2025-11-19 Outreach & Engagement agenda and notes

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Participants

• @Karen Cariani -regrets

• @Molly Reed

• @Alicia Morris

• @Heather Greer Klein

• @Chris Awre -regrets

• @Nick Steinwachs

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Agenda & Notes

• Samvera Connect

  • Attendee organizations, any ideas for outreach
    
    

• Outreach & Engagement Group for 2026

  • Is it time to re-imagine, re-charter, or sunset this group?

    • Charter:

      • Educate + inform the market

      • Highlight value of Samvera solutions

  • A few ideas: Focus each quarter of next year on a specific topic or type of work ( a few ideas for this are expanding a series of documents for decision-makers; repository showcase videos; user feedback activities; outreach to current or former platform implementers to gather specific feedback) and recruit a goal number of people to specific tasks for three months at a time.

  • Community conversations series - an idea for surfacing both ideas and ways to move them forward
    
    

• Community Sprint Dec 1-5

  • Heather will work on Samvera website issues ( especially issues 156 and 157)

  • Is anyone else available to work on documentation during that week?
    
    

• Open time for other items/discussions

  • Marketing comms / channels

    • Documentation vs. market positioning artifacts

    • Comparisons

  • Nick S. + Nic Don are putting together a survey to gather feedback from users of digital repositories.

  • Ideas around marketing: sharing true costs and risks for closed source products; including from a nonprofit org. Inform and educate the market.

  • Alicia: A major problem we need to address is how Samvera partnership dues often compete with institutional IT budgets, and in an era of austerity, they say “We can’t afford this and other mission-critical software (e.g. peoplesoft).”
    
    

Rolling action items: