[samigo-team] future of the samigo working group--do we need separate meetings?

[Keli Sato Amann]

Hello,
Thanks to all who came and talked on Tuesday in Miami during our BOF. We ended up not having enough time to talk about the future of the Samigo Working Group and instead spent most time talking about Tests & Quizzes in Sakai 10. The working group has been meeting at least monthly for the last three years to do new feature review, bug bashes, and review of proposed designs. It was originally intended to move "SAMigo to a community stewardship model." And in fact, I think this has already happened on the development side, with many more people becoming familiar enough with the code beyond Stanford to have responsibility for committing new contributions, which have always come from far and wide. However, much of that has occurred asynchronously, online, separate from the working group.

However, in terms of convening the meetings, it has largely been Stanford doing the organizing for the last year, and my time is getting committed elsewhere. So three questions:
1) do we actually need to meet on a regular basis?
2) if so, are there volunteers to convene the meetings?
3) if we don't meet, do we need a samigo-team mailing list or should we be doing this on dev? on pedagogy? (I am posting this separately to these lists)

During my remote presentation in Miami (https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAM/Miami+2014+Apereo+BOF), I was going to propose that we not meet unless someone wants to do a demo of proposed new features or improvements and then it would be that person's job to organize a live review or simply to forward information about the new feature (preferably a JIRA) and ask for comments within a certain time period. 

However, if someone wants to meet and have a discussion about this, they should propose and convene that meeting (perhaps the first Tuesday of July, but we don't have to stick to tradition).


Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University