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• Carolyn Caizzi (Northwestern University) - regrets
• Jon Dunn (Indiana University)
• Hannah Frost (Stanford University) (facilitator)
• Richard Green (Samvera Operations Adviser, co-facilitator)
• Kevin Kochanski (Notch8)
• Simeon Warner (Cornell University) (apologies)

Agenda

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• Review to-do's from May meeting

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• Review activities since April meeting
  • Letter provided to Lyrasis and sent out to partners 
    Currently invoices out for approximately $200k
    Need a formal version of the Contribution Model (rather than the recommendations) available on line.  RG to draft.
  • RG to monitoring and will report on invoicing and payments when the information is available from Lyrasis (likely mid-June)
    • Follow-up to any partners or other actions
      None needed at present.  LSE will likely withdraw from Partnership - though not as a direct result of the Contribution Model.
  • RG archived last year's WG pages 
  Announce our existence to the communityI believe this was not done at the Virtual Partner Meeting on 27/28 April.
  JD will make
  • Group discussed current state of income from this year's fundraising drive amongst Partners.  Slightly more than 50% of hoped-for income in as at 10th June.  RG will request a further update from Lyrasis in time to inform our next call.
    
  • RG has published the Contribution Model terms on the wiki and linked it from the website.
  • JD has recently made an announcement as Chair of Steering Consider talking to a professional fundraising consultant at a non-profit to get advice/ideas. – CC will ask a contact?
    No feedback yet.
    
  Discussion of other funding sources and funding targets
  • Value of the upcoming Roadmap Survey and Discussion
    This is important as, together with our need to appoint staff, this is at the core of what money we would ask for and who we'd ask it from.  Samvera really needs money 'to sustain and grow the community' rather than for something bright, shiny and new (which is often the focus of grants).  HF expained about the presentation planned for the next Partner call.  She has looked around the Sloan website and thinks that their 'Scholarly Communications' fund is the likely one.  https://sloan.org/programs/digital-technology/scholarly-communication/platforms  The idea that money would help us invest in recovery from COVID (for ourselves and others) my be difficult to 'sell' when funders own income will have gone way down as interest rates have fallen.  Might be worth contacting Patricia Hwse at Mellon (as an ex-member of this community, she understands us).
    There are institutions rushing to get their technical solutions into a 'sustainable place', concerned that COVID fallout may result in cuts to staffing.  They may have some ideas to help us?
  • Revisit the approach to Sloan?  Talk to Ubiquity?  (Brian Hole is well plugged into the open scholarly publishing community and may have ideas). HF to do so.
    
  • Consider talking to a Development Office.
    Need some internal work first.  We need some specificity around our ask.  IU's Dev Officer would probably be happy to brainstorm with us.  Cornell and Stanford's Dev Officers are more oriented toward donor management.
  • Consider setting the Team a target of raising $150k this year (enough to cover a full time salary, associated costs and expenses)
    Need to clarify with CC exactly what she meant when she suggested this.  Was this additional to the Contribution Model money (in which case it is very ambitious), or not?
    Need to monitor the Roadmap Council presentation to Partners on 6/12 and make CC's fundraising contact is willing to talk to the group but has little experience of the library world. JD has a fundraising contact with experience of raising money for libraries (but not a community).  KK's brother has fundraising experience but not really relevant to our needs.  CC to ask her contact to have a brainstorming session with us in a special call.  JD to speak to his contact.
    
    
• Discussion of other funding sources and funding targets
  • Need to have focused options for fundraising before we can approach funding agencies with any hope of a positive response.  The Partner & Roadmap Council call on July 10th is pivotal to this.  We should devote all our next call (7/14) to working on this and making our own synthesis of the issues (in addition to any synthesis the RC might offer).
  • CC clarified her suggestion of a target from a previous call; suggests we should aim to bring in (say) $50k in addition to our Partner income.  Will check to see if there is a science behind such targets - a 20%, 30% addition etc.
    
    
• Next meeting
  • Tuesday 16th June14th July, 0800PT, 1100ET, 1600UK