Evaluate DevOps interest and needs to increase participation

[ctgraham]

Participation seems to ebb and flow within the group. A task from November's Call suggested three mechanisms to gauge interest in the group:

• Email former members who are now inactive to find out what caused the lapse in particpation
• Email the Islandora listserv to gauge potential topics of interest within the group's scope
• Post to islandora.ca to describe and advertise the group

@g7morris volunteered to draft communications for @manez's review.

[g7morris]

@manez @bryjbrown Some wordsmithing of the main repo header more in line with what this group "should be" doing.

Please edit / revise / as you see fit. I welcome your input on this. Thanks.

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The name of the IIG is the Islandora DevOps Interest Group (IDOIG)

The purpose of the Islandora DevOps Interest Group is to make it easier for endusers, developers, testers, and system administrators to understand, deploy, tune and secure the Islandora stack (and associated tools) in their respective hosting environments.

Specific goals, activities, outcomes include:

• explore and document ways of increasing scalability of the various components of the Islandora stack

• Ensure fuller communication and transparency within the Islandora community for issues, bugs and other important events.

• create/maintain an Islandora systems and dependencies version matrix for enduser reference within this Github repository. (To be fully tested)

• consult with the CLAW project as needed

• maintaining the Islandora Vagrant and Islandora Vagrant Base Box

• Assisting with curation of current Islandora Documentation to ensure up to date changes are reflected and tested properly.

• Assisting and volunteering as subject matter experts and proctors for technical workshops during Islandoracon

• The convenors will produce a report to be submitted to the Islandora Roadmap Committee following the IDOIG’s meeting.

This group meets on the second Wednesday of every month using the Islandora Foundation conference call line.

A call for agenda items will be posted with the appropriate meeting week file e.g. 21.md found within the meetings section of this Github repository.

The convenors will appoint a note taker for the meeting and meeting notes will be made available within the appropriate meeting week file e.g. 21.md