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Hub Users Group Meeting November 2013. Agenda. Introductions and Presentation on Hub Users Group – Outcome of hubbub discussion and plans for first year of the group (15 minutes ) Discussion of ideas for future meeting topics, annual award ideas, ideas to work on documentation (20 minutes )
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Agenda • Introductions and Presentation on Hub Users Group – Outcome of hubbub discussion and plans for first year of the group (15 minutes) • Discussion of ideas for future meeting topics, annual award ideas, ideas to work on documentation (20 minutes) • Presentation of new developments, features and fixes from hubzero team (Joomla 2.5 upgrades on campus) and upcoming event announcements (Hack-a-thon) (15 minutes) • User question and discussion time (time for users to ask each other and hubzero team for help) (10 minutes)
History • Hubowner’s group led by hubzero team met monthly in person and online. • Pro: hubzero team led the effort and organized presentations • Pro: Consistent meeting time • Pro: Access for offsite members • Pro: Hubzero developers attended and answered questions.
History Continued • Con: Poor attendance led to low exchange of new ideas • Con: Topics were chosen by experts and not members of the community • Con: The names ‘hub owners’ might have limited the audience
Idea? • Let’s try and start a new Hub Users group • Share new developments • Find common goals • Share tools, tutorials and lessons learned • Find opportunities to collaborate on new projects
Hubbub meeting • Who: • Who are we? Hub owners, hub managers, hub users or all of the above? • Where: • Do we want to meet in person, online, both? • When: • What frequency of meetings would meet our needs? (Monthly, Quarterly, by Academic Term (3 times a year), semi-annual) • What and Why: • What do we want to accomplish? Is there anything in particular we are interested in?
Who are we? • Common themes emerged: • Hub users group should be inclusive and include hub users, owners, managers, developers and open source hub adopters. • The group shouldn’t focus on any one larger hub but instead have a broad focus. • The group needs be run by the members and not by hubzero staff. • Ann was both nominated to lead the group and volunteered.
Where and When • Regular meetings in person and online 4-5 times a year • In person meeting once a year at hubbub • Online presence anytime at: hubzero.org/groups/hubowners/ through hub users group
What and Why? • Three Main Goals: • Communicate • Give feedback to hubzero and act as a sounding board • What are the latest new developments • The group can help to improve documentation • Collaborate and share • Share use cases • Usability and other cross-cutting topics of importance • Want access to expertise from hubzero and user community • Getting open source code sites up and running • Trouble shooting issues • Get more example templates
Future meetings: • We will try to rotate meeting topics from general users to developers and open source adopters • January meeting hubzero will present on the Code Contribution process and web component development • Meet formally every other month November, January, March, May, July, September (hubbub) • Times and days may vary to begin with and then settle into a pattern. • Future meeting topic volunteers? (These may develop over time as new features and projects progress.)
Award ideas • Annual hub user group awards • Need to define categories, any ideas? • Open up nominations in July for users to nominate each other • Develop committee to evaluate nominations • Winners awarded at hubbub
Documentation • Hubzero.org contains • Hub users • Hub managers • Web developers • Tool developers • System Administrators • Volunteers to evaluate each section • Suggestions or questions for improvement
Continue the discussion • http://hubzero.org/groups/hubowners • ambessenbacher@purdue.edu