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  • Katy Börner's Information Visualization MOOC starts January 22 and is now open for registration
  • Implementation Fest plans beginning to take shape
    • Policy track – how does VIVO with with other tools supporting faculty reporting, institutional reporting, campus web strategies, data and publication repositories, and other significant elements of the research university ecosystem?
    • Technical track – community building: working together to fill gaps in the VIVO community infrastructure, address documentation and configuration issues with Solr and Fuseki, and coordinate data ingest and data maintenance strategies
      • Should this be an extra developer day to do some new development, address certain bugs, performance improvement, data ingest, or whatever
    • In person or via web conference?  Sentiment on yesterday's ontology call stressed the value of meeting in person, and UC Boulder is graciously willing to host again this year. Should we also make an effort to set up high quality video conferencing for some sessions, or would Webex be adequate? 
      • Stony Brook can host a 40-way HD video that supports SIP or H.323 video
      • we should probably had have a test
    • How many people think they might be able to attend a 2-day event in mid to late April? (timing not final, but sooner rather than later)
      • Mark and perhaps a couple others from Buffalo
      • Paul can attend from Weill
      • add your name and school here 
  • From Jim Blake: We are just starting to use the JIRA instance at DuraSpace https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/VIVO
    • You can already read the issues. Anyone can read the issues.
    • If you want to create issues, just create an account and log in. (click "Log In" in the upper right, and then click "Sign Up")
    • If you want to edit issues, assign issues, or have issues assigned to you, sign up, send Jim your username, and he will add you to the project.
  • Other announcements?
    • http://vivo.vivoweb.org is back online again, thanks to Brian Caruso
    • Jim and Alex will be attending a research profiles conference in Australia February 18
      • may schedule a focused developer call for 3 or 4 pm ET on Thursday, February 21  from the University of Melbourne that could include the Australian development community – a first global VIVO development call.

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