Introducing community development meetings

Contributors are an integral part of any open source project. For the last six months we have been building ways to increase contributions and foster relationships between contributors and our project maintainers at Artefactual. As a result of that we have been hosting contributors gatherings, maintaining roadmaps, and now we have started hosting community development meetings.

We are beta-testing these community development meetings for the next 6 months. We have invited current community contributors to join Artefactual contributors in a discussion about project and release work every month. Our goal with these new meetings is to be open about our development process and to communicate regularly about what we are working on to help support community contributions and involvement.

The meetings aim to:

• demonstrate the work we are doing even if it doesn't go into a release;

• communicate what we are doing to help facilitate community contributor involvement and awareness; and

• get the community involved in development discussions and to help troubleshoot issues or bottlenecks with the development and contribution process.

We hope these meetings will help increase quality and relevant contributions from the community to both the AtoM and Archivematica projects. Increasing community collaboration and contributions will improve the code and build a stronger open source community.

The AtoM project meets on the third Thursday of the month and the Archivematica project meets on the fourth Thursday of the month. While the meetings are currently invite-only, all minutes are shared publicly. Our first meetings, which took place in May, are now available:

• Archivematica

• AtoM (Access to Memory) 

  
  

If you are a community contributor, or planning a contribution and want to get involved with beta-testing, please contact contributors@artefactual.com for more information.

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