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Charlotte's notes/responses
Karen's responses
Richard's suggestions
General
- What is Samvera?
-A community and a technology stack. or solution? for managing access to digital objects.
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- How do we measure Samvera against other (not OS) systems?
- Is there an exit strategy for me when I need to move on?
We know that nothing lasts for ever and that some of our community will probably wish to move on to other, non-Samvera solutions in time. Samvera is developing bulk import and export capability - the second of which will allow the contents of a Samvera repository to be exported in a way that might be consumed by other platforms.
Community
- Where are you off to this time (and why)? - in relation to travelling to events/meetings
- Why are we giving things away? (with regard to community contributions of many kinds, not just code)
- How do we know it will be around in 5 or 10 years?
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-I suppose we should get clarity from the Governance Model WG before drafting a response to this. This will more likely come from the Contribution Model WG: at present it goes Partner/Member of the Community (adopter, kicking the tires etc)/Supporter (likely an adopter who contributes cash but does little else for the Community)
- What is expected of a community member? in terms of time? resources?
-Active, participatory membership in a WG? ? The Contribution Model WG is developing a recommendation that will be explicit about what the Community expects of Partners (and, conversely, what Partners get in return). For Community members who are not (yet?) Partners we expect them to justify the term "Community member" by contributing back something.
- Difference between Open Source and a Commercial product
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- Where can I try/download Samvera?
- My institution/organisation is moving more and more stuff into the cloud. Can I have Samvera in the cloud?
- Does Samvera meet good standards of accessibility/security/...?
The Hyrax gem, which is the basis of most Samvera systems at the moment, has undergone an external accessibility audit. A few minor issues were found which are currently being addressed. - How stable is the code?
- Who else is using it? and how?
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