Onboarding Checklist

This onboarding checklist is provided for the purposes of ensuring that community members (particularly in governance groups) are added to relevant channels in order to be able to do their work in the community. It also provides an overview for others who wish to understand more about how and where communication and work happens in the community.

Things to read

• Code of Conduct
• Islandora Communication Channels 101

Credentials required:

• Github ID
• Google Email
• Preferred Email
• Slack username

Checklist

• Added to relevant Google mailing lists, mailing lists, and document directories.
• Added to Github organization and linked to repository with notes
• Added to relevant Slack channels
• Updated committee membership documents to reflect name and institutional affiliation
• Removal of past representative for your institution (where relevant) from these channels

Contributor License Agreements

The Islandora Foundation collects Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) from project contributors. The CLAs are based on Apache's agreements; they give the Islandora Foundation non-exclusive, royalty free copyright and patent licenses for contributions. They do not transfer intellectual property ownership to the project from the contributor, nor do they otherwise limit what the creator can do with their contributions. This license is for your protection as a contributor as well as the protection of the Foundation and its users; it does not change your rights to use your own contributions for any other purpose.

The CLA forms can be found here:

• iCLA
• cCLA

Current CLAs on file can be found here.

Corporate CLAs (cCLA) are for institutions that employ Islandora contributors. Individual CLAs (iCLAs) are from individual contributors, in addition to the cCLA. Getting iCLAs provides continuity in case a developer continues to contribute even after changing employment.

All Foundation members and individual contributors will soon be receiving a direct email request to sign the CLAs, along with instructions on how to submit them. At a certain point later this year, we will no longer accept code contributions that are not covered by a CLA and will look to excise any legacy code that isn't covered by an agreement.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask on the Islandora list, or to send an email to [email protected]