Tuesday 5th February

1. Changes to agenda
2. Review annual fundraising text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2Q7qona5IlCeyxrCKG-ghCg4Sc1CFzETcGRj4CPZ5w/edit?usp=sharing
   
   
3. 2019 Connect sponsorship
   1. Should we seek sponsorship
      
      
4. Any other business
   
   
5. Date of next meeting
   
   1. Tuesday 19th February - Big money fundraising (with Brian's contact contributing?)

Attendees:

rsteans

Hannah Frost

Karen Cariani

Richard Green

Jessica Hilt

Fundraising: - ask for a total amount - yes

Off to Steering for review

Sponsorships

Dependency on Sponsors - important but not integral to conference

   divert sponsorships to central Samvera funds?  

   adds to conference - better coffee breaks, etc...  although we did good last year

   use to lower price of conference as you don't want to create dependencies - 

Approach as a trial for 2019 

active or passive?  - Jon has an OR list  

Argument for sponsorship?  - services and products direct to Samvera (AWS, ansible, etc...)  

Competitors showing support for Open Source - ex libris, ebsco, elsevier

Logo, Comp registrations, table, mention at opening and closing, greeting at poster session

AI: develop levels prospectus - 

AI:  list of potential sponsors

AI:  Slack channel for Fundraising WG

Bigger picture fundraising beyond Community Members

Brian Hole had an idea for a guest - Danielle Robinson - Code for Science and Society