Formation Meeting Minutes 2017-03-21

(alphabetical by first name):

• Brandon Keepers
• Georg Link
• Kate Stewart
• Matt Germonprez

We experienced technical issues with the conferencing system and switched to a different technology and started the meeting late.

• The email list is set up
  • Who is on the mailing list?
    • Only the people on the call - to be expanded next
• The wiki is set up

• We still need to flesh out the areas or categories of metrics
  • Peter Monks mentioned categories that resonate: Activity metrics / Viability metrics / Risk metrics
  • Matt and Sean Goggins are building out the metrics
    • What are the sources from which metrics can be generated?
    • How are the metrics related to each other, and how do they cluster around topics e.g. licensing or risk.

• Three specialized groups:
  • A metrics definition group
    • What are the metrics and how are they defined?
  • A standards group
    • What is the standard data format to share and consume metrics?
    • The technology is probably split into two parts: A metric generating part and a metric display part. Both parts need to exchange metrics.
    • Should collaborate with the Tooling Group
      • Tooling Group has implementation and database to use as a starting point for standard setting
  • A research and development group
    • How are metrics deployed, understood, or modified by users?
    • Individuals from university or others who are interested can engage in this group
    • Kate shared a masters thesis that might be interesting: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9866/e7502c3c2058c931a2658539959b39f085c1.pdf
      • The R&D group will be in charge of maintaining references like this

• When should we coordinate bi-weekly general meetings?
  • Right now they are formation meetings.
  • The discussion on metrics should occur on the mailing lists until the working group is formalized.
  • After the working group is formalized, we will set up general meeting for the members of the working group.

• Waiting for governance documents from Mike Dolan
  • The Working Group will be one part of a larger working group:
    • A Tooling Group
    • A Metrics Group (this is group)
  • Waiting for the code group.
  • The governance will specify for example that the steering committee are the ones who are willing to put in the extra effort to maintain a code base or a document.
    • Work-rights on a document are commit rights equivalent to commit rights on code repositories
      • We do not expect a code base for the metrics group
    • Anyone who wants to be a member can sign the charter and be an officially listed member
      • All members can edit the wiki
• Matt starts reaching out to more people to start the conversation
  • Let people know about the wiki and mailing list
  • Foster a discussion on the mailing list, maybe around unique or controversial metrics to get people interested and get the conversation going
• Brandon edits the wiki page to make it more welcoming and turn it into the landing page of the Metrics Working Group