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  1. Welcome to newcomer's (1-2 min.) No roll call, but please add your name to attendees list below.
  2. Welcome new (to be formally announced next week) Partner: University of Houston Libraries
  3. Facilitator and notetaker for Sept 8th, 2017 Call and call for future presenters (1-2 min) 
    1. Linda Newman (Notes)
    2. ??? (Moderate)
  4. Samvera Connect updates - Karen Estlund (out on vacation arouner filling in)
    1. Program Committee has been formed
      1. Most updates are on the linked program committee page
      2. Going to have one more call for proposed sessions
      3. Hoping to address the bepress situation specifically by highlighting relevant sessions
        1. Simeon Warner - suggests Birds of a Feather session on the bepress topic
        2. Committee had discussed a workshop for those interested
        3. newmanld - institutions like Cinci that are looking to start a university press would also be interested
        4. Might be worthwhile to get folks together who have been contacted by bepress partners to sort out what can be done to inform them
        5. Noted that Samvera Connect is open and welcoming
        6. Targeted workshop might be a way to make it easy for newcomers 
        7. What is the procedure for making a workshop happen?
          1. gets proposed just like anything else
          2. Steve Van Tuyl volunteers to help lead/organize the workshop and posted the workshop idea to the program suggestions page
    2. Suggestions for Samvera Connect 2017 Program
    3. Scholarships
      1. Scholarship Committee Formation (Karen Estlund)
      2. Other details
        1. Working on generating criteria for the scholarship program
        2. Maria Whitaker - committee is organizing now to sort out how to proceed
  5. Any Updates on Samvera Governance models group (i.e.,"Defining roles, responsibilities, and decision-making frameworks") - Mike Giarlo

    1. Please review this message from evviva to samvera-partners: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/samvera-partners/duIfDT58fNg
    2. partner meeting the Thursday afternoon and Friday of Samvera Connect
    3. topic of governance is the only item on the agenda for that partner's meeting
    4. History:
      1. at DLF a few partners informally discussed the need for more investment in shared resources/code
      2. at LDCX in March, Partners discussed this at length (breakout groups, ideas for clarification of governance, how do new partners know what the expectations are, etc.)
      3. After LDCX a handful of Partners continued the discussion and:
        1. Documented current model
        2. Look at other OSS governance models
        3. Have begun mapping our community onto some of the most promising of these other models
        4. Evviva's message indicates the timeline for moving forward
  6. Call for Expressions of Interest in Hosting Samvera Connect 2018 or 2019
  7. Short Presentation: Fulcrum - Samvera-based Scholarly Publishing Platform at the University of Michigan (Melissa Baker-Young, Jon McGlone)  
  8. Futures for Samvera amidst recent landscape changes (e.g., BePress) → topics for Samvera Connect (hint: suggest through link above) 
  9. Other news
    1. New Slack Channel:  samvera.slack.com. Most accounts should be migrated, but please confirm your account. Slack archive at samvera.slackarchive.io.
    2. EZID: DOI creation migrating in coming year to DataCite: http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/2017/08/04/ezid-doi-service-is-evolving/.  Have started talking with Michael Witt at Purdue about next steps for Samvera.
  10. For next month's Samvera Partner call, Sept 8 [ blank ] will take notes, and [ blank ] will facilitate.

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