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Samvera is a robust partnership community with volunteer contributions forming most of the project work and formally sharing responsibility for its development. They set technical and Community direction; contribute to design and code; organize events; conduct training; help orient new adopters; write documentation; and advance the Community overall. While the volunteer individual partner contributions are the community's core, we have recognized that sustainability and efficiency are promoted by having dedicated , and accountable staff in the form of the Samvera Community Manager, but the community still is unable not currently able to fund a full second FTE to engage in the technology planning and coordination for the community. A lack of participants for the Hyrax tech lead role led to an experiment (currently running) to compensate a person or institution for a 25% time commitment to the project.
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