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Jon Dunn (Indiana University)
Hannah Frost (Stanford University)
Richard Green (University of Hull - co-facilitator) (apologies)
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- Changes to agenda
- Working Group membership
- Did we come up with any other people it would be useful to approach to join or advise the WG?
- Did we come up with any other people it would be useful to approach to join or advise the WG?
- 2019 Partner and Supporter Fundraising call
- Review sample documents in Google Drive
- Can we, effectively, repeat the thrust of the Spring letter?
- If so, what are the Samvera Community achievements, and needs, that we should highlight?
- Would we want to add anything about a wider fundraising call later in the year? And/or: How might we encourage these folks to contribute more. FYI: this call goes to all the Partners (not just those who actually contribute funds) and to a couple of non-Partners who regularly contribute.
- Sponsorship for Samvera Connect
- Review examples of other sponsorship schemes
- Should Connect seek sponsors?
- If so, brainstorm initial list of organizations that we might target
- How would we "sell it to them". (What would they get for their money beyond "feeling good"?)
- Large-scale fundraising
- Brainstorm an initial list of people we think we might approach
- How would we "sell it to them". (What would they get for their money beyond "feeling good"?)
- Does the 1% open source funding model have any leverage? https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2018/mar/9/one-percent-for-open-source/
- How might we develop a contributory model from service providers?
- Date of next meeting
- Wednesday January 9th. 08:30PT, 11:30ET, 16:30UK
- After 9th January set up a Doodle poll to agree future dates
2. Would be pulling other people in the org - will approach people as needed or thought of
3. Highlight Hyrax WG releases, losing all the devs in the Hyrax WG, not putting forth more developers, - if you're not giving devs, give money. Can we do that -
combine "ask" - tying the usual contribution - state dependencies - here's all the stuff, if you like the contributions, you should give money or give dev time to support the roadmap
Informal contact or other kinds of messages to particular interests -
Ask goes out in March/ April -
Personal contact - approach to reach out to individuals at institutions - work within BTAA - IU, Mich, Northwestern - director to director peer pressure
A more targeted, personalized approach - contact list of who knows who and who can reach out to whom, have their UL reach out.
What are the aspirations for the year? -
Contribution WG - model
What we want to do with the money - shoot for that amount in the contributions (what we'll do with the money - what does it go to?)
What money will be used for - multi-year commitment ask
4. See notes in " " - need to build positions into that as well. Getting a lot of support as they get it together
What kinds of entities are likely to want to sponsor?
Vendors that might be interested?
Solicit from community - people using product, anyway
Ex: Rancher, Docker, they know Jess and UCSD, can come in
Google Cloud - make sure you’re careful as competitors show up
Didn’t have all those vendors at first, told other vendors about it
Ex: Jess - told Rancher to get involved
Cloud Providers
Google Cloud
AWS
MS
OR- commerical repo providers, complimentary providers
Artefactual
Lyrasis
EBSCO
Philanthropic orgs? -
Green Open access supporters, etc… Foundations, etc… specific, measurable outcomes from many
Conceivably build support for infrastructure
Money to an institution,
DuraSpace or the conference host
Outside general philosophy - don’t become dependent on grants -
Look at fundraising
5. 2.5% initiative - David Lewis from IUPUI - libraries should give 2.5% to community-based projects supporting infrastructure to open source - what percentage of instutions budget is the library archive https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/14063
Fedora, DuraSpace, Samvera - bundling that gift? Should Samvera community bundle that?
5-10K fatigue - number of such things goes up every year, desire for management - looking at things like IIIF and PKP, all asking for similar kinds of money
what you get for the contribution - 5 Connect registrations? A totebag?
Have to have one of the institutions donate a position -