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- Review of notes and actions from previous call Agenda 18-12-12
- Feedback from Partners
- Input to Steering Emory meeting discussion
- Workpackages
- Personalising the website
- Slide decks
- Leaflet
- FAQ development
- Case studies
- Events to market Samvera at
- OR deadline today!
- Others at Conferences
- Blog
- Samvera annual report
Ryan & Richard Notes:
In attendance
Chris Awre, facilitator (University of Hull)
Karen Cariani (WGBH)
Ryan Steans (Northwestern University)
Richard Green (University of Hull)
Alicia Morris (Tufts University) (apologies)
Charlotte Nunes (Lafayette College)
Steph Taylor (CoSector)
Nabeela Jaffer (Michigan) - link with Repository Managers IG
Notes
Partners call in early January -
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- Personalization of the website - need variety of showcases for people featured to showcase how people use and participate
- Blog - recognizing the value of a blog - need to ensure there is proper resourcing - Table blog until the staffing situation is sorted out? - General agreement
- Quotes from users for use in publicity - reaching out to different users, positive - verbal quotes quotes; several volunteers
Steering considered staffing challenges last week - own funds not there for positions, some cash rich - institutions may pay temporarily for a Community Manager with those funds
Table blog until the staffing situation is sorted out? - General agreement
Do some communication in year to come -
Nature of marketing in community for Samvera - need input from community or not a community effort
Case studies writtenCoSector have case study written - could be adapted: theoretical case studies - make it more about Samvera technologies
Chris contacted all the sites from used as examples in Connect workshop - all institutions agreed to provide case study. Identify a suitable template
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(b) should we be looking to increase membershipPartnerships? - longer term goal, but the immediate course of marketing effort to spread awareness and increase adoption, Partnership not a key focus of net next six months
Steering agree Samvera needs a VM or Docker of Samvera install - being investigated
Samvera should have a Hyrax install - repo of past materials - looking to do it at Hull
what are key events? how can we engage people? - list of events for Fedora - relevant events in the space - table, initiate conversations, who they're connecting with and what they're connecting with
AULs, ULs - list-serves, if we want to communicate about why we should engage: the community, the engagement, the sustainability, generate or reframe - frame it in a way for the audience we want to target
RMC Roadmap Council is writing a white paper about community and technology (coming soon)
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Karen will look at the slide deck for updates - deck needs to be ADA compliant?
Chris will work on Leafleta more professionally produced leaflet - suggestions for improving content welcome
FAQ - Steph wants to work on FAQ - Chris will look at what we've got working on at the moment
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Annual Report - fair amount of content will be handled by Steering - any gaps where additional contribution may be useful Richard will reach out.