Mondo Project Management¶
Description¶
Documentation of project management tasks in Mondo.
Communication¶
Mondo developers can communicate using: - the Mondo Developer google group - Slack channels in the Monarch Organization including #mondo, #mondo-ingest, #mondo-outreach, etc - Virtual meetings
Mondo roles¶
| Role | Description | Person(s) | Relevant links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Curator | Coordinate Curation and development in collaboration with Technical team. | Sabrina Toro | Project board |
| Technical Team | Implement technical workflows including mappings and external source ingests, ontology statistics, and quality control checks. | Nico Matentzoglu, Trish Whetzel, Joe Flack | tech, qc-call, QC |
| Biocurator Team | Curate content in Mondo through iterative addition, revision and reclassification of terms and hierarchies. Liaise with community. | Nicole Vasilevsky, Katie Mullen, MeeSiing Ngu, Yousif Shwetar | |
| Project Manager | Oversee project management of Mondo. | Sarah Gehrke | |
| Medical advisor | Provide medical expertise for content curation. | Ada Hamosh | |
| Technical and Strategic Advisors | Provide strategic and technical advise and oversight to technical and curation team. | Melissa Haendel, Chris Mungall | |
| Stakeholder Engagement / Outreach | Liase with community users and stakeholders and provide outreach for Mondo resource | Sabrina Toro, Nico Matentzoglu, Nicole Vasilevsky, Sarah Gehrke, Melissa Haendel | Workshops |
Recurring meetings¶
See the Monarch Initiative's shared calendar (view access for internal team members only) for invitations to all meetings, or contact the Project Manager to be added to a meeting.
- Curation call: Thursdays, Fortnightly
- Technical call: Alternating Wednesdays and Fridays, Monthly
- Ingest call: Mondays, Fortnightly
- Mondo virtual co-Working session: Wednesdays, Weekly
- Domain Expert call: Third Tuesday of the month
- Outreach call: Every 4 weeks on Friday (find more info here)
Mondo tasks¶
| Task | Description | Lead |
|---|---|---|
| Manage meetings | Mondo meetings should be added to the Monarch shared calendar. Members of the curation and technical teams are outlined here. | Project Manager |
| Mondo workshops | Any upcoming workshops should be organized and advertised. Ideally we should have community based Mondo workshops every 4-6 months. Attendance should be recorded for reporting purposes. Recordings can be uploaded to Google Drive or the Monarch Initiative YouTube channel as appropriate. | Project Manager & Lead Curator |
| Advertising workshops | Workshops should be advertised on our website, on our Slack channel, on the mailing list, and on LinkedIn and Bluesky | Project Manager |
| Set milestones and triage tickets | All tickets should be: 1. Acknowledged, thank the contributor for the ticket, 2. Updated with the issue creation month, 3.Assigned to a curation or technical team member, 4. Assigned to a monthly milestone, 5. Given a label See Ticket Triaging Project board |
Lead Curator |
| Mondo Releases | Mondo should be released on a monthly basis on/around the first of the month. Instructions are here. If there are any delays with the release (more than a couple days), please communicate these to the Mondo users on the mailing list and in Slack. Some of our users depend on the regular releases, such as EFO. | Lead curator |
| Announce Mondo Release through mailing list | Send a monthly email after the Mondo release using the Google email newsleter template. The newsletter includes information about the release plus any relavent announcements for the community that month (upcoming outreach call, workshops, obsoletion candidates, "pawsome" spotlight, etc). | Project Manager |
| Organize Curate-athons | Organize tickets and personnel for recurring 1-2 day long curate-athons. Ensure the curate-athon has a project board to organize tickets and clearly stated expected outcomes. See the Mondo Curate-athon guide | Lead Curator & Project Manager |
| Grant reporting | 1. Link Mondo tickets to Phenomics First Operations Board 2. Ensure deliverables for P1 grant are being addressed, 3. Send all dissemination artifacts to the 'nuggets' address for Monarch/TISLab (to help RPPR prepping) | Lead Curator & Project Manager |
| RPPR | Coordinate reporting for yearly RPPR | Project Manager |
| Website updates | The Mondo website should be regularly updated (instructions are here). At a minimum, content should be checked for accuracy quarterly. Regular updates that may be needed include: Mondo users, Mondo contributors, Resources- including new papers, presentations, blog posts, etc., Workshops, FAQs should be updated as new questions arise | All Developers supported by Project Manager |
| Liaise with Mondo Users | Keep track of Mondo users (keep contact info up to date, what project they are working on, how they are using Mondo) | Lead curator |
| Onboarding of new contributors | Refer to the onboarding doc here | Lead Curator |