[BEXIS2-Dev] Invitation to a joint meeting of BEXIS data managers/coordinators

[bexis2-dev at listserv.uni-jena.de]

Dear all,

First of all, Happy New Year to everyone!

We would like to set up a joint meeting (or WebConf) of all data
managers/coordinators maintaining and running a BEXIS 1 or 2 instance. 
The purpose of this meeting is to collect user requirements from the
community again in order to plan the next release(s) of BEXIS 2 (both,
in terms of features and time). The goal is to produce a prioritised
list of feature requests (user stories) for the next release(s).

Please indicate your interest and availability in the Foodle (please
leave a comment, if you prefer to join remotely):
https://abstimmung.dfn.de/foodle/BEXIS-2-requirements-collection-meeting-2018-5a4cc

In order to have a productive meeting, please prepare a list of feature
requests (3-5 items) and describe each one as a user story beforehand.
During the meeting the focus will be on coordinating, harmonizing and
prioritising the different user stories brought to the table by the
participants.

Looking forward to meeting you in Jena (or remotely),
Roman


FYI:
Before X-mas we conducted a meeting with most BEXIS 2 core developers to
identify issues/shortcomings in the current development process. We came
up with quite a list of things that could be improved. We grouped them
into 5 categories: workflow, documentation, best-practices, testing,
tooling and decided to implement them gradually. For example, we decided
to go more open and shift from our local MS Team Foundation Server to a
public GitHub repository for code and task management (incl. issue
tracking). To kick-off these improvements we will spend most of our time
in January on that. So feature development will resume in February 2018
based on the results of our joint meeting mentioned above.

-- 

Roman Gerlach
Head of Research Data Management Helpdesk
Michael-Stifel Center, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2-4, 07743 Jena (Germany)

Visiting address:
Leutragraben 1, Jentower 17N04, Jena (Germany)

+49-(0)3641-948968
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