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Steph's reponses, including trying to find a colour you guys hadn't already used that could be read easily
INTEGRATE THESE EXISTING FAQs: http://samvera.org/samvera-community-sourced-software/faq/
General
- What is Samvera?
Samvera is an open source digital repository framework that is community driven. The software technology stack utilizes four major components: Fedora repository software, Solr indexes, Blacklight and Samvera gems. A Samvera repository provides functionality for a flexible and extensible digital repository solution. From the beginning, Samvera has been envisioned as a collaborative effort sustained by a vibrant community of developers, repository managers, metadata experts and users working together to develop a repository solution. The name Samvera is an Icelandic term meaning "togetherness."
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Note/suggestion: Possibly reverse the sentences on community and technology to put the community first. Highlight combination of widely used and community-specific components (making Samvera more than the sum of its parts). Thorny query - how much do we emphasise Fedora in this, given the development of Valkyrie. We have to mention it, but we also now need to highlight the flexibility - maybe mention the intention of technology sustainability through the ability to switch out components?
- What is Samvera being used for?
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The name Samvera is an Icelandic term meaning "togetherness." From the beginning, Samvera has been envisioned as a collaborative effort sustained by a vibrant community of developers, repository managers, metadata experts and users working together to develop a repository solution. Samvera is an open source digital repository framework that is community driven, utilizing best of breed technologies to provides a flexible and extensible digital repository solution.
- What is Samvera being used for?
Samvera is being used to support a variety of needs at educational and cultural institutions including developing digital repositories for access copies of faculty publications and content of Archives and Special Collections; as a platform for scholarly communication through projects like DPLA, Fulcrum and Ubiquity Press; for the management and access of media collections; and for managing and preserving research data.
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If we give we also gain from what others are giving. Giving takes on many forms and types - code, metadata development, time. Giving is a form of investment that acknowledge the return we expect from others in the communityGiving takes on many forms and types - code, metadata development, time. Giving is a form of investment that acknowledge the return we expect from others in the community.
Contributions to the community are not one way. We don't just put time and resources in, we also take out the combined work of all of us that has gone into the systems we use in our own organisations. It is a balance and an investment over time in people, technology and sustainability.
- How do we know it will be around in 5 or 10 years?
-Discuss the investments (time, money, and staff-time) that leading partner institutions have made? Is this also where we get into the value of open sources repo technology for the future of accessible, open-access scholarly communications? Yes Also compare all that is said here with the commercial model - could be gone overnight?
- What do you mean when you say you are part of a community? How does that work? (with regard to trying to explain OS and Samvera and other communities we belong to as a team)
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(I copied Ryan's response from under Where are you off to this time?)
- What are the stakeholder categories of the Community (Partner/ Adopter/ etc...)
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-I appreciated this link Chris shared way back at the founding of the Marketing WG: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/marketing-open-source-project/. Perhaps we could paraphrase a few points from this piece, especially with regard to the value of the community as the identity of the software. Agree
Communication
- How can I connect with the Samvera community and stay up to date on developments?
There are a several ways to stay connected. For newcomers to the community there is the Samvera Community Google Group and Slack #general. For Partners there is the Samvera Partners Google Group and Slack # partners. For Developers there is Slack #dev. For attendees at Samvera Connect, Slack #connect. For attendees at Samvera Connect, Slack #connect. I wonder if it is worth making sure we are very clear that the community and the communication channels are not just for developers as this seems to be a misconception from people outside the community
Technical
- Where can I try/download Samvera?
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Several Samvera repositories are deployed or partially deployed via AWS. AMI's, docker storage and other cloud-friendly technologies are being used to support Samvera deployment and Samvera solution bundles (example: Avalon is fully deployable in AWS and uses AWS and uses AWS transcoding to create multiple bitrate versions of uploaded media content)transcoding to create multiple bitrate versions of uploaded media content)
Do we have a list of examples we could point to online? As this is a growing area with a lot of interest, something online could capture new stuff and people could see the latest information
- Does Samvera meet good standards of accessibility/security/etc.?
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- Who owns the IPR? (internal question)
Samvera code is released under an Apache 2 open source license. All contributors to the code, and their institutions, have signed a Contributor License Agreement granting Samvera the right to distribute the contributions they have made.
Samvera documentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License except where specifically noted. - Who owns the license again?
- I'd love to see a resource like 'A guide to OS for your legal time' that could be referred to here (but probably out of scope)