Project Hydra: A thus far successful OS project

A Lightning Talk presented at CodeConf 2015 at Nashville, TN

Transcript

1. Project Hydra: A thus far
   successful OS project
   

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2. Introduction
   Jeremy Friesen
   Digital Library Frameworks Specialist
   University of Notre Dame
   jfriesen@nd.edu
   @jeremyfriesen
   github.com/jeremyf
   ndlib.github.io
   Presentation at goo.gl/XmG4aL
   

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3. First Rule of Open Source:
   Don’t name your project after
   an unkillable mythological
   beast.
   projecthydra.org
   github.com/projecthydra
   Preamble
   

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4. What is Project Hydra
   It is tools to help build and manage an institutional
   repository for Libraries and Archives
   Think digital objects and their corresponding metadata.
   Its gems, Rails applications, and Rails engines.
   

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5. What is Project Hydra for Me
   For me, it is a distributed community of people working,
   on behalf of disparate institutions, to solve problems far
   larger than each could possibly solve on our own.
   Describe, preserve, and disseminate all the things!
   

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6. How the Hydra Gets Made
   Things that are successful for us:
   ● Meet face to face often
   ○ Instead of licensing fees, we have travel budgets
   ○ Commitment is highest after face to
   face…maximize that
   ○ Splurge for an Airbnb house for a week
   

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7. ● Commit to Inclusion
   ○ Always invite others to the table, old heels mix
   with new members
   ○ Be in the places where you might find new
   members
   How the Hydra Gets Made
   

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8. ● Code of Conduct
   ○ Review regularly and share it early and often
   ○ We are working out how to “remember” violations
   How the Hydra Gets Made
   

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9. ● Focus on Passion not Job Descriptions
   ○ When making introductions, don’t ask “What do
   you do?” Instead ask “What do you want to learn
   or focus on?”
   How the Hydra Gets Made
   

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10. How the Hydra Gets Made
    ● Do Not Seek Grant Funding
    ○ Grants require some level of arbitrary structure,
    when the money runs out the structure will
    collapse
    

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11. How the Hydra Gets Made
    ● Recognize and Accept the Ebb and Flow of
    Commitment
    ○ Our institutions pay our salary and sometimes the
    immediate institutional need wins out on
    collaboration
    

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12. How the Hydra Gets Made
    ● Collaboration is expensive but it builds trust, an
    important open source currency
    

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13. Thank You
    Jeremy Friesen
    Digital Library Frameworks Specialist
    University of Notre Dame
    jfriesen@nd.edu
    @jeremyfriesen
    github.com/jeremyf
    ndlib.github.io
    Presentation at goo.gl/XmG4aL
    

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