Status
Draft proposal, until agreed on and joined by members from at least three Samvera Partners.
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Github's recent firing of an engineer reminds us that the projects and service providers may be taking actions that are aligned with the Samvera community values, or opposed to them. We should be more active in assessing the tools and services we use, what alternatives we have, and how those support or undermine our community. In order to allow us to act quickly in response to events, we should prepare for a possible migration by identifying the services we're using, researching the espoused and apparent values of the relevant service providers, and researching possible alternatives, and establishing the process for deciding to switch to an alternative service.
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Note that Working Groups must have participants from three different Partners. All members of a working group producing software must be licensed Samvera contributors covered by the appropriate CLAs. Other types of contributions such as requirements, design, best practices, documentation, etc. - do not require CLAs but participants should accept that the materials to which they contribute may be released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License..
- Jeremy Friesen (Facilitator, Notre Dame)
- tamsin johnson (UC Santa Barbara)
- James Griffin (Princeton University Library)
- JP Engstrom (Notch8)
- Heather Greer Klein (Samvera)
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