The Partner Meeting is a companion meeting to Connect 2019 and is not for general conference attendees. It is a business meeting for representatives of Samvera's formal Partner Organizations only.
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Room: 142 Olin Library (available from 8 AM CDT - 7 6 PM CDT)
Date and Time: Monday, 10/21/19
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| Topic | Facilitator | Notes | |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and housekeeping | Emily Stenberg, Brian McBride & Richard Green | |
| 9:15-9:30 | Vision Statement | Hannah Frost and Carolyn Caizzi | The Group who worked on the Vision Statement following Partner input at our last meeting will unveil their recommendation! |
| 9:30-9:45 | Governance review after first year | Rosalyn Metz / Carolyn Caizzi | The Governance Working Group recommended an annual review of the "new" governance procedures. Partners need to decide how to take this review forward. |
| 9:45-9:55 | Steering by-laws review | Richard Green | Proposal to make a slight addition to the Steering By-laws agreed last year: Proposed changes to Bylaws for November 2019 |
| 09:55-10:55 | Contribution Model Working Group #2 report | Rosalyn Metz | Report back and discussion. Contribution Model Recommendations |
| 10:55-11:10 | Break | ||
| 11:10-11:25 | Fundraising and Financial report | Richard Green | Fundraising Working Group final report: the Group's interim report has been extended by two paragraphs and an appendix to address the possibility of seeking grant funding. The final (new) appendix, in very slightly modified form, has been added to the website and wiki as a 'community' companion to the technical White Paper. Report on the changes resulting from the merger between DuraSpace and Lyrasis and on 2019 fundraising. Proposals for fundraising 2020. |
11:25-11:55 | Report on progress towards permanent appointments | Jon Dunn | A subcommittee of the Steering Group has prepared a job description for the Community Manager role drawing on examples from a number of sources. Partners need to decide when and how to take the process forward taking into account Samvera's financial position. A parallel job description for a Technical Manager has been prepared but this is less well developed - the subcommittee seeks greater clarity from our Partners, technical WGs and teams about the scope envisaged for this job; how does the incumbent's work integrate with existing groups' and where do the various levels of technical decision making sit? |
| 11:55-12:10 | Review viability and usefulness of partner monthly phone calls | Karen Cariani | Assess the impact and value of the partner meetings. Who attends regularly? What is accomplished by the phone calls? How can they be improved? |
| 12:10-13:30 | Lunch (please do not leave belongings in the room during this time) | ||
| 13.30-13.50 | Roadmap Council Report | Mark Bussey | The Roadmap Council is reflecting on what it’s next iteration might look like. |
| 13:50-14:00 | CCMWG report | Trey Pendragon | |
| 14:00-14:10 | SIGHAR report | Rob Kaufman | |
| 14:10-14:20 | Hyku IG report | ||
| 14:20-14:30 | Marketing WG report | Karen Cariani | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Hyrax WG report | Rob Kaufman | To include the WG's resourcing 'ask' for 2020. |
| 15:00-15:15 | Break | ||
| 15.30-15:40 | Spring Partner Meeting | Brian McBride & Richard Green | Start the discussion about where and when? Can we tag it on to LDCX wherever and whenever that is taking place? |
| 15:40-15:50 | Dates/timing for Virtual Connect 2020 | Richard Green & Brian McBride | When? Format? |
| 15:50-16:00 | Might Connect have a 'proper' keynote in 2020? | Brian McBride & Richard Green | Subject to a review of how this year's keynote works (won't have taken place, yet) do we think this is a move in the right direction? |
| 16:00-16:15 | What are the assumptions behind programming Samvera Connects (virtual and f2f)? Inclusiveness or selective? | Richard Green & Brian McBride | ...and if we need to be selective, on what basis? |
| 16:15-16:25 | How do we increase numbers at Connect? | Brian McBride & Richard Green | Attendance at Connect is in a downward trend. Understandable, because people and institutions are generally more experienced with Samvera and don't send so many people to 'on-board'. But smaller conferences will mean higher registration fees etc... |
| 16:25-16:30 | Dates for Connect 2020 (Local Host UCSB) | ||
| 16:30-17:00 | Parking lot |
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