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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.

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 Developement 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

2019

Q3 (Jul-Sept)

Q4 (Oct-Dec)

2020

Q1 (Jan-Mar)

  • Final value proposition document
  • Release v3 of UV, v3.x with Webpack.
  • 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 2019

A group call is held every third Thursday of the month at 14:00 UTC (currently a Skype hosted by NLW - link provided on Slack channel)

  • Thursday 18 April 2019
  • Thursday 16 May 2019
  • Thursday 20 June 2019
  • Thursday 25 July 2019 (changed from 18/07/2019)
  • Thursday 15 August 2019
  • Thursday 19 September 2019
  • Thursday 17 October 2019
  • Thursday 21 November 2019
  • Thursday 19 December 2019