and printer Ombligo del Libro and donated a wonderful design and press-printed poster featuring the word “voice” translated into several indigenous languages (see gure 4, right).
The same can be said for the social movements edit-a-thon, for which reference librarian Máximo R. Domínguez created a collaboration with the Colegio Nacional de Bibliotecarios [National College of Librarians] and the Library Services Unit of the University of Guadalajara, in order to both organize a book and poster exhibition of the Mexican Movement of 1968 and print commemorative stickers and T-shirts for participants and reproductions of the aforementioned posters that were offered as gifts for contributors (Biblioteca Colmex, 2018). I would like to underline that strengths can also mean passions. For instance, every year since 2017, my colleague Tomás Bocanegra writes reviews about Queer culture books in our library’s blog Amontonamos las palabras (Bocanegra Esqueda, 2017). This year, in 2021, he will organize an edit-a-thon with different NGOs in Mexico City around this subject.
Building Fireplaces
Keep your Fireplace Simple: The MVP Approach
A minimum viable product (MVP) can be defined as “that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort” (Ries, 2011). e MVP is not a prototype but rather a functionable yet simple product that allows a development team to collect information about its creation using the least amount of time, money, and effort possible, in order to later have those resources to iterate new and better versions based on experience and not just hypotheses. In my department at the BDCV, Coordinación de Innovación Digital, one of our regular tasks is to provide innovative solutions. Innovation is risky. It is hard to know if a new idea will have the impact one hopes, especially since many factors tend to be at play (budget, community acceptance, technical difficulties, etc.). The MVP approach has been extremely useful in this framework, and the BDCV’s Wikimedia engagement’s continuity plan was no exception. Thus, for 2019 we integrated only two Wiki
