Deborah Littrell, Tine Walczyk (Texas)
Jim Scheppke, Darci Hanning (Oregon)
Bev Obert,  Tom Peters (Illinois)
Gene Hainer, Jim Duncan, Steve Gregory (Colorado)
Ellen Fox (BCR)

1. Approve May 21, 2007 Meeting Minutes
   No changes. Accepted as drafted by Tom.
   
   
2. Report on Financial Statement 7/31/2007 from BCR
   Balance: $110,179.78
   Dues have been paid by Texas and Oregon for 2007-08.
   Dues still owed by Colorado (in process), Illinois (payment will be made in October).
   Upcoming expenditures:
   
   • Plone Bootcamp reimbursements for Illinois in process.
   • Plone development.
     
     
3. Brief Reports from States
   
   • Oregon: Plone 2.5 testbed in preparation of Plinkit 2.0. Working with a graphics designer to provide banners for Plinkit libraries.
     
   • Texas: continuing with deployment with libraries. Ten live sites; regional systems have varying amounts in the queue. Tine actively providing additional training. Feeling good about progress.
   • Illinois: moving hosting from third-party to a regional system for year two. Eight out of nine system participating in Plinkit. Planning to get statewide project website running. Going to market Plinkit at ILA this fall.
     
   • Colorado (Jim): team-based approach. Scaling up significantly from fall to June: four libraries. Target with new team to have eight more by mid-September and on target. Barrier: what can library staff themselves do to update their sites? One team member is leaving (system admin); might delay Plinkit upgrade which is fine given their system plans and so little impact overall. Training: Sharon is doing a lot of regional training as part of their Plinkit deployment.
     
     
4. Progress Report from Project Coordinators
   
   • LITA presentation planning going well. Will be having a coordinators' meeting while at LITA as well.
     
   • Plinkit Setup Tool, Plinkit 2.0: Darci will email a status report as soon as she receives it from Joel. A working prototype of the Plinkit Setup Tool was received in late July.
     
     
5. Discussion: Partnership with eXtensible Catalog Project
   
   • Texas: LibrariesTexas product to integrate with Plinkit. A federated search engine to harvest meta-data and/or via z39.50. And a digitial initiative project. Using IndexData (not open-source) which is interested in integrating into a Plone environment. No social tagging in current version; not sure if it's included in plans for next version.
     
   • Colorado: Internally discussed what added value does this bring to the small public libraries? Not sure that it matches up enough. Did look at C4. Also looked at the architecture and have concerns about it. Also watching WorldCat development. Working on next Generation CVL (Colorado Virtual Library) which might include social networking/tagging.
     
   • Illinois: WorldCat Local is their focus (a pilot project). No social tagging currently; OCLC already has something that Illinois would likely use in the future.
   • Decision: The Collaborative is not interested in participating in the XC Project. Most states are on the path of doing something similar though taking different approaches. (Good to note that one size will not fit all for Collaborative members on various projects/proposals like this one.)
     
     
6. Priority Objectives for the Collaborative, FY2007-08
   
   • Discussion: recurring events higher in priority. Other projects/priorities? See Addendum A of current Collaborative MOU.
     
   • Decision: Priorities for 2007-2008:
     
     1. Plinkit 2.0
     2. Updating Documentation for Plinkit 2.0 AND recurring events
     3. Automated upgrades of Plinkit sites
     4. General consulting
     5. Skins development
     6. New features based on Collaborative Users Group recommendations.
        
   • Sidebar on stats/reporting: Oregon uses Google Analytics
     
     
7. Selection of the Steering Committee Chair, FY2007-08
   
   • Volunteers? Deborah noted that responsibility shouldn't rest with just one person and mentioned that Tine might chair/co-chair the Project Coordinators Committee. Darci suggested a rotation through each state. Jim commented that having Tine chair/co-chair Project Coordinators alleviates some of the burden from Oregon and so would be willing to Chair through June 2008.
     
   • Decision:  Spring 2008 put forth a proposal for a rotation of Steering Committee Chair.
     
     
8. Other?
   None.
   
   
9. Date for next meeting: 11/16/08. 9:00a/10:00a/11:00a.