2016-11-03 Meeting Notes
Date
03 November 2016
Attendees
Margaret Mellinger (Unlicensed)
Who: Director of the department
- What: Go to meetings and worry
- Best: hanging out, no meetings
- Worst: trying to understand what to do with the department as we move forward
- Minion: all
Who: Systems Person
- What: keep everything from blowing up
- Best: solve interesting problems
- Worst: keeping up with everything
- Minion: all the uninteresting things
- David Manela (Unlicensed)
Who: public computer and specialty station support, buy things,
- What:
- Best: all of it, of course
- Worst: all
- Minion: all
- Mike Eaton (Unlicensed)
Who: programmer analyst
What: software development
- Best: variety of problems and challenges
- Worst:
- Minion:
- Marc Rempel (Unlicensed)
Who: programmer analyst
What: software development
- Best: variety of problems and challenges
- Worst:
- Minion:
- Gregorio Luis Ramirez (Unlicensed)
Who: programmer analyst
What: software development
- Best: variety of problems and challenges
- Worst:
- Minion:
- Brandon Straley (Unlicensed)
Who: programmer analyst
What: write hopefully elegant code, learn new stuff
- Best: learning new technologies
- Worst: learning tech, interpersonal issues related to tech
- Minion: stand behind me and tell me i'm a great guy
- Josh Gum (Unlicensed)
Who: programmer analyst
What: software development
- Best: variety of problems and challenges
- Worst: variety of challenges
- Minion: accurate and complete documentation
- Hui Zhang (Unlicensed)
Who: digital applications librarian
What: keeping dspace up and running, content integration, developing tools for SA@OSU
- Best: freedom of having ideas and support for doing them
- Worst: promoting a new project/tool to users and communities
- Minion: uninterested but required things
- Steve Van Tuyl (Unlicensed)
Who: public computer and specialty station support, buy things,
- What:
- Best: all of it, of course
- Worst: all
- Minion: all
- Ryan Wick (Unlicensed)
Who: programmer analyst (ETS/SCARC)
What: primarily OD, SA, CVM, Omeka, fun stuff
- Best: working with different people in the library on projects
- Worst: documentation and keeping up
- Minion: documentation and data cleanup
Discussion Items
| Time | Item | Who | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 mins | Personnel update | ||
| 15-20 min | Introductions | All | Each person answer these questions
|
| 20 min | Discussion | All | Brainstorm how to cover Mike's responsibilities in the near, medium and long-term. |
Discussion
- Introduction
- Cover Mike
- Check in at the beginning of the week with everyone
- Set and track priorities
- PHP stuff that nobody likes
- Website update and maintain
- Road buddy
- What does Mike think the department should do now?
- Talk to Steve about SA@OSU: where we are, what is next, get that on the calendar
- Set priorities for OD
- Roadmap Meeting
- Get sprints on the calendar
- Check in on the Trello board
- Opportunities and vision?
- Another Project Manager type to help track stuff and guide development would be helpful
- What do we do about documentation?
- Automatic documentation generation (though there are mixed reviews)
- In many ways it's just a matter of sitting down and writing it out - make it a consistent practice
- Documentation Day (with LEAD)
- Documentation at all levels
- Documentation pairing
- Building a "run book" to, at a minimum, get something up and running
- Especially important if there are elements of the project that are external
- Maintenance is an issue - the more doc you have the more you have to maintain
- "It still just kinda sucks" - Mike Eaton
- Don't get too bogged down in details and just do it