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- Welcome to newcomer's (1-2 min.) No roll call, but please add your name to attendees list below.
- Welcome new (to be formally announced next week) Partner: University of Houston Libraries
- Facilitator and notetaker for Sept 8th, 2017 Call and call for future presenters (1-2 min)
- Linda Newman (Notes)
- ??? (Moderate)
- Samvera Connect updates - Karen Estlund (out on vacation arouner filling in)
- Program Committee has been formed
- Most updates are on the linked program committee page
- Going to have one more call for proposed sessions
- Hoping to address the bepress situation specifically by highlighting relevant sessions
- Simeon Warner - suggests Birds of a Feather session on the bepress topic
- Committee had discussed a workshop for those interested
- newmanld - institutions like Cinci that are looking to start a university press would also be interested
- Might be worthwhile to get folks together who have been contacted by bepress partners to sort out what can be done to inform them
- Noted that Samvera Connect is open and welcoming
- Targeted workshop might be a way to make it easy for newcomers
- What is the procedure for making a workshop happen?
- gets proposed just like anything else
- Steve Van Tuyl volunteers to help lead/organize the workshop and posted the workshop idea to the program suggestions page
- Suggestions for Samvera Connect 2017 Program
- Scholarships
- Scholarship Committee Formation (Karen Estlund)
- Other details
- Working on generating criteria for the scholarship program
- Maria Whitaker - committee is organizing now to sort out how to proceed
- Program Committee has been formed
Any Updates on Samvera Governance models group (i.e.,"Defining roles, responsibilities, and decision-making frameworks") - Mike Giarlo
- Please review this message from evviva to samvera-partners: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/samvera-partners/duIfDT58fNg
- partner meeting the Thursday afternoon and Friday of Samvera Connect
- topic of governance is the only item on the agenda for that partner's meeting
- History:
- at DLF a few partners informally discussed the need for more investment in shared resources/code
- 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.)
- After LDCX a handful of Partners continued the discussion and:
- Documented current model
- Look at other OSS governance models
- Have begun mapping our community onto some of the most promising of these other models
- Evviva's message indicates the timeline for moving forward
- Also: take a look at the #governance-models slack channel for more discussion and pinned documents
- Call for Expressions of Interest in Hosting Samvera Connect 2018 or 2019 (Richard Green)
- want to try to get ahead of ourselves for coming years given the amount of work involved
- asking, at this point, for expression of interest (but not commitment) as a starting point
- a couple of institutions have expressed interest already, but steering would like to open the door for others, too
- please let Steering know by two weeks from today, if possible
- Q: the email suggests a plenary room that can hold ~300 people, does that need to be bigger?
- 260 attendees in boston
- 350-400 would be great, but the size of the conference may be constrained by the facilities we can get our hands on
- Short Presentation: Fulcrum - Samvera-based Scholarly Publishing Platform at the University of Michigan (Melissa Baker-Young, Jon McGlone)
- Futures for Samvera amidst recent landscape changes (e.g., BePress) → topics for Samvera Connect (hint: suggest through link above)
- Other news
- New Slack Channel: samvera.slack.com. Most accounts should be migrated, but please confirm your account. Slack archive at samvera.slackarchive.io.
- 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.
- For next month's Samvera Partner call, Sept 8 [ blank ] will take notes, and [ blank ] will facilitate.
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