Samverans,
We are launching a fundraising campaign for 2018; our goal is to raise $200,000 for the year. This funding complements Samvera's recent vision to evolve its governance framework, and especially to hire central staffing for product and technical management roles.
The last year has seen remarkable progress for the community, including...
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Samvera has always been and will continue to be a grassroots, community-driven effort. The contributions and sweat equity of willing Partners and other project participants has been the hallmark of our success; our ability to collaborate on common goals larger than any individual institution's needs have produced a much richer project than would otherwise have been possible. To evolve to the next level, and to produce a reliable, managed, predictable repository platform, we now need to invest in central resources to help coordinate and manage our work.
If 40 institutions give $5,000 each, we can meet our target for the year. This funding will be essential to hiring central resources for product and technical management of our repository stack;