2024-12-18 Outreach & Engagement notes

Participants

@James Griffin - regrets
@Karen Cariani
@Molly Reed
@Alicia Morris - regrets
@Heather Greer Klein
@Chris Awre
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Agenda & Notes

Virtual community meeting reflections
- State of Samvera, updates, and repo spotlights are on YouTube
LinkedIn is set up!
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/samvera-community/
- Will showcase the repository spotlights weekly
2025 to-dos so far
- Outreach:
  - Hyku site press release
  - Hyrax release with support for Valkyrie and Fedora 6 - goal is to release by the end of the year, press release for January
  - Molly’s making the case documents - January
  - Repository spotlights on blog/LinkedIn
  - New Avalon site will be released
- Engagement:
  - Call for repository tour additions
  - Call for community helpers
Other 2025 initiatives/things to finish/questions to answer
- Samvera style guide - Heather is still working on this, will have a real draft for January
- Components fundraising campaign for 2025
  - A project for this group for 2025
  - Notes from the Board call:
    - Starting with a way to contribute small dollars easily to a general fund. For institutions like museums and others who have been open to contribute based on their use of Clover IIIF, Ramp, etc. Even some for profit organizations in other parts of the ecosystem (museums)
    - How to reach these users is new to us? How would an institution or organization to contribute (some likely needing an invoice, some could just use a credit card)
    - Good to have a prominent place on the website that is “Support Samvera” with partnership, one-time donation, and other ways to participate in the community
    - We know we will have times in the future where we do specific fundraising
    - We will need mechanisms to contribute, and ways to reach out to these users
    - Can also include this option at virtual Connect, and potentially on GitHub, and on component websites
    - Could we make suggestions about the amount of contributions? How would we define those
  - Could a “powered by Samvera”/Hyrax/Hyku footer or other way of including or encouraging that? IS there a way to use this to find implementers?
  - Board priorities: working more closely on getting EU and global standards into platforms; determining priorities for feature parity for EPrints and Invinio products.
  - Samvera other than a repository - in preparation for IIIF, and hand in hand with the components fundraising drive.

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