeting, i.e. in the
second half of this month. Some people already signed up for
contributing to this task, but I think there are also people that didn't
attend the last meeting but would be interested as well:

    <https://doodle.com/poll/wupu4h7a4evnae32>  <!-- core components and
profiles meeting (January)

I would like to close both Doodles around the end of the week, so if you
could have a look and mark the options that suit you, that would be
extremely helpful.
For now that's all you have to do :) Thanks a lot!

Best,
Twan

On 20/12/2019 15:22, Twan Goosen wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Earlier this week we had another meeting on CMDI strategy and it looks
> like we now have consensus on a set of goals and indicators, and most
> importantly a list of tasks with rough prioritisation and at least one
> name associated with each of them.
>
> Here's a brief summary of where we're currently at. More details can be
> found in the meeting notes [1]. Even if you don't have time to read
> through any of this, please do  fill in the doodle for the next 'broad'
> meeting (explained below) and after that consider having a look at the
> task list (see below) and see if you would be interested in contributing
> to any if your name isn't there yet.
>
> * Doodle for the next meeting (second half of February) *
>
>     https://doodle.com/poll/ymrdv7ue63h2y6gd
>
> * Task force organisation *
>
> Apart from making plans for tasks and activities, we also agreed on
> streamlining the situation regarding the two ('formally') separate task
> forces: CMDI and curation. Concretely, we decided to subscribe all
> members of the 'tf-curation' mailing list to 'tf-cmdi' and for now
> abandon the former. I need some authorisation on the list server to
> actually carry this out, but will try do so as soon as possible - most
> likely in the first half of January. If this changes anything for you,
> you should get a notification.
>
> In terms of task force meetings, the intention is to have 'broad' task
> force meetings every 6~8 weeks, mainly to report on concrete activities
> by task-specific groups, synchronise between tasks and discuss general
> matters. The specific task groups can of course decide on meeting
> schedule and means of collaboration.
>
> * Tasks *
>
> In the first quarter of 2020 we aim to start (or continue) working on a
> number of specific tasks in parallel:
>
>     - Completion of the common use cases evaluation (Andreas & *Twan*)
>     - Core profiles and components (*Twan*, Alex, Andreas, Marcin,
> Oddrun, Felix)
>     - Vocabularies investigation (Oddrun, Matej, Dieter, *Twan*)
>     - CMDI general documentation rewrite (Alex, Felix, *Dieter*)
>     - Solutions for gathering user feedback/experience/satisfaction
> (*Alex*, ...)
>
> The names mentioned are of those who expressed interest in working on
> those tasks. For each task, one out of these has been *appointed* to
> take care of the (initial) organisation required to get the work on the
> task going. I think it would be ok to use this list for that purpose as
> long as the number of messages is within bounds. If you are interested
> in contributing towards one of the tasks, please let me know or contact
> the task 'coordinator'.
>
> Beyond the high priority tasks listed above, we also identified a number
> of tasks which are to be taken up in the mid to long term. More details
> on these can be found in the notes of the meeting page [1] and the
> strategy working document [2]. There you will also find the description
> of the CMDI (task force) goals.
>
> For now this is the most important information regarding the CMDI
> strategy. Concrete information about the specific tasks will likely
> follow in January. We will meet again (virtually) in a broader setting
> in February. As this is probably the last message I'm sending this year,
> let me wish you all happy holidays and say that I'm very much looking
> forward to continue our work on CMDI together in the new year :)
>
> Best,
> Twan
>
> P.S. don't forget to fill in the Doodle :)
> <https://doodle.com/poll/ymrdv7ue63h2y6gd>
>
> [1] https://trac.clarin.eu/wiki/Taskforces/CMDI/Meeting20191218
> [2]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cRJKiise8HFS16gqG4gC3TsI0W-TnLSnebh_YS6mZ3U/edit?usp=sharing
>

-- 
Twan Goosen
Software developer at CLARIN ERIC
www.clarin.eu | twan at clarin.eu