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2025-12-10 Board Meeting Agenda & Minutes

2025-12-10 Board Meeting Agenda & Minutes

 

Attendees

@Karen Cariani - regrets

@Aaron Collier

@Juliet Hardesty

@Annamarie Klose

@Kirsten Leonard

@Kate Lynch

@Emily Lynema

@Alicia Morris (Deactivated)

@Christine Peterson

@Robin Ruggaber

@david.schober - regrets

@Paul Walk

Ex-officio:

@Heather Greer Klein

Agenda

  • Changes to the agenda?

  • Welcome new Board members!

    • Orientation

    • And thank you to Alicia and Robin and Emily!

    • Things to consider: vice chair, treasurer, finance subcommittee

  • Finalized 2026 budget, 2025 expenses

    • Two outstanding Partner dues, but payment expected

    • deficit this year from lost large Partners - good reminder of why we’re doing the things we’re doing in 2026

  • Confirm regular Board meeting date and time for 2026

    • Heather will do a poll for a Wednesday or Thursday date for 2026

  • Heather’s attempt at a big picture overview of 2026 planning so far

    • Review of community initiatives and expected timing, especially in the first half of the year:

      • Fiscal sponsor change (needs Board and Partner vote)

      • Hyku and IOI conversations

      • Partnership review WG

      • Outreach to non-partner long time implementers

      • Virtual Connect

  • Next steps for a 2026 Partnership Review Working Group

    • Finalize charter

    • Will launch after the IOI conversations conclude in January.

    • Add background and context about why we’re doing this work now. Role of consortia, and potentially a new consortia Partnership structure.

    • Add goal for group: increasing/broadening the Partnership; in kind contributions options that can be connected directly to cost savings.

  • Latest new fiscal sponsor options and information

    • Information from Heather about the related Fedora process right now

    • Comparison sheet revision

      • Apereo conversation from this week

        • heard from Richard Green, Jon Dunn, and Paul – all involved in early days, nothing negative to say

        • Overview slides from Apereo

    • Two others to investigate:

    • Timeline with OASIS: July 1 but can adjust as needed

    • Board voted to bring Apereo in for the January call

  • Next steps for a spring CNI proposal/advocating for them to host an OSS discussion series

    • Kirsten will bring back information from the fall CNI meeting

  • 2026 events planning

    • Ready to start planning for:

      • Midwest Regional Meeting/Partner meeting - get some potential dates and get feedback in January

      • Code4Lib post-conference meeting - on hold due to Code4Lib challenges

      • Virtual Connect - will poll for best timing first full week of January/January 8th Partner call

    • Still to sort out:

      • Talk to Canadian adopters and potential adopters

      • North Carolina regional meeting (in the fall?)

      • UK meeting (Chris Awre heading this up)

  • Other updates

    • Outreach & Engagement Working Group revamp in 2026

    • Heather OOO Dec 24 - jan 6

    • Heather no Mondays in 2026

  • Agenda items for next month’s call

  • Date of next Board meeting: January 8th with Apereo, January 15th regular meeting