In light of the unprecedented times that we’re all going through, we wanted to share some information and resources for the Islandora community. The Islandora Foundation itself has always been a virtual office, with both employees working from home and all meetings taking place online, so we’ve been very fortunate in being able to continue with the business of Islandora more or less as we always have. Much of our community, however, has made this transition very recently and very suddenly. 

Isolation keeps us and our communities healthy, but it’s... isolating. We’d like to help our community to feel a little more connected, in whatever small ways we can. We’re leaving space at the start of our community meetings for folks to check in and chat. The door is also open in Islandora Slack, including a #watercooler channel if you just want to share. If you’re working from home and finding gaps in your day from paused projects or other work that can’t be done right now, we’d be happy to help you fill those gaps with open source engagement or learning opportunities:

• Islandora Slack: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oV38f6yLEc7MkbQPjHxtjEV6QOTLSZE_R3S702L-_2E 

• Testing & Documentation:

  • Comments or add a new issue for Islandora 8: https://github.com/Islandora/documentation/issues
  • How to Contribute: https://islandora.github.io/documentation/contributing/CONTRIBUTING
  • Review & add to our documentation: https://islandora.github.io/documentation/ 

• Videos

  • Islandora 8 Webinars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4seFC7ELUtoUcpTFLSzqfsYwhOjkjphg
  • Islandora Quick Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4seFC7ELUtripxWi_2RIBKCWqI0uif93

• Islandora ISLE

  • Join the team working to Dockerize Islandora 8

    • Interest Group (monthly meetings): https://github.com/islandora-interest-groups/Islandora-ISLE-Interest-Group 
    • More information: https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/isle-dc

• Help improve documentation for ISLE 7

  • ISLE docs (read): https://wiki.lyrasis.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=104568925
  • Contribute changes at https://github.com/Islandora-Collaboration-Group/ISLE/tree/master/docs/

• Community Meetings (open for anyone to join!)

  • Our weekly Islandora 8 Tech Call is every Wednesday at 1:00 Eastern: https://github.com/Islandora/documentation/wiki/2020
  • Islandora Metadata Interest Group meets every-other-Monday at 1:00 Eastern: https://github.com/islandora-interest-groups/Islandora-Metadata-Interest-Group
  • Islandora IR Interest Group meets third Thursday each month at 2:00 Eastern: https://github.com/islandora-interest-groups/Islandora-IR-Interest-Group