Here we recap the events of the past month. UPDATES IN PROGRESS.

Conference

The 2019 VIVO Conference will be in Podgorica, Montenegro, September 4-6, 2019. Announcement here: https://duraspace.org/save-the-date-vivo-2019-september-4-6-podgorica-montenegro/

The conference committee is meeting every two weeks on Wednesdays at 10 EST.
Conference progress updates will be posted on the wiki page: VIVO Conference Planning Task Force. Currently the TF is working on the website: http://vivoconference.org/. Many potential sponsors have been contacted but no sponsorships have been committed yet.

Action Planning

Vision. Has not met.
Governance and Structure. Is meeting weekly on Thursdays at 11 AM US Eastern. Daniel has summarized survey results and the group is reviewing the document.
Product Evolution. Meets weekly Wednesday 11 AM US Eastern. Meeting notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rhsW7EKhQyfHRrzh7wZNziosJAfliduXxQQVcT1w0bI/edit# See Slack channel for pinned items and conversation. The group finished a first draft of the data model and has been discussing ways to continue their work in the upcoming sprint.
Community Development. Is meeting monthly but our group struggles to find time to work outside the committee.
Resources. Is meeting bi-weekly. Contact Terrie Wheeler for details.

Membership Task Force: David Wilcox has joined the group to help devise new solutions for increasing VIVO memberships.
Development meets weekly to discuss and work on VIVO issues. Andrew Woods organizes.
Research Intelligence Task Force: Group is forming. Has not yet met. Contact Tom Cramer
Ontology Task Force: Group is meeting every two weeks, led by Mike Conlon. Current work in two areas: 1) identifiers and attributes of identifiers such as ORCiD, DOI, GRID, ISSN; 2) languages, language skills, and languages of scholarly works.
Internationalization Task Force: Group is meeting every two weeks, led by Kitio Fofackof University of Quebec at Montreal.