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2018-01-09 Samvera Governance WG Agenda and Meeting Notes

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2018-01-09 Samvera Governance WG Agenda and Meeting Notes

Jan 25, 2018

Meeting at 1:00 Central, US.  2018-01-09.

https://bluejeans.com/667013494

Attendees

  • Ryan Steans

  • Evviva Weinraub

  • Karen Estlund

  • Mark Bussey

  • Simeon Warner

  • Carolyn Caizzi

  • Anna Headley

  • @Maria Whitaker

  • Michele Menniell

  • Nebella Jaffer

  • Rosalyn Metz

 

Agenda

Introductions

Review Charter

Review Timeline

Review Comments and Issues raised by community

Appoint Chair

Set Calendar of Meetings

Review First Deliverables

  • Context: the discussion summary document will be completed by 
    Friday, January 19th, 2018

  • Synthesis: the summary of themes will be completed and circulated by 
    Friday, January 19th, 2018

 

Possibly Useful Documents

Samvera Governance / Roadmapping/ Resourcing Activity - 2017-11-10

Governance Models for Samvera - original

Governance Model Planning and Notes - RJS 2017-11-30

Action Items

Meet again 2018-01-12

Carolyn and Rosie - Co-Facilitators

Pull together small team to work on Context/ Synthesis doc

Deliverables

The scope of the Samvera Governance Working Group’s deliverables will be:

  • Context: A one-page summary of the discussion, documentation, and feedback to-date related to the various governance models under consideration.

  • Synthesis: A summary of the themes and issues that the community hopes to address by refining existing or adopting new governance practices and structures.  Ideally identifies key differences and decision points between the models provided for evaluation and current model.  This combined context and synthesis documents should be approximately 750-1500 words (1-3 pages)  in length

  • Draft: Development of a draft governance proposal and incremental steps to implementation if appropriate

  • Community Input: Circulation of the above to Partners, stakeholders, and the Steering group for review, comment, and change requests to the proposal

    • Legal Review: This step will be shepherded by Steering, as the proposed model will also be assessed for legal, licensing, and MOU implications prior to further community review.

  • Proposal: A revised governance proposal based on community, stakeholder, & legal feedback

  • Community Review: Circulation of the final proposal for potential adoption at a Spring/Summer 2018 partner meeting

Community Feedback

In the Comments for the establishment of the Working Group:  

Notes

Anna:  Define the problem statement the Working Group is trying to solve.  Does steering nor work anymore?  What was the issue or issues that drove a need for governance?

Karen Estlund:  You can review the bullets in the charter about desired attributes.  A need for a common, defined roadmap and plan.  

Not knowing what steering and partners do.  Partners may not feel they can make appropriate calls.

If you have a project and no raodmap, it's difficult to coordinate and work with others

Rosie:  There are questions around the direction of governannce.  What direction is the community going in?

Simeon:  How to finance general development - how do we get money to support common development?

Mark:  Notion of a how decions get made.  As a larger community, how do people plug in?  How do you participate?

Evviva:  Samvera very developer driven, to become sustainable, we need non-developers in governance and roadmaps

Mark:  we can't solve everything on the first shot

Michele:  We do have international concerns.  How do we include people from outside US and Canada?

Anna:  Look at the Component Working Group.  They are important to talk to as they work to organize and plan around specific components

Document development - discovery of themes in Context Documet - if we can knock out issues we're trying to address