Mid-Year Check In

We’ve been busy at Sourcery this year making changes and planning for future Sourcery upgrades!  

This past Monday, the Sourcery team had our second all-hands meeting of the year to discuss important changes and updates headed your way. Sourcery is an inherently collaborative project with many different moving parts (and people), so all-hands meetings are an exciting way for us to connect with each other and collectively decide where to take Sourcery next. 

The June all-hands meeting was held remotely, as our i3 team is currently in the middle of a major office move and Joan Troyano, our project manager, is based out of Washington, D.C. with Digital Scholar. We split the meeting into two major parts: outreach strategy and discussing institutional accounts. This structure allowed team members to join the meeting as needed, letting us return to work to increase the team’s efficiency. 

The first part of the meeting centered on renewing our outreach strategy.  

The conversation naturally followed as each team member provided their insights and ideas on what we’ve done previously and what we can do more of going forward. Our outreach conversation was highly influenced by an advisory board meeting held this spring, which focused heavily on Researcher-based outreach. The input from our board helped us immensely as we decided on which outreach strategies to prioritize and which ones to pull back from (spoiler: we are very interested in expanding into podcast advertising!)   

The second part of the meeting was more technical and focused on the development of institutional accounts. We kicked off the segment with a show-and-tell from our head developer Brian Kelleher, who showed us what work has been done on the new features, and we discussed the challenges we anticipated, possible user pain points, and design ideas.  We wrapped up the conversation by discussing institutional beta testing and outlining next steps for team members.  

All-in-all, the meeting was quite a success! It’s always a treat to get everyone together, and we’re super excited for the new things coming down the pike. Stay tuned for updates and more information as institutional accounts get closer to completion and as we begin looking for beta testers.