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What is the Commitment for Steering?


  • On any given week, Steering members dedicate a significant portion of their time to Steering and the Samvera Community.  On any given week, depending Depending upon need, a member of Steering may dedicate a minimum of a couple of hours in a week, but may see spikes of up to 10 or 20 hours required for taking on certain issues, attending meetings, etc...
  • Steering requires a commitment to travel to Steering meetings, including time and associated costs.  Please note that Steering Members are responsible for associated costs of travel as well as their time.  
    • Meets 3 times per year
    • Usually 2x associated with other meetings such as Connect and Partners
    • 1x for a stand-alone Steering retreat

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  • Regular calls

    • 13 one-hour Steering Group calls (usually one each month)

    • Several additional Finance Subcommittee calls

    • two face to face SG meetings (normally it is three or four: winter retreat + Spring Partners + OR + Connect)

  • Governance

    • Maintenance of legal documents

      • Availability on wiki

        • MoU and LoA

      • Partnerships

        • Assessing and guiding applications (three in 2017)

          • Advice on readiness to become a Partner

          • Advice on Letter of Intent

          • Ongoing mentoring

        • Maintenance of legal records

        • Maintenance of website and wiki information

        • Monitoring

      • CLAs

        • Maintenance of legal records

        • Management of edge-cases (UC etc)

    • Annual Report

      • Oversight and coordination

    • Trademark

      • Applications (through DuraSpace)

      • Maintenance

    • Relationships with vendors

    • Expectations of Partners (them of us, us of them)

  • Financial

    • Negotiating and agreeing Fiscal Sponsorship MoU

    • Monitoring and operating finances via Finance Subcommittee

      • Agreeing priorities with Partners

    • Fund raising in conjunction with fiscal sponsor

    • Sponsorship of related conferences

  • Involvement in, and attendance at, meetings

    • Connect

      • Liaison with local committee and program committee

      • Logistical support

      • Soliciting and reviewing possible venues

    • Virtual Connect

      • Joint organization of event and program

    • Spring Partner meeting

      • Hosting and organization

      • Agenda planning

    • Winter retreat

      • Agenda planning

    • Other meetings

      • Representation at other community events (eg, Hydra/Samvera Europe Group, US regional meetings)

  • Codebase

    • Overview of health

    • Accessibility testing

  • Communication

    • Maintenance of mailing lists

    • Maintenance of website

    • Maintenance of domain names, DNS etc

    • Wiki gardening

  • Rebranding

    • Organization of vote for new name

    • Liaison with trademark attorney

    • Commissioning new logo

    • Selection and purchase of new domain names

    • Coordinate additional work on new website design

    • Coordinate DNS changes for website and wiki

    • Mail redirects (legal@samvera.org etc)

    • Clone wiki and correct incomplete copies

    • Create new mailing lists and traps for old name

    • Liaise over changes to Twitter, GitHub, Slack, DropBox etc

    • Reword website and wiki as necessary

    • Liaise with attorneys to reword Memorandum of Understanding (via addendum)

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