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The Universal Viewer Steering Group

The role of the Steering Group is to provide a unified strategic direction and sustainability to the UV Community and to allocate Open Collective funds as appropriate.

Working on a UV development or fixing a bug that will benefit the whole community? You may be eligible for funding. To apply please fill in our submission form which will considered by the Steering Group.

1. Membership

Membership is currently restricted to those representatives of institutions contributing to the Open Collective UV fund but welcomes new members at all times. If you would like to be a member of the Steering Group please contact Sara Weale, Head of Web Design and Development at The National Library of Wales webmaster@llyfrgell.cymru.

Current Members:

2. Responsibilities

The groups responsibilities include:

  • develop value proposition and a formal inter-institutional roadmap for Universal Viewer development
  • ensure sustainability to allow shared ownership and diversity
  • setting priorities for the allocation of the Open Collective funds received
  • discussing development requests received through user stories
  • discussing developments resulting from projects funded outside of the OC

3. Procedures

Decisions discussed, minuted are given a window of opportunity for feedback from all stakeholders/community call (eg week/month) before final decisions are made.

4. UV Roadmap

2020

Q1 (Jan-Mar)

  • Final value proposition document
  • Release v3 of UV, v3.x with Webpack
  • Create simple glitch.com starter app
  • Community Sprint #3 (config editor and docs)

Q2 (Apr-Jun)

  • Transcriptions work completed (see #text channel on UV slack)

Q3 (Jul-Sept)

Q4 (Oct-Dec)

5. Meeting Schedule 2021

A group call is held every third Thursday of the month at 15:00 UTC (currently a Skype hosted by NLW - link provided on Slack channel)

  • Thursday 21 January 2021
  • Thursday 18 February 2021
  • Thursday 18 March 2021
  • Thursday 15 April 2021
  • Thursday 20 May 2021
  • Thursday 17 June 2021
  • Thursday 15 July 2021
  • Thursday 19 August 2021
  • Thursday 16 September 2021
  • Thursday 21 October 2021
  • Thursday 18 November 2021
  • Thursday 16 December 2021