HUB USERS GROUP MEETINGNOVEMBER 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)

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