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Samverans,
We are launching a fundraising campaign for 2018; our goal is to raise $= 150,000 for the year. This funding will flesh out the vision defined in the= recent, unanimously approved, Samvera governance proposal: to hire staffin= g for centralized product and technical management roles.
The last year has seen remarkable progress for the community, including.= ..
These milestones signify Samvera's continued success as a thriving,= grassroots, community-driven effort. The contributions and sweat equity of= willing Partners and other project participants have been the hallmarks of= the Samvera Way; our ability to collaborate on shared goals and code will = continue to be our main engine for progress.
But to evolve to the next level, and to produce a reliable, mana= ged, predictable repository platform, we now need to pool resources to help= organize and orchestrate our collective work. We are seeking to d= ouble last year's fund-raising and bring in $150,000 in 2018. This money wi= ll fund Samvera staff, accountable to the community as a whole, to manage t= he roadmapping, development and release of new Samvera code. This will allo= w us to better leverage the investments we are already making in the projec= t, while also producing a more predictable and managed development process = we can rely on.
If 30 institutions give $5,000 each, we can meet our target for = the year.
Thank you for considering this contribution, and helping to take Samvera= to the next level.