Samvera Fundraising Call for 2018
- Tom Cramer
Owned by Tom Cramer
Samverans,
We are launching a fundraising campaign for 2018; our goal is to raise $150,000 for the year. This funding will flesh out the vision defined in the recent, unanimously approved, Samvera governance proposal: to hire staffing for centralized product and technical management roles.
The last year has seen remarkable progress for the community, including...
- the release of Hyrax as the next generation of repository application, combining the best of Sufia and CurationConcerns, along with continued investment in both Fedora 4 and Valkyrie as a new strategy for persistence
- 15 meetings / trainings / Partner events in North America and Europe, including nearly 200 attendees at SamveraConnect in Evanston, IL in November 2017
- four new Partners, and more interest than ever in consulting and commercial services
- new working & interest groups in governance, code maintenance, and roadmapping
These milestones signify Samvera's continued success as a thriving, grassroots, community-driven effort. The contributions and sweat equity of willing Partners and other project participan