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Present: Steve Oberg (Wheaton College), Jeff Mudge (Wheaton College), Heather Wilson (CalTech), Tommy Keswick (CalTech), Paul Poulain (BibLibre), Matthias Meusberger (BibLibre), Carla Clark (SirsiDynix), Luke Aeschleman (SirsiDynix), Eric Hartnett (Texas A&M), Doug Hahn (Texas A&M), Mang Sun (Rice University), Yan Song (NCSU)

NOTE: Up until now the SC used Google Hangouts to facilitate these meetings but with recent growth, we've reached our maximum number of people who can join a hangout. We will try a different solution at our next meeting in January 2018.

Old Business

  1. Steering Committee Chair (Steve)

    Steve reported that he was re-elected for a second term as chair with 9/10 eligible votes having been cast, all in favor. In future we will return to the nomination and election process to ensure that it is as transparent as possible.

  2. Next Release Progress (All)

    Tommy will set up a separate meeting this week of interested CORAL developers to finalize what will go in the ver. 2.1 release, slated for January 2018.

New Business

  1. Welcome to Yan Song, NCSU (Steve)

    Steve formally welcomed Yan as the newest member of the SC.

  2. Testing of PRs (BibLibre)

    Matthias provided a live demo of a cool sandbox solution for taking a PR and testing it. BibLibre uses a similar approach with work they do for Koha. This approach was enthusiastically welcomed and BibLibre will work on providing multiple sandboxes, perhaps then designating individual SC members for a particular sandbox to use for testing purposes in future.

  3. CORAL Community Outreach Coordinator Role (Heather)

    Heather volunteered for this new role and will write up a short description to be posted online. The idea will be to provide more consistent and more transparent information to the CORAL community and beyond. She'd like to start in January with a regular (perhaps monthly?) newsletter that might feature different libraries' implementations of CORAL over time, among other things. She will also be sure that requests for help from CORAL users are tracked and responses coordinated, and she will take care of sending out a CORAL survey developed by Scott Vieira to various discussion lists.

  4. Other Roles Needing Definition? (All)

    Steve asked for input on other roles that might need to be defined. One such role is Release Coordinator, which Tommy volunteered to do for the 2.1 release. Tommy will also write up a short description of this new role to be posted online. SC members agreed that this role should rotate so that a different person will be responsible for gathering together and coordinating each future release.

    Another role, suggested by Matthias, is Translation Manager. This role will ensure that CORAL's language localization feature, an important but sometimes overlooked piece of functionality, is maintained over time. Paul/BibLibre volunteered to take on this role.

  5. Survey (Steve)

    The survey has already been reviewed and there was no further discussion. Heather will distribute the survey shortly.

  6. Presentation of Coral <> EDS integration plan (Carla)

    Luke walked us through an impressive demo of this new functionality that is slated for the 2.1 release. SC members asked several questions about how it is designed and suggested additional functionality. Carla mentioned that she had been given approval to extend Luke's contract to work on additional pieces of this new functionality and invited SC members to send her their ideas.

  7. Merge process to avoid long term pending PRs

    This was already discussed as part of the agenda on testing PRs.

After the meeting, Steve asked for a volunteer to take minutes in future.

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