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EPrints Community Activities Community Activities
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Community Engagement New Role in EPrints Services – To understand and promote community agendas – To support community members – To facilitate community contributions – Collaborating with other stakeholders Recent Activities – Supported development – Training videos – Wiki Improvements – EP-tech interaction – Nagging for documentation
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Community Activities
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Training Videos Minimal Effort (Hey, Look What I Can Do), Warts and All 20 minute video, 1.5 Hours in total Covering the Whole Technical Spectrum The Goal: Full YouTube EPrints Training Courses Everyone CAN Help
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A Global Community!
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Documentation – The Problem What Documentation is Missing? Who Knows The Answers? Who Has Time? Who Has Willingness? QA (Peer Review)?
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Case Study: ETDMS Export Plugin Geographically important standard, not supported by EPrints. Metadata Requirement Usability Metadata Requirement Usability Perl EPrints API Expertise
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What Happened… Plugin updated on files.eprints.org Advice on refactoring for generic deployment Question about perl and implementation Unparsable code type into email Questions about creating a bazaar package Bazaar package training video Bazaar Package Request for documentation Documentation on wiki.eprints.org No community benefit
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Development Ideas Ideas for EPrints Improvements http://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/36DQ wZeb7eN http://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/36DQ wZeb7eN – Add Ideas – Vote on Ideas I will build the most popular if it’s ‘Friday Afternoon’ scale
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Ask Not What EPrints Can Do For You…
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